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Short Works: Sonny's Bench by Dawn Watson

Sonny's Bench by Dawn Watson

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Sonny's Bench by Dawn Watson

Outside a primary school in Belfast, Sonny waits for his granddaughter.

A powerful original story of love and family told by a grandfather as he sits on a bench, waiting. Read by Ian McElhinney.

A powerful story of love and family told by a grandfather as he sits on a bench, waiting.  

An original short work for BBC Radio 4 by the Northern Irish writer, Dawn Watson. 

Read by Ian McElhinney. (Derry Girls, Game of Thrones.)

Dawn Watson was born in Belfast. In 2019, she published her debut poetry pamphlet The Stack of Owls is Getting Higher and has short stories in anthologies Still Worlds Turning and Belfast Stories. 

Her stories and poems have been published in literary journals including The Stinging Fly, The Moth and The Tangerine. 

Dawn is an AHRC PhD candidate at the Seamus Heaney Centre, writing a prose poem novel and researching prose poetics.

Producer:  Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2019.

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