BBC R4 - Mervyn Wall's 'The Unfortunate Fursey'
Adapted by Christina Reid
Produced by Eoin O’Callaghan
Broadcast February 24, 1990
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

The play is a combination of two funny diabolic novels 'The Unfortunate
Fursey', and 'The Return Of Fursey'.

The forces of darkness take refuge in Brother Fursey's Irish monastery cell.
Fursey's [mild] speech impediment prevents him from reciting the appropriate
exocism. When the supernatural are discovered, Fursey is cast out. He marries
a witch, and inherits her powers & Albert, her sarcastic familiar, and so on ...

Cast
Satan - Timothy Bateson
Brother Fursey - John Hewitt
Gertie - Fenella Fielding
Albert - Richard Howard
Cuthbert - Birdie Sweeny
The Abbott - Lewis Rallston
Grey Mare - Anna Mannahan
Bishop - Maurice O'Callaghan
Father Furiosus - Gerard McSorely
King Cormack - Joe Mccartland
Servant - Maureen Dove
Maive - Anna Ryan
Magnus - B J Hogg