Saturday, August 11, 2018

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Paul Artherton - Good Clothes and Two Other Winners of the RTÉ Competition



      
Good Clothes by Paul Artherton took 3rd prize in the 2018 PJ O'Connor Awards.Set in 1970s Belfast, The Clark family live a life of peaceful co-existence with their neighbours. However the continuing polarisation of communities and ghettoisation of the city forces them to reconsider their life choices.
Dan Gordon - Charlie Clarke 
Kerri Quinn -  Mary
Conor Mac Neill - Jim
Gavin Peden  - Joe
Orla Charlton - Heather
Eleanor Methven - Mrs. Simpson. 

The parts of the newsreaders and the removal men were played by Vincent Higgins and Michael Liebmann


Music was 'Brutality' by The Defects Sound supervision was by Mark 
McGrathProduced by Kevin Reynolds 

Liam Murray - Brothers


Brothers by Liam Murray won first runner up Drama On One's annual playwrighting competition, the 2018  PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards. The play tells the story of two brothers, both of whom live with their elderly mother. Dennis has ambitions to make it big as a cartoonist. Gerry is more concerned with where the next beer - or scam -  is coming from. When Gerry interferes with Dennis' bid to impress a visiting cartoonist from a major New York firm, the brothers end up on a  collision course.


Stephen Jones - Denis Paul 
Ronan - Gerry Dramaturg: 

Jesper BergmannSound Supervision Mark McGrathProducer: Kevin Brew


Elaine Murphy - Ma


Ma written by Elaine Murphy.  The play is the winner of the PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards 2018, In this poignant tale we follow Ellen McCormack or Ma . Ellen, mother to two estranged daughters, is  alcoholic.   A likeable character in spite of being at best totally undependable and at worst  completely manipulative. Over  a forty eight hour period of her life we are introduced to the chaos which follows this, at times,  desperately lonely, feisty, funny woman  as she struggles with addictions.
Marion O'Dwyer - Ma 
Séana Kerslake - Dee,
Hilda Fay - Barbara
Enda Oates - the Garda 
The butcher and the bus driver roles were played by Joe Taylor
Nyree Yergainharsian played Grainne the post office clerk 
Mirjana Rendulic was Kristina 

Other parts were played by the company 

Sound supervision was by Ciaran Dunne 
directed by Gorretti Slavin 
The series producer of drama on one is Kevin Reynolds 

11 comments:

  1. Hey Sparky -- reading Julia Boyd's superb TRAVELLERS IN THE THIRD REICH -- THE RISE OF FASCISM THROUGH THE EYES OF EVERYDAY PEOPLE.

    https://www.amazon.com/Travellers-Third-Reich-Fascism-Everyday/dp/1783963816/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534018450&sr=1-2&keywords=travellers+in+the+third+reich

    About a third of the way through it, and so far nobody's mentioned Darwin or Galton or any of your pet strawmen. Several discussions of Catholic and Protestant church people, though. Quel surprise.

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    1. A. I know you're lying because you're claiming to be reading a book.

      B. Maybe if she'd done actual research among people who knew what they were talking about instead of "everyday people" she might have found some who understood what Rudolph Hess, the Nazi Deputy Party Leader meant when he said, "National Socialism is applied biology, nothing else."

      C. I'd have to look at the book before I believed your claims about it, knowing you haven't. Looking Online I found the introduction which contains this passage.

      The spectacular torchlight processions and pagan festivals that formed such a prominent feature of the Third Reich were naturally much remarked on by foreigners. Some were repelled but others thought them a splendid expression of Germany’s new-found confidence. To many it seemed that National Socialism had displaced Christianity as the national religion. Aryan supremacy underpinned by Blut und Boden [blood and soil] was now the people’s gospel, the Führer their saviour. Indeed numerous foreigners, even those who were not especially pro-Nazi, found themselves swept up in the intense emotion generated by such extravaganzas as a Nuremberg rally or massive torchlight parade. No one knew better than the Nazis how to manipulate the emotions of vast crowds, and many foreigners – often to their surprise – discovered that they too were not immune.

      It would certainly be in line with what modern scholarship has determined about the ultimate intentions of Nazism which was hardly likely to allow a reigion whose central figure was Jesus the Jew in which every single one of his named followers was either a Jew, Paul, Peter, James, etc. or a few gentiles who were converted to the Jesus movement while it was still a part of Judaism. We know Paul considered himself a Jew because he said he was one, a Pharisee, we know the earliest Christian community in Jerusalem considered themselves Jews because they went, together, regularly to the Temple, in fact there is evidence that James, the brother of Jesus seems to have been regarded as having some authority there.

      I know you weren't four words into this before it went past your ability to fathom it but that's enough for now.

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  2. "Charles Darwin caused the Holocaust." -- Said by no Jewish person ever.

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    1. A. "Charles Darwin caused the Holocaust" is a framing of the issues so stupid, only a Simels would make that statement.

      B. I certainly know there are Jews who know that Darwinism is behind the Holocaust, I've listed at least three who said as much another time you demonstrated the truth of A. For example, Elie Wiesel who said: "When we study what happened a generation ago, we cannot but think that it was prepared by the rationalists. If Darwin, the scientist, for example, had not reduced man to the state of an animal, maybe people would have thought twice before killing human beings."

      Though, I guess you, in your genius,would tell Elie Wiesel, unlike "Magneto" a real instead of cartoon Holocaust survivor, he isn't intelligent enough to come up to your standard.

      C. I doubt any intelligent Jewish person would bother talking to you about anything important, though the ones superficial enough to hang with you at Eschaton don't fall into that category.

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  3. "If Darwin, the scientist, for example, had not reduced man to the state of an animal, maybe people would have thought twice before killing human beings."

    And maybe you'd be cute if you had a different face.

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    1. Hey, if you think you know more about it than Elie Wiesel, go declare that at Duncan's, I'd love to see how many of your fellow members of Duncan's dolts would declare your superiority to have an opinion of the causes of the Holocaust he survived which you didn't.

      You know, Stupy, if the Darwinists such as those I mentioned had their way your people wouldn't have been allowed into the country or have been expelled. You wouldn't have gotten to grow up in the center of the universe in your puny mind. You ever consider that?

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  4. Elie Wiesel?

    "Nobody's perfect." -- Joe E. Brown in SOME LIKE IT HOT

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    1. "Simels is a horse's ass." - Everyone who knows you who isn't one

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  5. Simps, if you're too stupid to know I refuted what you said I'm not going to bother continuing to do it. And, guess what, you are too stupid to know that.

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  6. I always know which comments of mine you won't post so you can put up self-serving, self-aggrandizing bullshit.

    You're not just a liar, you're a gutless liar.

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    1. Stupy, I don't post the ones I've already answered a jillion times but which you are too stupid to understand I have. I only use you as an extreme but otherwise typical example of the TV-movie-pop media idiocy that is typical of the futile play-left, otherwise I would send all of your comments to the spam file along with those hundreds I haven't posted because they're as repetitious as your . . . uh . . . jokes.

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