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No Nightingales, No Snakes: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama (BBC Audio)
No Nightingales No Snakes A FullCast BBC Radio Drama - BBC Audio Author:Maeve Binchy These five stories feature modern Irishwomen emerging from a culture where they knew their place, into a more hazardous, but more rewarding light. In The Night People Came in for Something That Was No Trouble, Cara?s envy of another couple?s disingenuous ease at giving dinner parties spurs her to plan the perfect casual? evening dow... more »n to the last detailbut things don?t go as she?d intended. The Stepson sees Clare walking on eggshells, taking great care not to try to replace her stepson Simon?s dead mother: until she finally attempts to break through his hostile diffidence. Decisions at Sea finds Tessa, an overlooked but good-tempered secretary, heading out on a cruise, where she faces a big decision. In The Answer Machine, Biddy reasons that her family need an answer machine for Christmas, and gives it to them earlybut by Christmas, she is beginning to regret the whole idea. And in By the Time We Get to Clifden, Nessa and her husband Harry are planning their annual break to Clifden, when neighbor Melly seeks their help, and ends up changing their itinerary and their lives.« less