Radio Highlights: Will Sliney illustrates his comics journey on RTÉ Jr

Plus: music producer Richie Egan's Jape project in a new Studio 8 session on 2FM's The Alternative; Beckett Season continues on Drama on One; coverage of Wexford Festival Opera on LyricFM
Will Sliney, comic-book illustrator, speaks with CAKE about his career and passion; Monday, 7pm; RTÉ Jr

Will Sliney, comic-book illustrator, speaks with CAKE about his career and passion; Monday, 7pm; RTÉ Jr

SATURDAY 

Daybreak

LyricFM, 7am

Morning moods with Evonne Ferguson, and at 9.15am, Irish Examiner columnist Anja Murray's 'Nature File' looks at Ireland's population of common cranes — breeding in the wild again for the first time in over 300 years.

Lyric Live

LyricFM, 7pm

Paul Herriott presents Handel's Alcina conducted by Christian Curnyn, and recorded at the UK's Royal Opera House.

SUNDAY 

The Lyric Feature

LyricFM, 7pm

'Magic on a Winter’s Night': Behind the scenes at the Wexford Festival Opera, where artists, technicians and performers orchestrate their particular brand of alchemy.

Drama on One

RTÉ 1, 8pm

Beckett Season continues with The Old Tune, a meditation on how time corrodes memory, and the old tune we have in our heads becomes fainter and fainter.

MONDAY 

Arena 

RTÉ 1, 7pm

John Self reviews author Hilary Mantel's A Memoir of My Former Self, a selection of her newspaper features and reviews; actor Geraldine Plunkett and writer/director Michael Scott on their play The Valley of the Squinting Windows, coming up at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.

C.A.K.E.

RTÉ Jr, 7pm

Calling Marvel Comics fans and young artists alike — this week's edition speaks with Cork-based comics illustrator Will Sliney.

Richie Egan in a 2010s press shot pulled from Examiner archives; a brand-new session from Studio 8 showcases new material; Tuesday, 11pm; 2FM.
Richie Egan in a 2010s press shot pulled from Examiner archives; a brand-new session from Studio 8 showcases new material; Tuesday, 11pm; 2FM.

TUESDAY 

Arena

RTÉ 1, 7pm

Composer Matthew Nolan tells Sean Rocks about a new live score he has written for Hitchcock's film The Birds. He will perform it live at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, on November 7 with Seán Mac Erlaine, Sharon Phelan, and Eivind Aarset.

The Alternative 

2FM, 11pm

Richie Egan, aka two-time Choice Music Prize-winner Jape, marks sixth album Endless Tread and an upcoming Irish tour with a brand-new Studio 8 session and chats with Dan Hegarty.

WEDNESDAY 

Marty in the Morning 

LyricFM, 7am

The best moustache in the game and its owner head for Wexford's National Opera House, to join volunteers and performers as the 72nd annual Wexford Festival Opera gets underway.

The Alternative

2FM, 11pm

Dan Hegarty's record of the week is Dublin band The Harvest Ministers' 1993 LP Little Dark Mansion, released via legendary Bristol-based label Sarah Records — vocalist Will Merriman chats with Dan for its 30th anniversary.

THURSDAY 

Keeping Track

UCC 98.3FM, 1pm

Dave Hackett speaks to a different guest each week about their work within the community — past guests include Mary Crilly (Sexual Violence Centre Cork), and Caitriona Twomey (Cork Penny Dinners).

Sinead Quinlan: involved in a Thing most Quizzy indeed; Friday, 7pm; RTÉ Jr
Sinead Quinlan: involved in a Thing most Quizzy indeed; Friday, 7pm; RTÉ Jr

FRIDAY 

Sounds from a World in Motion

UCC 98.3FM, 4pm

World music show hosted by Julian Eduardo Suarez Bohorquez, going "from psychedelic cumbia and Cambodian surf rock to Malian desert blues", with a focus on historical, political, and cultural context.

Arena

RTÉ 1, 7pm

The grand finale of the RTÉ Short Story Competition, live from the Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, with finalists and the judging panel Claire Kilroy, Ferdia MacAnna, and Kathleen MacMahon.

Lyric Live

LyricFM, 7pm

This past August, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra brought the music of composers Rodgers and Hammerstein to life, on the 80th anniversary of their initial collaboration.

Sinéad Quinlan's Thing Quizzy

RTÉ Jr, 7pm

Just ahead of the Bank Holiday, Sinéad ventures to St Patricks NS in Stamullen, to test the knowledge of the students — and their teacher.

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