Writing Lives is a series of short stories by writers new to Radio 4 and based on personal experience.

In Slum Songs in the Sun by Jane Campion Hoye, when a woman volunteers at a school in a slum in Kenya she meets a girl who makes her confront an impossible dream.

Jane Campion Hoye is a Midlands-based writer and performer. This is her first commission for BBC Radio 4.

Read by Sally Orrock

Producer: Paul Dodgson
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