Updated / Wednesday, 17 Feb 2021 14:58 Nan and Akmaral, two young Asian students, attend Ace English Language Learning in Dublin. In the process of grappling with a weekend assignment from their teacher Aisling, to engage in an authentic conversation with a stranger, their perception of authenticity grows... An Authentic Conversation by Yan Ge is broadcast this Sunday, 14 January, to coincide with the Chinese New Year, as part of the RTÉ Radio 1 series Spoken Stories Independence - listen above. Writers invited to contribute a new story started out by thinking about what a consideration of independence might throw up today, where it might bring them, a hundred years after Ireland's War of Independence.