'Tapertime' The above is an old Edwardian word meaning dusk, and this series of commissioned stories take place as the light fades. What happens to the visual world as dusk emerges? What happens to make people behave differently, often strangely, as the world starts to blur? The Very Last Leave by Adam Thorpe In remote Lincolnshire she always paints the gloaming, but something aside from darkened tones is revealed in her pictures... Reader David Horovitch Producer Duncan Minshull.