RTÉ RADIO 1 HIGHLIGHTS
WEEK 31
Saturday 26 July – Friday 1 August
Highlights:
Documentary On One: Harmony Heights
RTÉ Radio 1 Music Collection – In Concert – Los Lobos
PJ O’Connor Awards 2008: Will You Swap Knees With Me? by John McManus
Dialogue: Lisa Appignanesi – Mad, Bad and Sad
New Series:
Seascapes – Spike Island
MCGURK AND COMPANY
Tom McGurk in conversation with distinguished Irish people who look back reflectively on their lives. This week’s guest is Bernadette McAliskey Devlin, political activist and civil rights campaigner.
Presenter: Tom McGurk
Producer: Seamus Hosey
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 26 July, 9.10am
(First Broadcast 24 April 2008)
SATURDAY SPORT with John Kenny
An extended programme to include commentary from the second round of the G.A.A. All-Ireland Championship Qualifiers.
Soccer: Review of last night’s Eircom League action
Golf: TPC of Europe Day 3
G.A.A: The Championship with Brian Carthy
Producers: Andrew O’Connor & John Farrell
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 26 July, 2.01pm
CEILI HOUSE
St. Flannan’s College in Ennis has a proud history in sport and music. Tonight we get a second chance to hear the programme, recorded there earlier this year. There’s music and song from today’s pupils and from some of the teaching staff and past pupils.
Presenter: Kieran Hanrahan
Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 26 July, 9.02pm
(First Broadcast 22 March 2008)
MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL
This series looks at topics about which so much is written, that people don’t know what to believe and what not to believe. The programme will distinguish between what is fact and debunking what is counter knowledge and misinformation presented as fact.
Presented by Padraic Dempsey of the Royal Irish Academy
Producer: Peter Mooney
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 27 July, 10.30am
SUNDAY SPORT with Jimmy Magee
G.A.A: All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Quarter-Finals
Racing: The Curragh
Golf: TPC of Europe Day 4
Producer: Gary Moran
RTÉ Radio 1, FM & LW 252, Sunday 27 July, 2.00pm
TAKE YOUR POINT
Reaction to this afternoon’s Gaelic games action.
‘Phone 1850 715 150
Text: 51551
Presenter: Con Murphy
Producer: Robbie Irwin
RTÉ Radio 1, FM & LW 252, Sunday 27 July, 6.05pm
*Highlight*
DOCUMENTARY ON ONE: HARMONY HEIGHTS
On 2 July 2004, the body of 14 year old Jamie Farrelly-Maughan was discovered behind a disused house in Harmony Heights – a housing estate in Cavan Town. She had lain there for six days.
The details of her final hours and what occurred are unknown. The coroner ruled that the first year secondary school student had a lethal amount of ecstasy in her system. There was evidence that somebody had sexual activities with the girl the night she died. The coroner stated her body had been dumped and that she had not died where she was found.
The only charges arising out of the death of Jamie Farrelly Maughan was a two year sentence for statutory rape of a girl under seventeen. Weldo Froidas Cavalcante – a twenty three year old Brazilian meat packer served eighteen months of his sentence before being released.
After his release – Gardai were in possession of Cavalacante’s passport and he was legally obliged to attend an inquest into the 14 year old’s death but with the aide of the Brazilian embassy he left the country.
‘Documentary on One’ travels from Cavan Town to Cassalinda a small town in the centre of Brazil – meeting the family and friends of Jamie Farrelly Maughan and attempting to track down Weldo Cavalcante to find out what happened that June night in Harmony Heights.
Compiled and presented by Ciaran Cassidy
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 27 July, 7.02pm
(First Broadcast 11 April 2007)
RTÉ RADIO 1 SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2008 IN MEMORY OF FRANCIS MACMANUS
This evening’s story is entitled Drowning by Ruth McKee from a selection of short listed entries to this year’s competition.
Producer: Seamus Hosey
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 27 July, 7.45pm
*Highlight*
SUNDAY PLAYHOUSE:
PJ O’ CONNOR AWARDS 2008: WILL YOU SWAP KNEES WITH ME? By John McManus
The judges awarded a shared third-prize to ‘Will You Swap Knees With Me?’ by John McManus, an affectionate account of shrewdness and the male sodality in a disarming rural dialect, which can be heard on Sunday 27th July 2008.
Starring Mikel Murfi, Eamonn Hunt, Mark O’Regan, Aaron Monaghan and Maria McDermott Roe, the play is directed by Eithne Hand.
STAGECRAFT
A four part series in which we hear the voices of theatre designers, directors and producers who create the world that a play inhabits.
No. 4: Production – there’s no business like show business like no business.
Producer: Cathryn Brennan
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 27 July, 8.02pm
JOE JACKSON’S VINYL RECORD STORE
At a time when record stores are closing down due to the popularity of downloading music from the internet Joe Jackson tries to offset that trend by opening on air a virtual vinyl outlet.
