Forbidden Planet by Dawn Watson
On a day that finally offers hope for peace in Northern Ireland, a teenager working at a Belfast cinema finds that not everyone is so optimistic about an end to the violence.
An original short story specially commissioned by Radio 4 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Provisional IRA’s announcement of a cessation of military operations in Northern Ireland. As read by Andrea Irvine (‘Blue Lights’).
Dawn Watson was born in Belfast and is a poet and writer. She is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen’s University, Belfast. Dawn’s debut collection We Play Here was a Guardian Poetry Book of the Year 2023 and was shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Prize for an outstanding debut collection. Dawn’s work has been broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3, and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Ulster, and has appeared in leading literary journals including The Poetry Review and Granta.
Writer: Dawn Watson
Reader: Andrea Irvine
Producer: Michael Shannon
A ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Audio Northern Ireland Production for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4.
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