VOICES FROM OUR PAST - Starting with Annie Brophy (above) on 20th October
Six famous individuals, each with strong Waterford links, are profiled in a new radio series for WLR FM, which will be broadcast in the coming weeks. Entitled Voices From our Pasts, the series will be aired over the next two months, featuring the lives of Annie Brophy, Molly Keane, Tom Clancy, Donal Foley, Tyrone Power and Frank Patterson.
The series is produced and edited by Waterford documentary-maker RoseAnn Foley and presented by her sister, the writer Catherine Foley. Using previously unheard recordings with individuals such as Maeve Binchy, Julian Walton, Sally Phipps, Robbie O’Connell, Kevin O’Carroll, Michael Foley, Blawneen Clancy and former county librarian Donal Brady, the programs will revisit the lives of six famous people – the photographer Annie Brophy, the Anglo-Irish writer Molly Keane, the traditional singer and actor Tom Clancy, the journalist and satirist Donal Foley, the Hollywood actor and heart-throb Tyrone Power and the golden-voiced tenor Frank Patterson. All six programs were made with funding from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee.
Friends, relations and commentators look back at the times that shaped these celebrated individuals. They recall the times and the vicissitudes of the last century that helped to create them, and celebrate their achievements. They discuss the events that shaped their lives and shed light on the different directions their lives took.
In Voices from Our Past, Catherine Foley chronicles the achievements and the individual legacies of these Waterford notables. The series recalls a time that is gone. Each half-hour documentary looks back at six Munster people, all celebrated and revered in the Waterford region, and documents how and why these people stood out from the crowd in their own chosen careers. Who were these people that made such an impression on Waterford people? Tune in to WLR FM over the coming six Sundays at 7pm to hear who they were and why they are important Voice from Our Past.
The programs will be air on the following dates:
1. Sun 20th oct at 7pm: Annie Brophy – A Century of Snaps
2. Sun 27th oct at 7pm: Molly Keane -A Life of Good Behaviour
3. Sund 3rd nov at 7pm: Tom Clancy - Famous Son of Carrick-on-Suir
4. Sun 10th nov at 7pm: Donal Foley –A Boy from the Slip
5. Sun 17th nov at 7pm: Tyrone Power- With Kilmacthomas DNA
6. Sun 24th nov at 7pm: Frank Patterson -A Voice for the People.
