Radio Highlights: trailblazing rural women, Dublin Zoo, Orla Gartland in session
A red panda, recently: the subject of a new guide to nature via Dublin Zoo, Wednesday, 7pm, RTÉ Jr
A recording from Nóra Pheaits Sheáin from Creig a’Chéirín on the day she went to collect her pension, and songs from singer Coilmín a ‘tSeoighe, as part of Bairbre Quinn's collection from the Aran Islands and Conamara from the 1950s and '60s.
Celebrating a generation of women who worked to improve life in rural Ireland - often stereotyped and overlooked in their roles as mothers, homemakers and farmer’s wives, but were activists, lobbyists, and business women with very independent means.
Bairbre Flood travels to Lesvos, Greece, to talk to volunteers and refugees working in Moria Refugee Camp in this 2020 documentary.
The River Men: Pat Feeley meets with people from all walks of life as he travels along the River Feale, rising in the Mullaghareirk Mountains near Rockchapel, in Co. Cork.
Students of UCC’s Cumann Drámaíochta bring us a taut, thrilling radio play by Alan Titley - the second in a two-part series recorded by the society during lockdown.
DJ and writer Aidan Kelly continues his pop-music crash-courses with a look at punk, from the Undertones and the Ramones, to modern Irish exponents like Thumper.
Damien Ó Dónaill completes his walk by the Abhainn Chroithlí river in Donegal today, chatting with Donnchadh Ó Baoill.
Dublin-based singer-songwriter Orla Gartland performs in a live session and chats with presenter Gemma Bradley.
Chris Morash reviews the Abbey Theatre's latest streaming show, a production of 'Walls and Windows' by playwright Rosaleen McDonagh.
Another double-dip in the RTÉ radio session archives via Dan Hegarty - Kilkenny outfit Engine Alley's 1995 Fanning Session is revisited, while Dublin noise-poppers Thumper head to Studio 8 for a 2019 session for Hegarty's show.
Clarke Peters presents a new series uncovering the surprising history of black music in Europe, from the late 1970s through to the present day.
Kay Sheehy talks to actor Timothy Spall about his new film 'The Last Bus', and Irish arts journalist Chris Wasser looks at streaming comedy-drama 'Kevin Can F**k Himself'.
A new series follows Dublin Zookeeper, Brendan Walsh, as he introduces kids to a different animal and its habitat each week. This week - it's one of the most popular animals in the zoo, the Red Panda.
Kevin Barry speaks to Kay Sheehy about the theatre version of his book, 'There Are Little Kingdoms', happening at Galway's Town Hall Theatre from September 1 to 11, for Galway International Arts Festival.
Contemporary works for Choir, Organ and Viol Consort by Joanna Marsh, and Bruckner's Sixth Symphony recorded by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and their Chief Conductor, Juanjo Mena.
