Blackout

A new audio documentary-drama exploring love and duty during WW2, followed by Q&A chaired by broadcaster and journalist David Baker.

In 1943, between flying missions over Germany, John - a young RAF bomber pilot - wrote letters to Heather, the young woman he had just fallen in love with. She kept all of them. Eighty years later, her daughter - the writer Clare Best - chanced upon the letters, and found herself inside a story she only half knew.

Blackout is her response: an audio documentary-drama that traces what survives of a passion lost to war. Archival materials are combined with new writing, original music, and sound design to create an intimate portrait of love, danger, and the silences families keep.

Script: Clare Best

Music: Ábel MGE

Sound: Ben Cordell

Also see our sister event "Making an Art Piece from Historical Letters", on Sunday 25 October where the creators discuss the creation of this work.