The House That Vanished: 2. The Real King of Tory
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Neville sets off on a journey around Ireland in search of clues, but the shock of discovering his house has vanished begins to affect his health.
Feeling like he’s trapped in a nightmare, Neville recalls the peace and tranquility he first found on Tory – and a film he made years before seems to offer a strange prophecy about what may have happened to his house.
A compelling five-part mystery based on the true story of one man’s search for justice on a remote Irish island, blending documentary and drama. Neville ...... Tony Flynn Fiona ..... Fo Cullen Patrick Doohan ...... Seán T. Ó Meallaigh Council worker ...... Carol Moore Guard ...... Faolán Morgan Sean ...... Michael Patrick Tourism Woman ...... Megan Armitage Engineer ...... Desmond Eastwood
Presented by Siobhán McSweeney Written by Jan Carson Produced by Conor McKay and Michael Shannon
A BBC Northern Ireland Production for Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | From BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, this is The House That Vanished. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Sivon McSweeney. |
| 0:12.0 | Episode 2, The Real King of Tory. |
| 0:16.2 | Neville had encountered a wall of silence on Tory Island. |
| 0:20.0 | The few snippets of information he did uncover only heightened the mystery of what had happened to his house. |
| 0:26.1 | It was a war wind that took yours. It just clean, sucked it up. |
| 0:30.2 | Wish, just like that. |
| 0:31.7 | I walk in the middle of the night. The room was all lit up in fiery colours. |
| 0:38.1 | Ah, Neville, it would be better if you didn't ask questions about that. |
| 0:44.2 | After leaving Tory, Neville took his search for answers to the mainland of Ireland. |
| 0:50.2 | The reason he came back from New Zealand in the first place was a letter from Dunigall County Council, |
| 0:55.7 | informing him that his house had been damaged in a storm. |
| 0:58.9 | So he decides to visit the council offices in the town of Lifford. |
| 1:04.0 | Of course, Mr Preschow, you're entitled to see any correspondence relating to your property. |
| 1:10.2 | Give me a wee second and I'll fish it out. Thank you. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. I've asked that many people what happened to my house and nobody's giving me a straight answer. It's absolutely infuriating. One says this, the other says that. You wouldn't know who to trust. Anything you have is invaluable. It sounds like you've had a real time of it. |
| 1:29.8 | I hope we can help you out today. |
| 1:32.2 | Now, here you go. |
| 1:33.9 | There's your file, everything we have about the House and Toray. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm happy to go through it with you. |
| 1:41.0 | Those first few letters are from Islanders. |
| 1:43.8 | They're mostly complaining that stones and rubble from the house were blocking the road. That one there's particularly interesting. |
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