Programme 3: In what he calls a Battle of the Giants Joe Jackson plays deleted LP tracks from three of the top male vocalists in Britain during the mid 60s, PJ Proby, Tom Jones and Scott Walker and asks listeners to choose their favourite singer of the three. Songs include “Some Enchanted Evening” and “Johanna”.
Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 27 July, 11.12pm
*Highlight*
RTÉ RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION – IN CONCERT – LOS LOBOS
Los Lobos were one of America’s most distinctive and original bands of the 80s. They may have had a hit with “La Bamba” in 1987, yet that cover barely scratches the surface of their talents. Los Lobos are eclectic in the best sense of the word. While they draw equally from rock, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music, their music never sounds forced or self-conscious. Instead, all of their influences become one graceful, gritty sound. From their very first recordings, their rich musicality was apparent; on nearly every subsequent record, they have found ways to redefine and expand their sound, without ever straying from the musical traditions that form the heart and soul of the band.
Recorded by NLNPO – The Netherlands Radio as part of its Rhythm and Blues Night in February 2008.
Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 28 July, 9.02pm
THOMAS DAVIS LECTURES – CHINA AND THE IRISH: DIFFERENT PEOPLE, SIMILAR DREAMS
A series of lectures by experts celebrating various aspects of Ireland – China relations over the centuries, opening windows of wonder into unexplored worlds.
Programme 8: Oscar Wilde’s Chinese Sage by the consulting editor of the series, Dr. Jerusha McCormack, Visiting Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Producer: Seamus Hosey
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 28 July, 10.02pm
*New*
SEASCAPES – SERIES ON SPIKE ISLAND
There are several islands within the boundaries of Cork Harbour. Cobh, legendary in Irish history and once known as Queenstown looks across at Haulbowline Island, the present Irish Naval Service Base and once that of the British Navy. During which time it was said there were so many ships anchored off Cobh that “a man could walk across the ships from Cobh to Haulbowline.” Alongside it is an island that has been a place of tragedy and invasion – Spike Island, which is the subject of a three-part series that begins on Seascapes this week.
For fourteen centuries Spike Island has been recorded as part of Irish history. It bore witness to the Vikings arriving. It has been a fortress island, a sanctuary, a place of learning, an island paradise and a living hell for prisoners, incarcerated there before being transported out of Ireland for ever. Later it was an Irish military base and a State prison.
“Spike Island is a repository of Irish heritage, a place reflecting many aspects of Ireland’s history. The best of it and the worst of it, the gifted, the Holy, the cruel, the inhuman,” says Michael Martin, historian and tourist guide in Cobh, who will present the series starting on Monday night, July 28, on Seascapes, the Maritime Programme on RTE Radio 1.
Presenter: Tom MacSweeney
Producer: Marcus Connaughton
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 28 July, 10.30pm
THE RADIO 1 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 29 July, 9.02pm
*Highlight*
DIALOGUE
Lisa Appignanesi’s book ‘Mad, Bad and Sad’ takes us on a fascinating journey through the fragile, extraordinary human mind.
This week Andy O’Mahony talks to her about the way we have understood extreme states of mind over the last two hundred years and how we conceive of them today. At a time when more and more of our inner life and emotions have become a matter for medics and therapists. She traces the way women have been treated from Freud and Jung to Lacan and the new women-centred therapies. She also talks about the professions that have grown up to offer treatment, of how over the years symptoms and diagnoses have developed together to create fashions in illness.
Presenter: Andy O’Mahony
Producer: Bernadette Comerford
RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday 29 July, 10.30pm
RTÉ RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION- THE ROLLING WAVE – ÓMÓS – A Gig for Micheál Ó Domhnaill
Singer, musician, song collector and record producer Míchéal Ó Domhnaill died suddenly in July 2006. On the 24 May, 2007 many musicians, singers, friends and his family came together to remember him in a tribute concert in Vicar St. in Dublin.
Tonight we hear the final programme from that night, including a performance by former members of the famous Bothy Band of which Micheál was a founding member.
Sound recording: Leon O’Neill & David Meade
Mixing: Mark Dwyer
Presented & produced by: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday 30 July, 9.02pm
RTÉ RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION: MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE
Field recording of The Music of the People are explored in this series which will feature the work of well known folk music collectors such as Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy as well as the less well known Sidney Robertson Cowell and Diane Hamilton all of whom recorded in Ireland. Other countries featured will include Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, England and Scotland.
Presented and produced by Ian Lee
RTÉ Radio 1, Thursday 31 July, 9.02pm
FRIDAY SPORTSNIGHT
Soccer: Eircom League
Racing: Galway
Presenter: Gavin Jennings
Producer: John Farrell
RTÉ Radio 1, LW 252 & DAB, Friday 1 August, 7.00-10.00pm
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