Colm Toibin Encore
Irish writer Colm Toibin was the 2013 grand prize winner at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. His latest, The Testament of Mary, takes place twenty years after Jesus's death....

Irish writer Colm Toibin was the 2013 grand prize winner at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal. His latest, The Testament of Mary, takes place twenty years after Jesus's death.
Music to close the Colm Toibin interview:
CD: PCO: BROADCASTING FROM HOME
CUT 12: "Sheep Dip"
Composer: Simon Jeffes
Performer: Penguin Cafe Orchestra
LABEL: EDITIONS EG EEGCD38
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