A Brilliant Void

The Professor's Experiment

Episode Summary

A scientist from Trinity College has developed a treatment that could allow us all to hide from pain, be it physical or emotional. But on whom can he test it? From 1895. This features Aisling Coleman, Dave McGloughlin, Conor Chatten, Ciara Russell and Bob Murphy, directed by Clare Fox.

Episode Notes

This is adapted from the 1895 short story by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, taken from A Brilliant Void, published by Tramp Press.

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This story, from a time when anaesthesia was in its infancy, recounts the tale of a professor who has devised a method to keep people unconscious for precise periods of time: not just hours or day days, but possibly months or years. He has asked permission to test it on prisoners from Kilmainham Jail but been refused. he is close to despair, when  young woman in s state of desperation turns up at his door...

Featuring Aisling Coleman, Dave McGloughlin, Conor Chatten, Ciara Russell and Bob Murphy

Directed by Clare Fox.

Sound design and sound engineering by Shane Walsh and Noël Duplaa

Adapted for audio and produced by Tom Tierney

Incidental music by Noël Duplaa and Tom Tierney