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Jacqueline Redgewell reads Lisa Blower's story set among the have-nots of Stoke-on-Trent.

A mother finds self-worth through those who have nothing in austerity-struck Stoke-on-Trent in Lisa Blower's short story. Read by Jaqueline Redgewell.

The second in a series of hard-hitting stories looking at the lives of those living on the economic margins of society in Britain today. In Lisa Blower's 'Pot Luck', a mother finds self-worth through those who have nothing in austerity-struck Stoke-on-Trent. The reader is Jaqueline Redgewell.

Producer: Justine Willett
Reader: Jacqueline Redgewell
Writer: Lisa Blower left full-time academia to become a writer in 2006. Her story 'Broken Crockery' won The Guardian's National Short Story Competition in 2009, and her story 'Barmouth' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2013. Her first novel is titled 'Sitting Ducks'.

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Short stories looking at the lives of those living on the economic margins of society

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