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an intimate love letter commemorating the lives of a working family pursuing their dreams over several generations in America’s rust belt.
No Love Lost by Dylan Tighe, explores anti-Traveller racism through the prism of a love story between a young Traveller man and an older woman.
In a sinister triptych that mimics a hall of mirrors, Karl O'Neill’s three masculine monologues draw parallel portraits – a suitor, a stalker, a spouse – of concave Man obsessed with the opposite sex.
Hurl by Katie Honan is a hurling love story set in Waterford. Part Marty Morrissey, part Bridget Jones, Janet Walsh (a complete hurling novice) journeys into the world of Ireland's beloved national sport in search for belonging.
blues musician, Sparkplug grapples with heartbreak, the welfare of bee populations and the writings of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger.
Composer Daragh Dukes and Radio Producers Eoin O Kelly and Kevin Brew explore the nature of youthful creativity as they remember their participation in the Limerick band scene of the early 1990s.
A podcast producer finds a set of code books. They are the Marconi International Code books. They contain 500 pages of 5-letter codes and their translations. The main character starts to read the codes obsessively and twist them into her own life story.
To commemorate the 65th anniversary of James Joyce's death in Zürich on Jan 13th 1941, Ursula Zeller, Ruth Freiner and Fritz Senn from The James Joyce Foundation shared their stories with Kevin Reynolds
Tubes written by renowned Belfast playwright Gary Mitchell In this black comedy we meet Titch a modern young Protestant, who is keen to portray his own community and the twelfth of July in a more positive light.
A Piece of Monologue, performed by Barry McGovern, directed by Daniel Reardon and introduced by Gerry Dukes, whose stage adaptation, with Barry McGovern, of Beckett's post-war trilogy of novels as I’ll Go On has played around the world.
The Old Tune is Beckett's free adaptation of La Manivelle/The Crank, a radio play by French writer, Robert Pinget. The Beckett Season is made possible by the kind permission of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.
A special programme curated from a brace of Bowman Sunday Eight Thirty programmes made in 2006 celebrating the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth.
Nothing Ever Happens Around Here written by Robert Barrett Reflecting on village life, mortality, poverty, opportunity, futility and ultimately hope, this comedy for radio focuses on a day in the life of Courtland Alexander
The Quiet Land By Malachy McKenna - a masterclass, served as it is by a brace of actors - Kevin Flood and Barry Cassin
The Gallant John Joe by Tom Mac Intyre - Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God."
guilt and grief cohabit a widower's home - Clive Geraghty is Tom and Deirdre Donnelly his wife Maura in Shay Linehan's first play for radio and RTÉ's entry at the Prix Europa 2007 in Berlin.
The Four-Faced Liar by Ger Fitzgibbon - It's part of the lore of Cork city that the four clocks on the four faces of Shandon Steeple rarely agree on the exact time - hence the nickname: The Four-Faced Liar.
Hubert and Rose Derdon have been together for a life, but when Rose dies, Hubert finds he is unable to grieve for his wife. The play stars Barry McGovern, David Herlihy, and Jane Brennan
The Wickedness of Oz by Kate Gilmore - musicals-obsessed Debbie, takes us on a magical journey and we share her dreams, dreads, her love, and her loss.
Maire Hastings (Glenroe) and Áine Ní Mhuirí (Ballykissangel) who together with Emmet Kirwan (Fair City, Veronica Guerin) feature
Supported by real stories from real women, this play follows Jenny and Claire's opposite journeys along the same path.
Meet Peig Sayers as you have never heard her before. Performed by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú and Louise Lewis
This sparkling play by Yvonne Quinn and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh explores the rollercoaster life of broadcaster, playwright, novelist and agony aunt, Maura Laverty.
Award-winning sound designer Jimmy Eadie and music pioneer and DJ Donal Dineen join forces to create 100 for Drama on One
performed by Nuala McKeever. Truth, Love or Promise was the winner of the 2025 IMRO award for best drama.
two souls weather the storm together at Inish Dúbh Lighthouse. Seamus O’Rourke plays Christy and Irene Kelleher is The young Woman
To commemorate the 65th anniversary of James Joyce’s death in Zürich on Jan 13th 1941, Ursula Zeller, Ruth Freiner and Fritz Senn from The James Joyce Foundation shared their stories with Kevin Reynolds
Eternal Lanes of Joy recreates Patrick Kavanagh's epic journey on foot from his home in County Monaghan to Dublin, in the year 1931
Made by Lighthouse Media in collaboration with As I Am and featuring Darcy Weekes as Hazel
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Is mór-shaothar nua drámaíochta é Jó Johnny Joe a nascann ceol den scoth le greann agus brón i scéal corraitheach, siamsúil, teannasach.
Is mór-shaothar nua drámaíochta é Jó Johnny Joe a nascann ceol den scoth le greann agus brón i scéal corraitheach, siamsúil, teannasach.
Is mór-shaothar nua drámaíochta é Jó Johnny Joe a nascann ceol den scoth le greann agus brón i scéal corraitheach, siamsúil, teannasach.
Is mór-shaothar nua drámaíochta é Jó Johnny Joe a nascann ceol den scoth le greann agus brón i scéal corraitheach, siamsúil, teannasach.
Is mór-shaothar nua drámaíochta é Jó Johnny Joe a nascann ceol den scoth le greann agus brón i scéal corraitheach, siamsúil, teannasach.
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Mír 9. Is mór-shaothar nua drámaíochta é Jó Johnny Joe a nascann ceol den scoth le greann agus brón i scéal corraitheach, siamsúil, teannasach.
Islands fuses documentary and drama, and a bit of pretending, to make a journey not usually possible
Seamus O’Rourke plays Christy Irene Kelleher, the young Woman. The Wireless Coastguard and The Radio Presenter were played by Joe Taylor.
two men meet after travelling through a series of rooms, unsure of where they are and what they are supposed to do next. As they respond to various challenges, we learn more about the history that connects them. The play took third place in the 2024 PJ O’Connor Awards.
In this episode we hear from director Jessica Dromgoole, actors Ronan Leahy and Tadhg Murphy speaking about working on The Last Room by JP Mahon
joint winner of the PJ O’Connor Radio Drama Awards. Aoife Duffin stars as Cheese in a play about a girl who wanted to be heard, and a boy Chalk who didn't speak.
Clarity at Last by Charlie McGuinness was joint winner of the 2024 P.J. O'Connor Awards
A radio version of Fishamble’s hit stage show starring Janet Moran and Andrew Bennett, directed by Jim Culleton
performed by Barry McGovern, and directed by Daniel Reardon. A Piece of Monologue is introduced by Gerry Dukes, whose stage adaptation, with Barry McGovern, of Beckett's post-war trilogy of novels as I’ll Go On has played around the world.
The Old Tune is Samuel Beckett's free adaptation of La Manivelle/The Crank, a radio play by French writer, Robert Pinget.
Drama On One continues its Beckett Season with All That Fall directed and produced by Barry McGovern, starring Pegg Monahan and Aidan Grennell
Watt by Samuel Beckett. Drama on one - for details on tonight's and hundreds of other award winning dramas go to rte.ie/dramaonone.
Facing the Music by Karl O'Neill. Drama on one - for details on tonight's and hundreds of other award winning dramas go to rte.ie/dramaonone.
In 'Paper Femme' by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú, two worlds collide when a feminist podcast explores our Georgian past.
Irishwoman Ceila O'Dowd, the ambitious director of an English public art gallery, feels her latest curated exhibition represents the last chance for promotion and preferment.
Naoise, a one- time Under 15 European Champion kick boxer. As the action plays out we follow Naoise in her imaginings of what was, what is and what could be!
a fictionalised account of a story that stormed the airwaves and gripped the nation almost three decades ago.
Piano in the River ~ An interlude for radio by Dan Treston - winner of the Prix Italia in 1965.
the Winning play in the PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards 2020, Nothing Ever Happens Around Here written by Robert Barrett & directed by Gorretti Slavin
Featuring Aileen Mythen, Risteard Cooper, Lesa Thurman, Patrick Ryan with original Score by Denis Clohessy, written & directed by Charlie McCarthy
We celebrate the memory of writer Jennifer Johnston who died on the 25th of February 2025.
Writer and director Pat Collins and actor Mikel Murfi (Michael Murphy) talk about working on Eternal Lanes of Joy,
A Red Romeo and A Blue Julian by Jonny Farrelly, is a comedic love story, written in verse ~ with a twist!
Hubert and Rose Derdon have been together for a life, but when Rose dies, Hubert finds he is unable to grieve for his wife, with Barry McGovern, David Herlihy, and Jane Brennan.
Abbey actor, Clive Geraghty plays Tom and Deirdre Donnelly his wife Maura in Shay Linehan's first play for the medium of radio
Brenda, Maureen and Joanna get to know each other through their stories. But it's the things they’re not saying that really tell the tale.
Fragile Maoilíosa by Charlie McGuinness starring Eamonn Hunt and Muiris Crowley, music performed by Jane Hughes, directed by Gorretti Slavin
The story of the 11th hour escape from the Nazis in 1938, of Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha and their extended family.
Confinements by Judith Mok We remember Judith Mok, the Dutch soprano, writer, and vocal coach, who died in December 2024.
John Boorman, who turns 92 this Saturday, returned to England in November 2022, after 53 years in his beloved home,The Glebe, in County Wicklow. Stephen Rea and Kevin Reynolds drove to Annamoe to say goodbye.
Treasure House - a series of dramatised stories on the lives of historical figures. Tonight’s programme features the life and times of English writer and clergyman Charles Kingsley
Anton and Ian's conversation leads them to a mutual realisation: man is a caged animal. Will they find freedom, or fail in their quest?
The radio piece revisits episodes in Thomas Kilroy's family's history, the War of Independence, the Civil War and the foundation of the Irish Free State
Al McKenna stars as iconic broadcaster Terry Wogan in Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney.
Programme exploring Radió Éireann Players, the repertory company for radio in Ireland formed in 1947 first broadcast 19th August 1997.
a compendium of thoughts and stories on climate activism. Combining interviews, archive and dramatised excerpts, The Burning Question looks for hope in a time of frightening harm to the planet, in the eloquence of activists, court challenges, new thinking, and immersive recordings of the natural world.
A podcast producer finds a set of code books. They are the Marconi International Code books. They contain 500 pages of 5-letter codes and their translations. The main character starts to read the codes obsessively and twist them into her own life story. In themselves the codes form extraordinarily poetic lists
After a decade of living it up and haven' the craic, Sharon returns to her mother, her roots and her hometown.
Playwright & composer Roger Gregg weaves his signature blend of storytelling, poetry, music and song into a haunting journey.
Based on true events, Haughey/Gregory tells the story of the Gregory Deal, agreed by Charles J. Haughey and Independent TD, Tony Gregory, in 1982.
