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b"A Pair of Muddy Shoes by Lennox Robinson\\nLennox Robinson was an Irish author, poet, dramatist and theatre produce who was born in Westgrove, County Cork, Ireland in 1886 the son of a Protestant clergyman, who had previously been a stockbroker. Lennox (fully Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson) was often ill as a child and educated by private tutor and at a Church of Ireland (that is the Protestant Anglican Church) School.\\xa0 He became interested in drama when he saw a production by W B Yeats and Lady Gregory at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin when he was 21. (If You Appreciate The Work I\\u2019ve Put In Here - You could buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker or join as a Patron for exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/barcud)\\nHis play Cross Roads was produced at the Abbey in 1909 and he became manager there the same year. He resigned in 1914 after a poorly reviewed tour of the USA, but came back in 1919 and was appointed to the theatre\\u2019s boar din 1923 and served there until his death in 1958. It is said that he was an alcoholic and often depressed.\\xa0 \\xa0\\nHe was Anglo-Irish but was committed to the Irish nationalist cause (like Yeats and Lady Gregory).\\xa0\\nHis wife\\u2019s mother was a spiritualist.\\xa0\\nA Pair of Muddy Shoes is written in a very naturalistic, conversational style which was fun to read and very different from some of the other things we\\u2019ve been reading out recently (Poe, I\\u2019m looking at you).\\xa0 It\\u2019s all fun, and I like both styles.\\nThe story is written from an Irish woman\\u2019s voice and I read it as an English man. You will know I debate with myself whether I should do accents (which I enjoy) or read a woman \\u2019s voice. The second I have few problems with to be honest, the first is more of a problem because though I enjoy doing the accent there is always someone who\\u2019s ear is so finely tuned that it jars and spoils the story.\\xa0 So, I decided to do this in my native voice.\\xa0\\nThe story is about a possession but it\\u2019s unusual and fresh in its setting in rural Ireland (I thought of Craggy Island and the big priests\\u2019 house looming up from the middle of a bare field, no garden, no path, no nothing leading to it). The spirit of the murderer remains very wicked and his pleasure in the crime infects the shy young woman who is speaking.\\nThere is something about weird juxtapositions like the white cat with the narrator\\u2019s face and then when she goes into the house, the victim says that she has the face of a girl, but the hands of a rough man.\\xa0\\nAnd you can join my mailing list and get a\\xa0 free audiobook:\\xa0\\nhttps://bit.ly/dalstonvampire\\nMusic By The Heartwood Institute\\nhttps://bit.ly/somecomeback***\\nNew Patreon Request\\nBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!\\xa0Start for FREE\\nSupport the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"