
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g18g2
Description: Made for 4 Extra. Two young teenagers look after a sick man through the night. From Tove Jansson’s debut 1971 collection. Read by Indira Varma.
Creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author is one of the most successful children writers ever. In her debut collection published in 1971 she tells of what we experience in youth, love, getting older and dying.
Translated by Thomas Teal into English for the first time in the UK to celebrate the centenary of her birth in August 2014.
Producer Karen Rose. Executive producer Jeremy Osborne.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions
The Sleeping Man: Two young teenagers look after a sick man through the night.
The Wolf: Mr Shimomura wants to draw a dangerous animal, but first he must find one.
A Love Story: For the first time, the painter fell in love with a sculpture of a woman’s buttocks!
Letters to an Idol: She owned all of his books about love. He was her idol.
Lucio’s Friends: Everyone loves Lucio. Don’t they?
Famous for her Moomin books, this was TJ’s debut collection for adults translated this year to celebrate the centenary of the author’s birth. Neato! Each story has something to mull over, to roll around the mouth and smile about.
Beautifully read, calming in nature, these stories were lovely to listen to in the hammock under the shedding leaves in a 2014 Indian summer. The fourth story, ‘Letters to an Idol’ moved this delightful encounter from three to four nd because there were no Moomins in these stories, I shall import four to reflect this rating.
3* Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)
5* Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)
3* Moominvalley in November (The Moomins, #9)
4* The Summer Book
3* Travelling Light
1* The True Deceiver
4* The Listener