RTÉ RADIO 1 HIGHLIGHTS
WEEK 48
Saturday 24 November – Friday 30 November
Highlights: Book on One: The Gathering by Anne Enright
Documentary on One: Dudley Kane: Darach O Cathain is here in Leeds
The Radio 1 Music Collection – in concert: Japan Meets Ireland
Documentary on One: Mytunes
The Radio 1 Music Collection: The Irish Experience
SATURDAY SPORT with John Kenny
Soccer: English and Scottish Premier Leagues
Golf: World Cup Mission Hills
Racing: Gowran Park
Producer: Andrew O’Connor
RTÉ Radio 1, FM & LW 252, Saturday 24 November, 2.01pm
OFF THE SHELF: MICHAEL FOOT: A LIFE by Kenneth Morgan
Michael D. Higgins discusses Kenneth Morgan’s biography of Michael Foot, the former British Labour Party leader, now in his nineties, who is also an eminent man of letters. Michael Foot has been a controversial and charismatic figure in British public life, political and literary, for over sixty years. He was Labour leader for two-and-a-half-years between 1980 and 1983. His political friendships with people like Beaverbrook, Cripps, Aneurin Bevan and Barbara Castle were passionate and profound, but he also had a remarkable and quite different career as a man of letters, with Dean Swift, Tom Paine, Hazlitt, Byron, Wordsworth, Heine, Wells and Silone amongst his heroes.
Presenter: Andy O’ Mahony Producer: Bernadette Comerford
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 24 November, 7.02pm
BUILLE FAOI THUAIRM
Clubs from around the country take part in a knock-out general knowledge quiz, as Gaeilge, with prizes for the teams and for the listeners.
The series is broadcast in association with Gael-Linn.
Léiritheoir: Cathal Póirtéir
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 24 November, 7.30pm
CEILI HOUSE
Tonight’s programme features the Scoil Eigse teacher’s concert from Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann. Many of the country’s leading musicians and singers gather annually at the Fleadh to teach upcoming performers at Scoil Eigse, at the end of which the teachers perform for the pupils.
Presenter: Kieran Hanrahan Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 24 November, 9.02pm
COUNTRY TIME
Tonight’s show presents Country Duets.
Presenter: Sandy Harsh Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 24 November, 11.10pm
THE BUSINESS
A weekly look at the world of business and personal finance presented by John Murray. Winner of ‘Business Broadcast’ at the recent UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards
Producer: Ian Wilson
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 25 November, 10.02am
JUDGING DEV
A series that re-evaluates De Valera and his legacy from a 21st century perspective.
Programme 5: Entitled Elder Statesman, the fourth green field examines the failure to re-unite Ireland followed by the bleak 1950’s and emigration and De Valera replacement by Seán Lemass
Presenter: Diarmaid Ferriter Producer: Peter Mooney
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 25 November, 10.30am
SUNDAY SPORT with Adrian Eames
Golf: World Mission Hills Day 4
G.A.A: Club Championships
Racing: Navan
Producer: Gabriel Egan
RTÉ Radio 1, FM & LW 252, Sunday 25 November, 2.00pm
SPIRIT MOVES
Topical discussion of ethical issues hosted by Susan McReynolds.
Producer: Yetti Redmond
RTÉ Radio 1, FM & LW 252, Sunday 25 November, 6.05pm
*Highlight*
DOCUMENTARY ON ONE: Dudley Kane: Darach O Cathain is here in Leeds
In 1963 the Sean Nós singer Darach O Cathain emigrated to Leeds with his wife and family. This programme follows their journey.
“When you’ve music in you, you’re hearing music always.” Darach O Cathain
Darach OCathain was born in Maimin, Lettermore, Connemara seventh in a family of twelve children, in 1922. In 1935 his family moved to new government created Gaeltacht of Rath Cairn, Co. Meath. His love of singing and many of his songs were learned from his mother. By the late 1950s he was established as one of the finest Sean Nós singers in the country. In the early 60s Sean O Riada had begun to broadcast a series of radio programmes, Reacaireacht an Riadaigh, on RTÉ Radio 1. These programmes were to transform the traditional music. Darach O Cathain was the singer in those programmes. In 1962 a commercial recording was issued. Out of all of this came Ceoltoiri Cualann and eventually The Chieftans. But – in the meantime – Darach disappeared.
Darach fell in love and married when he was 19. While he was performing with O Riada he was also working as a labourer on the building sites of London and the north of England. By 1963 he’d become convinced his family’s future was in Leeds. In that year his wife, Brid, sold the family home and moved to Yorkshire. In the intervening years Darach released another recording, Traditional Irish Unaccompanied Singing” (1975). It cemented his reputation as a singer. Indeed, for many it established him as the greatest of the Sean Nós singers. Darach O Cathain became an iconic figure within the Irish Music tradition.
