RTÉ - Arena Podcast

Butler, Blake & Grant - Hymn to all the restless girls - Dublin Gothic

2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature - The Kiss - Andrew Michael Hurley

TV Reviews - Album Reviews

Film reviews - Bryce Dessner - Útóipe Cheilteach

Live from 1WML's Townhall, Arena celebrates the 100th issue of The Dublin Review. Rick is joined by editor Brendan Barrington, alongside contributors Sara Baume, Patrick Freyne, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Mark O'Connell. The evening also featured a musical performance by Seán Mac Erlaine and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.

Horslips - Die My Love - Aoife Ní Bhriain

Anemone - Train Dreams - On Friendship by Andrew O'Hagan

Rick embraces the Gothic and the Supernatural across the artistic realms with help from John Connolly, Jess Fahy, John Maguire and Louise Bruton.

Zadie Smith - Film reviews - Down Cemetery Road preview

Martin Parr - Bugonia - Dracula: The Hunt

Rita Ann Higgins - Ruán Magan - The Mirror Stage

Arena celebrated Culture Night 2025 in style with a special programme live from Studio 1 in RTÉ's Radio Centre, featuring Christine Dwyer Hickey, Tolu Makay, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Macdara Yeates. Actors Seamus Moran, Dave Herlihy and Marion Dwyer remembered the late great Seán Rocks.

Live from the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire, a special event to announce the winner of this year's RTE Short Story Competition, in honour of Francis MacManus. This special programme also features a live performance by David Kitt.

Film Reviews - Amelia - Lazarus review

Kevin Rowland - Madama Butterfly

Lazarus - The Mastermind - Rebel Without a Causeat 70

Haunted Dancehall - Wexford Opera Festival review - RTÉ Short Story Competition

TV reviews - Album reviews

Film reviews - Alex Lawther - RTÉ Short Story Competition

My English Persian Kitchen - Picasso: From the Studio - Swan Lake

Gratefully & Affectionately: Mary Lavin & The New Yorker - Waiting for Godot on Broadway - Obituary Series 2.

Mark Ronson - Mr. Scorsese - RTÉ Short Story Competition

TV reviews - Album reviews

Live from the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire for a special event to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. Rick was joined by Bernard O'Donoghue and Rosie Lavan, who edited this new edition of Heaney's work; poets Moya Cannon and Victoria Kennefick; and critic Fintan O'Toole.

Steve Pyke - Victoria Beckham - Cressida Leyshon

Rebecca Ferguson in A House of Dynamite - Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon - Pianist and composer Jamie Duffy

Rick O'Shea talks to Anna Carey about the life of deceased author Jilly Cooper, to Jordan Fisher about the production of Fiddler on the Roof coming to the Bord Gais Energy and Helen Meany and Chris O' Rourke chat all things Dublin Theatre Festival.

Cian Sullivan and Louise Bruton review the week's hot new releases with Rick O'Shea, Chris Wasser and Jenn Gannon chat to Rick about this week's TV and we pay a tribute to the late, great, Manchan Magan.

Rick O'Shea is joined for film reviews by Declan Burke and Cara O'Doherty, the creators of Ghost Voltage - Peter Murphy and Colm Mac Con Iomaire and to rising Dublin hip-hop star Khakikid.

Rick O'Shea hosts a live session with Innie-K, a conversation with Alan Gilsenan about his new film Riverrine and Finghin Collins joins us in studio to talk about the Monkstown Music Festival.

Denouement - Gore Vidal - How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)

Oliver Cole - Deaf Republic - Beckett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan

TV Reviews - Album Reviews

Everything We Do is Music - The Swallow - A R C H I P E L A G O : Through an Irish lens

House of Guinness - 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers - On a Paving Stone Mounted

The Walsh Sisters - The Sound Inside - Se7en at 30

Tara Brady and John Maquire look at some of the latest releases

Jessica Fahy discusses St Nahi's Church and Cemetery in Dundrum

Jenn Gannon does a deep dive into some of the most iconic combat sports movies.

Cillian Murphy and Max Porter

Author Natalie Haynes discusses her new novel

Gerard Smyth, journalist, poet and friend