The Last, High King of Ireland tells the story of a day in the life of a hard-drinking man, Tapper to the locals, on his daily travels from morning to night in the fictional town of Molinheer.
an Irish woman in London experiences a dramatic and life changing event that forces her to look at her life choices. With the help of a motley crew
A comic tale of narcotics, fast food and a mother's love for her son, set in Belfast at the height of the pandemic. Winner of Best Radio Drama IMRO Awards 2024
An Englishman remembers a holiday to Dingle in 1968, while his memories are revised and re-animated by his friend, the Story Poacher.
The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge, adapted and dramatised for radio by Joe O'Byrne.
based on the true story of the hijacking of an Aer Lingus plane in 1981, by an ex-Trappist monk with a burning desire to know the Third Secret of Fatima.
A tense two-hander in which a middle-aged couple ruminate on the sombre detail of a tragic death in the family starring Andrew Bennett and Cathy Belton
Write Your Mind is a play about Youth Mental Health, weaving together monologues devised by writers with young people.
The Old Tune by Samuel Beckett: Adapted from the radio play La Manivelle by Robert Pinget
Drama On One continues its Beckett Season with All That Fall directed and produced by Barry McGovern, starring Pegg Monahan and Aidan Grennell.
Published as a novel in 1953, Watt tells the story of a nomadic manservant who works for a Mr Knott.
As part of our Beckett season, we broadcast a special programme curated from a brace of Bowman Sunday Eight Thirty programmes made in 2006
Marion O’Dwyer stars as Maeve, a woman defiantly at peace in her new oasis – A ghost estate - in Dropping Slow by Belinda McKeon.
In October 2002 Sinéad O'Connor recorded a ‘Rattlebag Special’ with Myles Dungan, marking the release of her album Sean-Nós Nua
In this Rattlebag public interview from 2001, Brazilian author Paulo Coelho spoke to Myles Dungan. about his work and his extraordinary life.
A costume designer on a film set pours herself into three dresses. Part of Drama On One's online short form season.
Rosaleen Mcdonagh explores themes of racism, identity, disability and marginalisation, channelling the literary activism of James Baldwin, and her own.
The Dead Centre of Dublin - Glasnevin Cemetery - the location for Episode 6 of Ulysses - Hades or Paddy Dignam's funeral.
Bosco Hogan stars in Bloomsday by Nick Midgley, a dramatised account of the relationship between James Joyce and his brother Stanislaus and the time they spent in Trieste.
From the archives we’ll hear the RTÉ players in a special edition of the series Treasure House, devoted to the creator of The Metamorphosis*, The Trial and The Castle Franz Kafka
an Irish woman in London experiences a dramatic and life changing event that forces her to look at her life choices.
A chance discovery leads to a night on the wrong side of the law, in a comic tale of narcotics, fast food delivery, and a mother's love for her son. Starring Kerri Quinn
Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison. Starring Nick Dunning, Barry McGovern, Deirdre Donnelly, Ingrid Craigie, Joe Taylor and Derbhle Crotty
writer Fionn Foley and actors Cillian Lenihan, James Murphy and Niamh McAllister feature
Actors Deirdre Donnelly, Ingrid Cragie and Nick Dunning discuss performing in Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison
Parked by Aideen Henry stars Aaron Monaghan and Dawn Bradfield and was directed by Gorretti Slavin
Shirley Temple Killer Queen by Alan McMonagle stars of Fair City Nyree Yergainharsian, and Rebecca Grimes and star of stage and screen David Pearse
To mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers' Memorial Day, 28th April 2024, which this year is focussing on the impacts of climate change on occupational safety and health, we offer a podcast of A Lough Neagh Sequence by Seamus Heaney.
Marginalia by Tina Fitzpatrick. With Gary Murphy, Norma Sheahan, Roger Gregg and by Irene Kelleher. Marginalia by Tina Fitzpatrick is directed by Aidan Stanley.
- Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Single Text Question - theme, character development and relationships, conflict and dramatic tension, imagery and language.
- Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Shakespeare's vision of the world in King Lear is essentially pessimistic . Would you agree
- Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - What in your opinion are the most important changes that take place in the character of King Lear during the play
- Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - In the play, King Lear moves from a position of centrality to one of loneliness and isolation
- Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Is the character of King Lear more sinned against than sinning
- Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - The experiences of Gloucester at the hands of his sons deepens and heightens the experiences of Lear
10.Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - Cordelia plays a very important role in the play King Lear. Analyse.
- Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - The character of Cordelia, quiet, economical, determined in 118 lines of visual language.
- Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - King Lear is not a tragic hero, he is really only a victim of circumstances. Discuss.
- Lear in Longford - Sample Answer - The single text question in King Lear - prompts and pitfalls.LIL - The single text question in King Lear - prompts and pitfalls
19 .Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 1 Scene 4 - the value of Nothing - Lear, Kent and role of The Fool - Lear's conscience
- Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 3 Scene 5 - The Gloucester Story - Edmund becomes Earl of Gloucester
- Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 3 Scene 6 -The Mock Trial .The Story as Staircase.
- Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 3 Scene 7 - The blinding of Gloucester. Cornwall and Regan ‘soul mates in cruelty’
- Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 4 Scene 1 - The words ‘Nothing’ and the Theme of Nature - As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;
- Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 5 Scene 3 - The final movement - Lear, Cordelia and Edmund
- Lear in Longford - Scene Study - Act 5 Scene 3 - The final movement - Edgar meets Edmund. Towards the conclusion of the Gloucester Story
- Lear in Longford - Actor and director Alan Stanford on directing King Lear. Balancing the Lear and Gloucester stories
- Lear in Longford - The Main Plot, the Sub Plot and the Parallel Plot in King Lear - Introduction, expansion, conclusion
- Lear in Longford - Two Favourite Quotes - The image of the Storm scenes in Act 3. Lear in Act 1 Scene 5 . “I did her wrong …”
- Lear in Longford - The Image of Nothing in King Lear - the word appears over 30 times in the play.
49A. Lear in Longford - Favourite Quotes - Lear in Act 3 Scene 2 , I am a man more sinned against than sinning
- Lear in Longford - Favourite Quote - Lear in Act 4 Scene 7 - I’m a Foolish fond old man …
King Lear stars Anew McMaster in the title role. It was first broadcast on RTÉ Radio in 1962, the year McMaster died, but was undoubtedly recorded much earlier than that.
The 1979 RTÉ Production of Macbeth stars Aiden Grennell as Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor, a general in the King's arm, Kate Minogue as Lady Macbeth, his wife and Daniel Reardon as Macduff.
Drama On One’s new online Shakespeare Season, tonight's Drama On One is Listening To Hamlet - an Easter Sunday Leaving Cert treat, or should that read an Easter Sunday Leaving Cert threat -
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Explore the similarities and differences in the characters
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The Theme of Kingship. Act 1.. Sc. 7 Lines 16 - 20
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The Character of The Witches. Act 1. Sc.3 Lines 48-50
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The Character of Macbeth and the inpact Lady Macbeth has on this relationship. Act 1. Sc. 5. Lines 15 - 29.
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The purpose of the Soliloquy - Act 3. Sc. 4. Lines 135 - 140. I am in blood stepp'd in so far ..
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Macbeth is a man of noble disposition dragged down by his wife's coarser nature. Discuss
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Shakespeare uses imagery in Macbeth to express, develop and illustrate his themes. Discuss
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - In her final scenes Lady Macbeth is isolated in her suffering and in her mental state, thus indicating her discarded status. Her function is complete. Discuss
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - The The role and speech patterns of The Witches. Act 1. Sc. 1. Lines 1 - 12
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Explore the theme of the supernatural in Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer - Discuss the role and importance of Kingship in Shakespeare
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer -A comparative study highlightiing the cultural contexts of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Sample Answer -We feel very little pity for the central characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's play
- Macbeth in Monaghan - The structure of Macbeth - The Prophesy, The Murder, The Betrayal, The Genocide and The Revenge
- Macbeth in Monaghan - The Soliloquy - Act 3. Sc. 1. Lines 47 - 71. To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus.
- Macbeth in Monaghan - The Second set of Prophesies. Macbeth transforms from King to genocidal Tyrant. Act 4. Sc. 1
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Malcolm the Politician King. The action moves south to England. Act 4. Sc. 3
- Macbeth in Monaghan - The death of Lady Macbeth and exploring the theme of sleep. Act 5 Sc. 1
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Theme - Kingly Power - Act 5. Sc. 2. Lines 19 - 22. Those he commands move only in command, nothing in love
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Scene - The significance and symbolism of the Banquet scene Act 3. Sc. 7 Lines 92 - 94
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Scene. The Dagger Soliloquy. Act 2. Sc. 1. Lines 33 - 64
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Scene - The Sleepwalking Scene. Act 5. Sc. 1. Lines 40 - 49
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Lady Macbeth. Act 1. Sc.5. Lines 16 - 21.Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full of the milk of human kindness
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Macbeth. Act 5. Sc.5. Lines 9 - 14. I have almost forgot the taste of fears
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Macbeth. Act 5. Sc.5 Lines 17 - 28. She should have died hereafter
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote.Lady Macbeth. Act 3. Sc.2 Lines 6 - 7. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Donalbain. Act 2. Sc. 3. Lines 136 - 144. Where we are there's daggers in men's smiles
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Lady Macbeth. Act 1. Sc. 5. Lines 26 - 29. Hie thee hither that I may pour my spirits in thine ear
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote - Macbeth. Act 5. Sc. 5. Lines 23 - 27. It is a tale told by an idiot
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote - Lady Macbeth. Act 1. Sc. 5. Lines 62 - 66. To beguile the time, look like the time
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Lady Macduff. Act 4. Sc. 2. Lines 73 -78. To do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote - Lady Macbeth. Act 5. Sc. 1. Lines 47 - 48. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote - Macbeth. Act 5. Sc. 8. Lines 1 - 3. Why should I play the Roman fool (1)
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Macbeth. Act 3. Sc.4. Lines 135 - 137. I am in blood stepped in so far
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. The Witches. Act 4. Sc.1. Lines 79 - 94.Be bloody, bold and resolute. laugh to scorn the power of man
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Act 5. Sc. 5.Lines 23 - 28. Macbeth. Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Act 5. Sc. 5.Lines 23 - 28. Macbeth. Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Act 3. Sc. 2.Lines 36 - 46 Macbeth.O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote - Act 1. Sc. 4. Lines 28 - 34. I have begun to plant thee, and will labour to make thee full of growing
66A. Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote - Lady Macbeth - Act 1. Sc. 5. Lines 62 - 66. Look like th' innocent flower but be the serpent under't
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote - Act 5. Sc. 5. Lines 23 - 27. It is a tale told by an idiot
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote - Act 2. Sc. 3. Lines 89 - 94. Renoun and grace is dead
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Macbeth. Act2. Sc.2 Lines 33 - 38. Sleep no more. Macbeth
- Favourite Quote - Lady Macbeth - Act 1. Sc. 5. Lines 62 - 66. Look like th' innocent flower but be the serpent under't
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote - Act 5. Sc. 8. Lines 5 -7 . My soul is too much charg'd with blood of thine already
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Macbeth. Act 4. Sc. 1. Lines 146 -154. From this moment the very firstlings of my heart will be the firstlings of my hand
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Macbeth. Act 1. Sc.3. Lines 133 - 142. I am Thane of Cawdor, if good why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Favourite Quote. Macbeth. Act 2.Sc.3. Lines 109 -116. Here lay Duncan, his silver skin lac'd with his golden blood
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Archbishop Robin Eames on the parallels of genocide as political strategy in Rawanda and in Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Actor and director Alan Stanford on his favourite speech, scenes and character in Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Actor and director Alan Stanford on directing Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Actor and director Alan Stanford on the 5 cycles in Shakespeare's Macbeth
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Abbot Mark Patrick Hederman, OSB on Witchcraft in Macbeth. Act 1. Sc. 2. Lines 39 - 50
- Macbeth in Monaghan - Abbot Mark Patrick Hederman, OSB on Free Will in Macbeth. Act 4. Sc. 1. Lines 79 - 94
86A. Macbeth in Monaghan - Economist David McWilliams on the ambition of Lady Macbeth, the prototype Yummy Mummy. Act 1. Sc.7. Lines 48 - 58
- Hamlet in Howth - Sample Answer. - Discuss the depiction of women in Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Hamlet in Howth - Psychiatrist Ivor Browne on Ophelia's Madness . Act 4. Sc.5. Lines 173 - 183
- Hamlet in Howth - Psychologist Maureen Gaffney on Polonius's advice to Laertes. Act 1. Sc. 3. Lines 205 -220
- Hamlet in Howth - Favourite Quote Act 1.Sc. 2. Lines 87- 117. … Tis sweet and commendable …
- Hamlet in Howth - Laertes advice to Ophelia - Act 1.Sc. 3. Lines 5 - 51. …. I shall th'effect of this good lesson keep
- Hamlet in Howth - Polonius. Act 1.Sc. 3. Lines 57 - 81. …There my blessing with thee. And these few precepts
- Hamlet in Howth - The Ghost Avenger. Act 1.Sc. 5. Lines 1 - 111. …Whither wilt thou lead me.
