F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults)
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F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults)
Strange stories for stranger times. With the contemporary world being the troubled, complicated, messy place it is – difficult enough for us to wrap our conscious minds around – we want to interrogate the ugly underbelly of what haunts our unconscious minds.F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for Adults)&nbs...
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by Ella Hickson
Read by Maxine Peake
Directed by Jennifer Bakst, with sound design and composition by Helen Skiera.
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The Future is in the Wastelands
Written by Sonya Kelly
Read by Justine Mitchell
Directed by Richard Twyman, with sound design and composition by Xana.
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The Factory
Written by Kwame Owusu
Read by Jamael Westman
Directed by Jennifer Bakst, with sound design and composition by Helen Atkinson.
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The Wound
Written by Yasmin Joseph
Read by Tamara Lawrance
Directed by Jennifer Bakst, with sound design and composition by Xana.
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The Giant
Written by Chris Bush
Read by Sophie Melville
Directed by Jennifer Bakst, with sound design by Helen Atkinson.
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On A Distant Shore
Written by Francis Turnly
Read by David Harewood
Directed by Jennifer Bakst, with sound design and composition by Helen Skiera.
The...
F**Ked Up Bedtime Stores Series 2 Trailer
Strange stories for stranger times. With the contemporary world being the troubled, complicated, messy place it is – difficult enough for us to wrap o...
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by Simon Stephens
Read by Stephen Mangan
Directed by Richard Twyman, with sound design and composition by Helen Skiera.
Breathe
"Listen only to my voice. Listen to the sound it makes. Concentrate on the next word: NUMB"
It's been a stressful time. You want to unwind. Tha...
Then I Heard a Black Man Cry
"This wasn’t the life Mr and Mrs Olanrewaju conjured up in their dreams. When they thought of Stratford, they pictured the Olympic Park, not a cramped...
The Man, the Man's Mother, and the Dog, and the Uninspired Title, Yeah, Sorry About That
"He sits in the middle of her room, dizzy and weirded out. He stares at her. Neither of them knows what to do with the other. This goes on for a numbe...
Don't Panic. Don't Move by Matilda Ibini
“Don’t panic, it’s not real. Don’t move, it’s can’t hurt you. You don’t have to stay here if you don’t want to, it’s your dream, you can go anywhere."...
The Ground Floor
"You'll never be a grown up if you can't face the dark, it said. Be brave. Be brave"
When his marriage fails to survive the lockdown, a man move...
The Machine
"The story begins The Day The World Stood Still. Do you remember that day? The day time stopped"
Maggie is a magpie of a person - she loves pret...
Milky Drinks
"The government had been looking for an angle, they said. These things would become symbols of hope. Ninety of them. From Plymouth to Carlisle."
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F**ked Up Bedtime Stories Series 1 Trailer
F**ked Up Bedtime Stories (for adults) features seven short stories written by Alissa Anne Jeun Yi, Dipo Baruwa-Etti, Tim Crouch, Vivienne Franzmann, ...