{"id":47757,"date":"2023-06-08T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=47757"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:41:42","slug":"highspirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=47757","title":{"rendered":"High Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New audio drama High Spirits by M\u00e9abh de Br\u00fan \u2013 6pm June 8th 2023<\/p>\n<p>Three siblings and one in-law gather after a patriarch\u2019s burial to honour a very unusual letter of wishes. Their late father wants to be contacted in the afterlife, and so begins a dark comedy full of suspect s\u00e9ances, family secrets and the undeniable bond of siblinghood.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Anna Nugent<\/p>\n<p>Caoimhe Mulcahy as Rachael<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9abh de Br\u00fan as Mags<\/p>\n<p>Patrick de Monfort as Mike<\/p>\n<p>Paul Nugent as Richard<\/p>\n<p>Creative Consultancy by Clare Monnelly<\/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_881\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/HighSpirits.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('881','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/HighSpirits.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\/HighSpirits.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=47757-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/HighSpirits.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"HighSpirits.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/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 High Spirits by M\u00e9abh de Br\u00fan \u2013 6pm June 8th 2023 Three siblings and one in-law gather after a patriarch\u2019s burial to honour a very unusual letter of wishes. Their late father wants to be contacted in the afterlife, and so begins a dark comedy full of suspect s\u00e9ances, family secrets and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_882\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/HighSpirits.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('882','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/HighSpirits.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\/HighSpirits.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=47757-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/HighSpirits.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"HighSpirits.mp3\">Download<\/a> ()<\/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":52082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23617,51],"tags":[22318],"class_list":["post-47757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-spirits","category-radio-drama","tag-new-drama-hour-series-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47757","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=47757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47758,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47757\/revisions\/47758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}