To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and mark this year’s Commonwealth Games celebrations, three recent prizewinners have written specially commissioned stories for Radio 4.

Today’s story is by Kevin Jared Hosein from Trinidad and Tobago. In We Do Everything For You, Lal's cruise ship vacation turns nightmarish as he begins facing the distress of being overlooked and disregarded because of his Caribbean background, as well as the pain of his wife’s disappointment in him.

Kevin Jared Hosein is an author and science teacher born and raised in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago. He twice won the regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region, before winning the overall prize in 2018 with his story Passage. His novel Hungry Ghosts will be published by Bloomsbury in February 2023.

Reader Damian Lynch has recently been seen in lead roles in TV’s The Split and Giri/Haji, as well as in guest appearances in Casualty and Coronation Street.

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize attracts between 6,000 – 7,000 entries every year from nearly all the 54 Commonwealth countries, and taps into a rich, rewarding vein of storytelling from around the world. Five regional prizes are awarded, from which one writer is chosen as the overall winner.

Producer: Tolly Robinson
Sound Design: Lucinda Mason Brown
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