Podcasts about sunday miscellany

talking about her Sunday Miscellany piece and the origin of the Clare shout. Hosted by Tom Hanley and Noel Murphy. Saturday Chronicle 27th July  2024, Saturday Chronicle is Sponsored by JAMES M NASH AND DERG KITCHEN DESIGN http://dergkitchendesign.ie  www.mlc.ie Message or what's app the studio on 089 2582647 or email sbcrstudio@gmail.com

Ways of Seeing 2: More words and music from Belfast Book Festival with Paul McVeigh, Marie Howe, John Toal, Mícheál McCann, Maria McManus, and music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna, Éimear McGeown, Donogh Hennessy and Trú

Ways of Seeing 2: More words and music from Belfast Book Festival with Paul McVeigh, Marie Howe, John Toal, Mícheál McCann, Maria McManus, and music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna, Éimear McGeown, Donogh Hennessy and Trú

Reflections on fatherhood, and literary Dublin's first Joycean jaunt, with Patricia Joyce Oliver, Rory Gleeson, Donal Fallon, Ann Breslin and Oliver Sears

Reflections on fatherhood, and literary Dublin's first Joycean jaunt, with Patricia Joyce Oliver, Rory Gleeson, Donal Fallon, Ann Breslin and Oliver Sears

Thin Lizzy in Tramore, Brehon Brutalism in Ballsbridge, feathery feats of nature -- and the wisdom, or not, of meeting your heroes. With John Toal, Joe Rooney, Kathy Donaghy, Shane O'Toole, Lani O'Hanlon and Judith Mok

In her address, Aoife Barry discusses her book Social Capital: Life Online in the Shadow of Ireland's Tech Boom, which focuses on what she discovered while interviewing people in Ireland about their online behaviour and how they have been treated online, and what this illustrates about the regulatory and legal challenges facing both social media users and tech owners. Aoife discusses how developments since the book's publication demonstrate how issues around social media and misinformation have only grown, pointing to an uncertain and troubling future for the internet. About the Speaker: Aoife Barry is a freelance journalist and broadcaster. Her essays and fiction have been published by Banshee journal, ThiWurd, and Visual Verse, and broadcast on RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany. Her bylines include The Sunday Times, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, the Business Post, The Journal and the Irish Examiner. Aoife features regularly on RTÉ and Today FM and has received Agility Award Funding from the Arts Council for a novel in progress and was selected by the Irish Writers Centre for its Evolution Programme 2023.

Sea pinks on the Copper Coast, intimations of mortality in the Irish hawthorn tree, and ways of making a show of yourself, with Pat Boran, Peter Cunningham, Mary Hassett, Maeve Edwards and Lawrence White

Sea pinks on the Copper Coast, intimations of mortality in the Irish hawthorn tree, and ways of making a show of yourself, with Pat Boran, Peter Cunningham, Mary Hassett, Maeve Edwards and Lawrence White

Month's mind tributes to the late sculptor Imogen Stuart and poet Michael Coady; bonny labouring boy, the smell of new boots and an old coat. With Peter Trant, AM Cousins, Paul Rouse, Alison Fitzgerald, Michael O'Connor and Catherine Twomey

Month's mind tributes to the late sculptor Imogen Stuart and poet Michael Coady; bonny labouring boy, the smell of new boots and an old coat. With Peter Trant, AM Cousins, Paul Rouse, Alison Fitzgerald, Michael O'Connor and Catherine Twomey

Stepping out to dance class, serenading a new arrival, skulduggery in a Scottish graveyard – and rereading the searing Diary of Anne Frank, with Elizabeth Oxley, Peter Cunningham, Emer O'Kelly, Rory Gleeson, Paul Johnston and Vincent Woods

Stepping out to dance class, serenading a new arrival, skulduggery in a Scottish graveyard – and rereading the searing Diary of Anne Frank, with Elizabeth Oxley, Peter Cunningham, Emer O'Kelly, Rory Gleeson, Paul Johnston and Vincent Woods

A selection from the Sunday Miscellany archives, from the 1960s to the 1990s – with Aodhán Madden, Mervyn Wall, Patricia O'Reilly, John Ryan, Rita Normanly, Stephen Rynne and Brendan Kennelly

