Keeping Watch

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A surveillance cop is prepared to go far beyond his line of duty.

Surveillance work is always hard but for one dutiful cop it’s too important to put anything at risk. Read by Ciarán McMenamin.

Surveillance work is always difficult but for one dutiful cop it is too important an operation to put anything at risk.

Read by Ciarán McMenamin.

Writer David Park's previous books include The Big Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner, The Light of Amsterdam, The Poets' Wives and Gods and Angels. 

He's won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award, three times. The Truth Commissioner was made into a feature film starring Roger Allam. 

Producer: Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016.

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