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Maeve Binchy – Collected Stories : BBC Radio Adaptations [6 CD Set]

£19.99

Maeve Binchy – Collected Stories : BBC Radio Adaptations [6 CD Set]

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Description

Running Time 5hrs 55mins

A collection of readings and full-cast dramatisations from one of the world’s most popular and bestselling
storytellers.

THE BOOK
A collection of full-cast dramatisations and readings from the bestselling author.
Maeve Binchy was one of Britain’s best-loved storytellers and this compilation of her finest fiction, as heard on BBC Radio, demonstrates all the warmth, wit and compassion that made her so popular.
Firefly Summer is a moving, humorous novel about a sleepy Irish town facing monumental change, dramatised in six parts with a full cast including David Soul and Lorcan Cranitch.
No Nightingales, No Snakes features full-cast dramatisations of five Maeve Binchy short stories, with a distinguished cast including Niamh Cusack, Sam Dale and Harry Towb.
The Garden Party contains four short stories specially commissioned for BBC Radio 4, read by Niamh Cusack, Dervla Kirwan, Doreen Hepburn and Stella McCusker.
The Homecoming comprises four more stories exclusively written for BBC Radio 4, read by Sean Campion, Joanna Myers, Patricia Hodge and Kate Binchy.
Dealing with families, friendship, love, loss, sorrow and joy, these stories will delight all Maeve Binchy fans.

THE AUTHOR
Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, and went to school at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney. She took a history degree at UCD and taught in various girls’ schools, writing travel articles in the long summer holidays. In 1969 she joined the Irish Times and for many years she was based in London writing humorous columns from all over the world. She is the author of five collections of short stories as well as twelve novels including Circle of Friends, The Copper Beech, Tara Road, Evening Class and The Glass Lake.
Maeve Binchy died on 30 July 2012.
She is survived by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell.

QUOTES
‘There’s nobody like Binchy for warming the cockles’ Times