Paul Lynch - Sunday Miscellany: a Selection 2018 – 2023 - Arian Moayed

Gauls, gossamer, and marram grass, and finding refuge – a special Sunday Miscellany from the Iron Mountain Festival recorded at the Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, with Brian Leyden, Mary Byrne, Zak Moradi, Alice Lyons, Vincent Woods, Eleanor Shanley and Garadice with Tom Morrow, Zoé Basha and Ultan O'Brien

A transcendent experience at the Botanic Gardens, reflections on the Famine and the Irish language and a lifelong passion for the novels of Thomas Hardy. Sunday Miscellany features Valerie Waters, Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Michael O'Loughlin, Mary O'Donnell, John Egan and Lani O'Hanlon

A selection from the Sunday Miscellany archives, from the 1970s to the 1990s - with Nuala Hayes, John Ryan, Peter Jankovsky, Aidan Carney, Judith Hoad and Eamon Keane

Hello you little rascals, are you hot enough? Have you been enjoying the good weather? Well Jan is roasting in his attic studio with 31 degrees of boiling heat and the producer won't let him leave the fan on during recording, so he's melting.   Speaking of boiling, do you have one of those boiling water taps or a One cup kettle? Check it out here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breville-HotCup-Dispenser-Variable-Dispense/dp/B078L3WJWM. Well, Óran thinks the kettle is great but Stuart is not too sure if the water will be hot enough for his needs… he has a lot of needs ya know!   Have you ever been hit by lightning? What did it smell like? Jan is desperate to know. Tell us all about it on BlindGuysChat@gmail.com.   Our guests this week are Dr Rachel Bermingham and Dr Ellen Moran from the research department in Fighting Blindness. They're chatting to us about the research that Fighting Blindness supports, and about the upcoming Retina International World Congress 2024. This was a highly informative interview – thanks to the two doctors for chatting with us. And if you want more information on what they talked to us about, see these links below:   https://www.fightingblindness.ie/how-we-can-help-research-patient-and-public-involvement-in-research-and-development-ppi-for-people-living-with-sight-loss-vip-network/   https://www.fightingblindness.ie/how-we-can-help/research/meet-your-researchers/   https://www.fightingblindness.ie/news/save-the-date-for-riwc-2024-5-8-june-in-dublin/   And finally, in case you are interested, here's the list of mental health supports that Fighting Blindness offers: https://tinyurl.com/BGCsupports. This list was collated from the mental health panel discussion in Episode 57 of Blind Guys Chat, which you can listen back to here: https://tinyurl.com/BlindGuysChatEp57.     In TV corner we are talking about: ‘Best Interest': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10714820/ ‘Silo': https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14688458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 and ‘Wonders of the World I Can't See': (with blind UK comedian Chris McCausland) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28078974/ And by the way, if you want a quick laugh, check out Chris McCausland and Lee Mack presenting at the BAFTA'S this year here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLhy0Zq95HU&ab_channel=BBC   Clodagh and Óran's friend Antonia Gunko Karelina was featured on RTÉ Radio One's programme ‘Sunday Miscellany' on Sunday 25 June 2023. She spoke about how dancing the tango helped her cope with the trauma of having to abandon her home because of the war in Ukraine, and how she feels embraced by the people of Ireland. It's a beautiful piece and is very moving – you can listen to it here: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22266657/     Stuart has news about a webinar he is hosting with Jan next week, see details here: https://www.sightandsound.co.uk/event/webinar-wednesday-catching-up-with-vispero-software-enhancements/   We have emails from Nora from Boston, Blind Gordon from Scotland (with a lovely voice message), another lovely voice message from Suave Saleem, and a final email from Aaron Linson in the USA. Poor Clodagh was feeling the pressure!   So, forget about slush funds, jump into that paddling pool, and get ready to listen to one of the sweatiest and most awe-inspiring podcasts in the known universe: Blind Guys Chat… 8 out of 10 CFO's prefer it to a slap on the wrist. Support Blind Guys Chat by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/blind-guys-chat

Tango dancing, a golden Wimbledon ticket, musical glory days, dancing friends and Dev, with Antonia Gunko Karelina, John Egan, Gerald Dawe, Roslyn Dee and Charles Lysaght

Tango dancing, a golden Wimbledon ticket, musical glory days, dancing friends and Dev, with Antonia Gunko Karelina, John Egan, Gerald Dawe, Roslyn Dee and Charles Lysaght.

