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Drama on 4: Tongues of Fire

Tongues of Fire

04/12/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Tongues of Fire

David Pownall imagines a row between WB Yeats and Sean O'Casey in Literary Revival Dublin.

David Pownall imagines fireworks between WB Yeats and Sean O'Casey. A Nobel laureate visits Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1913 and each Irish dramatist suspects the other has an agenda.

Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1913. W.B. Yeats plans to stage a play by the mystical Bengali poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. But he doesn't reckon on the disruptive antics of the young, ambitious playwright-to-be Sean O'Casey. David Pownall imagines the fireworks between the two legendary Irishmen.

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