An original radio play by Padraic Fallon
Production by Martyn C. Webster
(The recorded broadcast of June 13)
The title of this tart, ironic Irish anecdote, Steeple Jerkin, is a contraction of the drama's two main elements. One is the character of Jerkin, a retired longshoreman in an Irish port who is so called because of his limp; once decorated for bravery at sea, he has become a sour, much-disliked old man. And the steeple belongs to the local church. To climb it during repairs becomes a 'dare,' but the joke takes a grim turn when Jerkin sees it as a challenge from his enemies among the townsfolk. ((P. F.)
