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Rainbow Day by Soula Emmanuel

4 Extra Debut. A trans woman and her colleagues at an LGBTQ+ charity give a presentation on inclusion in the workplace. Read by Holly Hannaway.

A trans woman Ruby and her colleagues at an LGBTQ+ charity give a presentation on inclusion in the workplace.

An original short story commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the author Soula Emmanuel.

Soula Emmanuel was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Greek father. She has written for IMAGE magazine, Rogue Collective and the Project Arts Centre, and has had fiction published by The Liminal Review. She was longlisted for Penguin’s WriteNow programme in 2020. In 2024 her debut novel Wild Geese won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize at the UK Society of Authors Awards.

Read by Holly Hanaway.

Producer: Michael Shannon

A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2024.

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