Old Spice

A series of five specially-commissioned tales revolving around the possibilities of the word spice.

2/5. Old Spice by Susmita Bhattacharya. Charles wants to know more about the new member of the weekly poetry group.

Susmita Bhattacharya was born in Mumbai. She teaches contemporary fiction at Winchester University and also facilitates the Mayflower Young Writers workshops, a SO:Write project based in Southampton. Her first novel, The Normal State Of Mind, was published in 2015. Her collection of stories, Table Manners, was published in 2018.

Writer: Susmita Bhattacharya
Reader: Phil Davis
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4