SPOKEN STORIES 2: Creatures of the Earth is a RTÉ Radio Arts + Culture series of 12 Commissioned stories. Contributing renowned writers include Lisa McInerney, Donal Ryan, Billy O'Callaghan, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Belinda McKeon. The cast reading the stories for the series include Pat Shortt, Daryl McCormack, Charlene McKenna and Maria Doyle Kennedy. The half-hour stories started out from a consideration of the theme 'Creatures of the Earth', the story and the title of a story collection by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers, John McGahern.
Information for Birth Mothers by Louise Kennedy stretches across 1980s Ireland into the present. It rips open elemental, heart-wrenching and life-changing consequences of unplanned pregnancy, motherhood, love, losing and longing. Information for Birth Mothers is read by acclaimed actress Cathy Belton. It will be broadcast at 7pm on Sunday 4th June 2023 on RTÉ Radio 1 and also available as a podcast and on Culture | Books, Music, Theatre, Film & The Arts | RTÉ (rte.ie)
