{"id":56494,"date":"2025-07-14T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=56494"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:39:00","slug":"dead-platoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=56494","title":{"rendered":"Dead Platoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4209\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DeadPlatoon.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4209','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DeadPlatoon.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\/DeadPlatoon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=56494-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DeadPlatoon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"DeadPlatoon.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>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56495\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-56495\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Drawing-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Drawing-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Drawing-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Drawing-1-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Drawing-1-90x68.jpg 90w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Drawing-1-370x278.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dead Platoon Imagining by Early Career Artist, Evan McLoughlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Young men, think twice before whipping out your spray paints after dark, hoping to have some fun at the expense of the defenseless dead in that old local cemetery near you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dead Platoon<\/strong>\u00a0a new radio drama, written and produced by Berni Dwan, directed by Bairbre N\u00ed Chaoimh, with sound tech by Declan McGlade, will convince you that this anti-social behaviour is not a good idea, so go kick a football instead. Let\u2019s just say that nobody is ever as dead as they seem, and you don\u2019t want to be disturbing their beauty sleep, do you?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56496\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-56496 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumbnail_Cast-with-Declan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumbnail_Cast-with-Declan.jpg 602w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumbnail_Cast-with-Declan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumbnail_Cast-with-Declan-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumbnail_Cast-with-Declan-90x67.jpg 90w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumbnail_Cast-with-Declan-370x277.jpg 370w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/thumbnail_Cast-with-Declan-590x442.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dead Platoon cast and crew \u2013 Front Row Left to Right: Ashleigh Dorrell (Becky), Hannah Brady (Felicity), Julie Crowe (Queenie). Middle Row Left to Right: Noni Stapleton (Norah), Bairbre N\u00ed Chaoimh (Director). Back Row Left to Right: Declan McGlade (Sound Management), Hilda Fay (Tracey), Ben Waddell (Adam), Mark O\u2019Regan (Angel Gabriel), Daniel Monaghan (Eamon, Michael James Ford (Major Rightpain).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Made with the support of Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n\u2019s Sound and Vision scheme through the Television License Fee, Dead Platoon can be heard on Friday, July 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at 7pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young men, think twice before whipping out your spray paints after dark, hoping to have some fun at the expense of the defenseless dead in that old local cemetery near you. Dead Platoon\u00a0a new radio drama, written and produced by Berni Dwan, directed by Bairbre N\u00ed Chaoimh, with sound tech by Declan McGlade, will convince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4210\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DeadPlatoon.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4210','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DeadPlatoon.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\/DeadPlatoon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=56494-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/DeadPlatoon.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"DeadPlatoon.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":7,"featured_media":56495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27296,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dead-platoon","category-radio-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56494","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56497,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56494\/revisions\/56497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}