267 Episodes

  1. Flying saucers, a dubious deal at the Carrickmacross cattle market, and O’Connell Street’s infamous ‘Bowl of Light’

    Published: 04/12/2022
  2. A cello and a nightingale… General Custer’s last handshake and losing - and finding - your own voice

    Published: 27/11/2022
  3. Ancient Troy, a home reborn and a Civil War execution

    Published: 20/11/2022
  4. Encounters in wartime, understanding history and a gentle Kildare revolutionary

    Published: 13/11/2022
  5. Endangered languages, the salmon of knowledge and a blue cup in Bucharest

    Published: 06/11/2022
  6. Opera favourites and Halloween stories

    Published: 30/10/2022
  7. Unforgettable first nights in Dublin and Wexford, a Finglas church’s rise and fall, and three women of 1798

    Published: 23/10/2022
  8. Soft, fresh days, missing Brendan Kennelly, and a chocolate cake for Pete Seeger

    Published: 16/10/2022
  9. Tales of the street, tales of home and life before 'Love Me Do'

    Published: 09/10/2022
  10. A necklace of wrens and Newpark at 50

    Published: 02/10/2022
  11. Unanswered prayers and an unromantic novelist

    Published: 25/09/2022
  12. Autumn gifts at the Shorelines Arts Festival

    Published: 18/09/2022
  13. Meeting royalty, world leaders in Shannon and the joy of mixtapes

    Published: 11/09/2022
  14. A Moving Ming Bowl and a Sweltering Summer

    Published: 04/09/2022
  15. Princesses, poets and sapient pigs

    Published: 28/08/2022
  16. Michael Collins, Shih Tzus and summer blessings

    Published: 21/08/2022
  17. 14 August 2022: Elvis Presley and a Tripoli childhood

    Published: 14/08/2022
  18. 7 August 2022: Braveheart, sportswriters and stumbling stones

    Published: 07/08/2022
  19. 31 July 2022: Interrailing, the Perseids and Maeve Binchy

    Published: 31/07/2022
  20. 24 July 2022: A Galway jersey and the roar of the Croke Park crowd

    Published: 24/07/2022

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Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.