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Afternoon Reading: Edna O'Brien - Saints and Sinners

Afternoon Reading: Edna O'Brien - Saints and Sinners: Episode 1: Madame Cassandra

Saints and Sinners

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Episode 1: Madame Cassandra

Edna O'Brien - Saints and Sinners

Madame Cassandra

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A woman confesses to a gypsy fortune-teller her deepest fears about her marriage.

4 Extra Debut. At an Irish fair, a woman confesses to a gypsy fortune-teller her deepest fears about her marriage. Read by Sorcha Cusack.

'Madame Cassandra' by Edna O'Brien.
Read by Sorcha Cusack.
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Produced by Lawrence Jackson


Edna O'Brien is one of the most distinguished writers and figures in the world of letters. Since emerging from Ireland in the early 1960s with 'The Country Girls', her many novels including 'Girl with Green Eyes', 'House of Splendid Isolation' and 'In The Forest' have attracted both praise and controversy. 'Saints and Sinners' is her eagerly awaited new collection.

Sorcha Cusack's numerous theatre credits range from plays with the RSC and National Theatre to Frank McGuinness's 'Baglady' to 'Bloody Sunday' at the Tricycle. Her many TV and film credits include 'Eureka Street', 'Snatch' and 'Middletown'.

Producer Lawrence Jackson's credits for Radio 4 include four series of the popular murder-mystery 'Baldi', two series of John Connolly's 'Ghost Stories' and the Classic Serial 'Barry Lyndon'. For Radio 7 his credits include C.S.Lewis' 'Out of the Silent Planet' and 'Perelandra', G.K.Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday', Daphne Du Maurier's 'The House on the Strand' and classic ghost stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and Algernon Blackwood.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Tales from the award-winning short story collection by Irish novelist Edna O'Brien

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