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DRAMA ON ONE

WALKING THE ROAD by Dermot Bolger

A labourer turned literary debutante, Frank Ledwidge lost his life late in the Great War, and the pathos of his passing preserves his early work in the amber of the might-have-been. Dermot Bolger’s lyrical biopic of the proletarian poet predates the current fashion for 1914 by many years, and was first performed at Ypres in 2007.

With Peter Hanly as poet Frank Ledwidge and Sam McGovern as his brother Joe

RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 30 August, 8pm