Shadowing Gordon by Jan Carson

An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the author Jan Carson. Read by Seamus O’Hara (‘Blue Lights’).

The Author
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her novel ‘The Fire Starters’ was awarded the EU Prize for Literature 2019 and the author was acclaimed as “one of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation” by the Sunday Times. Her most recent novel ‘The Raptures’ was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year. She is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 4 was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2020, the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year and the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.

Writer: Jan Carson
Reader: Seamus O’Hara
Producer: Michael Shannon

A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.