Showbusiness families and the ties that bind, with Ferdia MacAnna, Conall Hamill, Emer O'Kelly, Nollaig Rowan, Olive Travers and Lani O'Hanlon

Showbusiness families and the ties that bind, with Ferdia MacAnna, Conall Hamill, Emer O'Kelly, Nollaig Rowan, Olive Travers and Lani O'Hanlon

A selection from the very first edition of Sunday Miscellany in November 1968, with the voices of Anthony Cronin, Val Mulkerns, Patrick Kavanagh (who died the year before the programme went on air; his piece was recorded by actor Pat Layde), John Ryan and Eric Cross

A selection from the very first edition of Sunday Miscellany in November 1968, with the voices of Anthony Cronin, Val Mulkerns, Patrick Kavanagh (who died the year before the programme went on air; his piece was recorded by actor Pat Layde), John Ryan and Eric Cross

A selection from the very first edition of Sunday Miscellany in November 1968, with the voices of Anthony Cronin, Val Mulkerns, Patrick Kavanagh (who died the year before the programme went on air; his piece was recorded by actor Pat Layde), John Ryan and Eric Cross

A fashion plate changes shape, endangered languages, the salmon of knowledge, a blue cup in Bucharest and close ties with the poetry of Leland Bardwell, with Philip Judge, Clare O'Dea, Grace Wells, Frank Shouldice, Catherine Foley and John McLachlan

A fashion plate changes shape, endangered languages, the salmon of knowledge, a blue cup in Bucharest and close ties with the poetry of Leland Bardwell, with Philip Judge, Clare O'Dea, Grace Wells, Frank Shouldice, Catherine Foley and John McLachlan

Tales of the street and tales of home, Moonlight in Mayo and life before “Love Me Do”, with Joe Whelan, Tess Hughes, Pat Dunne, Judith Mok, Margaret Galvin and Kevin Marinan

Tales of the street and tales of home, Moonlight in Mayo and life before “Love Me Do”, with Joe Whelan, Tess Hughes, Pat Dunne, Judith Mok, Margaret Galvin and Kevin Marinan

Father Ted as a young man, ploughmens' dreams, autumnal meditations and Shakespeare's Garth Brooks connection, with Fred Tuite, Emer O'Kelly, Fran O'Rourke, Sarah Traynor, Lani O'Hanlon and John F Deane

Father Ted as a young man, ploughmens' dreams, autumnal meditations and Shakespeare's Garth Brooks connection, with Fred Tuite, Emer O'Kelly, Fran O'Rourke, Sarah Traynor, Lani O'Hanlon and John F Deane

Meeting the Queen, Gorbachev in Shannon, Donegal sayings, mixtapes and more, with Joe Hayes, Denise Blake, John MacKenna, Jackie Lynam, Roslyn Dee and Rachael Hegarty

Meeting the Queen, Gorbachev in Shannon, Donegal sayings, mixtapes and more, with Joe Hayes, Denise Blake, John MacKenna, Jackie Lynam, Roslyn Dee and Rachaael Hegarty

An unexpected exhibit in Derry, a schoolboy faces losing his best friend, seeking refuge from a New York heat wave, an Ecuadorian aeroplane in Galway, adventures in cat sitting and a tribute to Donal Musgrave, with Neil Hegarty, Joe Whelan, Yvonne Judge, Pat Coleman, Quentin Fottrell and Catherine Foley

An unexpected exhibit in Derry, a schoolboy faces losing his best friend, seeking refuge from a New York heatwave, an Ecuadorian aeroplane, adventures in cat sitting and a tribute to Donal Musgrave, with Neil Hegarty, Joe Whelan, Yvonne Judge, Pat Coleman, Quentin Fottrell and Catherine Foley

