8: The Fire Escape

'The next day Clive called and said he’d bought everything you’d done.'
The graduate show marks a watershed, with a buzz already building round some of the artists.

Read by Maxine Peake
Written by Alex Hyde
Abridged by Siân Preece
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie

Alex Hyde is an Associate Professor at University College London. Violets, her first novel, a fictional reimagining of her father’s story, was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, shortlisted for the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize and was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. She lives with her family in South London.