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RTÉ Radio 1 announces changes to evening schedule
RTÉ Radio 1 today (4 July) announced changes to its evening schedule which will be introduced in autumn this year.
At 8pm there will be a new hour-long arts programme which will be presented by renowned poet and playwright Vincent Woods. A new weekly theatre programme is being devised around arts presenter Páraic Breathnach.
RTÉ Radio 1’s Features will move to 10pm and will continue to broadcast high quality dramas, documentaries and features.
At 11pm the station will broadcast a new programme focussing on politics and current affairs.
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Date: 4 July 2007
For further information please contact:
Sarah Martin, Senior Press Officer, RTÉ Radio 1, Tel: 01 208 2312 / 087 750 1850, Email: sarah.martin@rte.ie
Note to Editor:
RTÉ Radio 1 New Evening Schedule
7pm The Dave Fanning Show
8pm New Arts Show
9pm RTÉ Radio 1 Music Collection
10pm Features, Arts and Documentaries
11pm New politics and current affairs programme
About Vincent Woods
Poet and playwright Vincent Woods was born in Co. Leitrim in 1960 and having lived in the United States, New Zealand and Australia has come full circle and moved back to his roots. Woods worked as a journalist with RTÉ until 1989, when he began writing full-time, he also spent a period as Mayo County Council’s Writer-In-Residence. In recent years he has been a guest presenter on the arts programmes Rattlebag and The Eleventh Hour. He has won several awards, including The Stewart Parker Award for Drama, the PJ O’Connor Award for Radio Drama, and the M.J. McManus Award for Poetry. His plays include John Hughdy/Tom John, At the Black Pig’s Dyke, Song of the Yellow Bittern, Fontamara, and for radio, The Leitrim Hotel. His poetry collections include The Colour of Language. Woods is a member of Aosdána.