9 episodes

To start off we're digging deep into the Observer archives. In 1996 Heather Calder started a fiction serial within our pages called The Sun Came to Millen. We've turned those forty weekly installments into an eight-part audio book for you to enjoy all over again some twenty-five years later.


Parker Merlihan (the writer's son) has adapted the story to audio format, narrates and produced the series.

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To start off we're digging deep into the Observer archives. In 1996 Heather Calder started a fiction serial within our pages called The Sun Came to Millen. We've turned those forty weekly installments into an eight-part audio book for you to enjoy all over again some twenty-five years later.


Parker Merlihan (the writer's son) has adapted the story to audio format, narrates and produced the series.

    The Sun Came To Millen: Parts One to Five

    The Sun Came To Millen: Parts One to Five

    The Sun Came to Millen is an original Canadian fiction story by Heather Calder. The story was written every week starting May 4, 1996, and published exclusively in The Observer.


    The story begins with an unwelcome return home to Millen for Jack, who left town some twenty years earlier. While nothing much changes in Millen, his reunion with his family opens up some old wounds.

    • 30 min
    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Six to Ten

    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Six to Ten

    The Sun Came to Millen is an original Canadian fiction story by Heather Calder. The story was written every week starting May 4, 1996, and published exclusively in The Observer.

    • 29 min
    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Eleven to Fifteen

    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Eleven to Fifteen

    The Sun Came to Millen is an original Canadian fiction story by Heather Calder. The story was written every week starting May 4, 1996, and published exclusively in The Observer.

    • 27 min
    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Sixteen to Twenty

    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Sixteen to Twenty

    The Sun Came to Millen is an original Canadian fiction story by Heather Calder. The story was written every week starting May 4, 1996, and published exclusively in The Observer.

    • 23 min
    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Twenty-One to Twenty-Five

    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Twenty-One to Twenty-Five

    The Sun Came to Millen is an original Canadian fiction story by Heather Calder. The story was written every week starting May 4, 1996, and published exclusively in The Observer.

    • 28 min
    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Twenty-Six to Thirty

    The Sun Came to Millen: Parts Twenty-Six to Thirty

    The Sun Came to Millen is an original Canadian fiction story by Heather Calder. The story was written every week starting May 4, 1996, and published exclusively in The Observer.

    • 27 min

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