Radio Highlights: Festival season in Cork, the summer solstice, Pride Month

Coverage from Cork Midsummer Festival, West Cork Literary Festival, and West Cork Chamber Music Festival; Ambient Orbit welcomes the summer solstice live at Lough Gur; R na G broadcasts from Dublin's Street 66 to mark thirty years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality

Orla Barry's Spin Spin Scheherazade: one of the guests on a Cork Midsummer Festival special of Arena; Friday, 7pm, RTÉ 1

SATURDAY 

Opera Night, LyricFM, 7pm: Universal musician and former Brazilian Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, performs the world premiere of his opera Amor Azul ( Blue Love).