Elly Niland and
David Dabydeen dramatised
Harold Sonny Ladoo’s short novel
No Pain Like This Body – depicting the terrifying world of a family brutalised by violence, poverty and nature itself. Set in a
Hindu community in the
Eastern Caribbean in 1905 during the August
rainy season, it centres on a poor rice-growing family's struggle to survive.
No Pain Like this Body was broadcast on
BBC Radio 3 in 2003. "The Fog", a story about a sickness spreading across
Malaysia, was specially commissioned for the BBC's Commonwealth Stories season and was read by Liz Sutherland on
BBC Radio 4 in 2005. == Fiction ==