The Giant
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults)
English - October 27, 2023 15:00 - 16 minutes - 274 MBArts Fiction Drama dreams nightmares bedtime sleep paapa essiedu amber james tim crouch alissa anne jeun-yi amy jephta vivienne franzmann Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Written by Chris Bush
Read by Sophie Melville
Directed by Jennifer Bakst, with sound design by Helen Atkinson.
The theme tune was composed by Max Pappenheim.
CONTENT WARNING - This audio drama contains disturbing scenes and is recommended for people aged 16+
This refusal to be contained meant my people remained boundless – in geography and in imagination. A great-great-uncle on my mother’s side grew tired of the constraints of gravity, and opted to live amongst the clouds instead, where there are fewer walls and arguments. Not to be outdone, his sister began to proselytise against the tyranny of three dimensions, and through a combination of early morning breathing exercises and fish oil supplements managed to access a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, and at that point lost count, because numbers no longer understood her.
The story of a giant - a vast, happy, enormous giant. But when a cataclysmic event changes the world and means everyone has to stay indoors for a while - even giants - something begins to change, things become tighter, smaller, and nobody knows if things will ever quite be the same... Can we ever feel as big and as free as we did before?
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