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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