{"id":35977,"date":"2020-03-08T17:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=35977"},"modified":"2020-03-08T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T11:02:23","slug":"near-drama-hour-benched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=35977","title":{"rendered":"Near Drama Hour &#8211; Benched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Near FM launch a new season of the\u00a0<em>New Drama Hour<\/em>. A series of darkly funny, challenging and innovative audio dramas from up and coming women writers.Becn<\/p>\n<p>Following on from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?cat=51\">season 1<\/a>, this new collection will bring some of the best new writing to the airwaves brought to life by a cast and crew of seasoned Irish actors and directors.<\/p>\n<p><em>New Drama Hour<\/em>\u00a0gets underway on\u00a0<em>International Women\u2019s Day<\/em>\u00a0(Sunday March 8th at 5pm), with\u00a0<em>Benched<\/em>\u00a0by Siobhan Callaghan:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cKaren, a young homeless woman down and out on her luck meets Isabelle, a student from Oxford on a park bench in Dublin. When two women from polar opposite worlds collide in search of the same thing they find they have more in common than they think.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8392\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Drama_Hour_Benched.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8392','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Drama_Hour_Benched.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\/Drama_Hour_Benched.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=35977-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Drama_Hour_Benched.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Drama_Hour_Benched.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 38:35 &#8212; 88.3MB)<\/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>\n<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> Olivia Songer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isabelle:<\/strong> Niamh Mcallister<br \/>\n<strong>Karen:<\/strong> Siobhan Callaghan<\/p>\n<p><em>New Drama Hour is made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television licence fee.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near FM launch a new season of the\u00a0New Drama Hour. A series of darkly funny, challenging and innovative audio dramas from up and coming women writers.Becn Following on from\u00a0season 1, this new collection will bring some of the best new writing to the airwaves brought to life by a cast and crew of seasoned Irish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8393\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Drama_Hour_Benched.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('8393','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Drama_Hour_Benched.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\/Drama_Hour_Benched.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=35977-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Drama_Hour_Benched.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Drama_Hour_Benched.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 38:35 &#8212; 88.3MB)<\/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":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17546,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benched","category-radio-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977","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=35977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35979,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977\/revisions\/35979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}