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Globe Theatre: 1: Events at Drimaghleen

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by William Trevor
A season of six plays by leading writers broadcast both on Radio 4 and on the BBC World Service.

In a melancholy townland of modest farms, set amid the wind and the wet of some of the worst land in the west of Ireland, young Maureen McDowd cycles off to meet her lover. And so begins the horror of the tragedy that, on a chilled May morning, awaits the people of Drimaghleen...

(Radio 4/World Service production)
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Contributors

Writer:
William Trevor
Music composed by:
Colin Sell
Music played by (oboe):
Deirdre Dods
Music played by (violin):
Wilfred Gibson
Music played by (cello):
Lowri Blake
Director:
David Hitchinson
Fr Sallins:
T.P. McKenna
Hetty Fortune:
Sarah Badel
O'Kelly:
Sean Barrett
McDowd:
P.G. Stephens
Mrs McDowd:
Kate Binchy
Tyler:
Nigel Anthony
Mrs Casey:
Carmel McSharry
Carmody:
Breffni McKenna
Maureen:
Marcella Riordan
McDowd family:
Kilian McKenna
McDowd family:
Aine McCartney
Source: Radio Times

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