Monthly Archives: August 2015

BOOK ON ONE This weeks Book on One is Jernigan by David Gates. Published: Monday 31st August, 11.10pm
ARTS TONIGHT The RIA series 'Art and Architecture of Ireland - Volume 5' : 20th Century published for the RIA and the Paul Mellon Centre by Yale University Press with its editors Catherine Marshall and Peter Murray. Contributions also by artist Martin Gale, arts officer Muireann Ní Chonaill, writers and scholars Linda King and Brenda Moore McCann Published: Monday 31st August, 10.02pm
RECRUITS ***NEW*** Two-part series RTÉ cameras go behind the scenes as the latest group of recruits battle to make it through the gruelling 17-week training to become fully fledged soldiers in the Irish Defence Forces. Thousands applied, 350 made it but can they stay the distance? Published: Monday 31st August, 9.35pm
THE AMERICANS Philip and Elizabeth deploy a plan for the C.I.A.’s Mujahideen visitors. Tensions at the Jennings’ home escalate. Published: Monday 31st August, 9.00pm
NATIONWIDE This week on Nationwide, we pay a visit to County Leitrim to celebrate the 10th birthday of The Dock art space in Carrick-on-Shannon and to see how the town of Drumshanbo has coped with the issue of unemployment; we look at history and traditions in Irish businesses around the country; presenter Anne Cassin visits the National College of Art & Design Graduate Exhibition; and we meet the new Junior Infants at one of oldest schools in the country, Dromleigh National School in Macroom, County Cork. Published: Monday 31st August, 7.00pm
THE ROLLING WAVE On the first Sunday of the Willie Clancy in Miltown Malbay last month, many quality recordings of traditional music and song were newly issued and this week the Rolling Wave makes a selection from them. RTÉ lyric fm, Monday 31st August, 7pm-8pm Published: Monday 31st August, 7.00pm
THE RONAN COLLINS SHOW Listeners' choices, old favourites, plus the best of the new as well as many musical surprises. Published: Monday 31st August, 12.00pm
The Conversation | RTÉ Radio 1 Extra The Conversation brings together two women – meeting for the first time, from very different parts of the world and with very different backgrounds, as Kim finds out what it takes to forge a successful career as a woman in the world today. Published: Monday 31st August, 9.30am
IN SESSION Danny O'Reilly, frontman from The Coronas, hosts a special night of music in Studio 8 for In Session on RTÉ Radio 1. Surrounded by his own band, brilliant duo Hudson Taylor, singer Róisín Ó and the superb Mick Flannery, Danny brings us some wonderful music and chat, and gives us a real insight into the life of his band and that of a working musician. As well as showcasing the musicians, he also collaborates with them to give us something really special and perfect for that late night listen. Published: Sunday 30th August, 11.10pm
DRAMA ON ONE WALKING THE ROAD by Dermot Bolger A labourer turned literary debutante, Frank Ledwidge lost his life late in the Great War, and the pathos of his passing preserves his early work in the amber of the might-have-been. Dermot Bolger’s lyrical biopic of the proletarian poet predates the current fashion for 1914 by many years, and […] Published: Sunday 30th August, 8.00pm