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Writing Lives

Sally Orrock

Jane Campion Hoye

Paul Dodgson

Writing Lives: Episode 3: Slum Songs in the Sun, by Jane Campion Hoye

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Slum Songs in the Sun, by Jane Campion Hoye

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A woman volunteers at a school in Kenya and is made to confront an impossible dream.

4 Extra Debut. At a school in a slum in Kenya, a volunteer meets a girl who makes her confront an impossible dream. Read by Sally Orrock. From June 2014.

Writing Lives is a series of short stories by writers new to Radio 4 and based on personal experience.

In Slum Songs in the Sun by Jane Campion Hoye, when a woman volunteers at a school in a slum in Kenya she meets a girl who makes her confront an impossible dream.

Jane Campion Hoye is a Midlands-based writer and performer. This is her first commission for BBC Radio 4.


Read by Sally Orrock

Producer: Paul Dodgson
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