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Away from home, Kate thinks she can cope better with Baba’s rather brutal style of friendship. With Charlie Murphy. From 2019.

Away from home, Kate thinks she can cope better with Baba’s brutal style of friendship.

Edna O’Brien’s frank, funny and subversive story of friendship and growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950s - seen through the eyes of two friends - Kate and Baba.

Dramatised by Lin Coghlan.

Kate ..... Charlie Murphy
Baba ..... Aoibhinn McGinnity
Sr Margaret ..... Catherine Cusack
Sr Clare ..... Helen Clapp
Cynthia ..... Rose O’Loughlin

Directors: Sally Avens & Jessica Dromgoole

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019.

14 minutes

Last on

Sat 22 Apr 202303:15
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Broadcasts

  • Fri 23 Aug 201910:45
    BBC Radio 4 FM
  • Fri 23 Aug 201919:45
    BBC Radio 4
  • Fri 21 Apr 202307:15
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 21 Apr 202312:15
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 21 Apr 202317:15
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 22 Apr 202303:15
    BBC Radio 4 Extra