Shard

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An atmospheric new folk horror drama by Stewart Roche. Spooner thinks he’s finally found his tribe when he escapes city life and joins an experimental new commune on an island off the coast of Ireland. But when it turns into a barren wasteland overnight, he begins to realise that the island is demanding a price from them that's higher than he could ever have imagined… Spooner ..... Damien Molony Kemp ..... Finbar Lynch Cara ..... Rebecca O’Mara Ryan ..... Trevor Kaneswaran Siofra ..... Kitty O’Sullivan Rescuer ..... Will Kirk Sound Design by Keith Graham Production Co-ordinator ..... Clare Ewing Directed by Hugh Hick A BBC Audio Production for BBC Radio 4 Hugh Hick is an award-winning independent audio drama producer based in Dublin. Work includes ‘Crossing The Red Line’ (Best Radio Drama’ - Celtic Media Festival / Silver Award - New York Festivals Radio Awards), and ‘The Horror Writer’ by Emily Gillmor Murphy (Prix Europa nominee 2021 - Radio Fiction). This is his first drama in the UK and for BBC Radio 4. Stewart Roche is an award-winning Irish playwright. His first original full length play ‘Revenant’ was nominated for the prestigious Stewart Parker Award in 2013. His film ‘Where Still Waters Lie’ won Best Foreign Short at the Monsterflix Awards, Best Drama at the Indie for You Festival and Best Horror at the Five Continents Film Festival, Tokyo Short Film Festival and the U-Horror film awards. His first audio drama, ‘Hunter’, premiered on Dublin City FM in October 2020.