Ava Unfurled
A woman discovers an unexpected connection to her lost love through the artworks stored in a museum. Read by Roísín Gallagher.
Inside the storerooms of a museum, a recently bereaved woman finds an unexpected connection to her lost lover in the artworks she’s now taking out of storage.
An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from writer Sue Rainsford.
Read by Roísín Gallagher.
Sue is an Irish fiction and arts writer based in Dublin.
Her practice is concerned with hybrid, lyric and embodied texts, explicit fusions of critical and corporeal inquiry, as well as with questions of transcription and otherness.
A graduate of Trinity College and IADT, in January 2017 she completed her MFA in Writing & Literature at Bennington College, Vermont.
She is a recipient of the VAI/DCC Critical Writing Award (2016/17), the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award (2013, 2018, 2019) and a MacDowell Fellowship (2019). She is a visual arts writer in residence at Roscommon Arts Centre (2018-20), and was writer in residence at Maynooth University (2019-2020).
Producer: Michael Shannon
A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2021.
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Fri 13 Aug 202115:45BBC Radio 4 FM- Sun 15 Aug 202100:30BBC Radio 4
- Fri 21 Mar 202515:45BBC Radio 4 Extra
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