On the shortest day of the year, a man makes his way to his old family home and kindles the ghosts of the past.

Music: Flook, 'Lalabee/Jig for Simon'; excerpts from Erland Cooper, Folded Landscapes (performed by Scottish Ensemble); Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau, 'Tabhair Dom do Lámh', Edmund Finnis, ⁠Elsewhere⁠ (featuring Daniel Pioro, violin)

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'The light of madness, of piercing visions, illumined the nocturnal world...'

Music: Edmund Finnis, Elsewhere (featuring Daniel Pioro, violin); Gabriel Fauré, 'Après un rève' (sung by Sabine Devieilhe); Michael Gordon, Weather (I) (performed by Manchester Collective); John Barry, Eternal Echoes and The Beyondness of Things (performed by English Chamber Orchestra)

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'I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him'.

Music: John Cage, Sonata XI, Works of Calder: II, Bacchanale, In the Name of the Holocaust, And the Earth Shall Bear Again, Three Easy Pieces: Round (all performed by Giancarlo Simonacci)

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'The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes'.

Music: Andrew Rudin, Tragoedia; Donald Erb, Music for Instruments and Electronic Sounds; Frédéric Chopin, Étude Op. 10, No. 5 (performed by Hans Wurman); W.A. Mozart, 'Rondo: Allegro' from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (performed by ⁠Hans Wurman⁠); Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vocalise (performed by ⁠Hans Wurman⁠); Camille Saint-Saëns, 'Introduction' from Carnival of the Animals (performed by Gazdatronik); Richard Chartier, Interreference.4; a-ha, 'Soft Rains of April'

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A minor mystery, or a tiny tragedy.

Music: Christopher O'Hare, Novelty Hurry; Mayhew Lake, 'Minor Love Motif' and 'Major Love Motif' from Synchronizing Suite No. 1 (performed by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)

Distracted moments of being.

Music: Gabriel Prokofiev and Peter Gregson, Float Dance (Subnaught Remix)

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'She changes this thing in the house to annoy the other...'

Music: Adolf Minot, Pizzicato Misterioso No. 30 (performed by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)

'There is a description in a child's science book of the act of love that makes it all quite clear and helps when one begins to forget'.

Music: Ivor Slaney, 'Window Gazing'

'Dear Sir, I am writing to you to object to the word cremains, which was used by your representative when he met with my mother and me two days after my father's death'.

Music: Kevin MacLeod, Music for Funeral Home

A dialogue between head and heart.

Music: J.S. Bach, 'Sarabande' from Cello Suite No. 5 (performed by Pieter Wispelwey)