Presenter Sean Rocks takes a look at what's on in the world of arts and entertainment.
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Saturday Night Live UK - Life Aid in the National Photographic Archive - Rembrandt's Promise
George Orwell - The Good Luck Club - Patient: Soldier
The best of Arena's week with the Irish star of A Woman of Substance on C4, Jessica Reynolds... Lise Hand reviews Liza Minnelli's new memoir... and we remember the life and extraordinary talent of beloved singer, Dolores Keane.
Film reviews - Tuesdays With Morrie - Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
Jessica Reynolds - Of Mornington - Look What You Made Me Do
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with the Arena Arts Quiz. Louise Bruton, Eamon Sweeney, and Eoin Glackin battle John Meagher, Zara Hedderman, and Chris Wasser in a cerebral workout of Irish culture - all accompanied by the atmospheric uilleann pipes of Mark Redmond.
Irish folk singer Dolores Keane dies aged 72 - The East Asia Film Festival Ireland 2026 - Krapp's Last Tape
The best of Arena's week with Oscar nominated film producer Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures as he prepares to attend the Oscars in LA... the poet and broadcaster Paul Muldoon on his collection of lectures, Talking Heads... and Ifta Award winning casting director Amy Rowan
Joe Stilgoe - Spring as inspiration - How to make a killing - Glasshouse perform Björk
RTE Short Story Competition - Daughter Of A Drum - The Academy Award for Achievement in Casting
Element Pictures - Paul Muldoon - Ashes to Fashion
As this year's Awards Season reaches its climax, join Sinéad Egan Arena's Oscar Edition, a special show bringing you the very best of Arena's interviews with nominees for the 2026 Academy Awards.
The best of Arena's week with Oscar nominated filmmaker John Kelly on his animated short "Retirement Plan"... we speak to novelist Mary Costello about her new book "A Beautiful Loan"... and we talk to poet and writer John O'Donnell about his first collection of stories, "Mr Hoo and Other Stories"
Film reviews - Kristian Bezuidenhout - Ethnology: a love song for Connemara
Retirement Plan - Morrissey - A Beautiful Loan
Mr Hoo and other stories - Couture - Hello Charlie
The best of Arena's week with longtime Bowie collaborator Mike Garson... we speak to the co-director innovative film about Marianne Faithfull... we talk historic band t-shirts, and Amanda Seyfried tells us about her career's best role in The Testament Of Ann Lee
Film reviews - Mike Garson on Bowie - Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold
Man on the Run - Ubu Roi - Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There
Broken English - As if nothing could fall: Essays on monuments - The Ballad of Johnny and June
Ian Lynch - Sweat, Sounds and Stories: A Love Letter to Old T-Shirts - The Testament of Ann Lee - Ciaran Creagh
The best of Arena this week, as we explore spring poetry with Vona Groarke, celebrate 50 years of Rough Trade with John Meagher, and Steven Benedict looks back at Trainspotting.
Film reviews - Spring poetry - Dani Larkin
Rough Trade at 50 - Dublin International Film Festival - RHA
Consumed - 2026 Dublin Literary Award Longlist - Petrified
Robert Duvall dies aged 95- Trainspotting at 30 - Scene + Heard 2026 - The Secret Agent
The best of Arena's week as we anticipate the release of Wuthering Heights, react to Bad Bunny and his Super Bowl Half Time show, mark 50 years of iconic film Taxi Driver and poet Eoin Devereux on his first collection, Gardening Leave.
Film reviews - The Wardrobe Department - Gardening Leave
Bad Bunny - The song is nearly over - In Vitro
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast - Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age - Taxi Driver at 50
The Plough and The Stars turns 100 - The enduring legacy of Emily Brontë - Story of a Day
The best of Arena's week with cellist Abel Selaocoe; Susan Stanley and Sarah Goldberg, the writers and stars of RTE series SisterS; and critic Pat Carty on Bob Dylan's 1976 album Desire.
Film Reviews - Plastic - Bob Dylan's Desire at 50
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