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Ballylenon

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Comedy drama series by Christopher Fitz-Simon, set in the 1950s in a Donegal town

Ballylenon: Series 7: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 7

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Ballylenon, Series 7, Episode 5

Bernard Gallagher makes a shockingly gruesome discovery.

Mr Gallagher makes a shockingly gruesome discovery. It's 1959 in the suddenly not-so-sleepy Irish town. Stars Gerard Murphy.

Bernard Gallagher has resigned from the police force to take up a singing career. Whilst lodging with the Maconchy sisters at the Post Office, he makes a devastating discovery...

Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal in 1959.

Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon.

Muriel Maconchy ...... Margaret D'Arcy
Vera Maconchy ...... Stella McCusker
Phonsie Doherty ...... Gerard Murphy 
Vivienne Hawthorne ...... Annie McCartney
Stumpy Bonner ...... Gerard McSorley
Guard Gallagher ...... Frankie McCafferty

Pianist: Michael Harrison

Director: Eoin O'Callaghan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.

Ballylenon: Series 7

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Comedy drama series by Christopher Fitz-Simon, set in the 1950s in a Donegal town.

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