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6. Companion

Episode 6 of 10

Audrey arrives home with an unexpected companion. Two sisters living through wartime duress. Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg.

Audrey arrives home with an unexpected companion.

Two sisters, four nights, one city.

April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.

Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.

Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz,

Lucy Caldwell's timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.

Abridged in ten parts by Rowan Routh.

Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg

Producer: Gemma McMullan

A ´óÏó´«Ã½ Northern Ireland production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2022.

14 minutes

Last on

Tue 11 Jun 2024 03:30

Broadcasts

  • Mon 25 Apr 2022 22:45
  • Mon 10 Jun 2024 08:30
  • Mon 10 Jun 2024 13:30
  • Mon 10 Jun 2024 19:30
  • Tue 11 Jun 2024 03:30