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Episode Notes
#Maura Laverty This Was Your Life
- Winner, best radio drama script at the Writers' Guild of Ireland Zebbie Awards 2022
This sparkling play by Yvonne Quinn and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh explores the rollercoaster life of broadcaster, playwright, novelist and agony aunt, Maura Laverty.
A household name in Ireland from the 1930s to the1960s, her work was often controversial, and her novels were banned for their sexual frankness. She hosted her own RTE radio show for over 30 years, wrote Ireland's first TV soap opera, Tolka Row - and her iconic cookery books were to be found in nearly every home in the country.
It seems particularly fitting to bring Maura Laverty back to RTÉ Radio
Maura Laverty was played by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh
The part of Maura’s mother by Joan Sheehy
And Jonathan Ryan played the Compere, Rip Reilly
Sound design and sound supervision by Ciarán Cullen and Ciaran Dunne
With special thanks for additional sound FX to Ewan Cowley
Also to Alvin Sweeney and Sean Higgins in RTÉ TV sound
#Maura Laverty This was your life was directed by Gorretti Slavin