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A Book at Bedtime

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The Aran Islands by J. M. SYNGE abridged in ten parts by SAM HANNA BELL Read by Robert Urquhart (1)
' I am in Aranmor, sitting over a turf fire, listening to a murmur of Gaelic that is rising from a little public house under my room.'
The Aran Islands lie about 30 miles west of Galway, and in 1898 Synge visited the principal island to record the sayings. stories and the strange life of its inhabitants.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH long wave only

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Unknown:
J. M. Synge
Unknown:
Sam Hanna
Read By:
Robert Urquhart
Producer:
Maurice Leitch
Source: Radio Times

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