Requiem from a Cemetery

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Requiem from a Cemetery

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Sep 20, 2017

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Everyone in this story is dead. Everyone except its storyteller, Bengt Bok. As he walks around a cemetery, the voices of people he’s interviewed in the past emerge from the earth. Produced by Bengt Bok for Sveriges Radio (2016)

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Sep 20, 2017

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