24 episodes
Spoken Stories: Creatures of the Earth RTÉ
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- Arts
A series of 12 commissioned stories originating from a consideration of Creatures of the Earth, a story and the title of a story collection by Irish writer John McGahern.
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'A God Amongst' Men by Louise O'Neill
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.
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'Information for Birth Mothers' by Louise Kennedy
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.
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'Cré' by Colm Ó Ceallachain
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.
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'Flatland with Monuments' by Caoilinn Hughes
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.
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'Nessun Dorma' by Evgeny Shtorn
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.
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'My Love, My Lake, My Forest' by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne
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.