75.1 Skin Deep

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Skin Deep

A celebrity cosmetic surgeon finds himself employed to assess the strange new growths on the neck of a former Hollywood star.


Written and Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://twitter.com/georgiacooked)

Edited by Karl Hughes (https://twitter.com/karlhughes)

With music by JCM [Canada] (https://soundcloud.com/j_c_m)

And Thom Robson (https://www.thomrobsonmusic.com/)

The episode illustration was provided by Luke Spooner of Carrion House (https://carrionhouse.com/)

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And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.

And to Ben Errington for whistling out content melodies from the end of his social media pan pipes.


Georgia Cook is an illustrator and writer from London. She is the winner of the LISP 2020 Flash Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, Staunch Book Prize and Reflex Fiction Award, among others. She can be found on twitter at @georgiacooked and on her website at https://www.georgiacookwriter.com/


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