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Love Letters from the Front: A BBC Radio dramatisation of a true love story

A landmark drama series telling the compelling real-life WW1 love story of English soldier Eric Appleby and his Irish sweetheart Phyllis Kelly Eric Appleby was an engineering student from Liverpool, who joined the Royal Field Artillery when war began in 1914. Posted to Athlone, he met and fell in love with solicitor's daughter Phyllis Kelly at a dance. Their romance was interrupted when he was sent to fight in the trenches on the Western Front, but they kept their love alive through a series of wonderfully crafted letters. This radio series charts their extraordinary correspondence, including over 200 letters, field service postcards and telegrams in which Eric describes his experiences from the time he left Athlone in March 1915 until the tail-end of the Somme offensive in October 1916. Discovered on a top shelf in Belfast's Linen Hall Library by producer Ian Dougan, the letters reveal a touching, unique and bittersweet story. From memories of their courting days of dances and boat trips, to quarrels, jealousy and the pain of being apart, Eric pours out his deepest feelings of love and loneliness to Phyllis. And as the casualties mount around him, he confides to her the horrors he has witnessed, painting a vivid, shocking picture of the stress and terror of life at the Front. In each letter, the voices of Eric and Phyllis interweave, as if in an intimate conversation, as they reach out across the miles that separate them. Read by Ruairí Tohill and Roisin Gallagher, and featuring music and sound effects that bring the story to life, this remarkable, moving series will touch your heart. Also included is a 30-minute documentary, Introducing Love Letters from the Front, in which the actors discuss the challenges of performing the letters (they never met during the recording, so that their two perspectives could be kept separate). Plus, presenter Maggie Cronin talks to Phyllis Kelly's relatives, Tom and Patrick, about who Eric and Phyllis really were; and discusses the remarkable context in which their memorable words were written. Read by Ruairí Tohill and Roisin Gallagher Produced by Ian Dougan First broadcast BBC Radio Ulster & BBC Radio Foyle, 21 April-28 October 2016 Introduction to Love Letters from the Front Presented by Maggie Cronin With Ruairí Tohill, Roisin Gallagher, Tom Kelly and Patrick Kelly First broadcast BBC Radio Ulster & BBC Radio Foyle, 17 April 2016 (p) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Eric Appleby, Phyllis Kelly (Author), Roisin Gallagher, Ruairí Tohill (Narrator)

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Blackwater: A BBC Radio crime drama

They all thought she was dead. But now she’s back. Golden girl Zoe’s been dead for ten years, her body dragged from the river Black after a night out to celebrate the end of school. But now a woman who says she’s Zoe has turned up in her hometown of Blackwater, on the Irish border, with no memory of the last decade. She claims she woke up in a forest nearby, bruised and bleeding, and doesn’t know where she’s been all this time. What happened to her? Is she really Zoe? And if so, who is in her grave? Someone is hiding something. Is it Paul, who went to prison for Zoe's murder? Zoe's uncle Phil, a former detective superintendent with an explosive secret? Or Steve, the police office who found 'Zoe's' body in the river? Then there's Zoe's friend Danny, who wasn't where she said she was on that night ten years ago. As they sift through their conflicting memories of that day ten years ago, they start to discover that not everyone is happy that Zoe's back from the dead. Cast Zoe - Clare Dunne Steve - Richard Clements Paul - Aston Kelly Phil - Sean Kearns Danny - Roisin Gallagher Produced by Celia de Wolff

Claire McGowan (Author), Aston Kelly, Clare Dunne, Richard Clements, Roisin Gallagher, Sean Kearns (Narrator)

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