A sneak preview of actor, broadcaster and well-known Twitter-user Stephen Fry's guest appearance on the Irish-language soap opera Ros na Rún has gone live on YouTube.
The episode featuring Fry is to air 8.30pm tomorrow night on TG4.
Fry was invited to appear in the show after visiting the set in Connemara for a new BBC TV series on minority languages, Planet Word. His cameo was filmed in early December on a closed shoot in Spiddal, Co Galway.
Fry appears in the show as an English tourist and speaks about four lines as Gaeilge. His fellow cast members praised the actor's attempts to cope with the language.
Ros na Rún, which celebrated its 1,000th episode on December 31st, 2009, has featured a number of strong storylines over the years covering issues such as domestic violence, suicide, rape, drugs, elder abuse and abortion.
Now in its 15th season, the show is broadcast on TG4 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, with an omnibus edition airing on Sunday nights. The soap is also broadcast on WYBE public television in Philadelphia in the US, and on the Scottish Gaelic channel TeleG.