Isabelle and Simon Hore-Thorburn explore lockdown dating in a new radio play.

With nothing but a sonorous voice to fuel her imagination, a writer fantasizes about her next-door neighbour.

“This girl of independence / still needs basic male attendance”

“It's bonding, bunkering down against whatever it is we're fighting”

“And that triad, those three animated outlines, / Are what I will later describe as the image of home”

“To be leaving someone at the height of a potentially-apocalyptic-end-of-time makes for a fairly good story if we survive”