Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio Ulster,17 Oct 2026,30 mins

SeriesShorts Works

No Good Deed/I, the Flock

Storytellers

Available for over a year

NO GOOD DEED Busy mum-of-two Trisha decides to try a dating app. However, as a chronic people pleaser, she struggles to say no - even to the most unusual requests. Read by Tara Lynne O’Neill. The Author Riley Johnston was first published in ‘The 32: An Anthology of Working-Class Voices’ (2021) Her novel ‘A Holy Show’ was long-listed in the Discoveries prize (2021) and Irish Writers Centre, Novel Fair (2023). Riley’s short fiction has been published by Comma Press, and she was first runner up in the Mairtín Crawford Short Story Award with Calloused (2022). Producer: Michael Shannon I, THE FLOCK A father tries to move on after the death of his son, an online activist. Read by Stuart Graham (The Fall). The Author Mike McCormack is an acclaimed Irish writer and past winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His novel 'Solar Bones' was awarded the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize, the Irish Book Award's Novel of the Year, and the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. This Plague of Souls, his most recent novel, was published in 2023. Producer: Michael Shannon.

Programme Website
More episodes