- Hamlet in Howth - Favourite Character - Ophelia. Act 3. Sc. 1. Lines 152 - 163. … O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown..
- Hamlet in Howth - Fortinbras and Hamlet - Two contrasting mindsets. Act 4. Sc 4. Lines 9 - 65
- Hamlet in Howth - Ophelia's madness and Claudius's manipulation of Laertes's grief. Act 4. Sc. 5
- Hamlet in Howth - Laertes and Claudius plot their revenge. Act 4. Sc. 7. Lines 123 - 165
47 Hamlet in Howth - Favourite Quote Act 5. Sc 2 L215 -220…We defy augury. There's a special provide
The 1964 RTÉ production of Hamlet stars Michael Mac Liammóir playing the title role and Hilton Edwards, the director, playing Claudius.
Dráma le Darach Mac Con Iomaire faoi theaghlach a chuirtear trí na chéile agus duine acu i mbaol a bháis gan choinne.
An absorbing meditation exploring loneliness and dislocation through the life of Peig Sayers directed by Gorretti Slavin
Hecuba by Marina Carr Troy has fallen and the humiliated and bereaved, Hecuba, Trojan Queen wipes the blood of her slaughtered sons and grandsons off her body. As more sacrifice is demanded, how much more could one woman be asked to bear?
Sound recordist Chris Watson, Writer/Presenter Luke Clancy, Composer Irene Buckley, and Actor Kathy Rose O’Brien.
Wrapped by Tracy Martin, a finalist for Best European Drama in the 2019 BBC Audio Drama Awards.
A Family of Memories by Thomas Kilroy. In this week's Drama On One, another chance to hear his voice, as he reads from his memoir, in a radio version directed by Patrick Mason.
Alan and Eva, find themselves locked in the toilet of a house party in Dublin on New Year's Eve. Starring Seána Kerslake and Stephen Jones
In The Performance Corporation's opera version of James Joyce's The Dead, we travel with Gabriel & Greta Conroy to Usher's Island as guests of The Miss Morkams
A tribute to filmmaker and honorary Irish citizen, John Boorman, recorded shortly before his return to England in November 2022, after living for 53 years in his beloved home, The Glebe in County Wicklow.
In 1923 a little girl lost her doll in a Berlin park. She was comforted by the writer Franz Kafka – and that story is the inspiration for the play
Thomas Kilroy and Patrick Mason talked about the origin of Tom's radio play, a family of memories
The Wickedness of Oz by Kate Gilmore - musicals-obsessed Debbie, takes us on a magical journey and we share her dreams, dreads, her love, and her loss.
Mulligan by John O'Donnell starring Seána Kerslake poses the question. how far will a mother go to protect her son?
Bloody Writers by Charlie McCarthy is the story of a young writer, Niamh, who wins a residency at a Writer's Retreat.
In this episode of In the Wings, Writer John O'Donnell and actor Seána Kerslake talk about working on John's play Mulligan.
Skewed by Sarah-Jane Scott was a finalist in the 2023 Zeebie Awards for best radio drama script.
Winner of the 2023 Zebbie Award for Best Radio Script. The radio version of the acclaimed stage show. Written and performed by Joanne Ryan.
performed by Barry McGovern, and directed by Daniel Reardon. A Piece of Monologue is introduced by Gerry Dukes,
Gerry Dukes has been remembering his own meetings with the writer on numerous occasions in the 1980s.
The Beckett Season is made possible by the kind permission of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.
curated from a brace of Bowman Sunday Eight Thirty programmes made in 2006 celebrating the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth. In this program
Drama On One begins its Beckett Season with Watt, adapted and performed by Barry McGovern.
The story of a young woman's search for her mother. We follow Lizzy as she deceives her controlling father to journey to London.
A hurling love story set in Waterford. Janet Walsh (a hurling novice) journeys into the world of Ireland's beloved national sport in search for belonging.
In 2014 Poetry Ireland and the Peacock Theatre hosted a very special event, Eavan Boland in conversation with Paula Meehan to celebrate Eavan’s 70th birthday
Another chance to hear the voice of Ireland’s ‘keeper of language,’ Seamus Heaney in a Rattlebag Public Interview with Myles Dungan
Kazuo Ishiguro spoke to Myles Dungan in a Rattlebag public interview recorded in 2005, coinciding with the publication of his novel, Never Let Me Go.
Madame Cassandra by Edna O'Brien, is inspired by the sin of Envy, performed by Rosaleen Linehan (Mrs Gentleman) and Michael Collins (The Man)
Continuing Drama On One's Seven Deadly Sins series. Performed by Mark Lambert and introduced by the author.
In 2003, Pat McCabe was invited to give a Rattlebag Public Interview presented by Myles Dungan at the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire to coincide with the publication of his novel Call Me The Breeze.
In this Creatives in Conversation we hear Fiona Shaw's 2009 Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture entitled The Elephant and the Nightingale - the enduring nature of language in theatre
Mrs Covet is written by the American filmmaker and novelist, Rebecca Miller, and inspired by the sin of covetousness. The play stars Julianne Moore.
Pride Until The Girl Died is inspired by the sin of pride and written by Booker Prize winning author and Ireland's first ever Laureate for Fiction, Anne Enright.
In 2008, the Galway Film Fleadh, in association with the Irish Film & Television Academy, chose to pay special tribute to the legend of stage and screen that was Peter O'Toole
In 2014 Eavan gave her Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture addressing what must have been a deliberately provocative title: - Has Poetry A Future.
Continuing our Seven Ages of Man season, the late Niall Toibin stars as the ageing Shakespearean actor, who plays Touchstone in As You Like It.
As part of The Seven Ages of Man season The Time of The Hurry starring Stephen Rea is introduced by Patrick McCabe.
Tonight we continue The Seven Ages of Man season with The Soldier by Mannix Flynn and starring Brenda Fricker.
In this episode Myles Dungan speaks to 3 time Academy award winner for editing, Thelma Schoonmaker
Continuing our Seven Ages of Man Series with The Lover by Paula Meehan and performed by Lisa Lambe.
Brian Eno in Conversation with Sinéad Gleeson at Fitzpatrick's Hotel as part of The Dalkey Book Festival.
A stranger from the past drives into the yard of on an elderly couple. Is this seemingly benign intrusion the action of a man seeking to make atonement?
In this eloquent monologue, Rosaleen McDonagh explores themes of racism, identity, disability and marginalisation.
Hamlet, Prince of Derry adapted by Colin Murphy. A State in crisis. A royal family divided.
The story of the 11th hour escape from the Nazis in 1938, of Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha and their extended family.
In this episode, writer Ceara Carney and actors Kitty O'Sullivan and Lucy Miller talk about working on Ceara's play Frizzy Lizzy
Pat Kinevane plays Tapper, a hard-drinking man who has bestowed upon himself the title of The Last, High King of Ireland. The play took 1st place in the 2022 PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards.
Tonight, director Jessica Dromgoole and actors Clare Dunne and Angeline Ball talk about working on Arthur Sheridan's play Mixed Future, which was runner up at the 2022 PJ O’Connor awards, and is next week’s Drama On One
Writer Patrick Fogarty and actors Sharon Mannion and Pat Kinevane talk about working on Patrick's, The Last, High King of Ireland, winner of the PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Award
Bloody Writers is the story of a young writer, Niamh, who wins a residency at a Writer’s Retreat. When Niamh receives feedback on her short story ‘The Purple Hoodie’ - and we learn more about the inner monster within the young, aspiring writer.
In the episode, writer Charlie McCarthy and actors Risteard Cooper and Leesa Therman talk about working on Charlie's play Bloody Writers
Mouthpieces' by Eimear McBride. A radio work by the acclaimed author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing and The Lesser Bohemians
Wine from Greenland by Alejandro Niklison explores the meaning of society and identity in the search for absolute freedom.
In this black comedy we meet Titch a modern young protestant, who is keen to portray his own community and the twelfth of July in a more positive light.
A podcast producer finds a set of Marconi Code books and obsessively reads the codes twisting them into her own life story. The innovative drama charts a crumbling relationship.
Personal Space tells the story of a lonely young shop worker Helen who develops an unhealthy fascination with her charismatic new housemate Lola.
When Vanessa Redgrave visited RTÉ Radio on November the 29th 2007 as a guest of Amnesty International, she was interviewed in public by John Kelly.
From The Republic of Conscience by Seamus Heaney introduced and read by Vanessa Redgrave
John Boorman in a public interview with Myles Dungan for the RTE´ programme Rattlebag at The Irish Film Institute in 2003
Maude and Orla are sisters, and while Orla was lured by the bright lights of London, Maude stayed home. Reunited when the family dynamic changes, the sisters are forced to face the two things they fear most - themselves and each other. Starring Dawn Bradfield and Roseanna Purcell
In this episode of In the Wings we hear Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson and John Boorman talking about John’s play Domestic Robots, which we broadcast in tribute to John as he approaches four score and ten years. This programme was recorded in 2018.
