Afternoon Theatre
I Was the Drummer in that Lousy Army
A play for radio by ROY BOLITHO with T.P. McKenna and Blain Fairman
The Civil War was long over and an old man fights old battles. A prodigal son disturbs the family and the old man's dreams. What is truth and what fantasy?
Produced by R. D. SMITH
A play for radio by ROY BOLITHO with T.P. McKenna and Blain Fairman
The Civil War was long over and an old man fights old battles. A prodigal son disturbs the family and the old man's dreams. What is truth and what fantasy?
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Saturday-Night Theatre
A Hero for Leanda
The novel by ANDREW GARVE dramatised by EII.EEN CULLEN with T.P. McKenna, Maria Aitken and David March
A freak wind off the African coast wrecks Michael Con -way's yacht and leaves him penniless, stranded in Ghana. He is offered a way out of his difficulties - a highly paid, dangerous challenge. Should he accept it? Time: the late 1950s. (Santario island is fiotitious)
Producer BETTY DAVIES
The novel by ANDREW GARVE dramatised by EII.EEN CULLEN with T.P. McKenna, Maria Aitken and David March
A freak wind off the African coast wrecks Michael Con -way's yacht and leaves him penniless, stranded in Ghana. He is offered a way out of his difficulties - a highly paid, dangerous challenge. Should he accept it? Time: the late 1950s. (Santario island is fiotitious)
Producer BETTY DAVIES
Afternoon Theatre
The Circus
A black comedy by SEAN WALSH with T.P. McKenna and Kate Binchy
The arrival of a circus in town coincides with the return of Dick and Nora's daughter to the parental home in Ireland ... accompanied by the news of her recent pregnancy and registry-office marriage. At which point, the real circus begins.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER
BBC Northern Ireland
A black comedy by SEAN WALSH with T.P. McKenna and Kate Binchy
The arrival of a circus in town coincides with the return of Dick and Nora's daughter to the parental home in Ireland ... accompanied by the news of her recent pregnancy and registry-office marriage. At which point, the real circus begins.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER
BBC Northern Ireland
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Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Man Who Could Spell Backwards by KEVIN GRATTAN
With T.P. McKenna as Tom and James Greene as Alec Tom , a successful businessman, visits his brother Alec in an institution. During their conversation, Tom reveals his feelings of guilt, and Alec his utter desperation. Even though he can't get rid of the fright in his soul, is Alec really ill enough to be kept in isolation?
Directed by SUSAN HOGG BBC Northern Ireland
With T.P. McKenna as Tom and James Greene as Alec Tom , a successful businessman, visits his brother Alec in an institution. During their conversation, Tom reveals his feelings of guilt, and Alec his utter desperation. Even though he can't get rid of the fright in his soul, is Alec really ill enough to be kept in isolation?
Directed by SUSAN HOGG BBC Northern Ireland
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The Commuters' Tales
In which travellers on the Southern Region pass their time like Chaucer's pilgrims by telling stories. The Navvy's Tale
Written by ALAN LOTHIAN (a winner in the Commuters' Tales competition) and told by T.P. McKenna to ROBIN BROWNE and WILLIAM EEDLE
Producer SIMON BRETT
Written by ALAN LOTHIAN (a winner in the Commuters' Tales competition) and told by T.P. McKenna to ROBIN BROWNE and WILLIAM EEDLE
Producer SIMON BRETT
The Commuters' Tales
In which travellers on the Southern Region pass their time like Chaucer's pilgrims by telling stories. The Navvy's Tale
Written by ALAN LOTHIAN (a winner in the Commuters' Tales competition) and told by T.P. McKenna to ROBIN BROWNE and WILLIAM EEDLE
Producer SIMON BRETT
Written by ALAN LOTHIAN (a winner in the Commuters' Tales competition) and told by T.P. McKenna to ROBIN BROWNE and WILLIAM EEDLE
Producer SIMON BRETT
Saturday-Night Theatre
The Destruction Factor by JAMES FOLLETT
1: The Seeds of Creation with T.P. McKenna as Max Flinders
Rosalind Adams as Denise Exon and Paul Copley as Howard Rogers
Ralph Exon, working for an international fertiliser corporation, has created a new strain of plant: a mutation which he hopes will bring relief to the famine-ridden countries of the world. It is an innocent-looking plant. But in that plant, known as the Exon strain, there also lurks the Destruction Factor.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
1: The Seeds of Creation with T.P. McKenna as Max Flinders
Rosalind Adams as Denise Exon and Paul Copley as Howard Rogers
Ralph Exon, working for an international fertiliser corporation, has created a new strain of plant: a mutation which he hopes will bring relief to the famine-ridden countries of the world. It is an innocent-looking plant. But in that plant, known as the Exon strain, there also lurks the Destruction Factor.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER
Woman's Hour
with Sue MacGregor
Three stories by SEAN O'FAOLAIN read by T.P. McKenna
2: Angels and Minister of Grace
Three stories by SEAN O'FAOLAIN read by T.P. McKenna
2: Angels and Minister of Grace
Afternoon Theatre
The Cradle Man by ANDREW TYRRELL
With T.P. McKenna as Quinn, Maggie Shevlin as Anne, Frank Grimes as Fadden and Sonia Fraser as Miss Walker
One's lonely, two's company, three's a crowd: Anne has come to London from her native Ireland with her baby son, hoping to make a fresh start.