But O Cathain was never wholly Darach O Cathain, he was also Dudley Kane, the name by which he was known to his family and friends. Darach O Cathain was a stage name, the name O Riada gave him. When The Kane family sold their family home and moved to Leeds they were beginning an experiment that would not prove a total success. The Kanes are still in Leeds.
Dudley Kane – Darach O’Cathain – is here in Leeds follows that journey through the eyes of three of Darach’s seven children and their mother, Brid. When the family made that journey the eldest daughter, Barbara, was 16 and already in Boston. She was later to rejoin her family. Bridie (15) and Monica (9) recall their early days in Leeds, their sense of dislocation – at loss in a language they had little knowledge of and the love they had for their father and his musical inheritance.
This programme was recorded earlier this year in Yorkshire.
Presented by the renowned singer Mary McPartlan
Producer: Peter Woods.
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 25 November, 7.02pm
THE CURIOUS EAR: World Draughts Championships
Ronan Kelly visits the 2007 World Draughts Championships in Buncrana, Co. Donegal. At the championships there are Masters from Barbados, Turkmenistan, USA and Carlow.
Presenter and producer: Ronan Kelly
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 25 November, 7.45pm
THE ARTS SHOW
A daily magazine programme focusing on all things cultural.
On Monday The Arts Show looks at An Táin, Ciaran Carson talks about new translation of the great Irish mythic story plus Sean Rocks continues his series on The Concerto – part 4.
Presenter: Vincent Woods
Producer: Sian O’Gorman, Aoife Nic Cormaic, Kevin Brew
Email: the artsshow@rte.ie
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 – Friday 30 November, 8.02pm
*Highlight*
THE RADIO MUSIC COLLECTION – IN CONCERT – JAPAN MEETS IRELAND
A coming together of Irish and Japanese music with an international flavour featuring John Williams (concertina and accordion), Dean McGraw (guitar) and Masahiro Nitta (shamisen) in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Japan.
Presented by the Japan Foundation in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan.
Recorded at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 14th June 2007.
Sound recording: Paddy McBreen
Produced for RTÉ Radio 1 by Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 November, 9.02pm
THE GREEN LIGHT
This nine part series explores what small steps we can take to help reduce our impact on the environment. Everything from conserving seasonal food to cleaning without chemicals, keeping poultry in the garden and foraging for your own food for free. Ella McSweeney goes out and about around Ireland to meet some inspiring people who are already making a change for the better.
Producer: Liz Sweeney
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 November, 10.02pm
SEASCAPES: WHAT IS UNDER THE SURFACE?
On this week’s Seascapes, the Marine Institute, the State body responsible for research at sea, outlines what has been found in recent surveys of the seabed of the South Coast and along Galway Bay. Irish waters have previously unknown underwater caves and caverns, fish species and even coral. There is an exciting world under the sea, only part of which has yet been discovered and Ireland has resources which were not previously known about.
Seascapes are presented by RTÉ’s Marine Correspondent, Tom MacSweeney.
Producer: Marcus Connaughton
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 November, 10.30pm
THE LATE DEBATE
Debate and discussion on current activities in the City and County Councils.
Presenter: Joe Mag Raollaigh Producer: Donna O’Sullivan
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 November, 11.00pm
*Hightlight*
BOOK ON ONE: THE GATHERING by Anne Enright
The Gathering by Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize this year and it has catapulted her into the top echelon of writers worldwide. The story revolves around a Dublin housewife who goes to Brighton to bring her brother’s body back home. He had committed suicide. The tone of the book can be bleak at times but The Gathering is a family epic; as the nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather for the wake of their wayward brother, Anne Enright’s unblinking eye condenses and clarifies how each of the siblings live their lives.
The reader is Martina Carroll; she has already read an Anne Enright novel for the Book on One: The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch was first broadcast in January 2005 with Niall Toibin as the co- reader.
Producer: Aidan Stanley.
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 – Friday 30 November, 11.45pm
THE ARTS SHOW
On Tuesday,author Jennifer Johnston will be discussed in the fourth part of our Irish Voices series plus celebrating ten years of the Irish Traditional Music programme Come West Along the Road.
Presenter: Vincent Woods
Producer: Sian O’Gorman, Aoife Nic Cormaic, Kevin Brew
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 – Friday 30 November 8.02pm
THE RADIO ONE MUSIC COLLECTION- ROOTS FREEWAY
Niall Toner presents the best of roots country music, bluegrass, country rock, western swing, Cajun and hardcore mountain music
Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday 27 November, 9.02pm
WORLDS APART
RTÉ Radio 1’s annual series on the developing world
Programme 8: Human Rights- Defending the Defenders
Irish NGO Front Line hosts its annual Human Rights Platform in Dublin. Worlds Apart meets some from various continents who have chosen to defend the rights of their fellow citizens.
