Uncle Harry and the Melting Moon

‘I have plunged my hands in the ocean
And plunged my kisses deeper
Than the drowning sea -
And all the years
I've swept aside - for you...’

During the Second World War, Penelope rejects her lover Harry. In his despair he drowns himself in the North Sea. His body is recovered fifteen years later. But he's still alive... A Liverpool love story on a poetic, elemental and supernatural scale, chosen as a winner in the BBC Young Radio Playwrights Festival.

‘Paul Badger's sublimely beautiful Uncle Harry and the Melting Moon was a classic. Here was breathtakingly poetic dialogue in the awesome tale of a man plucked from the sea alive after drowning himself for his sweetheart fifteen years earlier.’
The Mail on Sunday

‘...we can appraise the vibrancy of the language in Paul Badger's verse drama about a ghostly attempt to reanimate a love affair that ended with a drowning fifteen years ago, and appreciate the highly imaginative way the play was conceived...’
The Times