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A young Jack Kerrigan, the subject of ‘A Boy from the North West’, with friends in Boundary<\/p><\/div>\n

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‘Building a Ballet’ RTE Lyric Feature. Dancer Joan Wilson and Ben Stevenson in The National Ballet Company’s Careless Love, choreographed by Patricia Ryan.<\/p><\/div>\n

I am currently working on a RT\u00c9 lyric fm ‘Lyric Feature’ documentary about a neglected Limerick poet, funded by RT\u00c9 & Coimisi\u00fan na Means Sound & Vision Scheme. I\u2019m also on the Grand Jury of the New York Festivals Radio Awards 2026.<\/p>\n

In 2024, I wrote, produced & presented ‘Building a Ballet’, a Lyric Feature for RT\u00c9 Lyric FM, which tells the story of the women behind a forgotten ballet school. It’s also a story of the pain of unfulfilled creative ambition that will resonate with many women. Funded by Sound & Vision scheme and RT\u00c9, this documentary won Bronze in the category of Best Arts, Music & Culture Documentary at the IMRO Awards in October 2024. It can be podcast on Spotify or lyric fm.<\/p>\n

As writer and researcher, I partnered with producer Susan Dennehy to make a 50-minute docu-drama, ‘A Boy from the North West \u2013 The Jack Kerrigan Story’, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) Sound and Vision Scheme.<\/p>\n

The documentary tells the story of Donegal-man Jack Kerrigan, one of the members of Ireland’s first Paralympic team in 1960. Jack\u2019s memoirs, brought to life in the documentary by the actor Mikel Murfi, are a poignant account of what it was like to be a wheelchair user in Ireland in the 50s & 60s. \u00a0This documentary won Silver at the 2016 PPI Radio Awards. Podcast on Spotify or Newstalk website.<\/p>\n

I did script-editing & research on ‘Letters from Midwinter’, a radio documentary with producer Susan Dennehy, based around women\u2019s private letters 1970-2020, and funded by BAI with additional support from An Post. \u00a0This documentary won Silver at the New York Festival Awards 2021. Podcast on Spotify or Newstalk website.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joannamarsden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joannamarsden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joannamarsden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joannamarsden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joannamarsden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"http:\/\/joannamarsden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"http:\/\/joannamarsden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joannamarsden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}