The Works Presents

RTE One

11:15 PM to 11:50 PM

Thursday 20 March

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John Kelly meets the late writer Jennifer Johnston, who published her first novel, The Captains and the Kings, in 1972 at the age of 42 and made up for what might have looked light a late start by writing 17 novels since. She talks about growing up in a well-known Dublin family - her father was the playwright Denis Johnston and her mother the actress Shelah Richards - and about living in Derry