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Cafes are more than just places to get a daily shot and a pastry.
They are sites of conversation, connection, and creativity. They help alleviate loneliness, spark romances, maintain friendships and build community. Ireland now has a thriving cafe scene, and in this programme, Brian O'Connell explores the human stories inside some of Cork's cafes.
Brian hears from the cafe owners who are trying to build communities, and spends time with a diverse and sometimes enlightening collection of customers, who are also drawn inside by a need for social connection.
RTÉ Radio 1, Thursday 26th December, 6.00pm
Spreading The News RTÉ Radio 1 at 6-7pm, 27 December 2024
Spreading the News is historic celbratory event marking 120 years of the National Theatre of Ireland, recently staged the Abbey Stage and captured by RTÉ for broadcast 120 years to the day since the theatre opened in 1904. The event is named after the play of the same name, written by Abbey Theatre co-founder Lady Gregory, and performed on the opening night of the theatre. Spreading the News celebrates and honours the founding notion that the Abbey Theatre was established as an experiment, a fundamental idea that continues to inform the work of the theatre today. The broadcast includes artists who have performed in the theatre over the years, playing a range of scripts, characters and speeches and performances that have been at the heart of the National Theatre of Ireland since its foundation, and accompanied by live music. Spreading the News interrogates ideas of breaking and rebuilding, the need for a national theatre yesterday and today and looking at how audiences and artists converse through theatre.
RTÉ Radio 1, Friday 27th December, 6.00pm