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Stopover Stories

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Specially commissioned stories exploring the emotions and motivations of travellers forced to break their journeys

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Stopover Stories - Episode 1

An old man experiences a range of emotions as he waits for the ferry that will take him the final leg of his journey - back to the house of his birth.

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Stopover Stories - The Emperor's Warriors

Fogbound in a Chinese airport, the narrator of the story finds that the sight and smell of the fog rouses memories of the peasoupers of his childhood, Glasgow in the fifties.

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Stopover Stories - The Journey

A young man's ambition to travel overland to Timbuktoo takes a decidedly nightmarish turn. Read by Nick Underwood.

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Stopover Stories - The Monument

By Jennifer McCartney. An estranged couple must endure a long wait while their car is repaired in a small town in the deep south of America.

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Stopover Stories - To the Island

Overwhelmed by grief, a young widow decides to leave Edinburgh and immerse herself in life on the Greek island where she and her husband shared their holidays.

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