Week of 11.05.2026
Monday 11.05.2026 –
- Author John Banville on Gulliver’s Travels 300 year anniversary
- The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival (BVOF) 2026 features the renowned conductor Tom Creed and the talented singers Gavan Ring and Amy Ní Fhearraigh.
- Sylvia Gribaudi on the Dublin Dance Festival 2026 which will be a major contemporary dance celebration, running from 30 April to 16 May 2026
Tuesday 12.05.2026 –
- Marc Atkinson Borrell and Matthew Malone on the play An Ideal Husband which will be at the Gate
- “Once We Were Punks” is a documentary directed by Frank Shouldice who will join Rick to talk about the film that premiered at Galway Film Fléadh on July 9. The film follows a punk rock band from Bailieborough, led by Justin Kelly and David Meagher, who formed in the late 1980s.
- Mike Pickering
Wednesday 13.05.2026
- Junior Brother is the stage name of Ronan Kealy, an Irish alternative folk singer-songwriter from County Kerry.
- Lucy Caldwell, The Northern Irish writer explores music and family, memory and duty in a collection of tales entitled ‘Devotion’
- Victoria Smurfit and Lisa McGrillis on their new season of the Disney hit ‘Rivals’
Thursday 14.04.2026
- Film reviews
- China Moses ontheir performance at the West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival on May 23, 2026, at the Tramway Theatre in Blessington, Wicklow. The event will feature a selection of her greatest hits, from albums old and new, and will be accompanied by the jazz band ‘Classical Soul’.
Friday 15.05.2026
- TV reviews.
- Album reviews.