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15 Minute Drama: 30 Eggs

Jude Akuwudike

Milanne Gordon

Noma Dumezweni

Nyasha Hatendi

Richard Pepple

Damian Lynch

Josiah Choto

Khalil Vaughan

Eoin O'Connor

Gemma McMullan

15 Minute Drama: 30 Eggs: Episode 1

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Episode 1

30 Eggs

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, 30 Eggs, Episode 1

Blind Modeste convinces his 7-year-old companion Innocent to journey across Rwanda.

Weary of life in Rusumo, blind Modeste must convince his 7-year-old companion Innocent to accompany him to his home village at the far side of Rwanda.

Weary of life in the bustling Rwandan border town of Rusumo, Modeste, a blind and sickly homeless man resolves to return to his home village of Kibuye on the far side of the country with the help of his companion, Innocent, a cheeky seven year-old street orphan. The journey starts well when they stumble upon a small amount of money but little Innocent inadvertently spends the cash purchasing a basket of thirty raw eggs during a mix up in a market melee. With their peculiar bounty of raw eggs the unlikely duo set off on an adventure of a life time along the rising road cresting atop the many rolling hills of Rwanda.

A beautiful, funny and inspirational story which catapults you into life in Rwanda and one remarkable journey.


Irish writer Eoin O'Connor has spent a number of years living in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Having recently returned to Ireland, Eoin is currently working on two further feature scripts, a comedy, Family Remains, currently in development with Grand Pictures, Dublin, and a thriller set in Syria entitled Stolen, currently in development with Epos Films, Dublin.

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