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Serialization of the M S Clements' debut novel 'THE THIRD MAGPIE', read by Hannah Timms
A love story set in the authoritarian New Albany. School teacher and foreigner, Finn Sheehan, is married to Sophie, daughter of Albian elite and Foreign Minister, Tim Smith. Despite the advantages Tim's position allows them, ordinary life for Finn and Sophie is a struggle.
The arrival of a new Area Zone Commandant brings good news for Finn in the form of a tutoring contract. However, teaching Miss Catherine Fry, seventeen and spoiled, will bring new strife into the couple's cossetted life.
Episodes
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
27 min
While Evie Sheehan mourns the absence of her youngest brother, over in New Albany, Digitally Interned Alien, Finn Sheehan and his Albian wife, Sophie, must adapt to the strictures of Albian rule.
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
28 min
Finn and Sophie escape for a weekend at her parent's house. Sophie's mother, Michelle, takes advantage of the opportunity to voice her disapproval of her daughter's choice of husband.
Chopin's Op 10, Etude no 9 in F Minor performed by Dr Elena Vorotko
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
30 min
Finn receives some surprising news from Carl about a new pupil about to join Finn's English class.
Oct 3, 2020
Oct 3, 2020
26 min
Finn goes to the Commandant's Mansion for his first tutor session with Miss Catherine Fry, the Commandant's seventeen-year-old daughter.
Music: Sergio Du Bois - Sonata 13, 2nd movement - musopen.org
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
31 min
Catherine tells Finn about her father's basement library and makes a suggestion for some private reading.
Music: Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen, Op15 number 7, Träumerei - musopen.org
Oct 17, 2020
Oct 17, 2020
27 min
‘Three magpies for a girl.’ Or is it, ‘Three for a funeral.’
As autumn gives way to December, news reaches AZ5 about a flu outbreak in the remote territory of AZ12.
Catherine has a surprise for her tutor, one that has the power to turn Finn’s life upside down.
Music: Julia Florida – Agustín Barrios Mangore - performer Jorge de la Cruz musopen.org
Oct 24, 2020
Oct 24, 2020
24 min
Catherine's intrusive curiosity leads her the English tutor's public file. An absence of information raises more questions than answers about Finn.
Music:
Dee Yan Key, Adagio – Mother Nature’s Sleep - musopen.org
C.G. Reissiger, O Bone Jesu - Les Petits Chanteurs de Montigny - freemusicarchive.org
Oct 31, 2020
Oct 31, 2020
21 min
Catherine interrogates Finn forcing him to reveal upsetting information.
Music: Dee Yan Key - Weep No More - freemusicarchive.org
Nov 8, 2020
Nov 8, 2020
19 min
Episode 9
The cold air of winter blows into Finn’s life. Carl is angered by a letter while Finn suffers from flu-like symptoms gives cause for concern for Sophie, pushing her into calling her employer, Dr Henry Thatcher.
Music: Waltz, Op 70 in F Minor; F Chopin: musopen.org
Nov 15, 2020
Nov 15, 2020
34 min
As Finn’s illness worsens, he is faced with a compulsory confinement order. Sophie’s godmother, Anna goes to the cottage to help care for him.
Music: Brendan Kinsella - Bach - Aria Variata, BVW. 989 - Variation No. 3
freemusicarchive.org/music/Brendan_Kinsella