RTÉ RADIO 1 HIGHLIGHTS
WEEK 46
Saturday 8 November – Friday 14 November 2008
Highlights:
Saturday Sport with John Kenny – Rugby – Ireland V Canada
Documentary On One – Be Prepared
RTÉ Radio 1 Music Collection – The Gershwins in Hollywood – Part 2
Worlds Apart – Man’s Inhumanity to Women
RTÉ Radio 1 Music Collection – The Rolling Wave – World War 1 Special
New Series:
Thomas Davies Lectures – Our War
The Great Debate
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.
Producer: Sarah Binchy
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 8 November, 9.10am
*Highlight*
SATURDAY SPORT with John Kenny
Rugby: Ireland v Canada at Thomond Park (KO 5.15pm)
Commentator: Michael Corcoran
Soccer: English and Scottish Premier Leagues
Boxing: European Championship – Liverpool
Racing: Naas
Soccer: Review of last night’s Eircom League action
Producer: Robbie Irwin
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 8 November, 2.01pm
*Highlight*
SATURDAY SPORT
Rugby: Ireland v Canada at Thomond Park – Continued
Commentator: Michael Corcoran
RTÉ Radio 1, LW 252 & DAB, Saturday 8 November, 5.58pm – 7.30pm
OFF THE SHELF: REMEMBERING THE WAR DEAD
Tonight, Remembering the War Dead by Fergus D’Arcy is discussed by Kevin Myers and Charles Lysaght.
From the 1920s the Office of Public Works has been responsible for the graves of those who died in the two World Wars and are buried and commemorated in the Republic of Ireland. On the whole island there are at least 5,700 such war graves, over 3,100 in the Republic and 2,600 in Northern Ireland.
The history of those 3,000 plus war dead in the Republic, how they came to be there, and how the Irish Government came to be responsible for them has now been captured by Professor D’Arcy in his book, Remembering the War Dead.
Presenter: Andy O’Mahony
Producer: Bernadette Comerford
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 8 November, 7.02pm
THE POETRY PROGRAMME
On the eve of the Remembrance Day ceremonies, presenter Gerald Dawe and Dr. Terence Brown discuss a new Irish anthology of War poets.
Producer: Seamus Hosey
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 8 November, 7.30pm
SOUTH WIND BLOWS
Philip King presents music, song and chat from the west Kerry Gaeltacht.
Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 8 November, 8.02pm
THE BLOOM OF YOUTH
On tonight’s programme we feature music from Caitlin NicGabhann on concertina from Co. Meath and from Co. Wexford we have some wonderful singing from Darina Gleeson.
Presenter: Kieran Hanrahan
Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 8 November, 9.02pm
MASS FROM BELVEDERE COLLEGE CHAPEL
Fr Fergus O’Donoghue, S.J., reflects on the Irish contribution to the First World War, including that of 31 Irish Jesuit chaplains who served in the British army, four of whom died. Prayers will be led by boys from Belvedere, some of whose transition year will, at the time, be on a history field trip, taking part in First World War re-enactments on the original battlefields.
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RTÉ Radio 1, LW 252 & DAB, Sunday 9 November 10.00am -10.45am
SOUND STORIES
Luke Clancy explores our experience of sound, from the noise of urban streets to experiments in modern music
This week: The Birds
Regular contributor and nature recordist, Chris Watson describes his recordings of rare birds like the Roseate Tern and explores the strangely sped-up world of our avian cousins.
Presenter: Luke Clancy
Producer: Kevin Brew
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 9 November, 10.30am
(First broadcast on 6 September 2007)
(Continued on LW 252 & DAB from 10.45am)
SUNDAY SPORT with Adrian Eames
Soccer: Premier League
Racing: Limerick and Navan
Boxing: European Championship – Liverpool
Producer: Gary Moran
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 9 November, 2.00pm
SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE
A Service of Remembrance from Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin led by the Dean’s Vicar, Canon Charles Mullen. The Sermon will be preached by the Reverend Harold Good.
