RTÉ RADIO 1 HIGHLIGHTS
WEEK 40
Saturday 27 September – Friday 3 October 2008
Highlights:
Ceili House
Documentary on One: The Man In The Moon’s From Carrickmacross
The Radio 1 Music Collection – In Concert: No Crows
Sound Stories
New Series:
The Radio 1 Music Collection – Rebel Music: Reggae Story
The Irish Abroad
CONVERSATIONS WITH EAMON DUNPHY
High achievers from the worlds of arts, politics, business, science and sports talk to Eamon Dunphy about their lives, passions and the music which inspires them. On today’s programme Eamon’s guest is song writer and musician Phil Coulter.
Producer: Sarah Binchy
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 27 September, 9.10am
SATURDAY SPORT with John Kenny
Soccer: English and Scottish Premier Leagues pus a review of last nights Eircom League action.
Racing: Gowran Park
Golf: British Masters
G.A.A: The Championship with Brian Carthy
Producer: John Farrell
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 27 September, 2.01pm
OFF THE SHELF
This week’s book is The Monopoly of Violence: Why Europeans Hate Going to War by James J. Sheehan discussed by Brigid Laffan, Michael D. Higgins and Alan Dukes.
Presenter: Andy O’Mahony
Producer: Bernadette Comerford
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 27 September, 7.02pm
SOUTH WIND BLOWS
Philip King presents music, song and chat from the west Kerry Gaeltacht.
Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 27 September, 8.02pm
*Highlight*
CEILI HOUSE
Féile Frank McGann takes place in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon in October. Tonight’s programme previews this annual event and features a host of musicians, singers and dancers from the county.
Presenter: Kieran Hanrahan
Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 27 September, 9.02pm
COUNTRY TIME
Tonight Country Time celebrates Marty Robbins’ birthday – one of the most popular and talented singers in country.
Presenter: Sandy Harsch
Producer: Aiden Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 27 September, 11.10pm
SOUND STORIES
A seven-part series exploring our experience of sound, from the ever-rising tide of ambient sound in our streets to experiments in modern music.
Programme 4: Alternative Orchestra
Luke Clancy tunes in to a symphony of unconventional instruments: from the Thai Elephant Orchestra to the Car Horn Organ – a hybrid instrument developed by Wendy Mae Chambers to perform possibly the world’s most eccentric cover version of New York, New York.
Playwright Melissa Murray explains how the inventor of the theramin, Leon Theramin, gave lessons to Lenin on the instrument, and explains how the instrument was viewed as a symbol of the revolution. Drew Daniel of American electronic duo, Matmos, describes using the instrument to more eccentric ends, developing the world’s first snail-activated theramin. Philip King describes how Tom Waits makes use of buckets, bull-horns and even a barn door in his recordings. And we hear Japanese musician Cornelius employ a printer to musical ends in his piece, Toner.
Producer: Kevin Brew
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 28 September, 10.30am
(First broadcast 23 September 2008)
SUNDAY SPORT with Jimmy Magee
G.A.A.: TG4 Ladies All-Ireland Football Finals
Racing: The Curragh
Motorsport: Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix
Golf: British Masters
Soccer: English and Scottish Premier Leagues
Producer: Gabriel Egan
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 28 September, 2.00pm
TAKE YOUR POINT
Reaction to this afternoon’s Gaelic games action.
Phone 1850 715 150
Text: 51551
Presenter: Con Murphy
Producer: Daire Whelan
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 28 September, 6.05pm
*Highlight*
DOCUMENTARY ON ONE
THE MAN IN THE MOON’S FROM CARRICKMACROSS
Surely the ultimate epitaph is that your name might be carved upon the surface of the moon. The likelihood of this happening is remote and remoter still for a semi-educated farm labourer who left his native Carrickmacross by horse and cart in 1927. But this was the honour granted to Bernard Callan. His name was inscribed on a plaque left upon the Sea of Tranquillity by the departing Apollo astronauts in 1969. In this documentary, his nephew, Mickey Birdy explores this remarkable career and in the process uncovers that the small community of Corduff in County Monaghan produced more than its share of homespun genius.
Presenter: Joe Kearney
Producer: Peter Woods
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 28 September, 7.02pm
(First broadcast on 18 July 2007)
(Repeated on 1 October 2008)
RTÉ RADIO 1 SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2008
IN MEMORY OF FRANCIS MACMANUS
This evening’s story is entitled Waiting By the Lutetia by Mairide Woods from a selection of short listed entries to this year’s competition.
Producer: Gerry McArdle
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 28 September, 7.45pm
(Repeated on 1 October 2008)
SUNDAY PLAYHOUSE: MARRYING DAD by Gina Moxley
Tonight’s Sunday Playhouse features the last in a four part season of New Irish Writing. The drama of choice tonight is Marrying Dad by Gina Moxley.
