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Short Works: Flowers In Water by Cathy Sweeney

Flowers In Water by Cathy Sweeney

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A story about a man who makes films without a camera.

A film-maker in a small provincial town faces disarray when his nine year-old daughter suddenly arrives. Read by Roísín Gallagher.

The everyday routine of a film-maker in a small provincial town is thrown into disarray by the sudden arrival of his nine year-old daughter.

An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 by the Irish writer Cathy Sweeney

Read by Roísín Gallagher.

Cathy Sweeney lives in Bray, County Wicklow. She has published short stories in ‘The Stinging Fly’, ‘Southword’, ‘The Dublin Review’, ‘Icarus’, ‘Meridian’ and in the 2015 anthology ‘Young Irelanders’ published by New Island Press. This is her first story for BBC Radio.  

Producer: Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2019.

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