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GREAT MOMENTS IN CLASSICAL MUSIC The Classical legend of Cupid and Psyche is Sandy’s subject this week, as retold for the aristocratic Parisian audiences of the 1670s by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Psyché is a score brimming with power and pathos, but it has plenty of charm and balletic energy too.  As well as charting Psyché’s journey to hell and back, Sandy […]
Ó Chéidh go Céidh The history of the port in Teileann in southwest Donegal.
LIFE MATTERS Award-winning duo, Seán Duke and Colette Kinsella, present a new explorative series that looks at the ethics of how we live today. Over 13 weeks, they will explore a range of topics, including population control, forgiveness, animal rights and nationhood, and ask: where do we stand on life's big issues? What are the values we live by? And what kind of society do we want to build for the future? Each week, listeners will be taken on an invigorating and challenging journey, hearing voices of experience and expertise: some who seek to impose moral conventions, some who buck them and some who simply try to understand them.
DRAMA ON ONE GETTING ON by Aodhán Madden, with Mark Lambert in a one-person play about bereavement.
MOONEY GOES WILD Mooney Goes Wild... Could female killer whales hold the secret to the menopause? And why are their sons such mammy’s boys? Dr Lauren Brent from the University of Sheffield, reveals all. And it’s the season for drumming if you’re a woodpecker. Biologist Terry Flanagan travels to the Wicklow-Carlow border to discover why they do it and how Ireland’s becoming a popular breeding ground.
THE JOHN MURRAY SHOW A lively mix of entertainment, human interest and lifestyle.
RONAN COLLINS Listeners' choices, old favourites, plus the best of the new as well as many musical surprises.
Musical Chairs | RTÉjr Radio Ian McGlynn is back with a brand new series of Musical Chairs Goes Classical, The Orchestral Families.
DRIVETIME WITH MARY WILSON Mary Wilson presents an information packed evening news magazine with all the stories of the day