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Lift by Glenn Patterson

4 Extra Debut. After missing her bus, a woman shares an unusual taxi ride with a stranger and reassesses her whole life. Read by Maggie Cronin.

An elderly woman misses her bus into Belfast so shares a taxi with a young woman she meets at the stop.

Over the course of the journey, she comes to reassess her entire life...

An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the Northern Irish writer Glenn Patterson.

Glenn's an author and screenwriter from Belfast. He has written ten novels as well as audio dramas for Radio 3 and Radio 4 and is the co-writer of 'Good Vibrations', an award-winning movie based on the life of Belfast punk impresario Terri Hooley.

Read by Maggie Cronin

Producer: Michael Shannon

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2021.

14 minutes

Last on

Tue 15 Oct 202405:45
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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