Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry

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Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry: Episode 1

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Episode 1

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Tom Kettle’s peaceful retirement is interrupted by two police detectives.

Nine months into his retirement from the police, two detectives arrive at Tom Kettle’s door in Dalkey asking for his help with an old case.

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children. But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past.

The Author
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.

Reader: Stanley Townsend
Author: Sebastian Barry
Abridger: Rowan Routh
Producer: Michael Shannon
Executive Editor: Andy Martin

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Questions about an old case pull a retired policeman into the darkest currents of his past

When two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about an old case, recently retired policeman Tom Kettle finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past.

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