Rachel Joyce The Man With Wings


Lu par Ian McDiarmid

The Man With Wings features a war-damaged man who wishes to fly, and a village boy, desperate for the return of his father. Set in 1947, the story unfolds in a gloomy and desolate Gloucestershire village, almost entirely populated by women and children, as the men have yet to return from the war.

Into this village comes a group of traveling nuns who set up a homestead in a deserted farmhouse. The man, back from the war and badly injured, is nursed back to health by the women in the farmhouse. He forms a bond with Mireille, one of the women, and the young boy, revealing a secret that unfolds as the play progresses.

This epic story explores themes of faith, forbidden love, and the intoxicating power of imagination, reflecting the poverty of post-war rural Britain while hinting at the beauty where the inconceivable may just possibly happen.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapitres

The Man With Wings 43:55