Sunday 13th October: Great Beasts of Myth by Mia Gallagher voiced by Peter Coonan
Sea swimming, loneliness and longing collide in this Dublin pandemic story that is also a hymn to what it is to feel connected. Its flow, stops, starts and changes of direction, are that of the sea. For Mia Gallagher The state of Us is colloquial, self-deprecatory, but invokes wider political ideas too. When she sat down and wrote what became Great Beasts of Myth, the memory of coming out of Covid was still raw.
The stories are in English and in Irish as well as by writers whose first language is neither Irish nor English. They are voiced by a cast of actors and some of the contributing writers. This RTÉ Radio 1 original concept is made with the support of Coimmisiún na Méan
