{"id":49296,"date":"2023-10-30T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=49296"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:26:34","slug":"heartburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=49296","title":{"rendered":"Heartburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49297\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986-1024x1022.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986-351x350.jpg 351w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986-443x442.jpg 443w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3986.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Near FM presents new audio drama &#8216;Heartburn&#8217;, written by Caitlin Magnall-Kearns; directed by Anna Nugent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Heartburn is a modern take on the rom-com that looks at fatness and friendship. Set over one night in Belfast it follows Chris, a writer, and Lou, a \u201cdinner-lady man\u201d by day and pint puller at night. The two met at university and quickly became friends with benefits. Chris moved back to Belfast, and now, two years later, Lou turns up on her doorstep on New Years Eve with a bottle of prosecco and some questions that need to be answered. Over the night the two reminisce, drink, laugh, eat and try to reckon with their relationship. Can they be mates, should they get together, or should they just call it a day?<\/p>\n<p>Blathnaid McCahilly as Chris<\/p>\n<p>Colm McCready as Lou<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please be advised that the programme contains strong language and sexual content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7607\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/heartburn.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7607','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/heartburn.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/heartburn.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=49296-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/heartburn.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"heartburn.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 44:50 &#8212; 102.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near FM presents new audio drama &#8216;Heartburn&#8217;, written by Caitlin Magnall-Kearns; directed by Anna Nugent. Heartburn is a modern take on the rom-com that looks at fatness and friendship. Set over one night in Belfast it follows Chris, a writer, and Lou, a \u201cdinner-lady man\u201d by day and pint puller at night. The two met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7608\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/heartburn.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7608','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/heartburn.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/heartburn.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=49296-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/heartburn.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"heartburn.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 44:50 &#8212; 102.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28027,23640],"tags":[27358],"class_list":["post-49296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adrama","category-heartburn","tag-new-drama-hour-series-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49299,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49296\/revisions\/49299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}