Shard by Stewart Roche

Spooner thinks he’s finally found his tribe when he escapes city life and joins an experimental new commune on an island off the coast of Ireland.

But when it turns into a barren wasteland overnight, he begins to realise that the island is demanding a price from them that's higher than he could ever have imagined…

An atmospheric new folk horror drama by Stewart Roche.

Spooner ..... Damien Molony
Kemp ..... Finbar Lynch
Cara ..... Rebecca O’Mara
Ryan ..... Trevor Kaneswaran
Siofra ..... Kitty O’Sullivan
Rescuer ..... Will Kirk

Sound Design by Keith Graham
Production Co-ordinator ..... Clare Ewing

Hugh Hick is an award-winning independent audio drama producer based in Dublin. Work includes ‘Crossing The Red Line’ (Best Radio Drama’ - Celtic Media Festival/Silver Award - New York Festivals Radio Awards), and ‘The Horror Writer’ by Emily Gillmor Murphy (Prix Europa nominee 2021 - Radio Fiction). This is his first drama in the UK and for BBC Radio 4.

Stewart Roche is an award-winning Irish playwright. His first original full length play ‘Revenant’ was nominated for the prestigious Stewart Parker Award in 2013. His film ‘Where Still Waters Lie’ won Best Foreign Short at the Monsterflix Awards, Best Drama at the Indie for You Festival and Best Horror at the Five Continents Film Festival, Tokyo Short Film Festival and the U-Horror film awards. His first audio drama, ‘Hunter’, premiered on Dublin City FM in October 2020.

Director: Hugh Hick

A BBC Audio Production for BBC Radio 4 in July 2023.