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Where Joy Gone? by Ingrid Persaud

Joy has dementia. Each week, Lani visits her mother in a care home, trying to trigger her memory with food. Read by the author.

Joy is in the late stages of dementia.

Every week, her daughter Lani visits her in the care home and tries to trigger her memory with food.

Written and read by Ingrid Persaud.

Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2021.

**** Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. Her first novel, Love After Love, won the 2020 Costa Prize First Novel Award.

14 minutes

Last on

Sat 6 Dec 202505:45
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  • Fri 29 Jan 202115:45
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 31 Jan 202100:30
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  • Fri 5 Dec 202515:45
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  • Fri 5 Dec 202521:45
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  • Sat 6 Dec 202505:45
    BBC Radio 4 Extra