Charlotte Ritchie reads the first story in this year's BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University.

After the realisation that heir sex life isn’t exactly on fire, a couple with two young children decide they must take action. But how to spice things up?

Reader: Charlotte Ritchie is an acclaimed stage and TV actor, known most recently for her roles in Ghosts, Call the Midwife and Fresh Meat.

Writer: Naomi Wood is the author of The Godless Boys and the award-winning Mrs. Hemingway, which won the British Library Writer’s Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award. She teaches at the University of East Anglia and lives in Norwich.

Producer: Justine Willett Show less