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On the Beach

By David Park. A son helps his elderly father make the trip from his retirement home to the nearest beach. Read by Sean McGinley.

David Park is one of Northern Ireland's most acclaimed novelists. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award, three times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. His novel 'The Truth Commissioner' was also recently adapted into a feature film starring Roger Allam.

Producer ..... Michael Shannon.

15 minutes

Last on

Sun 30 Apr 2017 00:30

Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Sean McGinley
Writer David Park
Producer Michael Shannon

Broadcasts

  • Fri 28 Apr 2017 15:45
  • Sun 30 Apr 2017 00:30