{"id":32192,"date":"2019-05-31T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=32192"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:20:54","slug":"buckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=32192","title":{"rendered":"Buckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32193 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle-110x110.png 110w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle-70x70.png 70w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle-442x442.png 442w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/buckle.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presented as part of our season of new audio drama from women writers, Buckle by Christine Madden.<\/p>\n<p>Lily Albright\u2019s teenage son is dead. The man who pleaded guilty to his murder is in prison. What compels Lily to visit her son\u2019s killer in prison? Yet she does, repeatedly, searching for answers to questions she can\u2019t articulate, questions she dreads.<\/p>\n<p>Shane, who is responsible for Billy\u2019s death, does not welcome Lily\u2019s visits, nor does he oblige her with any information. What he withholds, though, is more than the specifics of a kill: it\u2019s a life laced with fear and anger, pain and guilt.\u00a0 Bit by bit, Lily draws him out, and they form an unlikely bond over a tragic death that devastated them both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Written and Directed by<\/strong>\u00a0Christine Madden<br \/>\n<strong>Featuring<\/strong>\u00a0Ali White, Lloyd Cooney, Darragh Kelly and Sarah O\u2019Rourke<br \/>\n<strong>Script Consultant<\/strong>\u00a0Lisa Tierney-Keogh<\/p>\n<p><strong>First broadcast:\u00a0<\/strong>31st May 2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Buckle is supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound and Vision scheme with the television licence fee.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2114\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2114','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=32192-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:15:29 &#8212; 172.8MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented as part of our season of new audio drama from women writers, Buckle by Christine Madden. Lily Albright\u2019s teenage son is dead. The man who pleaded guilty to his murder is in prison. What compels Lily to visit her son\u2019s killer in prison? Yet she does, repeatedly, searching for answers to questions she can\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2115\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2115','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=32192-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"DramaHour_Buckle_31-5-19.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 1:15:29 &#8212; 172.8MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28027,14538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adrama","category-buckle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32194,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32192\/revisions\/32194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}