Directed by Lynne Park
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 28 September, 8.02pm
THE LATE SESSION
Aine Hensey brings us her unique of traditional and folk music, reviews and interviews.
Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 28 September, 10.02pm
*Highlight*
THE RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION – IN CONCERT
Tonight’s concert was recorded live in studio 1 at the RTÉ Radio Centre on 19 September 2008 to celebrate Culture Night. The concert features, the Sligo quartet, No Crows who are an eclectic gathering of musicians from different cultures and influences. Steve Wickham, Anna Houston, Eddie Lee and Felip Carbonell met up initially for an informal weekly session in Shoot the Crows pub in Sligo in September 2005. Coming from very different musical backgrounds, they decided to mix their influences together and see what they could create. No Crows repertoire is truly global as their music ranges from Portugal to Moldova, from Brittany to Russia, from Venezuela to Greece and beyond. Always on the lookout for a good tune, the band borrows from the classical oeuvre as it does from jazz, trad, folk and world music.
Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 29 September, 9.02pm
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.
Programme 1: Superfoods
Presented by Padraic Dempsey of the Royal Irish Academy
Producer: Peter Mooney
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 29 September, 10.02pm
(First broadcast on 13 July 2008)
BOOK ON ONE
END OF THE RELATIONSHIP by Will Self
From the short story collection Grey Area by Will Self. The Reader is Hilary O’Shaughnessy.
Producer: Aidan Stanley
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 29 September, 11.45pm
(First broadcast on 11 February 2008)
(Further stories from the collection run every night until 3 October 2008)
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 30 September, 9.02pm
*Highlight*
SOUND STORIES
A seven-part series exploring our experience of sound, from the ever-rising tide of ambient sound in our streets to experiments in modern music.
Programme 5: Sounds You Can’t Hear
Sound recordist Chris Watson explores the outer ranges of sound – from the infrasonic rumbles of the African elephant to ultrasound generated by computer screens and the mysterious world of sounds we can’t hear. Chris tells the story of the late Vic Tandy, an engineer who theorised that all ghost “sightings” are illusions caused by the effects of low frequency sound on our senses of sight and hearing. In the show Chris also speeds up a selection of his recordings, such as those of the Blue Whale and a lightning strike, so as to render them within our range of hearing.
Presenter: Luke Clancy
Producer: Kevin Brew
RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday 30 September, 10.02pm
OUTSIDE THE BOX
A weekly radio magazine for and about people with disability.
As a person with an acquired disability herself, presenter Seònaid Dunne is able to give us an insight into a disability that we don’t usually see! Her humour has allowed her to overcome many barriers that she has faced since an accident in her home left her without both legs and her right hand.
Founder of Amputee Disability Federation Ireland (ADFI), she has been involved in promoting and advocating for the rights of people with disabilities for over a decade. She has spoken at conferences and given lectures in various colleges on disability issues, organised public ADFI meetings and counselled fellow amputees to rebuild their lives after suffering such a trauma.
Presenter: Seónaid Dunne
Producer: Gerry McArdle
RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday 30 September, 10.30pm
THE RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION – THE ROLLING WAVE
The second of two special programmes in which English folk singer June Tabor talks about her life and music.
Presented and produced by Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday 1 October, 9.02pm
*New Series*
THE RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION – REBEL MUSIC; REGGAE STORY FOUNDATION @ STUDIO ONE AND THE TREASURE ISLE (University of Reggae)
Exploring the early musical styles which blended to become what we now know as reggae. Mento, (the calypso of Jamaica) Ska, rocksteady and the influence of R&B. then to the infamous Studio One, founded by Clement Sir Coxsone Dodd. The first ever black owned and operated recording studio in Jamaica.
Presenter: Lillian Smith
Reporter and researcher: Christian McCallum
Producer: Marcus Connaughton
RTÉ Radio 1, Thursday 2 October, 9.02pm
13,000 BOXES
A six part series which looks at the stories which the Census 2006 figures tell us. The series focuses on issues such as: Family, The Home, Work, Immigration, Education, Religion, Disability, Irish Language and the future which faces us all.
Presenter: Rachael English
Producer: Aonghus McAnally
RTÉ Radio 1, Thursday 2 October, 10.02pm
FRIDAY SPORTSNIGHT
Soccer: Eircom League
Presenter: Con Murphy
Producer: John Farrell
RTÉ Radio 1, LW 252 & DAB, Friday 3 October, 7.00-10.00pm
THE RTE RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION – NIGEL WOOD’S WIDE WORLD
A multi-cultural and musical map of discovery
Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Friday 3 October, 9.02pm
Further Information:
Jack Fox, (01) 208 2452, jack.fox@rte.ie
Denise Sammon, (01) 208 2215, denise.sammon@rte.ie
Sandra Byrne, (01) 208 2506/ 087 249 3048, sandra.byrne@rte.ie
Sarah Martin, (01) 208 2312/ 087 750 1850, sarah.martin@rte.ie