Something on the Back
At a rainy valuation day at the end of a pier, an antiques valuer who has never been fooled notices that the seagull outside repeats, the way a print does.
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About this episode
A wet October Saturday in the tin-roofed pavilion at the end of a seaside pier. Desmond Rook has been spotting fakes for forty years. Pearl Dobbs has brought in her late dad's picture of a fishing boat, hoping to prove her sister wrong about it, and Ollie, the volunteer steward, is calling the tickets for a queue that never gets any shorter.
Then Desmond says something he didn't mean to say. A door slams, and there's no door. A gull cries, and then it cries again, exactly the same. A man whose whole trade is telling an original from a copy has to apply his own test to the room he's sitting in, and to the three people in it, himself included.
A work of fiction. Performed by synthetic voices.
Presented by Marlowe, performed by synthetic voices. A work of fiction.
