Dermot Bolger Temptation

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Temptation BBC Radio 4 2003. Dermot Bolger  Based on his novel of the same name. Powerful emotions erupt as married Alison is reunited with a long lost love on holiday in Ireland. Zara Turner as Alison Gill Peter McDonald as Chris Conway Gary Whelan as Peadar Eleanor Methven as Joan Gerard McSorley as the Doctor Coirle Magee as Sheila Jack Logue as Danny   Emma McNeill as the Babysitter. Produced in Northern Ireland by Gemma McMullan A marriage and a family reach breaking point on an annual holiday in the loveliest hotel in Ireland. Dermot Bolger is one of the leading figures on the Irish literary scene. Very influential, amazingly energetic and prolific, popular and extremely well respected. Dermot writes fast-paced, incredibly readable novels, usually with a thriller element, always about Ireland, more often than not about its Troubles. ‘Temptation’ is quite different. It is about family life. It describes five days in the lives of Alison, her husband Peadar and their three children, who are taking their annual holiday on the southeastern coast of Ireland. Each member of the family has his or her own hopes for the holiday and preoccupations about the lives they are briefly leaving behind. The holiday serves as a turning point in their lives, as Alison and Peadar’s marriage is put to the test and the vulnerabilities of their children are brought to the fore.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.