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Aunt Mirrie and the Child

Award-winning author Kate Clanchy’s short story examining what we inherit and what we pass on in life. Read by Hannah Gordon.

A short story from award-winning author Kate Clanchy about what we inherit, and what we pass on.

Kate Clanchy was born and grew up in Scotland but now lives in Oxford. She is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and poet. Her work includes poetry collections 'Slattern', 'Samarkand' and 'Newborn' and the acclaimed novel 'Antigona and Me'. Her first novel, 'Meeting the English', was published by Picador in 2013 and was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa First Book Award. In 2018 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature, and an anthology of her students' work, England: Poems from a School, was published.

Producer: Mair Bosworth

15 minutes

Last on

Fri 20 Mar 202015:45
BBC Radio 4

Credits

WriterKate Clanchy
ReaderHannah Gordon
ProducerMair Bosworth

Broadcasts

  • Sun 15 Mar 201500:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Thu 14 Mar 201911:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 14 Mar 201921:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 20 Mar 202015:45
    BBC Radio 4