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| Among The Ruins | ...Gerard McSorley reads the first of five short stories by BRIAN FRIEL. When Joe and his family return to Corradinna, he is visited by old memories - and an unexpected realisation.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...Denys Hawthorne presents extracts from the sound arcHIVes of BBC Radio Ulster, featuring the voices and recollections of some of IRELAND's best-known writers - including John Mcgahern, Seamus Heaney, BRIAN FRIEL, Edna O'Brien, Tyrone Guthrie and Kathleen Behan. Plus a few snatches of song.... |
| Aristocrats, The | ...A production of BRIAN FRIEL's play about Catholic aristocracy, to celebrate Friel's seventieth birthday. The O'Donnells of Ballybeg Hall gather for the wedding of the youngest daughter. Cast: Gerard Murphy, Rolf Saxon, Denys Hawthorn, Niall Buggy, Lise-Ann McLaughlin, Darragh Kelly, Aisling O'Sullivan, Kate O'Toole, Norman Rodway, Siobhan Cleary. Director: Joe Dowling ... |
| Aristocrats | ...Copyright and performance fee The youngest daughter of the O'Donnell family is to be married. But whether this wedding will strengthen the fading O'Donnell dynasty is another question. Bryan Murray and Cyril Cusack star in the play by BRIAN FRIEL.... |
| Brian Friel Short Stories | |
| Diviner, The | ...Rosaleen Linehan reads the fourth of five short stories by BRIAN FRIEL. When Nelly Doherty's husband is drowned in Lake Keeragh, the villagers employ a diviner to find his body, and a shameful secret is discovered. Part 1 of 2.... |
| Fairly Honourable Defeat, A | ...Dramatised by BRIAN FRIEL from Iris Murdoch's novel. On a hot summer's day, Rupert and Hilda celebrate their long and happy marriage. However, death and despair stalk their sunlit garden, and by the end of the summer good has been defeated by evil and all is terribly changed. Anna Carteret (Hilda), Steven Mangan (Simon), Malcolm Sinclair (Axel), Julian Glover (Rupert), Penny Downie (Morgan), `Terence Longdon (Leonard), Daniel Brocklebank (Peter), Alex Jennings (Julius), Karl Johnson (Tallis). Director: Maria Aitken. Music by Howard Davidson ... |
| Front Row | ...Francine Stock with a report from Dublin on BRIAN FRIEL's new play, Performances, which was inspired by the music and love letters of Czech composer Leos Janacek.... |
| London Vertigo, The | ...By BRIAN FRIEL, based on Charles Macklin's comedy `The True-Born Irishman'. During a visit to LONDON for George III's coronation, an Irishwoman is smitten by ``LONDON vertigo,'' a sudden and dizzy conviction that LONDON is superior to all things Irish. With Eamon Morrissey, Pauline McLynn, Desmond Barrit, Niall Buggy and Brigid Duffy. Director Ben Barnes.... |
| Potato Gatherers, The | ...Gerard McSorley reads the third of five short stories by BRIAN FRIEL. Philly has taken a day off school to earn his first wage and soon discovers that it is harder work than he expected.... |
| Saucer Of Larks, The | ...Niall Buggy reads the second of five short stories by BRIAN FRIEL. When Herr Grass and his colleague arrive in Donegal to exhume a German soldier's body, the local policemen are reluctant to help.... |