Deeply moving story of how a Donegal ham radio operator got in touch with a stranded astronaut

Deeply moving story of how a Donegal ham radio operator got in touch with a stranded astronaut

Jiimmy McAleavey鈥檚 intimate and ambitious new play is a perfect -Peacock fit: it is clever and science-oriented, masculine in its focus, and subtle and sensitive in its treatment of men in crisis.

The work is inspired by a 1991 news story about a Donegal ham radio operator who made contact with a Russian stranded temporarily in space as the Soviet Union collapsed.

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