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Radio 4,10 Mar 2021,44 mins

The Flowers Are Perfect in the Garden

Drama on 4

Available for 55 days

In The Flowers Are Perfect in The Garden by Lucy Caldwell, a man spends his final days in a hospice surrounded by his wife and once estranged children, who have travelled far and wide to be by his bedside at this time. It is full of laughter and tears as memories often are and it is a chance for them to re-connect and re-charge the loving bond that had been lost for a time. They are able to come together as a family and as a result in the death of their father there is a birth of a family once more. Starring: Pat ... Dermot Crowley Mary ... Dearbhla Molloy Oisín ... Patrick O'Kane Emma ... Charlene McKenna Emma (child) ... Clara Murphy Oisín (child) ... Alex Warburton Letitia ... Deborah Bahi Corazón ... Maria Cristina Crampton Other parts were played by Alice Hoskyns and Tom Glenister Writer ... Lucy Caldwell Director ... Celia de Wolff BBC NI Radio Drama Production

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