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An tSeachtain le Máirín Ní Ghadhra Máirín and panel discuss the Citizens Convention to examine the Eighth Amendment, which convenes today.
Documentary on One: The Prospector’s Son A story that has its roots spread between Fermanagh and Leitrim in Ireland, and South Africa.
The Book Show On this week’s show Sara Taylor on her novel The Lauras and Maggie O’Farrell on her novel This Must Be the Place.
OPERA NIGHT     Bernard Clarke continues the celebration of Shakespeare 400 with Verdi’s Otello based on the bard’s play Othello.  Tonight’s concert comes from the Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg where this production was recorded during the Salzburg Easter Festival 2016.  A stellar cast including Dorothea Roschmann, Georg Zeppenfeld, Benjamin Bernheim, Carlos Alvarez, Jose Cura, Christa Mayer, Bror […]
The Poetry Programme Paul Muldoon tries to distill 46 years of work and reads from his new ‘Selected Poems 1968-2014’. A Rockfinch production for RTÉ.
VOX NOSTRA WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH Dare to fight an epic counterpoint battle with the one and only J. S. Bach?  Well, if the story is correct, the Baroque composer Sylvius Leopold Weiss did exactly that-on the lute, no less!  One of the best lutenists of his day, Weiss met Johann Sebastian through his son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, and apparently this […]
Seal Cuideachta An interview with Helen Ó Cíosáin about her tireless work for Irish-language preschools.
Spórt an Lae Coverage of the day’s sporting action, including finals in the Donegal and Kerry Senior Championships.
Drama on One Chopped Liver by Fergal McElharron
DAN HEGARTY – THE ALTERNATIVE Dan Hegarty – The Alternative: ‘No Electricity Required’ by The Section Quartet Can you imagine songs by artists as diverse as Queens Of The Stone Age, Jeff Buckley, Kiss, and Coldplay interpreted by a string quartet? If you can, then you will understand what a special album that ‘No Electricity Required’ is. Dan features tracks […]