The Country Girls (Omnibus)

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Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls Trilogy (Omnibus)

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The Country Girls Trilogy

Edna O'Brien's frank, funny story of growing up in rural Ireland in the 50s.

Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls Trilogy (Omnibus): The Country Girls: Episode 2

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The Country Girls

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Kate and Baba are home for Christmas, and Mr Gentleman comes calling.

Kate and Baba are home from the convent for Christmas, and Mr Gentleman comes calling on Kate again. Stars Aoibhinn McGinnity.

Best friends Kate and Baba hate their school life as boarders at a convent, but the Christmas holidays offer welcome respite.

Plus, it's  a chance for Kate to rekindle her relationship with the much older, Mr Gentleman. 

Edna O'Brien's classic tale of coming of age in rural Ireland in the Fifties was banned on publication; it is a frank, funny and subversive portrayal of women's lives within a patriarchal and religious society.

Conclusion of Edna O’Brien’s frank, funny and subversive story of womanhood in Ireland in the 1950s.

The trilogy was banned in the 1960s by the Irish Censorship Board, but it's now recognised as an iconic work of 20th century Irish fiction.

Omnibus of the last five of ten parts dramatised by Lin Coghlan.

Kate ...... Charlie Murphy
Baba ...... Aoibhinn McGinnity
Mr Gentleman ...... Paul Chahidi
Dada ...... David Ganly
Martha ...... Deirdre Mullins
Mr Brennan ...... Paul Hickey
Jack Holland ...... Jonjo O'Neill
Mrs Holland ...... Susan Jameson

Directors: Sally Avens & Jessica Dromgoole

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019.

Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls Trilogy (Omnibus): The Country Girls

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