Niamh Cusack
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Contains a modern English version side-by-side with the original text of William Shakespeare's play in which exiled royals--including a duke's daughter, disguised as a man--and country folk, learn lessons about class and gender through a series of love triangles in the Forest of Arden.
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A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past. Aoife Kelly--once the sparkling object of young men's affections--runs pubs in Brixton with her brusque husband, Cash. They'd met in wartime London but returned home to Ireland to raise their family. One of their daughters, Rosaleen, moves back to London in the 1960s and begins an affair with...
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Laurie Lee's lyrical autobiography of his childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Recorded on location at Westley Farm and the Woolpack Inn in Gloucestershire, Cider with Rosie stars Tim McInnerny as the narrator and Niamh Cusack as Mother. Halcyon days of flower-filled meadows, home-made wines, enthralling stories, and church outings were the essence of his childhood. But there was a harsher side too,...