The Director of Music is Peter Barley.
The assistant organist is David Leigh.
RTÉ Radio 1, LW 252 & DAB, Sunday 9 November 3.15pm – 4.20pm
SPIRIT MOVES
Join presenter Tom McGurk on Remembrance Sunday for a live panel discussion on Ireland’s involvement in World War I.
Presenter: Tom McGurk
Producer: Liz Sweeney, Yetti Redmond
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 9 November, 6.05pm
*Highlight*
DOCUMENTARY ON ONE
BE PREPARED
In Ireland there are 40,000 young people in scouting, which is celebrating it’s centenary year.
Last May scouts from Killaloe took part in the Clare County Shield competition. 15 year old Vanessa O’Brien leads a team of eight scouts, boys and girls from the age of 11 to 15, in a survival weekend in Ruan, Co. Clare. They have many challenges – putting up tents, building a table, cooking on a fire, making a bivvy in the woods, emergency first aid, obstacle courses and carrying out a water rescue. It’s all about teamwork and fun.
Producer: Celia Donoghue
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 9 November, 7.02pm
(Repeated on Wednesday 12 November)
RTÉ RADIO 1 SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2008
IN MEMORY OF FRANCIS MACMANUS
A selection of past winners of the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition.
I am the Song – Sing Me by Elizabeth Carty, first runner-up in the 2001 competition.
Read by Collette Proctor
Producer: Seamus Hosey
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 9 November, 7.45pm
(First broadcast on 23 February 2002)
(Repeated on Wednesday 12 November)
SUNDAY PLAYHOUSE
RTÉ RADIO 1’S SEASON OF DRAMAS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
NUMB by Eugene O’Brien
Followed by a panel discussion on the issues raised in the play chaired by Myles Dungan.
Directed by Conal Morrison
Series producer: Kevin Reynolds
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 9 November, 8.02pm
THE LATE SESSION
Concertina player Larry Kinsella from Co. Wexford joins Áine Hensey tonight to talk about his new CD, The Barley Grain.
Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday 9 November, 10.02pm
THE ARTS SHOW
Monday:
Gerry Godley from RTÉ lyric fm continues his series where he gives us an insight into the range of different types of world music which have both strong social and historical contexts.
Vincent Woods also interviews Irish playwright and actor Billy Roche about his new play Lay Me Down Softly which will run in the Abbey Theatre mid November
Tuesday:
Presenter Vincent Woods and panellists discuss literary and arts projects based on the theme of World War I.
Wednesday:
On the programme tonight there is music from Guggenheim Grotto, one of Dublin’s finest folk-pop bands.
Thursday:
Film Reviews
Elizabeth O’Neill reports from the French capital with Irish College in Paris.
Friday:
On tonight’s programme Vincent Woods looks back at the past week and picks his selection of highlights.
Presenter: Vincent Woods
Producer: Nuala O’Neill, Aoife Nic Cormaic, Siobhán Mannion
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 10 – Friday 14 November, 8.02pm
*Highlight*
RTE RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION – THE GERSHWINS IN HOLLYWOOD – PART 2
Songs by George and Ira Gershwin which were made famous on screen – hear what happened when one of the sublime partnerships of American music brought their particular genius to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Vocalists: Kim Criswell and Garry Williams with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, leader Joanne Quigley, conductor John Wilson.
Recorded at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 8 May 2008.
Sound: Phil Cooke
Producer: Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 10 November, 9.02pm
*New Series*
THOMAS DAVIS LECTURE SERIES – OUR WAR
A ten part Thomas Davis lecture series marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War and reflecting the experience of ordinary Irish people during the war and the effect this war had and still has on Irish society.
Programme 1: Our War, Our History, presented by the consulting editor of the series, John Horne, Professor of Modern European History, Trinity College, Dublin.
