Thursday, 26 March 2015

'Ballylenon' on the BBC airwaves

This somehow passed me by until I came across it today while looking at the BBC's Genome Project, great resource -

Ballylenon is a radio situation comedy set in a small village in County Donegal in Ireland in the 1950s. The six series totalling 30 half-hour episodes were originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1994 until 1999. The series was written by Christopher Fitz-Simon, and it starred T. P. McKennaStella McCusckerand Margaret D'Arcy. A seventh series was broadcast in 2009 and 2010.

In July 1995 the plug for the second series was -
Already divided over the proposed demolition of an 18th-century court house to make way for the Swilly Arms' car park, the town's Development Association seems set for open confrontation.
Sound familiar? :-)

And now for what may be an unrelated pic -

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