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EVELYN GRANT’S WEEKEND DRIVE

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Today on Poetry File at 6.05 pm, Paul Perry reads Not the Wind Not the Flag. His latest publication is The Ghosts of Barnacullia, 2019. 

On the programme also Part 1 of The National Youth Orchestra of Ireland’s Gala New Year’s Concert with Gearóid Grant conducting. This evening’s performance includes Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture and Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor with violin soloist David Tobin. Before the music, Evelyn chats to Gillian Smith whose mother Olive founded the Orchestra fifty years ago this year.

RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 21st March, 4pm-7pm