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MUMBAI:
BBC World Service's weekday magazine programme Outlook
is doing an interactive drama collaboration that asks listeners
to help create a play Kim's Game to be broadcast
in the World Drama slot on 16 February.
The
idea is that Outlook listeners will steer the writer Jonathan
Myerson in his scripting of the full 60-minute play.
In
Kim's Game, a young woman walks into a London police station
with no idea of who she is or how she got there.
She
goes on Outlook to explain her predicament on air and to
ask if anyone out there knows her. Her plea appears online as
a blog, with pictures of the objects that she has with her
which include a key and two photos.
She
calls herself Kim after the game in which listeners have
to look at objects on a tray and then remember them when they
are removed. Meanwhile, she tries to regain her memory. What does
the key open? Who is the young man in the photo, which seems to
have been torn in half?
Listeners
are invited to post comments identifying the pictures or the key,
suggesting who the young woman might be and what might have happened
to her. Each day, she will learn more about herself from the listeners.
When
other clues turn up, Outlook's listeners are invited to
contribute. Perhaps there is a song she can't get out of her head?
What does it mean? Perhaps the door which can be opened by the
key is found what lies behind it?
Finally,
the young woman discovers something that raises big questions
about how she came to be where she is.
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