Radio Highlights: Cork trad duo showcased on R na G; festival season continues

A Radio Caroline veteran marks a milestone on 8Radio; 100 years of Maria Callas and Irish string quartets on LyricFM; Radio 1's Arena looks at Handelfest and Earagail Arts Festival; Just Mustard and Hinterland on 2FM's The Alternative
Radio Highlights: Cork trad duo showcased on R na G; festival season continues

Caoimhe & Eimhear Flannery: set from ConsairtĂ­n airs on RaidiĂł na Gaeltachta's Camchuairt an ChonsairtĂ­n; Monday, 1.30pm

SATURDAY 

Opera Night, LyricFM, 7pm: On the 100th anniversary year of the birth of the great singer Maria Callas, a performance featuring Callas as the titular character of Puccini's Tosca.

SUNDAY 

Shadowplay, RTÉ 2XM, 4pm: Laura Lee-Conboy presents the best in alternative old and new, from goth and industrial through EBM, EDM, new wave, and aggrotech.

No Static, RTÉ 2XM, 6pm: Handsome Paddy showcases new and forthcoming electronic releases, as well as dusting off forgotten classics.

MONDAY 

The Neighbourhood, RTÉ Jr, 12.30pm and 7.30pm: Ciarán Hinds continues the magical adventure. Life isn't always fair, but Mr Potts has some good things to say to Nettie on the matter.

The Full Score, LyricFM, 1pm: The ConTempo Quartet perform two Irish string quartets — Ina Boyle's 'E minor Quartet', and a new piece by Galway's Jane O'Leary.

Camchuairt an Chonsairtín, R na G, 1.30pm: The second programme in the current series of concerts recorded in Ennis in April at Consairtín, the annual concertina convention — a performance from Eimhear and Caoimhe Flannery from Rockchapel, Co Cork.

Cosán na mBan, R na G, 2pm: CW: birth/loss: speaking with women who have lost children of their own — and others who have devoted their lives to working as carers.

Arena, RTÉ 1, 7pm: Conductor Peter Whelan talks to Sean Rocks about Handelfest, Dublin's annual homage to the composer who lived in the city in 1741, 1742; director Trish McAdam tells us about her film Songs of Blood and Destiny - inspired by Marina Carr's poem iGirl - before its screening at the Galway Film Fleadh this month.

TUESDAY 

The Full Score, LyricFM, 1pm: Soprano Kelli-Ann Masterson joins the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Finucane for a programme that includes Dvorak's 'Song to the Moon' and Puccini's 'Quando m'en Vo'. Liz Nolan presents.

Ar Bhruach na Sionainne, R na G, 1.30pm: Music and song from the students, their friends and family, former students, and academic staff at the University of Limerick. Today, Peadar Ă“ Sionnaigh from Foxford in Mayo.

The Alternative, 2FM, 11pm: Back into the Session Archives with Dan Hegarty: Hinterland in Fanning Session from 1990, Pixie Cut Rhythm Orchestra in Studio 8 in 2021, and as Just Mustard hit South America in support of The Cure, a listen back to a 2022 session.

Steve Conway: marks 500 episodes of An A-Z of Great Tracks on 8Radio; Wednesday, 8pm. Pic: Ruth Medjber
Steve Conway: marks 500 episodes of An A-Z of Great Tracks on 8Radio; Wednesday, 8pm. Pic: Ruth Medjber

WEDNESDAY 

Ocht gCeathrú, R na G, 2pm: In this new summer series, Aodhán Ó Baoill and Niamh Ní Dhubhgáin travel to the eight quarters in Belfast city to meet the communities there, and to learn about each of these distinctive areas of the city — today, they travel to the Gaeltacht Quarter.

Arena, RTÉ 1, 7pm: Poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin and author Kit De Waal talk about their event Telling the Whole Story at the Earagail Arts Festival in Donegal.

Ceol Binn ó na Béanna, R na G, 7pm: Neansaí Ní Choisdealbha presents a very special concert held in May in honour of late Co Clare musician Martin Connolly, who died in July 2021, featuring some of his friends and students.

An A-Z of Great Tracks, 8Radio.com, 8pm: Steve Conway, a veteran of pirate broadcaster Radio Caroline and a sailor aboard The Boat That Rocked, celebrates 500 episodes of his (ongoing!) alphabetical-order journey through great music of the last 80 years for the Dublin-based community radio station.

THURSDAY 

The Alternative, RTÉ 1, 11pm: UK art-pop duo Jockstrap, in live action from Radio France's FIP studio this past January.

FRIDAY 

An Saol Ăł Dheas, R na G, 12pm: Broadcasting live from Munster Technological University in Tralee, where the Munster Fleadh is in full swing.

Lyric Live, LyricFM, 7pm: Out to Caherciveen for a concert by acclaimed Irish tenor Gavan Ring and pianist Louise Thomas in Stephen McNeff’s Ballads of a Bogman.

Arena, RTÉ 1, 7pm: Scottish crime novelist Denise Mina discusses her new Raymond Chandler novel, The Second Murderer.

The Science of Sense, RTÉ Jr, 7pm: Professor Bumbledumm, with junior scientists Robyn McGarry and Rebekah Dunne investigate our sense of touch, with Irish philosopher Professor Richard Kearney, from Boston College.

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