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Episode Notes
Shakespeare says that "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players". Jaques, in As You Like It, outlines the parts men play as they cycle through the seven stages and ages in their lives - Infancy, The Whining School-boy, The Lover, The Soldier, The Justice, The Lean and Slippered Pantaloon, and eventually into Second Childishness.
Back in 2004, RTÉ Drama On One invited writers Maeve Binchy, Paula Meehan, Mannix Flynn, Patrick McCabe and John Banville to respond to the Seven Ages of Man.
In this episode we continue those reflections with Aidan Mathews’s take on The Whining Schoolboy. In Cuban Cigars and The Missile Crisis, the author juxtaposes Khrushchev and Kennedy with cannibalism and communion.
Starring Daragh Kelly
Cuban Cigars and The Missile Crisis is introduced by Aidan Mathews
Sound Supervision was by Philip Cooke
Produced by Cathryn Brennan