The Love Saboteur – a comedy which follows the misadventures of 15 year old Brefni, who runs away to Ireland and lands in on her spinster aunt Rhona’s hotly anticipated poetry festival. Finding the Festival totally tedious and wanting to make herself useful, she decides that the least she can do is fix Rhona up with a man – a poet, who it transpires, has more pretensions than talent, and who has the gall to try and pass off Rhona’s best work as his own. Brefni’s efforts almost cause an international incident, but she somehow manages to save the day by exposing the thieving bard and presenting Rhona with an opportunity she can only have dreamt of.

Laura Murphy plays Brefni and Marion O’Dwyer her aunt Rhona.
The cast also includes Gerard Murphy, Aine McCartney, Kevin Flood, Niall Cusack, Neal McWilliams and Jenni Murray as herself.

Lana Citron is a fresh comic voice to radio. A London-based Dubliner, Lana is the author of the novels, Sucker, Spilt Milk and Transit. Other works include short stories and poetry published in various anthologies, and Radio 4 has broadcast several of her stories; Now & Forever, The Awakening Chamber and Missing Pink, the latter part of the Belfast Festival at Queen’s. Lana also wrote the award winning short film, I Was the Cigarette Girl, directed by Peter Kavanagh for BBC NI. Her fourth novel, The Honey Trap, a detective story written under the pen name Thea Wolf, was published in May 2004. The Love Saboteur is Lana’s first play for radio.