My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw (2018)
• March 25th, 2018 • 0h 0min
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Overview
Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - an emigrant Irishman with the outsider's ability to observe, needle and puncture.
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