Composer Daragh Dukes and Radio Producers Eoin O Kelly and Kevin Brew explore the nature of youthful creativity as they remember their participation in the Limerick band scene of the early 1990s.
In The Performance Corporation's opera version of James Joyce's The Dead, we travel with Gabriel & Greta Conroy to Usher's Island as guests of The Miss Morkams
Al McKenna stars as iconic broadcaster Terry Wogan in Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney
A sonic journey into the thoughts and poetic imagination of the late West Limerick poet Michael Hartnett. Directed and Researched by Dylan Tighe
Tragedy strikes and Happy Cullen is left waiting to be churched. In her liminal state Happy, suspended in a moment, battles with and entertains ghosts of past and present in order to step over the threshold and ultimately continue into her future.
Marion O’Dwyerstars as Muriel Denham lives alone since the death of ‘her’ Larry seven years previously. When Konstantin the mysterious Czech rents the downstairs flat, landlady Muriel considers seduction.
by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh & Yvonne Quinn. Winner of Best Radio Drama Script at the 2022 Writer's Guild of Ireland Zebbie Awards
Looking down the barrel of her final fertile years, one modern woman goes on a comical quest to uncover the ifs, hows and crucially the whys of reproducing her genes.
Young lovers Nora and Lennon bicker, giggle, sing and chat through their epic problems; travelling one way to Mars; the first Martian baby; moon signs v star sign and what to do about leggy Josie..
Yardstick: Saoirse Ronan stars as Laura in this sonic journey into the world of teenage bullying.
While writing the funeral eulogy for his estranged father, the past blows open for Stephen. Childhood memories of his time in America come flooding back. performed by Owen Roe.
Ahead of the publication of her memoir The State of Dark, the Dutch soprano, writer and vocal coach, Judith Mok, performs her radio piece, Confinements.
Wee Black Bees by Little John Nee, originally commissioned as part of Drama On One’s Science Season. In this drama, we join blues musician, Sparkplug, as he grapples with heartbreak, the welfare of bee populations and the writings of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger.
It's Oscar Night and an escaped felon needs shelter and some quick cash! Starring Maire Hastings Áine Ní Mhuirí & Emmet Kirwan.
Primroses le Colm Mac Con Iomaire: A beautiful and sensitive reflection on the relationships between sons and fathers, who themselves become fathers to sons.
In this edition of In the Wings we hear Bosco Hogan, Colin Campbell, Kate Gilmore and Éanna Grogan discussing Nick Midgley’s play Bloomsday, recorded this year as part the Ulysses centenary. In The Wings is produced by Kevin Reynolds.
A beautiful and sensitive reflection on the relationships between sons and fathers, who themselves become fathers to sons, in an audio memoir of Colm’s three month stay, as a ten-year-old, on Inis Meáin.
Wine from Greenland by Alejandro Niklison explores the meaning of society and identity in the search for absolute freedom. Featuring Charlie Bonner, Frankie McCafferty and Donna Anita Nikolaisen
Escapism and Dime Novels’ by Gerard Frexis Ribera tell the story of two writers, both working in a Spanish prison in the reign of General Franco - but on different sides of the bars. Featuring a cast hailing from Spain, El Salvador, Chile and San Francisco
The Art of Foot-Binding: Inspired by a classroom discussion of foot-binding, Becky experiments with the ancient practice at home, while family ties are stretched to breaking point.
The regime’s censors say Franco’s Spain is an absolutely paradise and there’s no crime at all - but as a prison guard, Carlos knows better.
The Butcher Boy is Back. Francie Brady released from prison now inhabits a form of rarefied space returning from God's knows where to the place where he once ruled the roost
Pat McCabe, Joe O'Byrne, Nick Dunning and John D Ruddy speak about their work and Brady the Revenant by Pat McCabe
Christy Doyle an Elvis Impersonator reminisces on the life and death of the King of Rock n' Roll and the enormous influence it had on Christy's life in 70's Dublin.
Greta at the Gresham by Bernard Farrell: Boy meets girl in a brief encounter on an ancient island and again in the lobby of a Dublin hotel featuring Bryan Murray and Dawn Bradfield
Remembering the late Sean Kenny, internationally acclaimed set designer. Producer Aidan Mathews
Featuring Charlene McKenna, John D Ruddy, Louise Lewis, Kate Gilmore, David Pearse, Enda Oates, Tara Lynne O'Neill and Helen Norton
The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge, adapted by Joe O'Byrne starring Stanley Townsend and Brendan Conroy
World renowned theatre director Peter Brook talking to John Kelly. This interview was recorded in 2007 in association with the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Every man has an obsession, for some it’s golf, for others gaming, some go the gym, but for Joe it’s glue, well superglue, and the dream of gold and glory at the Interational Plastic Modellers Society, Ireland
Ulysses - Penelope: Playwright Michael West introduces the Penelope episode of Ulysses to conclude this short season celebrating the centenary of Joyce's masterpiece.
Ulysses - Ithaca: Playwright Michael West introduces an excerpt from the Ithaca episode of Ulysses in this short season celebrating the centenary of Joyce's masterpiece.
Celebrating the centenary of Ulysses. Bosco Hogan stars in this dramatised account of the relationship between James Joyce and his brother Stanislaus
Ulysses - Cyclops: Playwright Michael West introduces the Cyclops episode from Joyce's Ulysses in this short season celebrating the centenary of Joyce's masterpiece.
Ulysses - Calypso: Playwright Michael West introduces the famous episode from Joyce's Ulysses in this short season celebrating the centenary of Joyce's masterpiece.
Radio Carla invites us to listen to the intimate audio-cassette confession of a former and forgotten lover in a deathbed testimony to her surviving sweetheart from the other side of time and space.
Bombshell written by Fiona Looney, a radio play about a cancelled first night when a debutante came to the dowager town of Tralee.
Jack and Deirdre are happily married, well sort of. After a little tension creeps in they decide to surprise each another! Starring Stephen Brennan, Janet Moran, Peter Gaynor, Venetia Bowe and Bryan Murray
The Gallant John Joe by Tom Mac Intyre. In memory of Tom Hickey one of Ireland's best known, best loved, most respected and dedicated actors who passed away on 1st May 2021.
No Love Lost is written & directed by Dylan Tighe, and stars Thomas Collins and Gina Moxley. Exploring a relationship between a young Traveller man and an older woman from Dublin 4
Writer/Perfomer Zoë Comyns talks to Drama On One producer Kevin Brew about her play Marconi & Me, a love story told through morse code and a history of sound.
Quicksand by Elizabeth Moynihan brings to life the story of a woman who will stop at nothing to protect her son.
No One Ever Asked Me That; 2022 and women are reclaiming themselves. Women have the right to choose. But that doesn't mean we are all choosing the same thing.
Othello - Act 1 Sc.1. Favourite Quote. “I follow him to serve my turn upon him”. (1.1.)
- Othello - Roderigo's racism “What a full fortune does the Thick-lips owe If he can carry’t thus!” (Act 1, Scene 1, line66)
- Othello - Sample Answer on "Jealousy is one of the predominant themes in Othello" by teacher John Lydon
- Othello - Iago fuels Othello’s jealousy (Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio; Wear your eyes thus, not jealous nor secure. Act 3, Scene 3)
- Othello - Desdemona explains her love of Othello to Brabantio "My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education." (Act 1, Scene 3)
- Othello - Sample Answer on "Discuss the struggle between Good versus Evil in Shakespeare’s Othello" by teacher Joanne Butler.
- Othello - Actors Peter Macon (Othello) and Marty Rea (Iago) discuss the 2016 Abbey Theatre production of Shakespeare’s Othello directed by Joe Dowling (5 May - 11 June 2016), other Shakespearean roles they have played and Shakespeare on film.
- Othello - Iago sets up the dismissal of Cassio and reveals he too loves Desdemona Act 2 Scene 1, lines 265 -
- Othello - Act 3, Scene 3. Favourite Quote. In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona, Let us be wary, let us hide our loves.' And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand
- Othello - Act 2, Scene 1 lines 291. Wife for wife. Iago obsession that he is cuckolded by Othello and Cassio - Now, I do love her too; Not out of absolute lust, though peradventure I stand accountant for as great a sin, But partly led to diet [feed] my revenge
- Othello - Act 3, Scene 3. Line 289. Favourite Quote. My life upon her faith! Honest Iago
- Othello - Act 2 Sc3 Line 220 Favourite Quote. I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio
- Othello - Act 2, Scene 3. Line 27. Iago’s ingenuity at plotting every opportunity to destroy those he hates. He exploits Cassio’s weakness for drink.
- Othello - Act 2 Scene 3 Line 171 Iago condemns Cassio by telling the truth. For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl.
24.Othello - Sample Answer. Discuss the Theme of Appearance and Reality in Shakespeare’s Othello by teacher Frank Cleary
- Othello - Act 2 Scene 3 Line 283 Iago, using weaknesses as weapons, persuades Cassio to ask Desdemona’s help.
- Othello - Act 3, Scene 3. Line 90. Iago’s use of repetition to manipulate thought, reputation and implant doubt and jealousy
35.Othello - Act 4 Scene 1 Line 178. Desdemona’s fate is sealed. How shall I murder him, Iago? Othello swears also to kill his wife this night, he curses her and weeps over her at the same time, mingling love and murder: for she shall not live; no, my heart is turned to stone
- Othello - Sample Answer on Desdemona’s character is not credible. She is simply too good to be true by teacher Kenneth Crann
- Othello - Act 3 Scene 3 Line 381 Repetition of the word ‘think’. Imputation and strong circumstance mean Cassio (and Desdemona) must die
- Othello - 3 Favourite Quotes - Act 1 Scenes 2 & 3 ‘ a foul thief’ - Act 4, Scene 1 ‘Let her rot and perish’. Act 1 Scene 3 ‘she has deceived her father and may thee’
- Othello - Act 3, Scene 4. Othello eloquently outlines the Egyptian’s Warning about the handkerchief and pushes Desdemona to lie
- Othello - Favourite quote - Act 1, Scene 1. Line 86. Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise
- Othello - Favourite quote - Act 1 Scene 3 Line 95 A maiden never bold, Of spirit so still and quiet
- Othello - Favourite quote - Act 4 Scene 1 line 264 Lodovico - Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate, Call all-in-all sufficient?
- Othello - Act 4 Scene 2 - line 34 Othello accuses Desdemona of adultery. Come, swear it, damn thyself. Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves. Should fear to seize thee. Therefore be double damned.
- Othello - Act 4 Scene 2 line 139 The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave, Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
- Othello - Act 5 Scene 2 line 1 Othello’s indecision. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars.
- Othello - Discuss the importance of Othello’s transformation in the Temptation Scene (Act 3, Scene 3) by teacher Claire McWilliams
- Othello - Overture voiced by the RTÉ REP including Harry Andrews, Jim Reid and Colette Proctor. The music is Hawkmoon 269 by U2
Othello by William Shakespeare Performed by The RTÉ Rep - first broadcast on 24 September 1985.
