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One More Song by Sam Thompson

When Mark attends a music gig in Belfast, the sight of a familiar face in the crowd causes him to reflect on his younger days as an aspiring musician. Read by Richard Clements.

An original short story specially commissioned by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 from the author Sam Thompson. Read by Richard Clements.

The Author
Sam Thompson is the author of the novels ‘Communion Town’ and ‘Jott’, the children’s novels ‘Wolfstongue’, ‘The Fox’s Tower’ and ‘The Forest Yet to Come’, and the short story collection ‘Whirlwind Romance’. His work has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Edge Hill Prize and a British Science Fiction Association Award, has been shortlisted for the Encore Prize, has won a Spark School Book Award and a Literacy Association of Ireland Biennial Book Award. His short fiction appeared in Best British Short Stories 2019. He grew up in the south of England and now lives in Belfast, where he convenes the MA in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University.

Writer: Sam Thompson
Reader: Richard Clements
Producer: Michael Shannon

A ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Northern Ireland Production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4.

Release date:

14 minutes

On radio

Fri 4 Jul 2025 15:45

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Jul 2025 15:45