Bittersweet homecomings, Donnybrook Fair carousing through the ages, an extraordinary encounter with Princess Diana and tributes to Séamus Heaney, with Peter Trant, Paul Doran, Ann-Marie Durkan, Chris McHallem, Kevin McDermott and Rita Ann Higgins

Bittersweet homecoming journeys, Donnybrook Fair carousing through the ages, an extraordinary encounter with Princess Diana and tributes to Séamus Heaney, with Peter Trant, Paul Doran, Ann-Marie Durkan, Chris McHallem, Kevin McDermott and Rita Ann Higgin

A walk-on part in the Michael Collins film, the craze for Collins in London, a grandfather's secret, travel discombobulations in JFK and more, with Joyce Hickey, John MacKenna, Margaret Galvin, Lourdes Mackey, Thomas McCarthy and Ruth Deasy

A walk-on part in the Michael Collins film, the craze for Collins in London, a grandfather's secret, travel discombobulations in JFK and more, with Joyce Hickey, John MacKenna, Margaret Galvin, Lourdes Mackey, Thomas McCarthy and Ruth Deasy

Inspirational art of ancient Greece, Paris under the Nazi's, being a Francophile, a life at sea and the small things that give us hope, with Isabel Nolan, Maylis Besserie, Clíona Ní Ríordáin, John Tuomey and Niamh O'Malley

Summer swimsuits, student summers abroad, evocations of New York and Greece and links between Ireland and Brittany, with Mae Leonard, Shane O'Sullivan, Lauren Green, Gary Coyle and Neil Hegarty

Exam anxieties, audience protests, overheard conversations and Maeve Binchy's writing advice, and fearless Dervla Murphy remembered, with Margaret Ward, Rachael Hegarty, Ian Sherry, Bernard Farrell, John Toal and Pádraig Ó Macháin

"You see, the coat was suggestive of a certain attitude. You might even call it obnoxiousness." Paul Howard tells the tale of his Christmas coat and a festive visit to New York City.

A Christmas show from the National Concert Hall with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests Lisa Lambe, Cormac Kenevey, Conor Linehan, Caoimhe Ní Fhlatharta, Séamus Ó Flatharta, Lisa McInerney, Emer O'Kelly, John Toal, Denise Blake and Joe Kearney

A Cavan copper king, a New York fashion queen, and Irish American connections from Washington to Montana… a Thanksgiving-infused Sunday Miscellany, with Brian O'Donovan, Mary Coleman, Dan Mulhall, Grace Wilentz, Deirdre McQuillan and Denise Blake

Celebrating architecture and landscape, story and song, and the hidden histories contained in our country's archives...?a special Sunday Miscellany programme to mark National Heritage Week.

Stone-carving, painting, woodturning... and a little Kilkenny hurling. Marking 50 years of Irish craft, a selection from the Sunday Miscellany archive with a live show recorded in 2011 at the WatergateTheatre as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival

Literary feuds, a history of the Martello towers, and the origins of the first Bloomsday with Vincent Altman O'Connor, Tim Carey, Jane Clarke, Jimmy Murphy, Éabha Jones and, from the Sunday Miscellany archives, The First Bloomsday by Anthony Cronin – first broadcast 50 years ago this year

Highlights from past Sunday Miscellany Live in Ennis shows as part of Ennis Book Club Festival in Glór, Ennis. Rescue donkeys, interrailing incidents, the newspaper preferences of the people of Miltown Malbay and a fine mix of music and song with Maurice Crowe, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Noel Harrington, John Hurley and Dee Collins.

Highlights from Sunday Miscellany Live at Christmas: past programmes recorded in the National Concert Hall with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in recent years, with writers Paul Howard; Michael Harding; Mae Leonard and John F Deane

Bloody Sunday remembered, a special programme on the day of bloodshed that was 21 November, 1920 in Dublin, supported by the GAA Museum at Croke Park, with Chris Shouldice, Michael Foley, Anthony Ryan, Anne Dolan, Paul Rouse and Louise Hogan

On this programme: Conquering a stammer; Saluting Angela Lansbury at 95; Running away from home -- and reconsidering; Wexford's Halloween customs involving cabbage -- and How the world responded to the death of Terence MacSwiney... with Chris McHallem, Mary Wall, Dermot Bolger, AM Cousins, Lourdes Mackey, and Vincent Woods

