Saturday, April 26, 2025

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Jennifer Johnston - Old Men Are Jealous

Old Men Are Jealous 

We continue to celebrate the memory of writer Jennifer Johnston who died on the 25th of February 2025. Best known for her novels including The Captains and the Kings, How Many Miles to Babylon?, Shadows On Our Skin (which was Booker shortlisted in 1977) and The Old Jest (which took the Whitbread Book Award in 1979), Jennifer was also a prodigious playwright.

Tonight Drama on One presents, Old Men Are Jealous by Jennifer Johnston - A reimagining of WB Yates's, Deirdre of the Sorrows

Eileen Colgan played the old woman

King was played by Ger Carey

Dee was Roxanna Níc Liam

Laurence Kinlan played Nick

The Dramaturg was Jesper Bergman

Sound Supervision was by Damien Chanel, and

the broadcast coordinator was Margaret Hayes.

Old men are jealous by Jennifer Johnston was produced by Kevin Reynolds

Old men are jealous was a commissioned response to WB Yates's, Deirdre of the Sorrows

The late Jennifer Johnston, gave the announcements to her play.


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