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Drama Now

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Rise up Lovely Sweeney Unable to come to terms with women, religion or morality, Sweeney, the archetypal Celt, heads for the woods to find a more tolerable reality by becoming one with the birds of the air.
Written and adapted by Music for uillean pipes, written and performed by Robbie Hannon.
Director Eoin O'Callaghan

Contributors

Unknown:
Robbie Hannon.
Director:
Eoin O'Callaghan
Tom Macintyre:
Sweeney Tomhickey
Interrogator:
T P McKenna
Sweeney's wife:
Kate Binchey
Hag:
Catherine Gibson
Matron:
Roma Tomelty
Madman:
Ian McElhinney
Nurse:
Michelle Forbes
Inmate:
Joe McPartland
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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