On this programme: Conquering a stammer; Saluting Angela Lansbury at 95; Running away from home -- and reconsidering; Wexford's Halloween customs involving cabbage -- and How the world responded to the death of Terence MacSwiney... with Chris McHallem, Mary Wall, Dermot Bolger, AM Cousins, Lourdes Mackey, and Vincent Woods

On this programme: Conquering a stammer; Saluting Angela Lansbury at 95; Running away from home -- and reconsidering; Wexford's Halloween customs involving cabbage -- and How the world responded to the death of Terence MacSwiney... with Chris McHallem, Mary Wall, Dermot Bolger, AM Cousins, Lourdes Mackey, and Vincent Woods

In this programme: Home thoughts from abroad… a friendship forged in postwar Sarajevo… John 'Bower' Bradley and Lourdes Celtic Football Club... and Dublin City University at 40 with Frank Shouldice, Donal Hayes, Helen O'Rahilly, Lani O'Hanlon and Kevin McDermott

In this programme: Home thoughts from abroad… a friendship forged in postwar Sarajevo… John 'Bower' Bradley and Lourdes Celtic Football Club... and Dublin City University at 40 with Frank Shouldice, Donal Hayes, Helen O'Rahilly, Lani O'Hanlon and Kevin McDermott

This week a selection from Sunday Miscellany Live programmes at the Red Line Book Festival, recorded in the Civic Theatre in Tallaght in 2016 and 2017 broadcast to mark this year’s Red Line Book Festival which is taking place entirely online; with scripts by Dermot Bolger, Eileen Casey, Marita Conlon-McKenna, Rosaleen McDonagh and Declan Hughes

A poetry-infused Sunday Miscellany with childhood memories of Robert Frost in New Hampshire from Jerusha McCormack; a mother's delight in the words of Patrick Kavanagh by Jim Sperin; and a tribute to the late Derek Mahon, by Gerald Dawe. Also Nicole Flattery on a telephonic sisterhood and memories of the 1941 Belfast Blitz by Garrett Igoe

This week on Sunday Miscellany, tall tales and different kinds of truth… memories of the writer Frank O’Connor and the untold story of St Finbar; a programme from the archive marking the Cork International Short Story Festival, with writers Mary Leland, Cónal Creedon, William Wall, Madeleine D’Arcy, Joe Sweeney and Liadáin O'Donovan

In this programme, exam result anxiety… a delightful friendship forged in Belfield… re-reading Brian Keenan’s memoir of captivity in Beirut, and more, with Norma McMaster, Roslyn Dee, John MacKenna, Kevin McDermott, Frank Kavanagh, and James Harpur. Tune in! RTÉ Radio 1 Culture on RTÉ #LeavingCert2020

Jonathan White on Bob Sheppard, the voice of Yankee Stadium; Denise Blake's new baby telegram; Sheila Killian on a lost glove and an anti-war march; Joe Ó Muircheartaigh on missing Wimbledon and restaging the 1980 final on a Kerry beach; and Quentin Fottrell on familiar strangers in New York.

Songs, stories and Joyce’s idea of what makes a nation... with Fran O'Rourke, Conall Hamill, Breda Reid, Barry McCrea and Deirdre Mulrooney

Listowel Writers' Week at 50: highlights from live shows at the festival over the years. With Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Róisín Whelan, Cyril Kelly, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Seamus Heaney, and music from Elizabeth Cooney, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Redmond O’Toole, Seamus and Eoin Begley, Diane Daly, Boris Hunka and Jacqui Hynes

RTÉ producer Sarah Binchy talks about Sunday Miscellany, the RTÉ Short Story competition, and breaking into broadcasting. You can check out further details of Sunday Miscellany (and listen to recent editions) webpage at https://www.rte.ie/radio1/sundaymiscellany. Details of the RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of Francis McManus are at https://www.rte.ie/radio1/francis-macmanus-short-story/ The competition is now closed for 2020, but it's never too soon go get working on your entry for next year. If you are interested in documentary making, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound+Vision Fund is here: https://www.bai.ie/en/broadcasting/funding-development-3/sound-vision-4/

