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Afternoon Play: Forty-seven Roses

on BBC Radio 4 FM

A dramatisation of Peter Sheridan 's compassionate memoir of how he coped with his father's unexpected death and the realisation that the English woman who spent summers with them in Dublin when he was a boy was actually having an affair with his father This relationship lasted 47 years and was conducted mainly by letter. Even more surprising was the discoverythat his mother knew all about it.
Director Tanya Nash

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Sheridan
Director:
Tanya Nash
Peter:
Liam Cunningham
Anna:
Maria McDermottroe
Doris:
Angela Pteasence
Dympna:
Stella McCusker

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