A SWING FOR JELLY by Charlie McCarthy
with Joe Taylor, Aine Ní Mhuirí, Dawn Bradfield and Joe Hanley
TV director-producer Charlie McCarthy returns to the senior service with a sympathetic study of chromosomal disability and the wholeness/holiness that this handicap provokes in those who are its able-bodied and broken-hearted companions. His dramatic timing’s impeccable, since Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has just announced a quick and cost-efficient blood-test that bypasses the risks of amniocentesis.
Joe Taylor is eloquent as the speechless subject, with Aine Ní Mhuirí as Mammy to her son Jelly and Mum to her daughter Ann, played by Dawn Bradfield.
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 26 July, 8pm