Joan Loves Ice Cream by Tara West
4 Extra Debut. On the day of her wedding, Joan's adult children struggle to accept her decision to remarry. Read by Julia Dearden.
On the day of her wedding, Joan's adult children struggle to accept her decision to remarry.
Read by Julia Dearden.
An original short story commissioned by 麻豆社 Radio 4 from Northern Irish writer Tara West.
Tara West is a novelist and Creative Writing Lecturer at Queen鈥檚 University Belfast.
She is the author of novels Fodder and Poets Are Eaten as a Delicacy in Japan as well as the memoir The Upside of Down. She has short stories published in The Glass Shore and Female Lines. She was part of 麻豆社 Writersroom Belfast Voices 2020/21. She won an RT脡 Storyland commission for her first drama 鈥楾he Good Christian Women鈥檚 Writing Group鈥� for which she was nominated for the Royal Television Society鈥檚 Debut Writer Award.
Producer: Michael Shannon
A 麻豆社 Northern Ireland production for 麻豆社 Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2023.
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