These Days by Lucy Caldwell  (Omnibus)

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These Days by Lucy Caldwell (Omnibus): Episode 1

These Days by Lucy Caldwell

Episode 1

These Days by Lucy Caldwell (Omnibus)

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It’s April 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Two sisters' stories.

Two sisters, four nights, one city. It’s April 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg.

Two sisters, four nights, one city.

April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the coming two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, “My God, Belfast is finished”.

Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.

Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz,

Lucy Caldwell's timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Rowan Routh.

Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg. 

Producer: Gemma McMullan

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2022.

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Lucy Caldwell's story of two sisters set against the backdrop of the 1941 Belfast Blitz.

Lucy Caldwell's story follows two sisters trying to survive in life and love against the backdrop of the 1941 Belfast Blitz. Omnibus edition.

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