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Tuesday 29th August 1939: Your Mother’s Son
Episode 4 of 5
Jack has fled to Lewes to beg his estranged grandparents to shelter Rex - but a mysterious figure is on their tail. Damian Barr's new fiction serial is based on historic events.
During one shocking week at the start of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of pet owners made an impossible choice. Inspired by real events, Damian Barr imagines one lonely boy's quest to save his much-loved dog.
Jack has fled to Lewes to beg his estranged grandparents to shelter Rex - but unbeknownst to the boy, a mysterious figure is on their tail.
Read by John Paul Hurley
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
On radio
Thursday22:45
BBC Radio 4
Broadcast
- Thursday22:45BBC Radio 4
