Wally K Daly - Butterflies Don't Count

WALLY K DALY - BUTTERFLIES DON'T COUNT (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th February 2026

"The secrets of confession are inviolable - a lovely ringing phrase, but what a price we priests must pay...."

Father Peter can see that his colleague Father Tom is suffering after hearing about a terrible crime.

Starring Kevin Whately and Reginald Marsh.

Wally K Daly adapts his compelling BBC TV drama - first broadcast in 1978 as a Play for Today.

Tom ... Kevin Whately
Peter ... Reginald Marsh
Penitent ... Tony Haygarth
O'Neil ... T P McKenna
May ... Jill Shilling
Doctor ... John Church
Mr James ... Terence Edmond
Mrs James ... Kate Binchy

Directed by David Hitchinson for the BBC World Service.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1992.

**** Don't miss the sequel THE BROKEN BUTTERFLY on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 7th February 2026.