Presenter Sean Rocks takes a look at what's on in the world of arts and entertainment.
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Film reviews - Travellers' Tunes - How I Became A Wave
These Sacred Vows - Fair Deal - Nostalgie
George Saunders - The films of Jean-Luc Godard - Cello Concerto No. 1 – Hostile Summits
John Bishop - Rob Doyle - Return to Palestine
Highlights from Arena this week, with Daniel Mendelsohn on his new translation of The Odyssey, Paul Mescal and director Oliver Hermanus on their new film The History Of Sound... and Sibéal Ní Chasaide with two beautiful songs from our Arena Tradfest Studio 1 Special.
Film reviews - Midwinter Festival -Departure(s) by Julian Barnes
Patient Labyrinth - Daniel Mendelsohn - The History of Sound
Live from Studio One for a special event to mark the launch of Tradfest. We have live music from the Hothouse Flowers, Segun Akano and Yankari, Sibeal, Brian Kennedy and Cailini Lua.
Valentino - Bryan Washington - Little John Nee - 38th European Film Awards
The very best of Arena's week - with singer Peggy Seeger, actor Brendan Fraser and radio memories with our live panel at the GPO for RTE Radio 100.
Live from the GPO for a special event marking 100 years of public broadcasting in Ireland. Rick is joined by Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, novelist Christine Dwyer Hickey, filmmaker Colm Bairéad, Executive Director of the Abbey Mark O'Brien, and actor Bríd Ní Neachtain. Plus, music from piper Louise Mulcahy and Pilgrim.
Mark Kermode - The Crucible - Brokeback Mountain at 20
Brendan Fraser - EUREKA DAY - Sister Wake
The 83rd Golden Globes - Dido's Lament - ClassicsNow - Peggy Seeger
The best of the week on Arena, featuring novelist Maggie O'Farrell and singer songwriter Ailbhe Reddy.
Film reviews - A Slow Fire - The Cunning Little Vixen
Hamnet - David Keenan - Fiction in Translation
Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie -Olivia Laing - He Dies in the End
Ailbhe Reddy - Turner as Inspiration - First Fortnight Festival 2026
Join Oscar nominated actor Ciarán Hinds as he remembers his friend - and ours - Seán Rocks who passed away in July. Ciarán will guide us through a selection of Seán's best Arena interviews from the last few years. (For copyright reasons the full tracks performed during these interviews cannot be podcast)
Join Oscar nominated actor Ciarán Hinds as he remembers his friend - and ours - Seán Rocks who passed away in July. Ciarán will guide us through a selection of Seán's best Arena interviews from the last few years.
Arena's year-end review special where Rick and a panel made up of Arena regulars (Paul Whitington, Zara Hedderman, Sinéad Gleeson and Chris Wasser) discuss the standout music, films, books, and TV from the year.
Two teams made up of our regular contributors (Eamon Sweeney, Sarina Bellissimo, John Meagher, John Maguire, Louise Bruton, Nadine O'Regan) battle it out in the inaugural Arena Christmas Quiz.
TV reviews - Festive reflections - Culture vulture gifts.
Saipan Review - Film Reviews - Wish You Were Here at 50
Robin and Dawn - Sentimental Value - Playboy of the Western World review
The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth - Other Voices: Home in Dublin
TV reviews - The best music books and gigs of the year
Goodbye June - Brian Eno's "Discreet Music" at 50 - Ciaran Carson's "The Brimming World: Selected Essays"
Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2023-2025 - Réalt an Rince - Nativity art
James L. Brooks - How to Live an Artful Life -The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at 60
TV reviews - Hidden Gems and Rediscoveries
Film reviews - Eternity - An Irish literary walking tour of Rome
An Alternative Irish Christmas - Namanlagh - Colin Davidson
David Szalay - Joe Philpott - The best crime novels of 2025
Paul Muldoon - Queen's A Night At the Opera at 50 - 100 Years of British and Irish Art: A Fermanagh Collection
Alexander Skarsgård - TV reviews - Album reviews
Film reviews - Cait O'Riordan - Dog Days
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