Joan Lingard and her original manuscript

Wonderful moment with Joan Lingard on Friday when I was recording with her for the BBC Radio Ulster doc "Kevin & Sadie". She's holding the original handwritten manuscript for her first Kevin & Sadie book "The Twelfth Day of July" which she wrote in 1969.

Joan has gifted all her manuscripts to the Linenhall Library where they are currently on show for the first time.

She was tickled pink she had to wear white gloves to touch her own work.

(pic courtesy of neilharrisonphotography.com)

You can hear my conversation with her, including a very emotional visit to her old house in Holland Gardens, East Belfast, the first time she had been back inside her childhood home in over 60 years, on Sunday 11th July at 1.30pm BBC Radio Ulster.