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Are You Going to Knock?

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On a bus journey, one woman's travelling rituals are upset by an unexpected companion.

By Jennifer Johnston: On a bus journey, one woman's travelling rituals are upset by an unexpected travelling companion. Read by Patricia Levenson.

Three new short stories, specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to celebrate Derry~Londonderry's status as UK City of Culture, from some of the city's leading literary figures. Seamus Deane, Jennifer Johnston and Brian McGilloway each bring us a new short story, recorded in front of an audience in the city's Verbal Arts Centre.

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Although born in Dublin, Jennifer Johnston has been living in Derry for several years. Jennifer Johnston's first published novel was The Captains and the Kings (1972). Since then, she has published many more novels, including Shadows on our Skin (1977), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and The Old Jest (1979), set in the War of Independence and winner of the 1979 Whitbread Novel Award.

Are you Going to Knock?
By Jennifer Johnston
Read by Patricia Levenson
Produced by Heather Larmour.

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Three short stories written to celebrate Derry-Londonderry's status as UK City of Culture

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