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Producer: Peter Mooney
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 10 November, 10.02pm
BOOK ON ONE
ALL FOR HECUBA by Micheal MacLiammoir
From his days as a child actor in London, sharing the stage with Noel Coward, to founding The Gate Theatre in Dublin with his partner Hilton Edwards, and undertaking ambitious tours to pre-war Europe, Micheál MacLiammóir’s All For Hecuba combines autobiography with a biography of theatre and post-civil-war Ireland.
Warm, engaging, intelligent and witty, this vivid narrative describes the struggles and triumphs of The Gate’s early years, when MacLiammóir and Edwards brought international theatre to Dublin audiences with a series of innovative and experimental productions and designs directed with extraordinary panache.
As they set about transforming the landscape of Irish theatre, they enlisted new and established talent in a roll-call of personalities; Denis Johnston, Lennox Robinson, architect Michael Scott, Mary Manning, Padraic Colum, Ria Mooney, Sybil Thorndike, Christine and the blazing comet that was Orson Welles.
The conversion of the Rotunda Rooms into a theatre space, the constant threat of bankruptcy, the infamous Longford split, and pre-war tours to Europe, Egypt and North America, are all set down in a supple, elegiac prose that establishes All For Hecuba as more than mere history, but as literature.
Read by Donncha Crowley
Producer: Aidan Stanley
RTÉ Radio 1, Monday 10 – Friday 14 November, 11.45pm
*Highlight*
WORLDS APART
RTÉ Radio 1’s annual series on the developing world.
Programme 4: Man’s Inhumanity to Woman
Tonight’s Worlds Apart examines how some men around the world punish women and seek power through physical violence. Presenter Rodney Rice hears from countries such as Sierra and Uganda where rape and acid burnings are sometimes used as tools of war.
Researcher: Elayne Devlin
Presented and produced by: Rodney Rice
RTÉ Radio 1, Tuesday 11 November, 10.02pm
*Highlight*
THE RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION
THE ROLLING WAVE
Presenter Peter Browne will look at songs which were inspired by different aspects of the Great War – including the two great ballads written by Eric Bogle – And the Band played Waltzing Matilda and No Man’s Land which expresses the more general waste of human life incurred by trench warfare. Another song The Writing of Tipperary juxtaposes the writing of the most popular marching song of World War One It’s a Long Way to Tipperary by a Birmingham music hall artist called Jack Judge with the historical events in Europe which led up to the outbreak of war in 1914.
Presented and produced by Peter Browne
RTÉ Radio 1, Wednesday 12 November, 9.02pm
THE RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION
SOUNDS OF LIVERPOOL
Brendan Balfe with the music, comedy and poetry of The European City of Culture.
Producer: Brendan Balfe
RTÉ Radio 1, Thursday 13 November, 9.02pm
*New Series*
THE GREAT DEBATE
On the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War and as part of the Thomas Davis lecture series reflecting the experience of ordinary Irish people during the war and the effect the war had and continues to have on Irish society, RTÉ Radio 1 airs the first of three public debates. The debates, in front of an invited audience, will examine the Morality, Memory and Legacy of the Great War for Ireland. There will be a panel of two historians and two commentators and the debates will be chaired by Myles Dungan.
Programme 1: Morality: The Gilbert Library, Pearse Street, Dublin
Presenter: Myles Dungan
Producer: Peter Mooney
RTÉ Radio 1, Thursday 13 November, 10.02pm
FRIDAY SPORTSNIGHT
Soccer: Eircom League – The final round of games
Boxing: European Championships
Presenter: Con Murphy
RTÉ Radio 1, LW 252 & DAB, Friday 14 November, 7.00pm – 10.00pm
THE RADIO 1 MUSIC COLLECTION
NIGEL WOOD’S WIDE WORLD
A multi-cultural and musical map of discovery.
Producer: Aidan Butler
RTÉ Radio 1, Friday 14 November, 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