大象传媒

A series of five short stories by leading literary voicesfrom around the Commonwealth. Starting on 10th March, Commonwealth Day, they are being broadcast across this week, with stories from Sri Lanka, Australia, Jamaica and Uganda.

In "Art Work" by Zoe Wicomb, South African Letty, who has lived and worked as a nurse in Glasgow for many years, struggles to come to terms with her nephew's desire to become an artist. She's raised Leo as her own, watched him flourish away from township life in Cape Town and gain excellent grades at school, so his career choice feels to her like a waste of his academic talent.

Acclaimed as "an extraordinary writer" by Toni Morrison, Zoe Wicomb is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Strathclyde University. Her critical work focuses on postcolonial theory and South African writing and culture. Her published works of fiction are "You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town", "David's Story", "Playing in the Light", and "The One That Got Away"; she will publish a new novel in 2014.

Reader, Janice Acquah
Writer, Zoe Wicomb
Studio Producer, Allegra McIlroy
Producer, Kirsteen Cameron.