A series of programmes that sets up a unique pairing between writers from countries challenged by refugee and migration issues with short story writers from Britain. Each foreign story was given to a British writer who wrote their own response, in an exchange of fiction that aims to explode myths, explore shared concerns and extend the boundaries of the short story.

In The Homsi Wolf by Mahmoud Al Hussein, a Syrian father tries to protect his family from the bombing raids on his village and comes face to face with an enemy on the ground. The reader is Amir El Masry.

In Sara Maitland's response, Cry Wolf, a mother returns with her young daughter to her family home in the Highlands, where she has a strange and frightening encounter. The reader is Sara Markland.

Mahmoud Al Hussein is a Syrian writer, dramatist, actor and director who specialised in Syria in children’s theatre. He now lives in Turkey and is developing drama for radio. Sara Maitland is a novelist, short-story writer, columnist and essayist, and author of much-praised non-fiction books including The Book of Silence and Gossip from the Forest.

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