Lonely and overwhelmed by the responsibilities of motherhood, her life is full of problems. The two other lodgers in the boarding house where she stays begin to take a keen interest in her - but they both have problems of their own.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
With T.P. McKenna as Quinn, Maggie Shevlin as Anne, Frank Grimes as Fadden and Sonia Fraser as Miss Walker
One's lonely, two's company, three's a crowd: Anne has come to London from her native Ireland with her baby son, hoping to make a fresh start.
Lonely and overwhelmed by the responsibilities of motherhood, her life is full of problems. The two other lodgers in the boarding house where she stays begin to take a keen interest in her - but they both have problems of their own.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Three stories by SEAN O'FAOLAIN. read by T.P. McKenna
3: Childybawn
Three stories by SEAN O'FAOLAIN. read by T.P. McKenna
3: Childybawn
Woman's Hour
with Sue MacGregor
Three stories by SEAN O'FAOLAIN. read by T.P. McKenna
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Three stories by SEAN O'FAOLAIN. read by T.P. McKenna
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Woman's Hour
with Sue MacGregor
Home Before Night by HUGH LEONARD
abridged in four parts by DELIA PATON
Read by T.P. McKenna (4)
(Music: Dubois' Saxophone Quartet)
Home Before Night by HUGH LEONARD
abridged in four parts by DELIA PATON
Read by T.P. McKenna (4)
(Music: Dubois' Saxophone Quartet)
Woman's Hour
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Home Before Night by HUGH LEONARD abridged in four parts by DELIA PATON
Read by T.P. McKenna. Hugh Leonard 's richly humorous autobiography tells of his growing up in the 30s, on the outskirts of Dublin, as an adopted child.
(Music: Dubois' Saxophone Quartet)
Home Before Night by HUGH LEONARD abridged in four parts by DELIA PATON
Read by T.P. McKenna. Hugh Leonard 's richly humorous autobiography tells of his growing up in the 30s, on the outskirts of Dublin, as an adopted child.
(Music: Dubois' Saxophone Quartet)
With Great Pleasure
Frank Delaney presents his personal choice of prose and poetry with Barbara Jefford and T.P. McKenna
'... ever since I came to live in England six years ago, I have had to respond to both Celtic excess and Anglo-Saxon restraint. Imagine then, my problems with an anthology called With Great Pleasure'.
Recorded before an invited audience at the Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster
Producer ALEC REID
BBC Bristol
'... ever since I came to live in England six years ago, I have had to respond to both Celtic excess and Anglo-Saxon restraint. Imagine then, my problems with an anthology called With Great Pleasure'.
Recorded before an invited audience at the Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster
Producer ALEC REID
BBC Bristol
Streets Broad and Narrow
William Trevor reflects on the history and traditions of the fair city of Dublin ... with a little help from earlier writers.
Additional touches of blarney are provided by Marcella O'Riordan and T.P. McKenna.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
Additional touches of blarney are provided by Marcella O'Riordan and T.P. McKenna.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
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Streets Broad and Narrow
The anthem chosen to mark Dublin's millenium is a new arrangement of Molly Malone. The influence of those famous streets is very much in evidence as William Trevor reflects on the history and traditions of the Fair City ... with a little help from earlier writers.
Additional touches of blarney are provided by Marcella O'Riordan and T.P. McKenna.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
Additional touches of blarney are provided by Marcella O'Riordan and T.P. McKenna.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
Butterflies Don't Count
Father Tom faces an agonising dilemma. A murderer pours out a tormented confession - but the secrets of the confessional can't be told.
Written by Wally K Daly.
Director David Hitchinson
Written by Wally K Daly.
Director David Hitchinson
Afternoon Theatre
Miracle at Tubbernanog by FREDERIC MULLALLY
Dramatised for radio by EDWARD MARSH with T.P. McKenna
... and, isn't it desertin' from the British Army he is? And sure hasn't he the strength of ten men? And isn't Fixer goin' to paint him black and flog him as a wrestler to an Eye-tallan millionaire? And doesn't he look lovely in his white satin briefs spangled with diamante shamrocks made by French Nuns?
Colleens and Floozies MAUREEN DOW and AINGEAL CREHAN
Musical Director JOHN ANDERSON
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
Dramatised for radio by EDWARD MARSH with T.P. McKenna
... and, isn't it desertin' from the British Army he is? And sure hasn't he the strength of ten men? And isn't Fixer goin' to paint him black and flog him as a wrestler to an Eye-tallan millionaire? And doesn't he look lovely in his white satin briefs spangled with diamante shamrocks made by French Nuns?
Colleens and Floozies MAUREEN DOW and AINGEAL CREHAN
Musical Director JOHN ANDERSON
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
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