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The Counting Sheep

Mary was having trouble sleeping until, one morning, she wakes up to some unexpected visitors. Written by Lucy Caldwell.

An original short story specially commissioned by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 by the Northern Irish writer Lucy Caldwell. As read by Louise Parker (The Northern Bank Job.)

Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of three novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and most recently two collections of short stories: Multitudes (Faber, 2016) and Intimacies (Faber, 2021). She is also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber, 2019). Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Imison Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Irish Writers’ and Screenwriters’ Guild Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Award (Canada & Europe), the Edge Hill Short Story Prize Readers’ Choice Award, a Fiction Uncovered Award, a K. Blundell Trust Award and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Reader: Louise Parker
Writer: Lucy Caldwell
Producer: Michael Shannon

A ´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland production.

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14 minutes

Last on

Sun 1 Aug 2021 00:30

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  • Fri 30 Jul 2021 15:45
  • Sun 1 Aug 2021 00:30