BIG TOP, BIG DREAMS - SARAH WEBB
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A chance meeting with a circus professor fired Sarah Webb’s imagination and led to her latest novel.
She learned how Ireland had the world's 2nd circus in the late 1700s, with clowns, acrobats and bee charming: riding with a necklace of live bees.
Her novel, The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street (ages 8-12), resulted. It blends Dublin tenement life in 1911 with circus life.
Presenter+producer Martina Devlin
More here: https://obrien.ie/the-little-bee-charmer-of-henrietta-street
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