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Photos and other things found in Kim's bag
Outlook has featured the first episode of an groundbreaking interactive drama called Kim's Game and spoken to the scriptwriter Jonathan Myerson.
The first episode features a fictional character - a woman - who has turned up in London having lost her memory.
"I don't know what happened," she says, "I mean suddenly there I was. I was just sitting on a bench in a park.
"There were ducks over there, and Buckingham Palace over there - which is where the Queen lives, which is when I realised that I know where she lives but I don't know where I live."
Kim says that she "walked and walked" but it was hard because her shoes were too big - and then she started crying, which was when a woman saw her and took her to a police station.
The drama continues with a statement from the police: "We asked the young lady to turn out her pockets... And found various possessions including two ten pound notes so we concluded she hadn't been the victim of crime.
"We did find a tube ticket purchased at Heathrow airport which might mean she had just flown in - but she has no passport or luggage."
The final pointers in the episode include a suggestion from hospital psychiatrists that she might be running away from something and some photos in her purse that she has posted on her blog.
The idea is that Outlook listeners will steer the writer Jonathan Myerson in his scripting of the full 60-minute play which will be broadcast on the BBC World Service in the World Drama slot on 16 February.
"I wouldn't call myself the scriptwriter so much as the ringmaster," he told Oultook, "What we want is for Outlook listeners to suggest the story that's got her to this point - and I suppose also how to unravel it as well."
Myerson encouraged listeners to speculate about small aspects of the story - where does the key fit in, who are the pictures of, why are the shoes too big?
He's going to oversee Kim's blog, responding to listener suggestions over the next few weeks as they come in.
In total there will be five initial episodes which will be broadcast on Outlook between 11 and 18 January and will also be published on this page.
These will all contain different aspects of a story - a story that you the listeners will help to write.
Myerson says that, as far as he's aware, nothing like this has been attempted before.
"There are some websites around the world where people contribute their memories," he said, "There were a couple recently where people were asked what happens next in this family... But nothing that builds to a complete play."
