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Short Works: Progress by Jo Lloyd

Progress by Jo Lloyd

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An original work for radio by winner of the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award, Jo Lloyd.

A specially commissioned work for radio by winner of the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award, Jo Lloyd. Read by Amanda Lawrence.

With their rural house yet to join the National Grid, a couple disagree about what constitutes progress in this specially commissioned work for for radio.

Writer Jo Lloyd grew up in South Wales and won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2019 for "The Invisible", inspired by the life of an 18th Century woman from Carnarvonshire. It is one of the stories included in her debut collection The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies which is published by Swift Books in February 2021

Reader: Amanda Lawrence
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

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