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Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer: 5. The Legacy

Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer

5. The Legacy

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer, 5. The Legacy

Patrick's hotel in the Irish village of Mountfern is nearly finished.  Stars David Soul.

Patrick O'Neill's new hotel in Mountfern is nearly finished but the legacy of Kate's accident lingers. Stars David Soul and Anna Healy.

After 18 months in New York, Rachel Fine has been summoned back to Ireland by Patrick O'Neill to oversee the decoration of his new hotel.  

Rachel has become a close friend of Kate Ryan, who is now in a wheelchair due to an accident on the site of the hotel...

Starring David Soul.

Maeve Binchy's novel dramatised by Jane Cassidy.

Patrick O'Neill ...... David Soul
Kate Ryan    ......    Anna Healy 
John Ryan    ......    Lorcan Cranitch 
Rachel    ......    Susan Slot 
Fergus    ......    Dan Gordon 
Kerry O'Neill    ......    Luke Griffin 
Grace O'Neill    ......    Melissa Smith 
Dr White    ......    Denys Hawthorne
Costello    ......    John Keegan
Loretta    ......    Julia Deardon
Jack Coyne    ......    Ray McBride
Brian Doyle    ......    Conleth Hill
Dennis Hill    ......    Gordon Fulton
Dara    ......    Audrey Dempsey

Music composed by Jane Cassidy.

Music performed by Rod McVey (piano) and Kate O'Brien (violin)

Director:  Pam Brighton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.

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An ambitious Irish-American moves his family to the rural Irish town of Mountfern.

An ambitious Irish-American moves his family to the rural Irish town of Mountfern. Stars David Soul.

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