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A Borderline Interest by Derek Owusu

Two people meet in a mental health support group and quickly grow close. But is one of them hiding something? A story by the winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for new fiction.

Two people meet in a mental health support group and quickly grow close. But is one of them hiding something?

An original short story for Radio 4 about what we share, what we hide and how to understand someone's true feelings when you're not even sure of your own.

Derek Owusu is a writer, poet and podcaster from north London. He discovered his passion for literature at the age of twenty-three while studying exercise science at university. Unable to afford a change of degree, Derek began reading voraciously and sneaking into English Literature lectures at the University of Manchester. Derek edited and contributed to Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space. That Reminds Me, his first solo work, won the Desmond Elliott Prize for new fiction in 2020.

Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Produced by Mair Bosworth

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14 minutes

Last on

Sun 4 Oct 2020 00:30

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  • Fri 2 Oct 2020 15:45
  • Sun 4 Oct 2020 00:30