Radio Soap Opera???

Elmo

Produced by RTÉ after they axed Harbour Hotel.

Does anyone know the name of it?

Fuzzy Clam

Driftwood ?
I think that was only a short series in 2004

Elmo

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Driftwood ?
I think that was only a short series in 2004

Thanks, I looked it up on the RTÉ website but it came back with a soap from 2004. The soap that I am talking about is from just after Harbour Hotel. Mid-1990s AFAIK. It ran for a few years.

SimonMaher

It was RiverRun

Simon

Elmo

Can we listen to any of these anywhere?

coldwood92

RTe.ie maybe?

Elmo

coldwood92 wrote: »

RTe.ie maybe?

Got some on RTÉ archive website.

TimmyTarmac

I do remember another one from the 1990's in that same pre- news at one slot called Konvienence Korner (yes with the K's). I'm open to correction here but I think it was written by Lee Dunne and was set in and around a shop in Dublin. I think it was supposed to be gritty urban radio drama. It goes without saying that it was not good, not good at all.

rogercar

TimmyTarmac wrote: »

I do remember another one from the 1990's in that same pre- news at one slot called Konvienence Korner (yes with the K's). I'm open to correction here but I think it was written by Lee Dunne and was set in and around a shop in Dublin. I think it was supposed to be gritty urban radio drama. It goes without saying that it was not good, not good at all.

There was also "The Kennedy's of Castleross" which ran from the fifties to the seventies, and "Glenmallon Park",not sure if that was before or after "Harbour Hotel". Anyone think that we should have a radio soap these days?

jimmykey

I used to listen to 'The Kennedys of Castleross' during the 1960s, but missed a lot episodes, because of school. It was originally broadcast on Tursdays and Thursdays only, then Fridays as well and then eventually five days a week. Towards the end of the 60s, they started broadcasting an omnibus edition on Saturday mornings. I think it finished around 1972 or 1973.
I remember 'Glenmalin Park' began in the summer of 1973. I remember hearing the first episode. That soap was a flop.
'Harbour Hotel' began in 1975. Barbara McCaughey played Kathryn O'Connell, who, as far as I remember, inherited the hotel or something like that. Jimmy Greeley, who later became a 2fm deejay and a newsreader, played Darcy Mulholland. Joe Taylor played stuffy Assistant Manager, Bob Ellis.
Lee Dunne started off writing it, but later other writers took over. I have two scripts from 1978. I was trying to write for radio back then, but had never seen a radio script. So then producer, Sean Walsh, God rest him, sent me two scripts, to show me how a radio script was put together.
I can't remember what year it finished.

JonathanAnon

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Driftwood ?I think that was only a short series in 2004

that's the one I thought the OP was talking about.. Simon Delaney from Bachelor's Walk (and the Tesco Mobile ads) is the male lead in it.. You can hear all the episodes here..

Driftwood Episodes