The Reading

Hard Up (New Zealand) Limited, by Susy Pointon

Audio is posted after broadcast and will be available until midnight Friday 29 July 2012.

Read by Aaron Alexander

A group of unemployed Northland youths are reluctant participants in a Business Enterprise Scheme which is intended to open up new business and employment options, but actually produces some unintended results.

Told with wit and insight, Hard Up (NZ) Ltd, paints a portrait of life on the benefit in a small New Zealand town.

Author, Susy Pointon is a New Zealand writer, teacher and film maker who lives in Northland.

Produced by Duncan Smith and engineered by Phil Brownlee for Radio New Zealand National