Damien recorded it in December 2012, when this photo was taken.
Until now, I had not seen this photo of him during recording! It is the cover shot for 'Behind The Mike Student Stories' which features the writers of the stories (but not Damien ironically.)
I was delighted to find this one and remember how excited we all were for Mr Radio 4's first radio role!
Oh my.. how much have Damien's radio credits have grown since then!
2018HOME FRONT, 1 August, ‘1 August 1918 – Emily Colville’, Hardy Walsh, BBC Radio 4 Sarah Daniela (Writer), Ciaran Bermingham (Director)
2018HOME FRONT, 23 July, ’23 July 1918 – Emily Colville’, Hardy Walsh, BBC Radio 4 Katie Hims (Writer), Jessica Dromgoole (Director)
2018HOME FRONT, 4 July, ‘4 July 1918 – Morris Battley’, Hardy Walsh, BBC Radio 4 Sebastian Baczkiewicz (Writer), Jessica Dromgoole (Director)
2018HOME FRONT, 27 July, ’27 June 1918 – Emily Colville’, Hardy Walsh, BBC Radio 4 Lucy Catherine (Writer), Ciaran Bermingham (Director)
2018HOME FRONT, 20 June, ’20 June 1918 – Hardy Walsh’, Hardy Walsh, BBC Radio 4 Lucy Catherine (Writer), Jessica Dromgoole (Director)
2018JUDAS, 26 – 30 March, Judas, radio drama, BBC Radio 4 Lucy Gannon (Writer), Allegra McIlroy (Director)
2018THE EFFECT, 28 January, Tristran Frey, radio drama, BBC Radio 3 Lucy Prebble (Playwright), Abigail le Fleming (Director)
2018TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE, 7 January, Giovanni, radio drama, BBC Radio 3 John Ford (Playwright), Pauline Harris (Director)
2017BOTTLE MAN, 26 February, Actor Reader, short story, BBC Radio 4 Nicole Flattery (Writer), Michael Shannon (Producer)
2016POETRY PLEASE ‘Miscellany’, 29 May, Actor Reader – The Ancient World by Mark Doty – BBC Radio 4
2016POETRY PLEASE ‘Time, Memory and Remembrance’, 24 April, Actor Reader – The Self Unseeing by Thomas Hardy, A Memory by Robert Brooke, Burnt Norton by T.S Eliot, Beyond The Last Lamp by Thomas Hardy, The Wayfarer by Padraic Pearse, Extract From The Spring In Ireland 1916 by James Stephens, Easter 1916 by W.B. Yeats – BBC Radio 4
2015POETRY PLEASE ‘Pot Luck’, 25 October, Actor Reader – En route by Thomas Blackburn, On the Beach at Fontana by James Joyce – BBC Radio 4
2015POETRY PLEASE ‘June Miscellany’, 21 June, Actor Reader – The Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice, Bright Star by John Keats, Lullaby by W.H Auden, To Althea from Prison by Richard Lovelace, True Love by Wislawa Szymborska, Well Water by Edmond Jabes, The Bluebird by Charles Bukowski, Aunt Julia by Norman MacCaig – BBC Radio 4
2015POETRY PLEASE ‘Bloomsday’, 14 June, Actor Reader – A Flower Given To My Daughter by James Joyce, Alone by Jame Joyce, Dublin by Louis MacNeice, The Night Ride by Kenneth Slessor, Silent Noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Bookmark by Graham Swift, The Goat Paths by James Stephens, Gas From A Burner by James Joyce – BBC Radio 4 Sally Heaven (Producer)
2015ME AND THE DEVIL 27 March, Actor Reader, short story, BBC Radio 4 Eimear McBride (Writer), Heather Larmour (Producer)
2015POETRY PLEASE ‘Bubble and Squeak’, 15 February, Actor Reader – Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats – BBC Radio 4 Sally Heaven (Producer)
2014POETRY PLEASE Yeats special, 31 August, Actor Reader – He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven, The Host of the Air, Easter 1916, An Irish Airman Forsees His Death, The Wild Swans at Coole, Extract from Under Ben Bulben by W.B. Yeats – BBC Radio 4 Sally Heaven (Producer)
2013THE COMMITMENTS, 15 December – James Clifford/Niall, radio play, BBC Radio 4 Eugene O’Brien (Radio adaptation), Jim Sheridan (Director), Gemma McMullan (Producer)
2013THE HILL BACHELORS, 3 June, Paulie, radio play, BBC Radio 4 William Trevor (Writer), Gemma McMullan (Producer)
2013STUDENT STORIES, 4 January, Brendan, Short Story, BBC Radio 4 Heather Larmour (Producer)
I can't believe Me and The Devil was 2015, it only seems like 5 minutes ago! I thought it was spectacular. Such a sensitive, emotional and quietly powerful performance from Damien.