Black Swan Green
First broadcast from 20060522 to 20060602.
By David Mitchell, abridged by Roger Pine, read by Stuart McLoughlin.
Producer Sara Davies.
Jason Taylor is a 13-year-old facing the usual adolescent problems of family tensions, school bullies and the mysteries of girls.
10 episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | January Man | 20060522 | He's also a stammerer and secret poet. |
| 02 | Hangman | 20060523 | 13 year-old Jason has developed many strategies for hiding his stammer from his schoolmates, but now he's facing an ordeal he can't duck. |
| 03 | Bridlepath | 20060524 | Fed up with family tensions and school bullying, 13-year-old Jason sets off to discover a lost tunnel through the Malvern Hills. |
| 04 | Dawn | 20060525 | Thirteen year-old Jason's expedition to the hills ends in an unexpected and unsettling encounter with a classmate. |
| 05 | A Country At War | 20060526 | Jason is keeping a scrapbook about the war in the Falklands, but his adolescent enthusiasm for the fighting disappears when news comes through of one of the village's own young soldiers. |
| 06 | Knife Grinder | 20060529 | Jason Taylor is a 13-year-old facing the usual adolescent problems. Now the village is uniting against a gypsy encampment and Jason's loyalties are tested. |
| 07 | Spy | 20060530 | Jason Taylor is a 13-year-old facing the usual adolescent problems. He makes an unplanned excursion to the local gypsy encampment. |
| 08 | Goose Fair | 20060531 | When Jason finds a wallet stuffed with notes belonging to his nemesis the bully Ross Wilcox at the annual Goose Fair, hes faced with one of the biggest dilemmas of his adolescent life. |
| 09 | Revenge | 20060601 | After months of bullying, 13 year-old Jason, secret poet and stammerer, takes sweet revenge on his enemies. |
| 10 LAST | 20060602 | Jason's year ends with the Black Swan Green annual disco, where he spends his last few hours as someone who had never kissed a girl. Back at home, he finds out the cause of the family tensions. |