This week we re-broadcast a special live programme from University of Limerick with writers Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Malley, Donal Ryan, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Mae Leonard and William Keohane with live music from among others Blackie O'Connell, Seamus Fogarty, and the Irish World Academy House Band

Cold water swimming, Glen Hansard's other birthday and an Orangeman under the bed... With Brian Farrell, Jackie Lynam, Gerald Dawe, Karen Sorensen, Margaret Hickey, and Larry McCluskey

Chocolate eggs and ice eggs, church bells and birdsong, tropical fish, the composer Ravel, and big and small acts of solidarity this Easter time... With Alan Finnegan, John Toal, Colin Murphy, Rachael Hegarty and Lani O’Hanlon

A special programme from Ennis Book Club Festival recorded in Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare. With writers Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Noel Harrington, Grace Wells, Joe Ó Muircheartaigh and Lemn Sissay and music from Blackie O’Connell, Cyril O’Donoghue, Ennis Brass Band conducted by Mark Nutley, Boris Hunka and Diane Daly, and Katie Theasby and Ger O’Donnell

Meeting Captain Furillo from Hill Street Blues, the pleasures of a linen handkerchief, and Mother’s Day at a social distance… with writers Tim Carey, Mary Dowey, Geraldine Mitchell, Lemn Sissay, Andrew Meehan, and Nollaig Rowan

New words to describe wine, Ireland’s rugby nadir, contemplating Dante in a hospital waiting room, a history of quarantine and a postcard from Sam Beckett. With Mary Dowey, Donal Hayes, Mary O’Malley, Andrew Doherty and Grace Neville

Meditations on Maths, meeting the Hothouse Flowers, a visit to St Valentine and a missing Valentine's card... with Oliver Sears, Jackie Lynam, Olive Travers, Fred Johnston, Sara Shine and Rachael Hegarty

On this morning’s programme we heard: James Joyce’s Birthday by Gerry Moloney; The 59th Street Bridge – Feelin’ Ungroovy by Conall Hamill; Ulyssses by Emer O’Kelly; Peach Melba by Nollaig Rowan; Here’s To You, Jim Joyce, by Kevin McDermott; and Antidote, a poem by Geraldine Mitchell

Meditative moments at Mass and at sea; dancing to Für Elise, and Beethoven's wild, earthy, daimonic genius. With Barbara Scully, Oliver Sears, Evelyn Conlon, Kate Kerrigan and John F Deane

On today's programme: It Was All in the Stars by Bibi Baskin; The Daily Commute by Tim Carey; The French Connection by Darragh Kelly; Bees in the Roof Space, Humans in the House, a poem by Jean O’Brien; Stoneleigh Train Station 1990 by Noel Harrington; And Old Churriosity Shop by Lani O’Hanlon

On this programme: The Greatest by J M Dolan; Mending Our Ways by Margaret Hickey; Island Devotions, a poem by Geraldine Mitchell; Death in West Cork by Jody Clarke; Veronica McSwiney: How to Celebrate Eight Decades at the Piano by Emer O’Kelly, And Your Youth is Behind You by Kate Kerrigan

On this morning’s programme, a mix of new and archive scripts: Skull and Bones by Niall McArdle; Boarding School Days by Catherine Foley; Old Hat, New Hat by Patrick Dunne; The Tree, the Trolley, and Me by Chris McHallem; And Journey of an Outcast by the late Eileen Battersby, the anniversary of whose death occurred over the Christmas period

On this morning’s programme we heard: Tins by Paul Howard; Christmas Truce, Ardoyne, 1914, by Louise Kennedy; Imagining Places by Evelyn Conlon; Senior Dormitory, The Night Watch, a poem by James Harpur; Christmas Trains of Thought by John O’Donnell

On this morning’s programme, we heard: Connections, by Leo Cullen; Lovely Cigar, by Kate Kerrigan; In the Annals of Beara, a poem by Gerard Smyth; The Day my Sister met the Queen, by Roslyn Dee; Winter Dusk, a poem by Grace Wells; and Georgie Boy, by Des MacHale

Unsatisfying brushes with fame... a former teacher’s wishes and regrets... and the vibrant Moroccan city of Fez in winter. With Conall Hamill, John MacKenna, Geraldine Mitchell, Roslyn Dee, Chris McHallem and AM Cousins.

