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    TV reviews - Festive reflections - Culture vulture gifts

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 53:57


    TV reviews - Festive reflections - Culture vulture gifts.

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    Saipan Review - Film Reviews - Wish You Were Here at 50

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2025 54:15


    Saipan Review - Film Reviews - Wish You Were Here at 50

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    Robin and Dawn - Sentimental Value - Playboy of the Western World review

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 50:30


    Robin and Dawn - Sentimental Value - Playboy of the Western World review

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    The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth - Other Voices: Home in Dublin

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 51:45


    The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth - Other Voices: Home in Dublin

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    TV reviews - The best music books and gigs of the year

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2025 49:44


    TV reviews - The best music books and gigs of the year

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    Film Reviews - Winter Poetry

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2025 53:28


    Film Reviews - Winter Poetry

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    Goodbye June - Brian Eno's "Discreet Music" at 50 - Ciaran Carson's "The Brimming World: Selected Essays"

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2025 47:11


    Goodbye June - Brian Eno's "Discreet Music" at 50 - Ciaran Carson's "The Brimming World: Selected Essays"

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    Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2023-2025 - Réalt an Rince - Nativity art

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2025 54:01


    Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2023-2025 - Réalt an Rince - Nativity art

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    James L. Brooks - How to Live an Artful Life -The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at 60

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2025 45:44


    James L. Brooks - How to Live an Artful Life -The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at 60

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    TV reviews - Hidden Gems and Rediscoveries

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2025 43:26


    TV reviews - Hidden Gems and Rediscoveries

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    Film reviews - Eternity - An Irish literary walking tour of Rome

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2025 52:37


    Film reviews - Eternity - An Irish literary walking tour of Rome

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    An Alternative Irish Christmas - Namanlagh - Colin Davidson

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 48:28


    An Alternative Irish Christmas - Namanlagh - Colin Davidson

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    David Szalay - Joe Philpott - The best crime novels of 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2025 46:45


    David Szalay - Joe Philpott - The best crime novels of 2025

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    Paul Muldoon - Queen's A Night At the Opera at 50 - 100 Years of British and Irish Art: A Fermanagh Collection

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2025 44:38


    Paul Muldoon - Queen's A Night At the Opera at 50 - 100 Years of British and Irish Art: A Fermanagh Collection

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    Alexander Skarsgård - TV reviews - Album reviews

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2025 46:35


    Alexander Skarsgård - TV reviews - Album reviews

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    Film reviews - Cait O'Riordan - Dog Days

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2025 53:49


    Film reviews - Cait O'Riordan - Dog Days

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    Toy Story at 30 - YFEL - Tolka Issue Ten

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2025 49:03


    Toy Story at 30 - YFEL - Tolka Issue Ten

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    Who is Karl Ove Knausgård? - Handel's Messiah - The Beatles Anthology series

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2025 49:15


    Who is Karl Ove Knausgård? - Handel's Messiah - The Beatles Anthology series

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    Remembering Paul Costelloe - Cosima - Future Boy by Michael J Fox review - Steve Wall

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2025 47:39


    Remembering Paul Costelloe - Cosima - Future Boy by Michael J Fox review - Steve Wall

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    TV reviews - Album reviews

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2025 41:09


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    Film reviews - The Bartered Bride - Football as Never Before

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2025 49:35


    Film reviews - The Bartered Bride - Football as Never Before

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    Lisa O'Neill - Ar an gCoigríochan - Insomnia by Robbie Robertson

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2025 52:07


    Lisa O'Neill - Ar an gCoigríochan - Insomnia by Robbie Robertson

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    Chris Thile - Abode - Anthony Burrill - Dublin's Stained Glass

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2025 52:02


    Chris Thile - Abode - Anthony Burrill - Dublin's Stained Glass

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    The Drums by Mike Joyce review - Mildred Pierce at 80 - The music of ‘a woman scorned'

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2025 49:09


    The Drums by Mike Joyce review - Mildred Pierce at 80 - The music of ‘a woman scorned'

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    TV reviews - Album reviews

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2025 45:59


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    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2025 25:24


    Paul Whitington and Sarina Bellissimo review Nuremberg, The Running Man, Keeper and Park Avenue.    

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    Hidden Assets - A Christmas Carol at The Gate - Ferocity review

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2025 44:42


    Hidden Assets - A Christmas Carol at The Gate - Ferocity review

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2025 52:44


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

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2025 46:36


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

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    TV Reviews - Album Reviews

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2025 47:05


    TV Reviews - Album Reviews

    Film reviews - Bryce Dessner - Útóipe Cheilteach

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2025 51:13


    Film reviews - Bryce Dessner - Útóipe Cheilteach

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    Arena – Dublin Book Festival Special 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2025 50:25


    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.

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    Horslips - Die My Love - Aoife Ní Bhriain

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2025 46:48


    Horslips - Die My Love - Aoife Ní Bhriain

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2025 48:22


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

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    Arena Halloween Special

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2025 46:42


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

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    Zadie Smith - Film reviews - Down Cemetery Road preview

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2025 47:48


    Zadie Smith - Film reviews - Down Cemetery Road preview

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    Martin Parr - Bugonia - Dracula: The Hunt

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2025 50:45


    Martin Parr - Bugonia - Dracula: The Hunt

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    Rita Ann Higgins - Ruán Magan - The Mirror Stage

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2025 49:38


    Rita Ann Higgins - Ruán Magan - The Mirror Stage

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    RTÉ Arena celebrates Culture Night

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2025 48:43


    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.

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    RTÉ Short Story Competition final 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 52:17


    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.

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    Film Reviews - Amelia - Lazarus review

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2025 50:06


    Film Reviews - Amelia - Lazarus review

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    Kevin Rowland - Madama Butterfly

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2025 30:44


    Kevin Rowland - Madama Butterfly

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