The Garden by David Park
Inspired by a woman called Eve, a lonely young man begins helping with a community garden project in Belfast.
An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the Northern Irish author David Park. Read by Chris McCurry.
The Writer
David Park is one of Northern Ireland's most acclaimed authors. 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 an Honorary Fellowship in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. His latest novel 'Ghost Wedding' will be published in May 2025.
Writer: David Park
Reader: Chris McCurry
Producer: Michael Shannon
A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Fri 25 Apr 2025 15:45BBC Radio 4
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