Joan Loves Ice Cream by Tara West

On the day of her wedding, Joan's adult children struggle to accept her decision to remarry.

Read by Julia Dearden.

An original short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from Northern Irish writer Tara West.

Tara West is a novelist and Creative Writing Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast.

She is the author of novels Fodder and Poets Are Eaten as a Delicacy in Japan as well as the memoir The Upside of Down. She has short stories published in The Glass Shore and Female Lines. She was part of BBC Writersroom Belfast Voices 2020/21. She won an RTÉ Storyland commission for her first drama ‘The Good Christian Women’s Writing Group’ for which she was nominated for the Royal Television Society’s Debut Writer Award.

Producer: Michael Shannon

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2023.