Literary interlude

There are just a few hours more of the opportunity to listen to this year's winner of the UK National Short Story Prize. It's the The Orphan and the Mob by Julian Gough, and its plot gets going with the need for a toilet break by the hero, attending an interminable speech by a Fianna Fail minister to a loyal crowd in Tipperary. It was read in abriged form by Conor Lovett on Radio 4 last Tuesday (17th), and the audio file only stays up for 7 days. Gough, originally from Galway, was interviewed on Today this morning.

UPDATE 29 APRIL: A pleasant surprise -- Radio 4 has another audio file with the story.

FINAl UPDATE 25 JULY: Gough is interviewed in one section of this edition of Front Row (link good for another 5 days).