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A BBC Radio collection of dramatisations and readings of Maeve Binchys sparkling stories
Irish writer Maeve Binchy was one the bestloved and most successful authors of her time Her bestselling books sold over 40 million copies worldwide and were translated into 37 languages This comprehensive anthology of her finest fiction as heard on BBC Radio demonstrates all the warmth wit and compassion that made her so popular
It opens with Firefly Summer her moving humorous novel about a sleepy Irish town facing monumental change No Nightingales No Snakes comprises five short plays The Night the People Came Over for Something That Was No Trouble The Stepson Decisions at Sea The Answer Machine and By the Time We Get to Clifden
Following these are five short stories exclusively created for BBC Radio The Garden Party Home Coming Telling Stories Needy and The Interview
First published in the short story collections Central Line and Victoria Line London Transports features four fullcast dramas set on Londons Tube Brixton Green Park Holland Park and Lancaster Gate Full of wry humour irony and empathy
Concluding this compilation is a dramatisation of Taxi Men Are Invisible and readings of eight more short stories Specially commissioned for Radio 4 The Special Sale The Sensible Celebration Love in the Afternoon The White Trolley and its counterpart story The Feast of Stephen Euston a seasonal tale taken from Victoria Line followed by Dollys Mother and Christmas Present both originally written for radio
Text copyright Maeve Binchy 1978 Central Line 1980 Victoria Line 1987 Firefly Summer 1989 Dollys Mother 1990 The Sensible Celebration 1992 Telling Stories The Interview 1995 The Garden Party Christmas Present 1997 Needy Euston 1998 The White Trolley The Feast of Stephen 1999 Taxi Men are Invisible 2000 The Special Sale 2001 Home Coming 2007 No Nightingales No Snakes 2008 Love in the Afternoon
Cast and credits
Written by Maeve Binchy
Firefly Summer Drama
No Nightingales No Snakes 5 Dramas
The Garden Party
The Homecoming
Telling Stories
Needy
The Interview
London Transports 4 Dramas
Brixton
Green Park
Holland Park
Lancaster Gate
Taxi Men Are Invisible Drama
The Sensible Celebration
Love in the Afternoon
Euston
Dollys Mother
The Special Sale
The White Trolley
The Feast of Stephen
Christmas Present
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