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Radio 4,19 Sep 2018,15 mins

SeriesBBC National Short Story Award 2018

Synsepalum

Short Works

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Five commissioned short stories by leading writers to celebrate this year's BBC National Short Story Award: In Synsepalum by Irenosen Okojie, the tailor in a pop-up atelier makes eye-catching dresses for his adoring clients - 'the designs rose from dark undulating slipstreams as if in resurrection'. But there is a price to pay for this adulation.. Reader Nikki Amuka-Bird Producer Duncan Minshull

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