Write Your Mind is a play about Youth Mental Health. The play was devised by the Jigsaw Offaly Service in partnership with Offaly Youth Theatre, with Eugene O’Brien as Writing Consultant and Angela Ryan Whyte as Director
Hamlet, Prince of Derry adapted by Colin Murphy. Directed by Conall Morrison Performed by Stage Beyond Theatre Company, And with an original score by Si Schroeder Produced by Kevin Brew
In the Wings Niall Tóibín reads Pearse's panegyric over the grave of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa.
Hecuba by Marina Carr. Starring Derbhle Crotty as Hecuba ,Declan Conlon as Agamemnon with Aoibhinn McGinnity, Danielle Galligan, Enda Oates ,Ollie West.
When Mel finds herself back in Ireland from London, in the middle of a pandemic, talking through a nursing home window to her mother. she’s forced to confront why she fled. Winner Best Radio Script Zebbie Awards 2021..
The Baptiste Programme, Smock Alley’s ambitious initiative to develop new dramatic writing with Irish writers of colour.This edition features writers, C.N. Smith and Kwaku Fortune.
Skewed by Sarah-Jane Scott directed by Tom Creed with Dawn Bradfield and Roseanna Purcell.
Maude and Orla are sisters, now back together again the family dynamic changes forever. A finalist in the 2020 PJ O'Connor awards starring Dawn Bradfield & Roseanna Purcell, directed by Tom Creed.
Lucy Ryan, Director of Programming and Finance at Smock Alley Theatre and Dramaturg, Pamela McQueen talk about The Baptiste Programme, Smock Alley’s ambitious initiative to develop new dramatic writing with Irish writers of colour.
Sound designer Jimmy Eadie and music pioneer and DJ Donal Dineen join forces to create '100' for Drama on One; a 1916 soundscape weaving archive, music and spoken word together.
In this episode we hear Writer Sarah-Jane Scott, actor Roseanna Purcell and director Tom Creed speak about working on Sarah-Jane's radio play Skewed
A six-part series of programmes where presenter Professor Declan Kiberd talks to guests about their personal response to James Joyce,. Episode 1 Katherine O'Callaghan, Joyce Scholar and musician Producer Bernadette Comerford
A six-part series of programmes where presenter Professor Declan Kiberd talks to guests about their personal response to James Joyce,. Episode 2. Fritz Senn Producer Bernadette Comerford
A six-part series of programmes where presenter Professor Declan Kiberd talks to guests about their personal response to James Joyce,. Episode 3. Vivienne Igoe Producer Bernadette Comerford
A six-part series of programmes where presenter Professor Declan Kiberd talks to guests about their personal response to James Joyce,. Episode 4. Edna O'Brien. Producer Bernadette Comerford
A six-part series of programmes where presenter Professor Declan Kiberd talks to guests about their personal response to James Joyce,. Episode 5. Joseph O'Connor. Producer Bernadette Comerford
A six-part series of programmes where presenter Professor Declan Kiberd talks to guests about their personal response to James Joyce,. Episode 6. Andrew Gibson . Producer Bernadette Comerford
The Silent Passenger by Ronan Brady, tells the story of Sigmund Freud's escape from the Nazis on June 4th 1938. Barry Mc Govern plays Freud and Stephen Brennan is Carl Jung.
The story of the 11th hour escape from the Nazis in 1938, of Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha and their extended family. Directed by Daniel Reardon
Written by Ronan Brady the play chronicles the hasty departure of Sigmund Freud, his wife, Martha, and their daughter Anna from Vienna in 1938.
Annie Ryan, artistic director of The Corn Exchange Theatre Company, writer, translator & adaptor Michael West,& actor and writer Patrick Dawson, cycle through their experiences, joys and challenges in staging and airing the various stories in James Joyce’s Dubliners
In this 1980 RTÉ production Daniel Reardon plays Richard Rowan and his wife Bertha is played by Barbara McCaughey. Produced by Tim Danaher.
In this black comedy we meet Titch a modern young protestant, who is keen to portray his own community and the twelfth of July in a more positive light.
Actors Killian Scott, Stephen Hogan, Morgan C. Jones talk about working on The United States versus Ulysses by Colin Murphy broadcast as part of Drama On One’s centenary celebration of the publication (in Paris on February 2nd, 1922) of James Joyce’s Ulysses
In this episode of In the Wings actors Eleanor Methven, Micheal Liebmann and Gerard McCabe speak about their work on stage, screen and on air and working on Gary Mitchell's new play Tubes for Drama on One. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
stranger from the past drives into the yard of on an elderly couple. Is this seemingly benign intrusion the action of a man seeking to make atonement and bring justice, or wreak havoc on the lives of the couple?"
In Memory of the Poet Thomas Kinsella who died 22nd December 2022. A great friend of Drama on One
In Memory of the late Thomas Kinsella a poet of outstanding humanity, depth and feeling. written in response to the 'response' to Bloody Sunday, Derry 30th January 1972 introduced and read by the author
Digging For Fire: Daragh Dukes, Eoin O Kelly & Kevin Brew explore the nature of youthful creativity as they remember their participation in the Limerick band scene of the early 90s
Writer Dermot Bolger, director Eithne Hand and actors Donncha Crowley, Helen Roche and Tatianna Ouliankina sepak about their work on Dermot's play Morning Coffee.
Part 1 -Taking place on Nollaig na mBan at 15 Usher's Island, The Miss Morkan's annual dance was always a great affair. It’s after 10’o clock when their favourite nephew Gabriel Conroy and his wife Greta arrive.
Part 2 - Taking place on Nollaig na mBan at 15 Usher's Island, The dancing has begun, the party is warming up as more guests arrive. Fearing an incident, however, Aunt Kate dispatches Gabriel to chaperone Freddy Malins.
Taking place on Nollaig na mBan at 15 Usher's Island and having successfully manoeuvred Freddy Malins upstairs, Gabriel’s irritation increases as his dancing partner, Miss Ivors, teases him gently, but relentlessly.
Taking place on Nollaig na mBan at 15 Usher's Island and Gabriel listens absent-mindedly to Mrs Malins account of her travels in Scotland. As preparations for supper begin, he anxiously runs over the headings of his speech
Taking place on Nollaig na mBan at 15 Usher's Island and Gabriel, settled at the head of the table, carves and distributes plates of goose meat to the guests. While he eats in silence, the talk turns to opera and the great singers of the past, Caruso and Parkinson
Taking place on Nollaig na mBan at 15 Usher's Island and after port and sherry are passed around, silence descends on the table. Gabriel pushes back his chair and stands up nervously to speak.
Taking place on Nollaig na mBan at 15 Usher's Island, and the party is winding down, cabs are hailed and all the guests are leaving. Gabriel waits in the hall for Greta to come down but she is transfixed, leaning on the bannister listening to an old song.
Taking place on Nollaig na mBan at 15 Usher's Island and D’Arcy’s singing of The Lass of Aughrim has left Gretta pensive and preoccupied - a mood that remains with her as she and Gabriel share a cab to The Gresham Hotel
Taking place on Nollaig na mBan at 15 Usher's Island, Gabriel and Gretta have arrived at The Gresham Hotel. As the night porter leads them to their room, Gabriel is perplexed by Gretta’s abstraction and wonders is she annoyed about something.
Usher's Island, The Miss Morkan's annual dance was always a great affair. Gabriel and Gretta are in their room in the Gresham Hotel and Gabriel finally learns of the old secret love wound his wife has nursed. Gazing out the window as snow softly falls all over Ireland, he experiences his own epiphany
Islands: Chris Watson teams up with Writer/Presenter Luke Clancy, Composer Irene Buckley and Actor Kathy Rose O'Brien to journey across an atlas of remote islands.
Wogan's Sweet Sixteen By Kenneth Sweeney with Al McKenna as Terry Wogan. Winner 2nd Prize, 2020 PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards
In this episode of In the Wings we hear musician Finbar Furey, writer Kenneth Sweeney and actor Al Mc Kenna talking about working on Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney,
Winner of the PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards 2020 and starring Pauline McLynn, Frankie McCafferty, Noni Stapleton, John D Ruddy, Joan Sheehy & Joe Taylor
A Proper Da by Maeve Ingoldsby tells the story of Johnny, formerly a homeless heroin addict who is trying to put the past behind him
PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards Winner 2020 starring Pauline McLynn & Frankie McCafferty
Johnny (Phelim Drew), formerly a homeless heroin addict who is trying to put the past behind him. He wants to get to know his children and to be a proper father, but when people have long memories it’s not easy to win trust again. And Johnny’s tendency to shoot his mouth off doesn’t help.
Sibling sister assassins-for-hire, Mel and Lu, have just turned up at the location for their very last kill. Starring Nyree Yergainharsian, Rebecca Grimes & David Pearse
Tracy Martin's debut play Wrapped is a comedy with a sharp edge that explores the unlikely symbiotic friendship that develops between two women
Limekiln Lane written & performed by Louise Lewis & directed by Gorretti Slavin is a powerful first-person depiction of domestic violence in lockdown. We listen in as one brave woman reaches out for help.
a lonely young shop worker Helen develops an unhealthy fascination with her charismatic new housemate Lola. Stars Evanna Lynch
On the last night of a spectacularly unsuccessful tour of Macbeth, the lead actor sits in his dressing room trying to work out where it all went wrong.
In this Episode Évanna Lynch, India Mullen Mairéad Kiernan and Emmet Kirwan speak about their lives on stage and on screen and discuss working on Mairéad's play Personal Space. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
In this episode actor and writer Chris McHallem and director Conall Morrisson speak about their work on stage and on air. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
by Bairbre NíChaoimh & Yvonne Quinn. In this episode actor and writer Bairbre Ní Chaoimh & actor & director Joan Sheehy talk about their work on stage and on air.
Performed by Chris McHallem and directed by Conall Morrison. On the last night of an unsuccessful tour of Macbeth, the lead actor sits in his dressing room trying to work out where it all went wrong.
by Bairbre NíChaoimh & Yvonne Quinn. Bringing Ireland's first celebrity chef & all round trailblazer, Maura Laverty back to RTÉ where she spent over 30 years presenting her own radio show.
Starring Thomas Collins and Gina Moxley. The play explores a relationship between a young Traveller man and an older woman
we continue ourseason with the third of four plays written by Maeve Binchy. First broadcast in 2006, ‘Democratic Decision’ by Maeve Binchy stars Colette Proctor, Daphne Carroll and Pegg Monahan.
INFANCY by Maeve Binchy followed by Maeve Binchy and Myles Dungan in Public Interview in The National Concert Hall, Dublin, 2002.
In 2013 RTÉ Producer Sarah Binchy synthesised what her wise aunt taught her about life. “Be More Maeve!” is voiced by RTÉ colleagues Sharon Ní Bheoláin, Áine Lawlor, Kathryn Thomas, Brenda Donohue, Áine Kerr, Emer Horgan and Sinéad Mooney.
