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By David Park. A son helps his elderly father make the trip from his retirement home to the nearest beach. Read by Sean McGinley.

David Park is one of Northern Ireland's most acclaimed novelists. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award, three times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. His novel 'The Truth Commissioner' was also recently adapted into a feature film starring Roger Allam.

Producer ..... Michael Shannon.

15 minutes

Last on

Sun 30 Apr 201700:30
BBC Radio 4

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Credits

ReaderSean McGinley
WriterDavid Park
ProducerMichael Shannon

Broadcasts

  • Fri 28 Apr 201715:45
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 30 Apr 201700:30
    BBC Radio 4