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Comorbidities by Naomi Wood

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The first in this year's BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University.

A couple with young children decide it’s time to spice up their flagging sex life, in Naomi Wood’s ‘Comorbidities’, read by Charlotte Ritchie

Charlotte Ritchie reads the first story in this year's BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University.

After the realisation that heir sex life isn’t exactly on fire, a couple with two young children decide they must take action. But how to spice things up? 

Reader: Charlotte Ritchie is an acclaimed stage and TV actor, known most recently for her roles in Ghosts, Call the Midwife and Fresh Meat.

Writer: Naomi Wood is the author of The Godless Boys and the award-winning Mrs. Hemingway, which won the British Library Writer’s Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award. She teaches at the University of East Anglia and lives in Norwich. 

Producer: Justine Willett

BBC National Short Story Award: BBC National Short Story Award 2023

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