Radio Highlight Tuesday
BOOK ON ONE
RTE Radio 1, 11.10pm
An Irish soldiers tale of love and loss while on duty in the Lebanon. 'Blood, Sweat and Tears', written and read by Tom Clonan (below).
Weekend Magazine
BOOK ON ONE
RTE Radio 1, 11.10pm
An Irish soldiers tale of love and loss while on duty in the Lebanon. 'Blood, Sweat and Tears', written and read by Tom Clonan (below).
Weekend Magazine
Liam Devally, who died in Dublin last week at the age of 85, was a singer, quiz show host and broadcaster who switched in mid-life to become a barrister and later a judge of the Circuit Court, where he adopted a no-nonsense approach to both litigants and members of his own profession.
John Hillerman, who has died aged 84, played one of the most joyous creations of 1980s popular American television: Higgins, the prissy English major-domo who was the foil to Tom Selleck's eponymous private eye in Magnum, PI.
Alan Simpson, the scriptwriter who has died aged 87, worked as a shipping clerk before becoming, with his professional partner Ray Galton, one of the geniuses of post-war British comedy writing, creating Steptoe and Son for television and, for the troubled comic actor Tony Hancock, the disgruntled, self-important persona that made him one of the radio stars of the 1950s.