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John

Episode 9 of 10

A sudden disappearance forces all the residents out of their beds in the middle of the night to form a search party. Written by Jan Carson.

A caravan-park on the Northern Irish coast is beset by a series of impossible thefts, forcing its disparate group of residents to come together to find their missing belongings. However, in this uncanny place where static caravans teeter on an eroding a cliff-edge overlooking the ocean, each holidaymaker soon finds themselves similarly wavering between certainty and doubt; one world and the next; the past and the present; and even reality and fantasy.

Author
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her most recent novel 鈥楾he Fire Starters鈥 was awarded the EU Prize for Literature 2019 and the author was acclaimed as 鈥渙ne of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation鈥 by the Sunday Times. She has also written 鈥榃ings鈥 for 主播大秀 Three, 鈥楿nRaveling鈥 for 主播大秀 Radio 3, several short stories for 主播大秀 Radio 4鈥檚 鈥楽hort Works鈥 series and was shortlisted for the 主播大秀 National Short Story Award 2020.

Reader: Ian McElhinney
Writer: Jan Carson
Producer: Michael Shannon
A 主播大秀 Northern Ireland production.

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14 minutes

Last on

Thu 18 Nov 2021 12:04

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  • Sun 28 Feb 2021 19:45
  • Thu 18 Nov 2021 12:04