Open Day by Ben Markovits

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A day in the life of Helen as she accompanies her son Michael to a university open day. She's dreading when he will leave the nest. And.. who is Sadie? Ben Markovits' tale was originally part of a series of commissioned short stories to celebrate the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award. Read by Claire Skinner. Benjamin Markovits is a British-American writer, the author of 12 novels, among them a trilogy on the life of Lord Byron. His novel You Don't Have To Live Like This won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2016. Producer: Duncan Minshull First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2019.