Spoken Stories: The State of Us

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Spoken Stories: The State of Us episodes

November 06, 2022 'Tacugama' by Belinda McKeon
Read by Charlene McKenna. Sisters reared on an Irish farm have different lives now on either side of the Atlantic. When their father has a stroke, the farm doesn’t stand still nor do relations between the two sisters.
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27 min
November 06, 2022 'Tacugama' by Belinda McKeon
Read by Charlene McKenna. Sisters reared on an Irish farm have different lives now on either side of the Atlantic. When their father has a stroke, the farm doesn’t stand still nor do relations between the two sisters.
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27 min
October 30, 2022 'Law of the Instrument' by Lisa McInerney
Read by Stephen O'Leary. A young man has has dug himself so deeply into an incessant conflict with his father, that it stops him from leaving home.
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25 min
October 30, 2022 'Law of the Instrument' by Lisa McInerney
Read by Stephen O'Leary. A young man has has dug himself so deeply into an incessant conflict with his father, that it stops him from leaving home.
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25 min
October 23, 2022 'Near Adelaide' by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Read by Emma Dargan-Reid. With her move away from being home schooled in remote Australia to boarding school near Adelaide a young girl is confronted with thoughts and feelings around family, absence and belonging.
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28 min
October 23, 2022 'Near Adelaide' by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Read by Emma Dargan-Reid. With her move away from being home schooled in remote Australia to boarding school near Adelaide a young girl is confronted with thoughts and feelings around family, absence and belonging.
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28 min
October 16, 2022 'Bride' by Donal Ryan
Read by Daryl McCormack. Having been cast out from his life a man exiles himself far from where he had lived with his wife and their child and is bewitched by a woman of the place where he is now.
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25 min
October 16, 2022 'Bride' by Donal Ryan
Read by Daryl McCormack. Having been cast out from his life a man exiles himself far from where he had lived with his wife and their child and is bewitched by a woman of the place where he is now.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
25 min
March 28, 2021 'On Being Sophia' by Mike McCormack
Read by Fiona O'Shaughnessy. 'On Being Sophia' gives voice to Sophia, an actual female android who in 2017 was granted full citizenship by Saudia Arabia. 21 years later, Sophia now addresses the United Nations Education, Cultural and Scientific Organisation in Paris.
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25 min
March 28, 2021 'On Being Sophia' by Mike McCormack
Read by Fiona O'Shaughnessy. 'On Being Sophia' gives voice to Sophia, an actual female android who in 2017 was granted full citizenship by Saudia Arabia. 21 years later, Sophia now addresses the United Nations Education, Cultural and Scientific Organisation in Paris.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
25 min

About Spoken Stories: The State of Us

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SPOKEN STORIES is a themed-led trilogy of 36 original stories. Commissioned from some of the most dynamic contemporary writers associated with Ireland and the short story, they navigate the…