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Radio 4,26 Sep 2025,14 mins

Shadowing Gordon by Jan Carson

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An original short story specially commissioned by 麻豆社 Radio 4 from the author Jan Carson. Read by Seamus O鈥橦ara (鈥楤lue Lights鈥). The Author Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her novel 鈥楾he Fire Starters鈥 was awarded the EU Prize for Literature 2019 and the author was acclaimed as 鈥渙ne of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation鈥 by the Sunday Times. Her most recent novel 鈥楾he Raptures鈥 was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year. She is a frequent contributor to 麻豆社 Radio 4 was shortlisted for the 麻豆社 National Short Story Award 2020, the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year and the Se谩n 脫 Faol谩in Short Story Prize. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Writer: Jan Carson Reader: Seamus O鈥橦ara Producer: Michael Shannon A 麻豆社 Audio Northern Ireland Production for 麻豆社 Radio 4.

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