The Counting Sheep by Lucy Caldwell
Mary couldn’t sleep until one day she woke to unexpected visitors. Short story read by Louise Parker.
Mary was having trouble sleeping until, one morning, she wakes up to some unexpected visitors.
An original short story specially commissioned from Northern Irish writer, Lucy Caldwell.
Read by Louise Parker.
Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of three novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two collections of short stories. She is also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories.
Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Imison Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Irish Writers’ and Screenwriters’ Guild Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Award (Canada & Europe), the Edge Hill Short Story Prize Readers’ Choice Award, a Fiction Uncovered Award, a K Blundell Trust Award and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Producer: Michael Shannon
A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2021.
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