{"id":47684,"date":"2023-06-01T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=47684"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:43:43","slug":"the-whale-and-the-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=47684","title":{"rendered":"The Whale and the Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New audio drama broadcasting at 6pm on Thursday the 1st June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Whale and the Swan by Fiona Browne<\/p>\n<p>Marie is pregnant at a young age and finds herself in the care of the nuns. Her daily reality is stark and brutal. In order to survive she creates her own world among the hanging sheets of the laundry, and regularly escapes into \u2018Suchatime\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Anna Nugent<\/p>\n<p>Cast:<\/p>\n<p>Noreen \u2013 Fiona Browne<\/p>\n<p>Sister Augusta\/Mother Superior\/ Aunt Joan \u2013 Noni Stapleton<\/p>\n<p><em>Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7965\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TheWhaleandtheSwan.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7965','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TheWhaleandtheSwan.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\/TheWhaleandtheSwan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=47684-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TheWhaleandtheSwan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TheWhaleandtheSwan.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 39:13 &#8212; 89.8MB)<\/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>New audio drama broadcasting at 6pm on Thursday the 1st June 2023. The Whale and the Swan by Fiona Browne Marie is pregnant at a young age and finds herself in the care of the nuns. Her daily reality is stark and brutal. In order to survive she creates her own world among the hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7966\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TheWhaleandtheSwan.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7966','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TheWhaleandtheSwan.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\/TheWhaleandtheSwan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=47684-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/TheWhaleandtheSwan.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TheWhaleandtheSwan.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 39:13 &#8212; 89.8MB)<\/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":47685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,23618],"tags":[22318],"class_list":["post-47684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio-drama","category-the-whale-and-the-swan","tag-new-drama-hour-series-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47684","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=47684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47686,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47684\/revisions\/47686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}