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Short Works: MENopause by Karen Quinn

MENopause by Karen Quinn

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A young manager of a bowling alley struggles to relate to his menopausal employee.

JJ is an ally. And woke. Well, mostly woke. Unfortunately, that isn't helping his relationship with his menopausal employee Madge.

An original short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 written by Karen Quinn. As read by Caolan McCarthy.

Karen Quinn is an award winning writer and educator based in Donegal. She is one of BBC Writersroom's Belfast Voices 2022. She was longlisted for the Mammoth Screen TV Writer’s Award 2021, and twice shortlisted for the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting award run by the International Emmy Committee, in both 2014 and 2015. She was also the winner and recipient of the Northern Ireland Comedy Writers programme in 2016, organised by Grand Scheme Media, and a shortlisted writer and director for Jameson First Shot 2016. She has toured her writing both nationally and internationally. She is also a published children’s writer, with her work broadcast on television and published in short story collections. At the moment, her main focus of creative work is on young women’s mental health.​

Writer: Karen Quinn.
Reader: Caolan McCarthy
Producer: Michael Shannon
Executive Editor: Andy Martin

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