Spoken Stories: Creatures of the Earth RTÉ

Read by Annie Ryan. Erin, a young woman from Minneapolis visits Ireland for the first time, a country mad for sporting heroes. Landing into the country of her parents with an open and adventurous heart ultimately leads to catastrophe.

Read by Cathy Belton. Told in the form of a public information pamphlet it tells a story that begins in 1980s Ireland. It is an elemental, gut-wrenching account of the life changing nature of teenage pregnancy, motherhood, loss, longing and love.

Léite le Caitríona Ní Mhurchú. Cé go bhfuil cónaí ar Mhóna in Éirinn, tá sí préamhaithe i gcré a tír dúchais cé gur cré na hÉireann a ghreamaíonn di anois.

Read by Maria Doyle Kennedy. A mother with limited custody of her children and believing they are in danger from falling space debris takes them out of school to shelter for the time being.

Read by Dmitry Vinokurov. As his hard-won personal freedom is being coming to be realised a global pandemic is also unfolding and will shut down the narrator's new-found freedom of movement. 

Read by Aidan Kelly. When a writer resident at an artist retreat in a remote part of Finland falls in love he starts thinking about his life and his home country, Ireland.