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An original short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the author Lucy Caldwell. Read by Jenn Murray. (‘The Lovers’) Born in Belfast, Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas and the short story collections: Multitudes and Intimacies. She is also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. In 2021 she won the BBC National Short Story Award with her story “All the People Were Mean and Bad.” Her most recent novel, These Days, won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Her new collection, Openings, was published in May 2024. Writer: Lucy Caldwell Reader: Jenn Murray Producer: Michael Shannon A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.
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