A night out in Dumfries, for two people with potential... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Queen of the South, by Paul McVeigh above.
I am in Dumfries. 'It's a smallish town,’ Martin says, as we walk to the pub, ‘its bid to be seen as a city, failed.’ ‘Oh dear,’ I say...
(This story is taken from a selection of writers that featured in a special Sunday Miscellany from the Belfast Books Festival in 2023 and 2004)
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