RTÉ RADIO 1 HIGHLIGHTS
WEEK 20
Saturday 12 May – 18 May 2007
Special: Eurovision Song Contest
SATURDAY SPORT with John Kenny
Racing: Downpatrick
Soccer: English Premiership
Golf: Irish Amateur Open
Producer: Gabriel Egan
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 12 May, FM & LW 252, 2.01pm
TCH ALL-IRELAND SCHOOLS QUIZ
This evening the last of the quarter finals of the general knowledge schools quiz. Quizmaster and producer, Alf McCarthy.
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 12 May, 6.05pm
OFF THE SHELF
Writing Lough Derg: From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney by Peggy O’Brien is the book on ‘Off the Shelf’ this week.
Discussing the book with Andy O’Mahony will be Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Brian Cosgrove, and Mark Patrick Hederman OSB.
Linked with the supernatural from pagan times, Lough Derg had by the early twentieth century become an icon of the fusion of the Catholic Church and the Irish nation. Surveying literary treatments of Lough Derg from William Carleton through Denis Devlin, Patrick Kavanagh, and ultimately Seamus Heaney, Peggy O’Brien addresses the role of spirituality in an increasingly cosmopolitan, post modern, post Catholic Ireland. O’Brien’s extended consideration of Heaney culminates in an insightful juxtaposition with Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet who also struggled with the conflation of Catholicism and patriotism.
Presenter: Andy O’Mahony Producer: Bernadette Comerford
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 12 May, 6.30pm
SCRIBHNEOIRI FAOI CHABIDIL
In a series of Scríbhneoirí Faoi Chaibidil, Alan Titley leads a lively discussion on a major Irish language writer’s life, work and importance. Contemporary poets, twentieth century dramatists, novelists and short story writers all come under scrutiny and the panel explains why their work remains relevant today. The series also considers some of the most important developments in the major genres of Irish language literature
Part 7: Mairéad Ní Ghráda
Producer: Cathal Poirteir
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 12 May, 7.30pm
EUROVISON SONG CONTEST *Special*
Live from the Hartwell Arena, Helsinki, the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest. Ireland’s entry is, They Can’t Stop the Spring co-written by John Waters and Tommy Moran.
Introduced for RTÉ Radio by Larry Gogan Producer: Lucia Proctor
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 12 May, 8.00pm
WHAT IF
A series that asks the question; what if at a particular moment in history events had gone another way would subsequent history have been different?
Presenter: Diarmaid Ferriter
Producer: Peter Mooney
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 13 May, 10.30am
SUNDAY SPORT with Jimmy Magee
G.A.A: Bank of Ireland Football Championship:
Cavan v Down and Longford v Westmeath
Guinness All Ireland Hurling Championship:
Armagh v Derry and Antrim v London
Golf: Irish Amateur Open Championship
Racing: Leopardstown & Killarney
Cricket: Ireland v Essex
Producer: Gabriel Egan
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 13 May, FM & LW 252, 2.00pm
SPIRIT MOVES
At some point in our lives, we may be faced with a moral predicament, a perceived injustice, an ethical dilemma or we may simply wonder what we’re doing here at all.
Spirit Moves is a topical discussion programme which explores ethical issues that arise from current news events. Presenter, Susan McReynolds and guests also explore questions of life and death that affect us all.
Producer: Yetti Redmond
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 13 May, 6.05pm
THE LATE SESSION
Broadcast every Sunday night, The Late Session is essential listening for anyone interested in traditional Irish music. Regular features include information on new CD releases, interviews with musicians and singers, news about events and other items of interest to the music community. But the most important element of The Late Session is, of course, the music itself. With a mix of old and new commercial releases, archive recordings and live performances, The Late Session is a true reflection of the world of Irish music today.
Presenter: Aine Hensey Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 13 May, 10.02pm
LIVELINE presented by Joe Duffy
Páraic Breathnach stands in for Joe Duffy on Monday, 12 March.
With 333,000 listeners, Liveline continues to go from strength to strength tackling and debating the issues that you want to talk about
Do you have an issue you want to talk about?
Call Joe on 1850 715 815
Northern Ireland Freefone: 0800 624 616
Email : joe@rte.ie / liveline@rte.ie
Producer: Margaret Curley
RTÉ Radio 1, Mon– Fri, 1.45pm
THE RTÉ RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION – In Concert Celtic Woman (Part 2)
Hailed as an Irish phenomenon in America, the group has sold out huge venues across the globe. Singers Chloe Agnew, Orla Fallon, Lisa Kelly and Deirdre Shannon with All Ireland fiddle champion Mairead Nesbitt gave their debut Irish appearance at The Point on 18th February 2006.
Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 14 May, 9.02pm
BOOK ON ONE: House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore
This book is the story of Eeva, a young girl who emerges from an orphanage just as her country, Finland, is about to have it is freedom taken away. The year is 1902 and the Russian Empire is about to enforce a brutal policy to destroy Finland.
It’s not all about war, though, as Eeva has to have her wits about her in her relationship with her new employer…a recently bereaved doctor who is besotted with her.
