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Series episodes in listening order, followed by the standalone stories.
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The Hollow Shore
Five parts. One winter. One family that should have gone home.
Trailer2 minPart 142 minThe Hollow Shore, Part One: What the Tide Left
The Marchettis take the last house on Bellhaven Point for the winter, because it is cheap and because Anna needs the quiet to finish her book. On the second morning, Sam finds a line of footprints that begins twenty feet out in the water and ends at their back door. Nobody in the family admits to walking out there. Everybody checks the lock twice.Part 238 minThe Hollow Shore, Part Two: The Long Sandbar
Bellhaven's harbourmaster has kept a tide log for thirty-one years, and he is willing to show Anna every page but one. What he will say is that the sandbar has not been where the charts put it since the year the chapel burned.Part 344 minThe Hollow Shore, Part Three: A Lamp in the Window
Every house on the Point keeps a lamp burning on the seaward side. Nobody can tell the Marchettis when the custom started, only that you do not let it go out, and that the family who did is not discussed.Part 440 minThe Hollow Shore, Part Four: The Salt Register
In the vestry of a chapel that burned in 1911, Anna finds a parish register with forty years of baptisms and one page of names written in a different hand — names of people the village has no other record of.Part 552 minThe Hollow Shore, Part Five: Low Water
The lowest tide in nineteen years uncovers what the sandbar has been standing on. The Marchettis have one morning to decide what they are willing to carry home with them.Bonus28 minThe Hollow Shore: The Bellhaven Tapes
Interviews that did not fit the season: the harbourmaster's granddaughter, a retired coastguard, and eleven minutes of a 1978 field recording made on the Point at four in the morning.In progress
Ashgate House
Three parts. A house emptied twice, and never emptied at all.
Part 146 minAshgate House, Part One: The Inventory
An estate clearance firm is given six days to empty a house that has been shut since 1974. The inventory they file lists two hundred and eleven items. The inventory filed by the previous firm, in 1981, lists the same two hundred and eleven.Part 244 minAshgate House, Part Two: The Locked Landing
The staircase has a landing that appears on the 1889 plans, on the 1952 survey, and on no floor of the house as it currently stands.Part 350 minAshgate House, Part Three: What Was Kept
Three generations of the Ashgate family kept everything and threw away one thing. This is the account of what it was, and of the fourth generation, who came back for it.One sitting
Standalone stories
Complete in a single episode. No back catalogue required.
Standalone1 hr 2 minThe Long Rain
A missing-persons investigator works a case where every piece of evidence is a data record: a door badge, a transit tap, a photo timestamp. The records agree with each other perfectly. They agree with nobody's memory of that night, including his own.Standalone39 minSignal in the Static
A retired telecoms engineer spends nine years narrowing down the source of a repeating tone. He finds it on a Tuesday. He tells nobody until the following spring, and then he tells only a priest.Standalone54 min