Episode 6
Enda, Liam and Rose face huge change as they adapt to life on the peninsula. The gripping story of a family’s struggles in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. Read by Brian Gleeson.
After moving away from everything they know, the children have to adapt to life on the peninsula. Liam starts going to a school run by Father Joseph; Enda discovers a talent for the fiddle; and Rose befriends a dog. Then their baby brother, Eugene, arrives.
Inspired by Maggie O’Farrell’s own family history, this spellbinding story follows a family’s struggle for survival in aftermath of the Great Hunger.
On a windswept peninsula in the west of Ireland in 1865, Tomás and his son Liam are working for the Ordnance Survey to map the whole country. The landscape is scarred by deserted villages, entire populations lost to famine.
Land is the story of their family’s life, in the years and decades that follow.
The bestselling author of Hamnet returns with her tenth novel, a soaring history set in Ireland.
Read by Brian Gleeson, best known for his roles in Bad Sisters, Love/Hate, Peaky Blinders and Under Salt Marsh.
Music: Veil of Mist by Caroline Dale
Reader: Brian Gleeson.
Abridger: Sara Davies
Production Co-ordinator: Alison Crawford
Mixed by Catilin Gazeley
Producers: Fay Lomas and Mary Ward-Lowery
On radio
Broadcast
- Mon 22 Jun 202622:45BBC Radio 4
