Spoken Stories: The State of Us

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Spoken Stories: The State of Us episodes

February 12, 2021 'An Authentic Conversation' by Yan Ge
Read by Ashley Xie. Nan and Akmaral, two young Asian students attend a Dublin language school. In the process of grappling with an assignment from their teacher Aisling, to engage in an authentic conversation with a stranger, their perception of authenticity grows. Broadcast to coincide with the Chinese New Year.
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29 min
February 12, 2021 'An Authentic Conversation' by Yan Ge
Read by Ashley Xie. Nan and Akmaral, two young Asian students attend a Dublin language school. In the process of grappling with an assignment from their teacher Aisling, to engage in an authentic conversation with a stranger, their perception of authenticity grows. Broadcast to coincide with the Chinese New Year.
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29 min
February 07, 2021 'Anti-Treaty' by Wendy Erskine
Read by the author. Cut-throat tv talent show UK OK, gets more than it bargained for with E-Zee or Ballyshannon girls, Eimear and Zofia, among its contestants.
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26 min
February 07, 2021 'Anti-Treaty' by Wendy Erskine
Read by the author. Cut-throat tv talent show UK OK, gets more than it bargained for with E-Zee or Ballyshannon girls, Eimear and Zofia, among its contestants.
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26 min
January 31, 2021 'Shorn' by Sue Rainsford - read by Saoirse Ronan
Read by Saoirse Ronan. 'Shorn' moves hauntingly between a brutal long ago and a present time of purge the past, while not forgetting it.
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29 min
January 31, 2021 'Shorn' by Sue Rainsford - read by Saoirse Ronan
Read by Saoirse Ronan. 'Shorn' moves hauntingly between a brutal long ago and a present time of purge the past, while not forgetting it.
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29 min
January 22, 2021 'A Pirate, Dreaming' by Kevin Barry
Read by the author. From his high-up perch under his Velux window, a pirate radio DJ watches a routine morning grow and the good people of Limerick city getting up and out into another April day.
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24 min
January 22, 2021 'A Pirate, Dreaming' by Kevin Barry
Read by the author. From his high-up perch under his Velux window, a pirate radio DJ watches a routine morning grow and the good people of Limerick city getting up and out into another April day.
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24 min
January 17, 2021 'Assignation' by Mary Costello
Read by Caitríona Ni Mhurchú. 'Assignation' opens hopefully on a bright mid-April New York morning in 1938. The quiet intimately devastating telling of the story of Irish emigrant, Marion, signals the life-changing consequences of how we handle what is thrust upon us.
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27 min
January 17, 2021 'Assignation' by Mary Costello
Read by Caitríona Ni Mhurchú. 'Assignation' opens hopefully on a bright mid-April New York morning in 1938. The quiet intimately devastating telling of the story of Irish emigrant, Marion, signals the life-changing consequences of how we handle what is thrust upon us.
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27 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…