On this morning’s programme, we heard: Friendly Front Door at University Hospital Waterford by Lani O’Hanlon; Steamboat by Andrew Doherty; Baby Clothes, a poem by AM Cousins; Learning to Drive by Ian Maleney; and Those Summer Nights of Long Ago at the Céilí by Catherine Foley

On this morning’s programme, One for Everybody in the Audience by John Toal; White Vision by Gail Seekamp;Georges Clemenceau: The Politician Who Hated Nationalism, by Emer O’Kelly; A Word With Gay by Patrick Griffin; And Lily Lynch and the Oratory of the Sacred Heart by Tim Carey

On today's programme: Remembering John McGahern by Eamon Maher; The Witch and the Eternal Lamp by Clare O’Dea; An Afternoon in November by John MacKenna; Making Marmalade, a poem by Mary O’Malley; Funeral Crosses in the Sceach by AM Cousins And Starlings, a poem by John F Deane

On today's programme recorded live in Ballyshannon: The Coastal Path Home by Gerard Beirne; The Manorhamilton Fort by Brian Leyden; Hiraeth, Carrickarnon, by Louise Kennedy; Rain and Sunshine, a poem by Denise Blake, and Lessons from Leitrim’s Coastal Frontier by Colin Regan

On this morning’s programme: Nights At The Lobby Bar by Aoife Barry; Are You Single by Patrick Hull; Sorolla, Master of Light by Sharon Hogan; Me and Samuel Beckett by Tim Carey; And Crossing the Border by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne

This is the first of two programmes from the Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival recorded last weekend. The scripts were Auntie Gretta by Olive Travers; Planning Permission for a Bee Hotel by Monica Corish; Bog and The Bees Leave Swanns, two poems by Winifred McNulty; Punk Pension Plan by Little John Nee; and My Séamus Heaney Story by Denise Blake

Who's the new Phil Hogan in charge of European Agriculture? It's a long way from Tipperary to Jordan & Brenda Donohue meets an inspiring & enterprising Limerick lady & 50 years of Sunday Miscellany.

Lorna Siggins reports from a recent conference Women in Marine, where professionals from all marine sectors shared their expereiences. Poet John F Deane reads his contribution, entitled The Sea, The Sea, to Miscellany 50, of the RTE Radio 1 prog Sunday Miscellany. Hugh Oram has a column on Bullock Harbour, now mired in planning controversies.

This week's programme was recorded live at the Civic Theatre Tallaght as part of last autumn’s Red Line Book Festival. The scripts are: Books, My Ma, and Me, by Frankie Gaffney; King Coil Heaven by Eileen Casey; Nan by Rosaleen McDonagh, read by Kathleen Lawrence; Once Upon A Time In Pretoria by Chris McHallem; and My Son Reads! by Conall Hamill

On this morning’s programme, we heard: Did You Wait for the Gong by Geraldine Mitchell; Hamlet in Ireland by Jonathan White; The Rescuers by Mary O’Malley; Art, Bauhaus and the 2CV, by Frank Kavanagh And The Minaun Cliffs by John F Deane

On today's programme: The Boat Boy by John MacKenna; Fact and Fiction in Brontë Weddings by Maebh O’Regan; 33 Revolutions Per Minute by Chris McHallem; Timothy West and Sir Thomas Beecham’s Boxer Shorts by Emer O’Kelly;and The Past is a Foreign Country by Cyril Kelly

On this morning’s programme we heard: The Tribes of These Islands by Grace Wells; A Long Drawn Out Dream by John Egan; A Day in September by Nollaig Rowan; My Pre-University, University Challenge, by Jennifer Carey; Selfies, a poem by Gerald Dawe; And Bogland, Horseback Brown by John F Deane

Domhnall Ó Dubhda, Niall Tóibín agus Liam MacReachtainn le cainteanna a rinne siad don chlár Sunday Miscellany ar RTE Radio 1.

In our latest episode our old chum Fabian stops by to chat SPECTRE, Christmas, Sunday Miscellany in the National Concert Hall and London Tennis Legends.