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State of the Nation: Episode 3: A Glass of Cold Water

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By Cynan Jones. A Welsh labourer tries to find solace and escape in work.

In Cynan Jones's short story set in rural Wales, a young labourer tries to find solace and escape in work.

In the last in a series of stories looking at the lives of those living on the economic margins of society, a young labourer tries to find solace and work in austerity-struck rural Wales.

Cynan Jones is the acclaimed author of four novels. His first novel, 'The Long Dry' won a Betty Trask award. His most recent novel is 'The Dig', of which Jon day in The Telegraph said: 'The Dig is more than a bleak portrait of what is now called the "rural economy". It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you.'

Producer: Justine Willett
Reader: Robert Wilfort
Writer: Cynan Jones

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

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