First broadcast in 2006, as part of a Human Rights Season (suggested and supported by Maeve through Amnesty International director Sean Love), Golden Oldie My Arse took a comic tilt at Ageism.
First broadcast in 2006, Eithne, Kitty and Maggie are approaching four score years, and are thinking of a celebration.. However, their respective families are less than enthusiastic. There is only one thing to be done - make a democratic decision!
First broadcast in 2007 and recorded in Galway during the Film Fleadh. Maria returns to Ireland for the first time since leaving in 1976, aged 17. There is one unresolved issue to settle - if possible. Her nephew Fergal is detailed as her chauffeur. After a rocky start, they embark on a road trip from Dublin to Galway.
First broadcast in 2005 as part of a 'Seven Ages of Man' series. This the story of baby Fintan, an infant savant, who understands everything, but has a problem communicating.
In 2002 Maeve decided to channel her inner Sinatra and, after two years of retirement, emerged triumphantly in this public interview with Myles Dungan.
As part of our Maeve Binchy Season, Maeve’s husband of 35 years, writer Gordon Snell tells us a little about himself, and reflects on life with Maeve.
Sorry Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher directed by one of Ireland's leading theatre directors and Tony Award winning Garry Hynes.
Druid Theatre members, director Garry Hynes and actors Marie Mullen, Brian Doherty and Seán McGinley speak about their careers and working on Sorry Wrong Number by Lucille Flecther for Drama on One
Swept Under the Carpet by Sarah McKenna: Jamie is the story's narrator. A ten-year-old, autistic, bird-watching enthusiast who loves black currant squash.
We continue our season of summer Sundays with the RTÉ Players dramatisation of stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Tonight we broadcast two more classic stories - Clay and Ivy Day in the Committee Room
Drama on One continues its Summer of Dubliners with A Painful Case and A Mother by James Joyce
RTÉ Players dramatisation of stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Tonight, two masterpieces in miniature - After the Race & Counterparts
RTÉ Players dramatisation of stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Tonight, two masterpieces in miniature - Eveline & A Little Cloud
RTÉ Players dramatisation of stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Tonight, two masterpieces in miniature -Two Gallants and The Boarding House
To mark his 90th birthday, today Sunday June 20th , we hear Kevin and the late Barry Cassin in ‘The Quiet Land’ by Malachy Mc Kenna.
The fifteenth story in James Joyce’s Dubliners. Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and later, as he speaks with his wife, has an epiphany about the nature of life and death. At 15–16,000 words this story has also been classified as a novella.
This is the fourteenth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. After Mr. Kernan injures himself falling down the stairs in a bar, his friends try to reform him through Catholicism.
This is the thirteenth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Mrs Kearney tries to win a place of pride for her daughter, Kathleen, in the Irish cultural movement, by starring her in a series of concerts, but ultimately fails.
This is the twelfth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Minor politicians fail to live up to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell.
The eleventh story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Mr Duffy rebuffs Mrs Sinico, then, four years later, realises that he has condemned her to loneliness and death.
The tenth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. The spinster Maria, a laundress, celebrates Halloween with her former foster child Joe Donnelly and his family.
The ninth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Farrington, a lumbering alcoholic scrivener, takes out his frustration in pubs and on his son Tom.
The eighth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Little Chandler's dinner with his old friend Ignatius Gallaher casts fresh light on his own failed literary dreams. The story also reflects on Chandler's mood upon realising that his baby son has replaced him as the centre of his wife's affections.
The seventh story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Mrs Mooney successfully manoeuvres her daughter Polly into an upwardly mobile marriage with her lodger Mr Doran.
The sixth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Two con men, Lenehan and Corley, find a maid who is willing to steal from her employer.
The fifth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. College student Jimmy Doyle tries to fit in with his wealthy friends.
The fourth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. A young woman weighs her decision to flee Ireland with a sailor.
The third story in James Joyce's Dubliners. A boy falls in love with the sister of his friend, but fails in his quest to buy her a worthy gift from the Araby bazaar.
The second story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Two schoolboys playing truant encounter a perverted, middle-aged man.
The opening story in James Joyce's Dubliners. After the priest Father Flynn dies, a young boy who was close to him and his family, deals with his death superficially.
The United States versus Ulysses by Colin Murphy Directed by Conall Morrison. With original music by Si Schroeder.
In tribute to Tom Hickey on his month’s mind, In this episode we hear the voices of Producer and composer Bill Whelan and Lee Hickey, son of the late Tom talking about the two Toms - Hickey and McIntyre The Gallant John Joe by Tom McIntyre was broadcast in tribute to Tom Hickey on his month’s mind. Listen back here
Written & devised by Louise Lewis, Nyree Yergainharsian and Gorretti Slavin 2021 and women are reclaiming themselves. They have the right to choose. But that doesn't mean they are all choosing the same thing. Supported by real stories from real women, this play follows Jenny and Claire's opposite journeys along the same path.
Composer Daragh Dukes and Radio Producers Eoin O Kelly and Kevin Brew explore the nature of youthful creativity as they remember their participation in the Limerick band scene of the early 1990s.
The Wickedness of Oz written and performed by Kate Gilmore. A day in the life of day-dreaming, musicals-obsessed Debbie, brings you on a journey that is as magical as it is real...
Eating Seals and Seagulls' Eggs written by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú. The play is an absorbing meditation exploring loneliness and dislocation through the life of Peig Sayers
Otherness and isolation are universal experiences, but ones that some experience more than others. Quicksand brings to life the story of a woman who will stop at nothing to protect her son. Starring Donna Dent & Rex Ryan
Jack and Deirdre are happily married ... well sort of. After a little tension creeps in (on whether Leixlip is a centre of medical excellence or not) ... they decide to ... surprise each another!
This episode features the voices of actors Stephen Brennan, Bryan Murray, Janet Moran, Venetia Bowe and Peter Gaynor talking about "The Wedding Anniversary" by Bernard Farrell
Continuing with our season of Long Story Short, this week's offering is Rainbow Baby written by John O'Donnell and starring Aoibhinn McGinnity & directed by Gorretti Slavin
three dramatic texts explore Love, Joy and Peace through the words of Martin Luther King and Thomas Kinsella
Based on true events this dark tale centres around the death of 3-year-old Annie Slavin in Armagh in 1888.
My Name is Saoirse, written and performed by Eva O'Connor, is a bitter-sweet story of a 15-year-old girl coming of age in 1980's Ireland.
Marking the anniversary of the first lockdown in Ireland in response to the pandemic, Drama On One presents a selection from its ongoing season of new Irish writing.
Confession by Felix Mitterer sees a man enter a confessional seeking absolution. But the is priest within, completely without sin.
Starring Kathy Rose O'Brien - On the night the clocks go back, a pianist prepares for another working week in lockdown
a fictionalised account of a story that stormed the airwaves and gripped the nation almost three decades ago. It is 1987: A story of murder. Gerry Ryan has killed a lamb! Kind of. Maybe……
100 by Donal Dineen and Jimmy Eadie. A 1916 soundscape weaving archive, music and spoken word together.
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, the Dutch soprano, writer and vocal coach, Judith Mok performs her radio memoir, Confinements.
To mark Aidan's retirement RTÉ Drama On One will broadcast Aidan's short play 'A Pathetic Fallacy', starring Karen Ardiff. 'John Boorman's - Editor Aidan Mathews Nature Diary - One Eye and One Finger'. Also Sound Effects in a Studio" a poem by Aidan Mathews Presented and Produced by Kevin Reynolds.
A mother needs someone to talk to; the answering machine at Trampolineland will have to do. A tragicomic voice-message in the time of the pandemic, written and performed by Norma Sheahan
Another chance to hear Christie, written by Seán O'Gorman. The play won 1st Place in the PJ O'Connor Awards 2019
Tonight's Drama on One is a dramatic narration of John Boorman's 'Nature Diary' , performed by the author, Produced by Kevin Reynolds
a surreal comedy about love, longing and one woman’s intense rivalry with a Charolais heifer.Siobhan is looking for love but there are obstacles to her achieving it, one of which happens to be a terribly beautiful Charolais Heifer, who appears to be vying for the affections of Siobhan’s fella.
Starring Stephen Jones and Seána Kerslake. Directed by Karl Shiels. Production supervision & dramaturgy by Gorretti Slavin. In memory of Karl Shiels, a valued friend, colleague and collaborator. Ar dheis De go raibh a anam.
Vampirella, an erotic take on a neurotic tale by a frisky feminist, drinks from a different chalice than its lethal Victorian predecessor, mixing the wines of bloodlust, thirst, and libido, in a sumptuous skit. With Cathryn Brennan as Vampirella, David Heap as Jonathan Harker, and Aiden Grennell as Count Dracula.
With Owen Roe as Jim, Deirdre Donnelly as Christa, and Kathy-Rose O'Brien as their sole child and only intermediary, Peter Sirr's play probes the state of wedlock
From Ross Island to Galapagos to the possibly mythical isle of HyBrasil, world renowned sound recordist Chris Watson teams up with Writer/Presenter Luke Clancy, to journey across an atlas of remote islands.
Broadcast by kind permission of the Estate of Samuel Beckett. Adapted from the radio play La Manivelle by Robert Pinget Starring Barry McGovern as Cream and Eamon Morrissey as Gorman. Directed by Conall Morrison.
Eamon Morrissey and Barry McGovern feature speaking about their work on The Old Tune by Samuel Beckett, adapted from the radio play La Manivelle by Robert Pinget directed by Conall Morrison Produced by Kevin Reynolds
Starring Seána Kerslake and Stephen Jones When a writer receives a commission during lock-down, he struggles to come up with the right idea. Pandemic stories seem too big and important for him to be the one to tell.
starring Owen Roe. While writing the funeral eulogy for his estranged father the past blows open for Stephen. Childhood memories of his time in America, where he forged a deep and everlasting bond with his cousin Toby, come flooding back.
A radio companion to his ongoing audio series, imagining close encounters in the time of the pandemic.
Stánann sé suas ón deasca, feiscint 'bhfuil fáth leis an dtost míshuaimhneach.Ní féidir dearmad a dhéanamh go brách. We all became walkers when the virus struck.
Adapted by Colin Murphy, Directed by Conall Morrison , Performed by Stage Beyond Theatre Company, And with an original score by Si Schroeder
Hamlet, Prince of Derry by Colin Murphy after William Shakespeare. Directed by Conall Morrison , Performed by Stage Beyond Theatre Company, And with an original score by Si Schroeder
A woman of a certain age and of a most uncertain spirit frets in bittersweet free-fall over her two adult children as their mishaps mount. Starring Karen Ardiff
Like it or not, Enda has to euthanize the infirm family dog, but his senile mother's calling for her pet pooch from her bedroom in the retirement home. Ciarán Hinds is the pained yet po-faced first-born son
Muriel Denham lives alone since the death of ‘her’ Larry seven years previously. When Konstantin the mysterious Czech rents the downstairs flat, landlady Muriel considers seduction. Written by Liz Nugent, starring Marion O'Dwyer and directed by Gorretti Slavin
Continuing our season of new writing, Drama on One presents The Monument by Joe O’Byrne and starring David Herlihy.
