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Episode: The Rowing Man
Pub date: 2020-04-23

Notes from The Listener:

Moving story about failure and finding friends. In 1984, Ove Joensen set out to row from his birthplace, the Faroe Islands, to Copenhagen in Denmark. It's a journey of 1,700 km across the North Atlantic Ocean, which he planned to do completely alone (or rather, with only the company of his black and white cat, Jessica). When bad weather forced him to abandon this first attempt near the Shetland Islands, he was adopted by a remote village. There is wonderful sound design in this piece – listen out for the accents especially

Ove the rowing man. A stranger who came by way of the ocean, and was soon no longer a stranger.

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