Set in dangerous, unfamiliar times which strangely echo our own, the story reveals how personal growth and patriotism can sometimes go hand in hand.
Producer: Aidan Stanley
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 14 May – Friday 18 May, 11.45pm
DRIVETIME WITH DAVE
Well, he’s centre stage again – the boy wonder of 60s pop morphs into this year’s OJ Simpson. Legendary record producer Phil Spector was the man who lovingly crafted timeless classics like River Deep, Mountain High, You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’, and The Long And Winding Road. But he had his little ways, as ex-wife Ronnie Spector, Leonard Cohen, The Ramones and more, explain to Dave Fanning. The road to celebrity trials is paved with odd behaviour!
Producer: Jim Lockhart
RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday 15 May, 7.00pm
CAST A LONG SHADOW
Cast A Long Shadow looks at the lives of well-know Irish folk by those with a unique insight – their children. This week the life of Anglo-Irish writer Christabel Bielenberg is examined by her son, Nicholas. She fell in love and married a German lawyer in 1932 and lived in Berlin from that time, watching the country become engulfed and finally destroyed by Nazism. Her story of the family’s time in Germany and its eventual move to Ireland after the war was written about in her best-selling memoir, The Past Is Myself and its follow up, The Road Ahead.
Presenter/producer: Sian O’Gorman
RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday 15 May, 8.30pm
DOCUMENTARY ON ONE; Ninety miles from Dublin
The recent historic handshake between Ian Paisley and Bertie Ahern signalled the end of an era. As the dust settles, with Sinn Fein now in Government in the North and potentially in the South, perhaps it is time to look at the motivations behind what drove men and women into an armed struggle.
This documentary through one individual and his wife deals with the start of the troubles in 1969, the burning out of Catholic families and the large influx of refugees over the border as a result. It challenges listeners down South as to whether or not the Government indeed did “stand idly by” and where that metaphorical border lies between a victim and an aggressor, defenders of the community and terrorists. Raised in a apolitical family with a father and grandfather in the British army Liam Cassidy believes that “life sent him” in the direction of physical force Republicanism and that the peace that we have today could not have been achieved without the IRA.
The program contrast the vast differences between life South and North of the border and follows Liam and his family on a journey through the troubles from Belfast to Dundalk and back again to where they finally settled with many other so called “displaced people”, in Dundalk Co. Louth.
Producer: Ann Marie Power
RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday 16 May, 8.02pm
THE FRANCIS MACMANUS SHORT STORY COMPETITION – 3rd Prize
Dubliner Gavin Corbett received third prize for his story ‘For Scrap’. ‘For Scrap’ tells the story of a group of men driving up from the country to Dublin with a van load of scrap to sell. With flawless rhythm and narrative control, the author creates a totally believable world of male bonding, friction and ultimately, survival.
Gavin Corbett’s first novel ‘Innocence’ was published by Town House/Simon & Schuster in 2003. One critic described it as among the finest Irish fiction debuts in years. ‘Innocence’ is a fresh and compelling story of a young man’s struggle to come of age in exceptional circumstances; a first fiction which another reviewer intriguingly described as “fresh and pacy and not for the faint-hearted!” In the past Gavin has contributed to such RTÉ Radio 1 programmes as Sunday Miscellany, Fiction Fifteen and The Living Word. Gavin works as a sub-editor and television critic with The Sunday Tribune.
Producer: Seamus Hosey
RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday 16 May, 8.45pm
ASCENSION DAY COMPLINE
Sung by the men of the Choir of Saint Bartholomew’s, Clyde Road, Dublin
RTÉ Radio 1, MW & LW 252, Thursday 17 May, 8.02pm
FRIDAY SPORTSNIGHT
Soccer: Eircom League Round 10
Rugby: Magners League
Presenter: Con Murphy
RTÉ Radio 1, Friday 18 May, MW & LW 252, 7.00pm
THE RTÉ RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION – SHADES OF RAY
Ray Lynam, from the RTÉ Athlone studio, presents his choice of music for a Friday night. Ray was born in Moate, Co. Westmeath and is a successful country singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. One of the most distinctive ‘real’ country singers to emerge from the Irish club and show band scene; he started out in the ’60s singing covers of Rolling Stones’ hits when he was lead singer with his first band, The Merrymen, while still attending the local Carmelite College Secondary School in Moate…..but then in 1969 he joined the Hillbillies singing modern country and made Irish charts with “Sweet Rosie Jones’. With Philomena Begley a successful duet team, appearing regularly at Wembley both solo and duo. Albums include. We Go Together Again ’84 on Sonus, Country Stars ’84 on Homespun, Simply Divine ’85 on Ritz, all with Begley; his solos incl. Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile ’86, Back In Love By Monday ’88 and Very Best ’91 on Ritz. Ray Lynam is hugely well-regarded, and many experienced critics are of the view that he is the finest (and purest), real country singer ever to come out of Ireland.
Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Friday 18 May, 9.02pm
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