Radio: When life's a carousel

Reviewed this week

**Drama On One: Excess Baggage,** RTE Radio 1

**Afternoon Drama: Amah In The Bathtub,** BBC Radio 4

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A high percentage of the dramas that I’ve reviewed on Irish radio in the last couple of years fall into the same

tediously predictable trap again and again. To put it in the simplest of terms, they try to be too clever by half.

There’s nothing wrong with taking a quick blast ...