Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968. More
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River Walks and Lazy Sundays
Gentle strolls and the morning commute, the Mendelssohns and the Wyse Powers, and a dark day in Dublin and Monaghan, with Katrina Bruna, Daniel Mulhall, Kate Carty, Kevin McDermott and Lorna Siggins
21/5/2023
31:44
Trains, telephones and tender love
Telephone conversations, travel woes, dashed dreams and devoted love, with Nicole Flattery, Conall Hamill, Rory Gleeson, Barbara Scully, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and John F Deane
14/5/2023
34:10
Royalty and Riverkeeping
Birds, bees, the Boyne, the Shannon, and keeping faith with The Boss, with Vincent Kenny, Cathal Ó Gallchóir, Kerry Neville, Grace Wells, Kevin Connolly and Elma Walsh
7/5/2023
34:50
Royal Visits and Tupperware Wars
The glory days of advertising, a fjord in Mayo and a maypole in Finglas, with Liz Houchin, Pat Dunne, Phlip Judge, Dermot Bolger, Rachael Hegarty, John F Deane and Catherine Foley.
30/4/2023
31:21
Sleepless Nights and Shakespeare’s Birthday
A border centenary, Venice in Shakespeare’s day, outsiders, memory and forgetting, with Peter Trant, Elizabeth Oxley, Pauline Kelly, Tim Carey, Elizabeth Power and Vincent Woods
