Josie Long presents new short documentaries on searching for hope in the gathering darkness.
John McCarthy and Brian Keenan look back on a single act of human kindness that glows amid much darker memories, a late night conversation explores the hope bound up in playing the lottery, and we hear as voices fade in a Danish hospice.
The Gloaming
Featuring John McCarthy and Brian Keenan
Produced by Geoff Bird
Fading
Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen
The Lottery
Produced by Phoebe Wang
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4