RTÉ - Drama On One Podcast

Piano in the River ~ An interlude for radio by Dan Treston - winner of the Prix Italia in 1965.

Dropping Slow by Belinda McKeon in memory of our colleague Anton Timoney

the Winning play in the PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards 2020, Nothing Ever Happens Around Here written by Robert Barrett & directed by Gorretti Slavin

Frizzy Lizzy by Ceara Carney

Featuring Aileen Mythen, Risteard Cooper, Lesa Thurman, Patrick Ryan with original Score by Denis Clohessy, written & directed by Charlie McCarthy

Old Men are Jealous by Jennifer Johnston

We celebrate the memory of writer Jennifer Johnston who died on the 25th of February 2025.

Patrick Kavanagh's epic journey to Dublin Written & Directed by Pat Collins

Writer and director Pat Collins and actor Mikel Murfi (Michael Murphy) talk about working on Eternal Lanes of Joy,

A Red Romeo and A Blue Julian by Jonny Farrelly, is a comedic love story, written in verse ~ with a twist!

Hubert and Rose Derdon have been together for a life, but when Rose dies, Hubert finds he is unable to grieve for his wife, with Barry McGovern, David Herlihy, and Jane Brennan.

Limekiln Lane by Louise Lewis, a powerful account of domestic violence in lockdown

Abbey actor, Clive Geraghty plays Tom and Deirdre Donnelly his wife Maura in Shay Linehan's first play for the medium of radio

A journey through the night-world of Cork. Directed by Charlie McCarthy

Brenda, Maureen and Joanna get to know each other through their stories. But it's the things they're not saying that really tell the tale.

Fragile Maoilíosa by Charlie McGuinness starring Eamonn Hunt and Muiris Crowley, music performed by Jane Hughes, directed by Gorretti Slavin

The story of the 11th hour escape from the Nazis in 1938, of Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha and their extended family.

Confinements by Judith Mok We remember Judith Mok, the Dutch soprano, writer, and vocal coach, who died in December 2024.

Mr Sun by Gillian Grattan with Kathy Rose O'Brien

John Boorman, who turns 92 this Saturday, returned to England in November 2022, after 53 years in his beloved home,The Glebe, in County Wicklow. Stephen Rea and Kevin Reynolds drove to Annamoe to say goodbye.

Treasure House - a series of dramatised stories on the lives of historical figures. Tonight's programme features the life and times of English writer and clergyman Charles Kingsley

Anton and Ian's conversation leads them to a mutual realisation: man is a caged animal. Will they find freedom, or fail in their quest?

The radio piece revisits episodes in Thomas Kilroy's family's history, the War of Independence, the Civil War and the foundation of the Irish Free State

Al McKenna stars as iconic broadcaster Terry Wogan in Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney.

Programme exploring Radió Éireann Players, the repertory company for radio in Ireland formed in 1947 first broadcast 19th August 1997.

a compendium of thoughts and stories on climate activism. Combining interviews, archive and dramatised excerpts, The Burning Question looks for hope in a time of frightening harm to the planet, in the eloquence of activists, court challenges, new thinking, and immersive recordings of the natural world. 

A podcast producer finds a set of code books. They are the Marconi International Code books. They contain 500 pages of 5-letter codes and their translations. The main character starts to read the codes obsessively and twist them into her own life story. In themselves the codes form extraordinarily poetic lists

After a decade of living it up and haven' the craic, Sharon returns to her mother, her roots and her hometown.

Playwright & composer Roger Gregg weaves his signature blend of storytelling, poetry, music and song into a haunting journey.

Based on true events, Haughey/Gregory tells the story of the Gregory Deal, agreed by Charles J. Haughey and Independent TD, Tony Gregory, in 1982.

The Last, High King of Ireland tells the story of a day in the life of a hard-drinking man, Tapper to the locals, on his daily travels from morning to night in the fictional town of Molinheer.

an Irish woman in London experiences a dramatic and life changing event that forces her to look at her life choices. With the help of a motley crew

A comic tale of narcotics, fast food and a mother's love for her son, set in Belfast at the height of the pandemic. Winner of Best Radio Drama IMRO Awards 2024

An Englishman remembers a holiday to Dingle in 1968, while his memories are revised and re-animated by his friend, the Story Poacher.

The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge, adapted and dramatised for radio by Joe O'Byrne.

based on the true story of the hijacking of an Aer Lingus plane in 1981, by an ex-Trappist monk with a burning desire to know the Third Secret of Fatima.

Three masculine monologues, a suitor, a stalker, a spouse..

A tense two-hander in which a middle-aged couple ruminate on the sombre detail of a tragic death in the family starring Andrew Bennett and Cathy Belton

Write Your Mind is a play about Youth Mental Health, weaving together monologues devised by writers with young people.

A Piece of Monologue, performed by Barry McGovern as part of our Beckett Season

The Old Tune by Samuel Beckett: Adapted from the radio play La Manivelle by Robert Pinget

Drama On One continues its Beckett Season with All That Fall directed and produced by Barry McGovern, starring Pegg Monahan and Aidan Grennell.