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Radio 4,19 Mar 2021,14 mins

You Forgot Me First by Tara West

Short Works

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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.

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