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The Good Woman

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Larry Dodd sprang forward with open arms, and clasped in them - a woman, it is true - but a woman without any lips to kiss, by reason of her having no head!
'Murder!' cried he. 'Well, that accounts for her not speaking. '
A tale about the Irish Dullahan, a headless person, as recounted in 1823 by THOMAS CROFTON CROKER whose tales of the peasantry the Brothers Grimm found to possess 'a peculiar flavour which is not without its charms'.
Read by Aingeal Grehan Producer DAVID BYERS
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster)

Contributors

Unknown:
Larry Dodd
Unknown:
Thomas Crofton Croker
Read By:
Aingeal Grehan
Producer:
David Byers
Source: Radio Times

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