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Short Works: The Suit by Colin Carberry

The Suit by Colin Carberry

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Following her wedding, a woman promises to buy her father a new suit.

When her father receives an unexpected summons, a woman finds herself pulled back home to Northern Ireland.

An original short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the writer Colin Carberry. Read by Roísín Gallagher.

Colin Carberry is a writer of screenplays and fiction from Belfast. With Glenn Patterson, he co-wrote the film Good Vibrations, for which the pair were nominated for Outstanding Debut at the 2014 BAFTA Film awards. They had previously won Best Script at the 2013 Irish Writers Guild Awards, and Best Script at the 2012 Dinard British Film Festival. They were also nominated for Best First Script of 2013 by the Writers Guild of Great Britain. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and is developing a number of projects for film, television and theatre.

Writer: Colin Carberry
Reader: Roísín Gallagher
Producer: Michael Shannon
Executive Editor: Andy Martin

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