Drama on One presents another chance to hear, Kicking all the Boxes written & performed by Liz Fitzgibbon.
After a decade of living it up and haven’ the craic, Sharon returns to her mother, her roots and begins to feel cornered into following everyone else by getting married, buying a house and having a baby. Irene Kelleher, Marie O’Donovan and Mark Lawrence star
Drama on One presents another chance to hear the play which took 1st Place in the the PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards 2018. The winning play is Ma written by Elaine Murphy.
a precarious wartime romance Featuring Ruth McGill, Sam McGovern, Rosaleen Linehan and Joe Taylor
written & performed by Sharon Mannion, featuring Joe Taylor and Sue Collins, directed by Gorretti Slavin
Good Night Irene by Jennifer Johnston. Featuring Enda Oates and Roger Gregg directed by Gorretti Slavin
Starring Stephen Rea and written and directed by the internationally acclaimed author, David Zane Mairowitz.
Swept Under the Carpet by Sarah McKenna The play was runner up in the PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards 2019
The Art of Foot-Binding’ by Danielle McLaughlin A radio version of Danielle’s short story of the same name.
The play took 3rd place in the PJ O'Connor Awards 2019. Featuring Stephen Jones, Séana Kerslake, Christian Schlaubitz, Louise Lewis, Enda Oates, David Pearse and directed by Gorretti
Another chance to hear the radio version of the hit stage-comedy A Holy Show by Janet Moran.
Quiet City a radio play première by novelist Philip Davison with Ciarán Hinds as Richard Meadows and Olwen Fouéré as Virginia Coates. Producer Aidan Mathews
A special feature to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2020. Seventeen Trees by Jennifer Johnston followed at 8.10pm by Auschwitz - An Echo Trapped Forever. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
In the year of his 20th anniversary, Drama On One presents a tribute to a giant of Irish theatre, Donal McCann.
Marking Donal McCann's 20th anniversary, another chance to hear him in the radio adaptation of Tarry Flynn by Patrick Kavanagh, first presented in 1979. Part two of two.
A radio-adaptation of the novel by P.J. O'Connor. Donal McCann plays Tarry Flynn in a famous adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh's autobiographical novel, which was also the inaugural production at the new Abbey Theatre when it re-opened in 1965.
A Drama On One tribute to Niall Tóibín - actor, comedian, mimic and raconteur - - a maestro of the stage, the screen, and the airwaves.
Christie by Sean O'Gorman - 1st Place PJ O'Connor Awards 2019. Centered around the lives of Marie & Joey from the Liberties in Dublin, tells a contemporary tale of family and home
Featuring Kathy Rose O’Brien, Rory Keenan, Eamon Morrissey,Brendan Gleeson,Marion O’Dwyer, Helen,Norton, Stephen Rea, Enda Oates
As part of Climate Week, RTÉ Drama On One presents a radio essay - The Department of Ultimology - by artist Fiona Hallinan & Kate Strain.
another chance to hear Mr Sun by Gillian Grattan (in memory of Pat Laffan who passed away this year)
Another chance to hear Hecuba written by Marina Carr, Starring Derbhle Crotty and Declan Conlon Troy has fallen and the humiliated and bereaved, Hecuba, Trojan Queen wipes the blood of her slaughtered sons and grandsons off her body.
Sa eagrán sin do 'In The Wings' chuala sibh guthanna scríobhnóir agus léiritheoir Darach Mac Con Iomaire agus an aisteoir Bríd Ní Neachtain.
An Aer Lingus Plane, a bottle of holy water and an ex Trappist Monk - a real Irish hijacking!
The Department of Ultimology a radio essay by artist Fiona Hallinan, curator Kate Strain, writer Barry Edward Fitzgerald, and with an original soundtrack by Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh. Ultimology is the study of endings, and the essay ranges across multiple disciplines;
Clara's anything but, in Joe O'Byrne's new radio-play. Her name may mean clear, bright and famous in Old Latin, but, in modern English, this sad stand-up artiste must take it lying down: starring Claire Barrett as Clara
Another chance to hear Northern Lights by Stephen Jones which was directed by Karl Shiels. Karl who sadly passed away in June this year was a valued friend, colleague and collaborator. Ar dheis De go raibh a anam.
A drama offering a uniquely placed insight into the chaos of family dynamics in the face of illness. Featuring Nyree Yergainharsian, Helen Norton, Enda Oates and Manus Halligan, directed by Gorretti Slavin
an intimate love letter commemorating the lives of a working family pursuing their dreams over several generations in America’s rust belt. Playwright and composer Roger Gregg weaves his signature blend of storytelling, poetry, music and song
Sibling sister assassins-for-hire, Mel and Lu, have just turned up at the location for their very last kill - Armed with two guns, one switchblade knife and enough attitude to ensure that the overly inquisitive barkeep is not going to give them the runaround.
A play about Youth Mental Health - monologues devised by writers with young people. The play was devised by the JIGSAW Offaly Service in partnership with Offaly Youth Theatre
A drama offering a uniquely placed insight into the chaos of family dynamics in the face of illness. You’d Better Sit Down is inspired by the real life events of Sona Yergainharsian and her blog lymphsona.blogspot.com
Nyree Yergainharsian and Manus Halligan talk about working on Nyree's play You'd Better Sit Down for Drama on One
this weeks In The Wings hears the voices of writer Joe O' Byrne and actors Clare Barrett and Peter Daly talking about working on Joe's play "Fish Climbing Trees"
Oedipus by Derek Mahon after Sophocles' King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus With Stephen Rea in the title role
Oedipus by Derek Mahon after Sophocles' King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus With Stephen Rea in the title role
Featuring Aoife Duffin, Mouthpieces divides into three miniature plays, each depicting a fragment of female experience, all of them in the author's vivid, original and sharp-witted style.
Tonight writer Eimear McBride and actor Aoife Duffin discuss Mouthpieces - Eimear's triptych of miniature plays, each depicting a fragment of female experience.
Writer & actor Stephen Jones, Actor Séana Kerslake and Director Karl Shiels talk about working on Northern Lights by Stephen Jo
Hannah Brennan is 15 and living in a small close knit community. Sure, she has friends, but no one understands her and no one will listen to her- except for the Statue of The Blessed Virgin at The Grotto.
Playwright and performer Irene Kelleher and poet Paula Meehan discuss Irene's play 'Mary and Me'.
A story of slow conversion, from solitariness to a sense of solidarity with the ordeal of the world, Mr Sun by Gillian Grattan stars Kathy Rose O'Brien, Pat Laffan, Áine Ní Mhuirí, Pat Laffan, .
In this episode of In the Wings we hear writer Gillian Grattan and actor Áine Ní Mhuirí speaking about their work on Gillian's play Mr Sun
A housing crisis, a hung Dáil and an unlikely alliance - based on true events, Haughey/Gregory tells the story of the Gregory Deal, agreed by Charles J. Haughey and Independent TD, Tony Gregory in 1982.
Continuing a season of plays by women writers entitled ‘100 Years of Suffrage’, marking this year’s centenary of women’s attainment of the vote in Ireland. that was Hecuba written by Marina Carr
In this week’s episode we hear from Playwright Marina Carr and actors Derbhle Crotty & Declan Conlon speaking about their work on Marina's play Hecuba.
Sharon by Katie Holly Drama On One - this week begins a season of plays by women writers to celebrate RTÉ’s ‘The Big Picture – a Woman’s World’ and to mark ‘100 years of Suffrage’,
Featuring writer Katie Holly and actors Irene Kelleher, Marie O’Donovan and Mark Lawrence
No greater love hath any sister, so they say, than she who drags her slowcoach slob of a brother to a speed-date session, hoping to gift him a girlfriend
In the Wings where theatre practitioners talk about their work on stage and on air. In this week’s episode we hear from Writer Mick Jordan and actors Aonghus Óg McAnally, Liz Fitzgibbon and Kathy Rose O'Brien talking about Mick's play My Brother Tim which is next Sunday’s Drama on One
stories about stories about people telling stories. Written and directed by David Zane Mairowitz and starring Stephen Rea, Produced by Kevin Brew
In this episode actors, Nick Dunning, Chris Mc Hallem and Michael James Ford, discuss working together on Preferred Medium by Bob Gallagher
The year is 2005, the town is Eureka. One man is American, the other Irish. Both have suffered /are suffering loss in their lives. As the music fades and the conversation ends the loneliness remains.
During the last hours of Lizzie's life a haunted past seeps into her consciousness. In this intimate, often heart-wrenching recounting, Lizzie remembers a past she fought hard to forget. From a nameless beginning to her imminent end will she finally find a voice to tell her story?
This research into the lives of those in Hospice care inspired the play, Shouting out Silence, written by Louise Lewis and devised in collaboration with Gorretti Slavin The programme features Breda Casserly Pastoral Care Chaplain, Therese O'Reilly and Nicola Purcell Clinical Nurse Manager.
3rd prize in the 2018 PJ O'Connor Awards.Set in 1970s Belfast, The Clark family live a life of peaceful co-existence with their neighbours. However the continuing polarisation of communities and ghettoisation of the city forces them to reconsider their life choices.
The play won second place in the PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards 2018 and stars Stephen Jones and Paul Ronan. Produced by Kevin Brew
In this episode we hear from Writer Elaine Murphy and actor Marion O'Dwyer speaking about Ma Elaine's play which won the 2018 PJ O'Connor Awards
Ruth McGill is Aggie, a Donegal draper's assistant in a precarious wartime romance with an English air-force officer stationed across the border during the Emergency.
In this episode writer Michael Harnett and actor Ruth Mc Gill talk Drama, Dunkineely andDonegal and working on The Lad From Laghy by Michael Harnett.
Tells the story of Irishwoman Ceila O'Dowd, the ambitious director of an English public art gallery, who feels her latest curated exhibition represents the last chance for promotion and preferment.
with Barry McGovern as a poor unfortunate fellow who finds he's astray in himself. Produced by Aidan Mathews
This week Writer Philip Davison and actors Pat Laffan, Marion O’Dwyer and Ann Byrne discuss working on Lockie’s Umbrella by Philip Davison. Programme was compiled by Gorretti Slavin Producer Kevin Reynolds
Tracy Martin's debut play Wrapped is a comedy with a sharp edge that explores the unlikely symbiotic friendship that develops between two women going broke, going crazy and going nowhere ...
In the wings this week featured Writer Tracy Martin and actor Aoibheann Mc Cann speaking about their work on Tracy’s play Wrapped
This week we hear from Writer Danielle McLaughlin with actors Donna Anita Nikolaisen, Peter Daly, Caitriona Ennis and Fiona Bell. They joine
Kicking all the Boxes written & performed by Liz Fitzgibbon. Naoise Murphy, a one-time European Kick boxing champion is 30 today. Follow Naoise in her imaginings of what was, what is and what could be! Kicking all the boxes examines choices and their possible consequences.
