Moving Mountains		

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Moving Mountains by Jan Carson

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Slemish Mountain, where St Patrick lived, is accidentally sold to a Japanese theme park.

In rural Northern Ireland, the locals are horrified to learn that Slemish mountain, where Saint Patrick tended sheep before finding God, has been sold to a Japanese theme park.

In rural Northern Ireland, the locals are horrified to learn that Slemish mountain - traditionally believed to be where Saint Patrick was brought to tend sheep before finding God - has been sold to a Japanese theme park. However on the day Slemish is to be removed and shipped across the world the diggers are beset by protesters, politicians and the Ballymena townsfolk caught in between.

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Moving Mountains by Jan Carson: Episode 4 - Joss

Episode 4 - Joss

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An Irish activist has one last desperate stunt up her sleeve.

Joss, a former drama student turned activist, has one last stunt planned to save the hill that the locals inexplicably insist is actually a mountain. Read by Aoibhéann McCann.

In rural Northern Ireland, the locals are horrified to learn that Slemish mountain – traditionally believed to be where Saint Patrick was brought to tend sheep before finding God – has been sold to a Japanese theme park. However on the day Slemish is to be removed and shipped across the world the diggers are beset by protesters, politicians and the Ballymena townsfolk caught in between. 

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Born in Ballymena, Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator. Her novel ‘The Fire Starters’ was awarded the EU Prize for Literature 2019 and the author was acclaimed as “one of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation” by the Sunday Times. Her most recent novel ‘The Raptures’ was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year. She has also written ‘Wings’ for BBC Three, ‘UnRaveling’ for BBC Radio 3, ‘The Last Resort’ for BBC Radio 4 and was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2020. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Her new short story collection ‘Quickly, While They Still Have Horses’ will be published in 2024.

Reader: Aoibhéann McCann
Writer: Jan Carson
Producer: Michael Shannon
Editor: Andy Martin

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