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Motherdaughter Daughtermother, Daphne

Motherdaughter Daughtermother, written by Susannah Dickey, read by Lola Petticrew. Daphne, written by Lucy Caldwell, read by Michelle Fairley.

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At a busy airport, whilst navigating the stresses and strains of travel, Bronagh and Julia find their respective roles as parent and child begin to blur.

The Author
Susannah Dickey is the author of four poetry pamphlets, I had some very slight concerns (2017), genuine human values (2018), bloodthirsty for marriage (2020), and Oh! (2022). Her poetry has been published in The TLS, Poetry London, and Poetry Ireland Review. Her short fiction has been published in The Dublin Review and The White Review. In 2019 she won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, and in 2021 she was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award. She is an Eric Gregory Award winner, a prize granted for a collection by poets under the age of 30. Her debut poetry collection, Isdal, will be published in 2023. She is the author of Tennis Lessons (2020) and Common Decency (2022), both published by Doubleday UK.

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After learning that the starlings that gathered above the Albert Bridge in Belfast may have been displaced due to light pollution, Daphne is inspired to conserve nature elsewhere.

The Author
Born in Belfast, Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas and two collections of short stories: Multitudes (Faber, 2016) and Intimacies (Faber, 2021). She is also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber, 2019). In 2021 she won the 麻豆社 National Short Story Award with her story 鈥淎ll the People Were Mean and Bad.鈥 Her most recent novel, These Days (Faber, 2022), was a Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year.

Produced by Michael Shannon
Executive Editor Andy Martin
A 麻豆社 Northern Ireland production.

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 11 Apr 2024 21:30

Broadcasts

  • Sat 6 Apr 2024 13:30
  • Thu 11 Apr 2024 21:30