Shay Healy, recently sold his house in Sandymount in Dublin. He shared the house with his late wife Deedee for 35 years. Shaymo took Kevin Reynolds for a bitter-sweet saunter round the grand old house.
Christmas day special from Drama on One , based on a story from the life of Franz Kafka.. Starring Kathy Rose O’Brien, Ingrid Craigie, Raymond Keane and Genevieve Hulme Beaman Producer: Kevin Brew
Starring Darragh Kelly, Janet Moran, Simon O'Gorman, Fiona Bell, Joe Taylor, Paul Tylak and Sophie Jo Wasson. Recommended by the jury of this year's PJ O'Connor Playwrighting Awards.
tarring Gus Mc Donagh, Peter Daly, janet Moran, Enda Oates, Eva Bartley and Aisling O'Neill.
In this episode we hear the voices of Playwright Noel Thomas Simpson and actors Paul Tylak and Joe Hanley talking about working on Noel' s play “The Honeysuckle Smasher” - sound by Mark Dwyer. Producer Kevin Reynolds
two argumentative men, a tricksy bridge and one almighty chancer, starring Eamon Morrissey, Muiris Crowley and Manus Halligan
a contemporary recapitulation of an ancient drama from sixth-century classical Greece, with Des Cave as the commanding officer and Cathy Belton as the pursuing reporter.
Two lost individuals find themselves together in a bathroom on New Year's Eve. Starring Stephen Jones and Seána Kerslake
In this edition writer Gerald Murphy and actor John Kavanagh discuss Gerald’s play – Married Man Seeks Audiologist. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
In this episode of In The Wings we hear from writer /actor Stephen Jones and actor Seana Kerslake
Jim's midlife is an intermission without an interval drink. When the sight of a former flame from the dim and distant years of his youth starts a strange smouldering, the curtain rises on an altered landscape:
From the RTÉ Radio Archives . Rattlebag 2003, Myles Dungan interviewed Pierce Brosnan in a public interview at the Galway Film Fleadh. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
In this special feature we focus on an upcoming production at Dublin Theatre Festival. Writer and Director Bush Moukarzel*, Dramaturg Michael West and Actor Ollie West speak about their new production, Hamnet, which will open at the Abbey Theatre on the Peacock Stage. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
From the Rattlebag archive Myles Dungan talks to the legendary Chris Hillman of The Byrds fame. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
An RTÉ Lyric FM production, ‘Terrible Beauty’ won the prestigious Prix Marulic Award 2017
From the archive Rattlebag 2004- Seamus Heaney Public interview from his 65th Birthday.
From the Rattlebag archive the woman who puts Martin Scorsese on screen, three time Oscar winning film editor, Thelma Schoonmaker
From the Rattlebag archive 2004 creative driver of “Talking Heads’, David Byrne talks to Myles Dungan
Love Joy Peace, a private reflection through the poetry and prose of belief and unbelief by poet Thomas Kinsella –
Anthony Minghella spoke to Kay about growing up in Ryde in Isle of Wight, working in the family ice cream business, and how his screen depiction of Inspector Morse was influenced was the poet Philip Larkin
‘Veiled’ is inspired by real events in the lives of women in the Irish Muslim community.
Rattlebag Ransack from the archives, a chance to hear some great chats from the Rattlebag programme, presented by Myles Dungan. The first is from 2004. Carrie Fisher
Sinead Gleeson talking to Brian Eno. at Dalkey Book Festival 2016 Produced by Kevin Reynolds
An Angel on a Killing spree.. Radio Script by Louisa Sanfey. Performed by Morgan Cooke, Erin Gilgen and Louise Wilcox. Produced by Kevin Brew
In the Light of Eva's Shadow by Mary Kenny, with Kathy Rose O'Brien as Eva Braun and Cathy Belton as Nurse Anna Strauss: Produced by Aidan Mathews
Michael Ward reading his poem ‘I Am From’. The poem was published in the Irish Times recently as part of ‘Fighting Words’ – an initiative that provides free tutoring in creative writing for students of all ages in Ireland.
A night of balloons and champagne and cabaret. Original Music: Raymond Scannell Sound Supervision: Damian Chennells Producer: Kevin Reynolds
the vigil-keeper is a thwarted thirty-something spouse convinced of his wife's infidelity; with Aonghus Og McAnally as poor, paranoid Arthur
Actors Sorcha Fox and Emer O’Carroll join translator, director and co founder of the musical phenomen that is Kila, Rónán Ó Snodaigh as they share their thoughts and experiences of working on Líon Mo Bhearna -
Harder Faster More written by Tracy Martin and featuring Aoibheann Mc Cann, Charlene Gleeson and Clare Monnelly Produced by Kevin Reynolds
writer Tracy Martin and actors Aoibheann Mc Cann, Charlene Gleeson and Clare Monnelly talk about their work, research and preparation for performing in Tracy's play Harder Faster More. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
a kick-ass comedy with guts, a refutation of nostalgia, a crack at gentrification; It's a stand up for authenticity, a kick against mediocrity. No one is spared not even the seemingly banal cupcake! One thing for sure Penny Arcade tells you where to go and that's your own way!!!
On this episode Penny Arcade, Andy Warhol Factory Superstar and contemporary of Patti Smith and Debbie Harry, talks Longing Lasts Longer.
with Ellie Kisyombe and Michelle Darmody. A companion programme to ‘Flight Risk’ on food, activism and the Direct Provision system.
Flight Risk explores the thoughts and fears of Elizabeth - a woman seeking asylum in Ireland
In this episode we hear Writer Ronan Carr and actors Jonathan Ryan and Ali White talking about their work on Ronan's play To Sean with Love
The Aran Islands’ by John Millington Synge, adapted by Joe O’Byrne. Stanley Townsend and Brendan Conroy star as J.M. Synge and islander Mourteen in Synge’s account of life on the Aran Islands.
a brief befriending in a turbulent Third World country results in the sudden arrival of an African without papers in the cozy West Cork countryside that is an Irish couple's castle.
The Wickedness of Oz written and performed by Kate Gilmore directed by Gorretti Slavin A day in the life of day-dreaming, musicals-obsessed Debbie, brings the listener on a journey that is as magical as it is real..
In ‘Toronto and the State of Grace’, two Cavan brothers journey to Knockfierna Hill in West Limerick, to fulfil a promise to their late mother.
Starring Charlene McKenna and John D Ruddy. A spiteful tick in the next of kin box results in Tom being made responsible for his antagonistic neighbour's body.
can be a boast, a toast, and on occasion a ghostly reminder that the lives we follow are not always the lives we lead.
Thomas McLoughlin and actors Máire Ní Ghráinne and Lise-Ann McLoughlin talk about working on 'Forever Yours' by Thomas McLaughlin
Ronan Carr's radio dramatisation of Sean Kenny's meteoric rise, as brief as it was brilliant, With Owen Roe, Jonathan Ryan, Deirdre Monaghan, Ali White, and Michael James Ford, Produced by Aidan Mathews
The month of August marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Roger Casement on the gallows of Pentonville Prison, London, in one of the most controversial killings in the penal history of the British Empire. Edited by Fintan O'Toole and read by Owen Roe Produced by Aidan Mathews
Tony a Beatles Boffin has a visit from Death and only his encyclopaedic knowledge of the Fab Four can save him.
In The Wings is a programme in which we meet the performers behind each Drama on One. This week, writer James Butler and actors Steve Blount and Caitriona Ennis discuss James's play 'The Carpet Clown', Producer Kevin Reynolds.
Two fine young criminals are buried in a wooden box by a rival gang. Starring Peter Coonan, Paul Ronan, Steve Blount and Joe Taylor
In The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week we hear from Peter Coonan and Paul Ronan who discuss performing in 'Paulo in the Underworld' by Rory Duffy, which took 3rd place in the 2016 PJ O'Connor Awards
A Matter of Modesty by Anne Marie Kennedy The play took 2nd Place in the PJ O’Connor awards 2016. Directed by Gorretti Slavin
In The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week we hear from some of the cast A Matter of Modesty which took 2nd place in the PJ O'Connor Awards 2016 Produced by Kevin Reynolds
occasional series of 'In The Wings' celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare.This episode features Playwright Marina Carr and Director Rachel West
The first in an occasional series of 'In The Wings' celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare. Featurings actors Peter Macon and Marty Rea who play Othello and Iago in The Abbey Theatre's production of Othello. The production continues until Saturday 11th of June 2016. On sound was Síle Ní Bhaoill and Kevin Reynolds produced.
The Man in the Barn by Louis Kornfeld, directed by Jonathan Mitchell A Drama On One co-production with US podcast - The Truth, made in association with The Hearsay International Audio Arts Festival
Presented by Colin Murphy and produced by Peter Mooney in this episode Stephen Rea and Kevin Whelan join the programme to discuss Translations by Brian Friel, staged at the height of The Troubles in the north of Ireland.
Presented by Colin Murphy and produced by Peter Mooney. In this episode we hear from Mary Keane, Gearóid O’Brien, historian of the amateur drama movement and Nory Relihill from the original cast of Sive.
Peter Hanly and Jennifer O'Dea play two departing passengers in Arthur Reardon's LOVE ME?!, a short and sceptical reflection on the split second which separates the infinitesimal from the infinite in a road traffic accident.
Cowboys Indians and Penny Hairnets through the characters of Girl, Boy and Nellie, leads the listener through their vaporous dwellings as they journey to place and time observing 100 years of rememberings.
John McKenna's period play tracks an obscure and enormous life that cuminated in strangulation on the town gallows.
A Disturbed State of Affairs by Joe O'Byrne. Explores the early hours of the April Insurrection of 1916
A 1916 soundscape weaving archive, music and spoken word together on a journey that begins with the world’s first ever radio broadcast.
Tugann beirt dhreapadóir faoi shliabh ard i gCondae Mhuigheo, darb ainm ‘An Duairceán'.
In this episode we hear writer Aodh Ó Domhnaill, and actors Niall Tóibín and Diarmuid de Faoite, discussing Aodh’s play, An Duairceán Producer Kevin Reynolds.
Clinderstone featuring John D. Ruddy, Ruth McGill, and the music of Paddy Glackin (fiddle), Dearbhla Collins (piano) Composer Adam Gorb ReynoldsFunded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee.
In this four part series Alan Stanford explores Shakespeare’s King Lear with Leaving Certificate students in Longford from Convent of Mercy, St Mel's College, Scoil Mhuire Longford, Carrigallen Vocational School and Moyne Community School. Producers: Kevin Reynolds and Siobhan Mannion.
In this four part series Alan Stanford explores Shakespeare’s King Lear with Leaving Certificate students in Longford from Convent of Mercy, St Mel's College, