Where Life Starts.
A recently retired woman moves back to the coastal town where she grew up and is inspired to try sea swimming. Read by Maggie Cronin.

The Author
David Park is one of Northern Ireland's most acclaimed writers. His first novel 'The Healing' won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award. 'The Truth Commissioner' was awarded the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and adapted for film; 'The Light of Amsterdam' was shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize; 'The Poets’ Wives' was Belfast’s One City One Book and 'Travelling in a Strange Land' won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. He has received a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. His latest novel 'Spies in Canaan' was published in 2022.

The Suit.
When her father receives an unexpected summons, a woman finds herself pulled back home to Northern Ireland. As read by Roísín Gallagher.

The Author.
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.

Produced by Michael Shannon
Executive Editor Andy Martin
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