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Airplay rebroadcast

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Over the next two weeks, Claremorris Community Radio will rebroadcast the Airplay series from 2016.  

Airplay is a series which showcases local talent in our town and features dramas developed during a playwriting workshop, led by John Corless.

For more information on the series, including a full list of the playwrights, actors and a synopsis of each play, please check out this post from the show’s original run.

Airplay will be broadcast on the next two Tuesdays, August 28th and September 4th, at 7pm.

Update: The second episode of Airplay will actually be broadcast on Wednesday, September 5th, at 7pm.

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Locally-created drama series

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Radio dramaAirplay, a two part series featuring six radio plays written and recorded here in Claremorris begins this Friday.   This series showcases local talent in our town and features dramas developed during a playwriting workshop, led by John Corless.

Airplay set 1 will broadcast on Friday, 4 March, at 7 pm and repeated on Monday, 7 March at 7 pm.  It will feature:

  • Hearsay tackles small town gossips.
  • No Ram for the Old Man looks at a family struggling with old-age dementia.
  • Fitting In + Falling Out reveals a student vet with a most unusual approach to animal care.

Airplay set 2 will broadcast on Friday, 11 March, at 7 pm and be repeated on Monday, 14 March, at 7 pm.  It will feature:

  • Pillow Talk gives us a bitter drama of a father and son who can’t live together and the girlfriend who wants to drive them apart.
  • Any Other Business takes an ironic view of small town Tidy Towns committees.
  • Man: On the Quiet casts a comic eye on a hilltop romance between a Dublin cityboy and his outdoorsy fiancée.

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