The Day He Met Jesus/Keeping Watch

THE DAY HE MET JESUS

Clare fondly recalls her Grandpa Andy, who liked to talk to trees and play opera arias to his vegetables. Read by Jenn Murray.

The Author
Born in Belfast, Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas and the short story collections, Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings. She is also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. In 2021 she won the BBC National Short Story Award with her story “All the People Were Mean and Bad.” Her most recent novel, These Days, won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Other awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the George Devine Award.
Producer: Michael Shannon

KEEPING WATCH BY DAVID PARK

Surveillance work is always hard but for one dutiful cop it’s too important to put anything at risk. Read by Ciarán McMenamin.

The Author
Writer David Park's previous books include The Big Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner, The Light of Amsterdam, The Poets' Wives, Gods and Angels, Spies in Canaan and Ghost Wedding.

He's won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award, three times. The Truth Commissioner was made into a feature film starring Roger Allam.

Producer: Gemma McMullan.