You Forgot Me First by Tara West

University lecturer Claire finds herself responsible for the working class father she has barely seen in over 40 years.

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

Tara West is a writer from Co Antrim whose published works include two novels and a memoir. She is a doctoral student at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast and is one of BBC Writersroom’s Belfast Voices.

Read by Andrea Irvine.

Producer: Michael Shannon

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