Presenter and producer: Rodney Rice
RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday 27 November, 10.02pm
THE LATE DEBATE
A review of today’s proceedings in the Oireachtas
Presenter: Rachael English Producer: Ian Lee
RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday 27 November, 11.00pm
THE ARTS SHOW
On Wednesday, American author Alice Sebold will speak about her new book The Almost Moon.
Presenter: Vincent Woods
Producer: Sian O’Gorman, Aoife Nic Cormaic, Kevin Brew
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 – Friday 30 November 8.02pm
THE RADIO ONE MUSIC COLLECTION- THE ROLLING WAVE
A sharp ear and a close eye on the world of traditional and folk music Ireland. Presented and produced by Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday 28 November, 9.02pm
DOCUMENTARY ON ONE: Dudley Kane: Darach O Cathain is here in Leeds
In 1963 the Sean Nós singer Darach O Cathain emigrated to Leeds with his wife and family. This programme follows their journey.
Presented by the renowned singer Mary McPartlan
Producer: Peter Woods.
RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday 28 November, 10.02pm
(First Broadcast on Sunday 25 November 7.02pm)
THE ARTS SHOW
Thursday on The Arts Show will feature Julia Kelly’s first novel With My Lazy Eye plus celebration of forty years of Oriel Gallery
Presenter: Vincent Woods
Producer: Sian O’Gorman, Aoife Nic Cormaic, Kevin Brew
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 – Friday 30 November 8.02pm
*Highlight*
THE RADIO ONE MUSIC COLLECTION – MYTUNES
This new four-part series will focus on four Irish singer songwriters all in the mid 20’s to early 30’s.
Programme 1 will feature Mick Flannery.
In recent years Ireland has cultivated a new crop of singer songwriters. At this stage, the Irish singer/songwriter is nearly a musical genre in itself. However, we rarely get an insight into how these singer/songwriters go about their trade. How do they construct their songs? Where do they get their stories and songs? What is their musical thought? And, what makes them musical beings?
Mytunes will attempt to answer these questions as we wander through the musical thought of four of Ireland’s music makers.
Producer: Liam O’Brien
RTÉ Radio 1, Thursday 29 November, 9.02pm
THE ARTS SHOW
Friday’s The Arts Show Selection – highlights of the week’s programmes.
Presenter: Vincent Woods
Producer: Sian O’Gorman, Aoife Nic Cormaic, Kevin Brew
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 26 – Friday 30 November 8.02pm
CARDINAL OF VIRTUE
Members of newly elevated Cardinal Seán Brady’s family and friends talk about his life and work
Presented and produced by Gerry McArdle
RTÉ Radio 1, FM, LW 252 & D.A.B, Thursday 29 November, 7.30pm
CARDINAL SEÁN BRADY’S HOMECOMING MASS
Celebrant and Preacher: His Eminence, Cardinal Seán Brady, D.C.L.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir and the Choir of St. Paul’s High School, Bessbrook with director and organist: Colm Murphy
RTÉ Radio 1, FM, LW 252 & D.A.B, Thursday 29 November, 8.00pm
THEATRE IN THE ROUND
A weekly magazine programme looking at all aspects of theatre, both Irish and international.
Presenter: Paraic Breathnach Producer: Aonghus McAnnally
RTÉ Radio 1, Thursday 29 November, 10.02pm
THE TUBRIDY SHOW
It’s the last Friday of the month, so Ryan Tubridy and his guests discuss the Book Club choice for November – The Collector by John Fowles. John Fowles was an English writer, who had his greatest success with The French Lieutenant’s Woman, later made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. His first book, The Collector, is a fascinating exploration of the relationship between an abductor, Frederick, and his victim, Miranda. Ryan and the panel discuss The Collector, while one lucky listener wins a prize for the best review of the book.
Email: tts@rte.ie
Producer: Tom Donnelly/Eileen Heron
RTÉ Radio 1, Friday 30 November, 9.00am
JOHN KELLY IN PUBLIC
Award winning actress and activist Vanessa Redgrave talks to John Kelly
Producer: Kevin Reynolds
RTÉ Radio 1, Friday 30 November, 12.01pm
*Highlight*
THE RADIO ONE MUSIC COLLECTION – THE IRISH EXPERIENCE IN LUTON
A four part series in which Paschal Mooney visits some of the Irish people in Britain.
The first of RTÉ Radio’s award winning radio programme is hosted by Paschal Mooney and was recorded before a live audience in the Kathleen Connolly Centre in Luton on Thursday 15 November. Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Friday 30 November, 9.02pm
THOMAS DAVIS LECTURES: SERVING THE STATE
RTÉ Radio 1, in association with the Institution of Public Administration, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the distinguished Irish national centre for the development of excellence in public administration and public management.
Lecture six of the series, Towards 2016: Challenging facing the Public Service is presented by Dermot McCarthy, Secretary General to the Government and Department of the Taoiseach.
Producer: Seamus Hosey
RTÉ Radio 1, Friday 30 November, 10.30pm
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