Carol Cairns thought a wild fling in 1960s Dublin was lost in the past. Now in her 70s, and after a failed marriage, she used Skype to see if the flame still burned.
In her early twenties Carol Cairns, the daughter of a priest in Ireland, had a ionate affair with a young bohemian poet called Benedict Ryan. In the Dublin of the 1960s, their improbable partnership burned bright but briefly. Somehow the gap in their backgrounds was too great. Not long after, life took her in a completely different direction. Shortly after her 70th birthday, while thinking of names for a grandson to be, she ed Benedict. Where was he now? After a failed marriage, she used Skype to see if the flame still burned.
Carol tells Dr Sian Williams about the emotional moment they reunited, after almost half a century.
Producer; Tom Alban
