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Vidas

Episode 5 of 10

Vidas is supposed to be helping Frankie with his caravan but his grandfather’s tool belt has disappeared. Written by Jan Carson.

A caravan-park on the Northern Irish coast is beset by a series of impossible thefts, forcing its disparate group of residents to come together to find their missing belongings. However, in this uncanny place where static caravans teeter on an eroding a cliff-edge overlooking the ocean, each holidaymaker soon finds themselves similarly wavering between certainty and doubt; one world and the next; the past and the present; and even reality and fantasy.

Author
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her most recent novel β€˜The Fire Starters’ was awarded the EU Prize for Literature 2019 and the author was acclaimed as β€œone of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation” by the Sunday Times. She has also written β€˜Wings’ for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Three, β€˜UnRaveling’ for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3, several short stories for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4’s β€˜Short Works’ series and was shortlisted for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Short Story Award 2020.

Reader: Ignacy Rybarczyk
Writer: Jan Carson
Producer: Michael Shannon
A ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Northern Ireland production.

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14 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Nov 2021 12:04

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  • Sun 31 Jan 2021 19:45
  • Fri 12 Nov 2021 12:04