Tara and George - Last Rights
In 2018, Audrey Gillan sat down on a doorstep beside two rough sleepers and started documenting their lives. The Radio 4 series Tara and George took us on a sometimes chaotic, often poignant journey and asked what led the couple to the streets of East London.
Last autumn, Audrey was contacted out of the blue by Tara’s estranged brother. He had just been informed by ‘heir hunters’ that his big sister was dead. The family did not know how, when, or where Tara had died or even if she had had a funeral. And so began another journey, this time to discover what had happened to Tara and to ask how - in death as in life - she could fall between the cracks of society.
In Last Rights, Audrey seeks answers to both questions.
Music by Alice Boyd
Presented and produced by Audrey Gillan with Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
Published on Sunday, 16th February 2025.
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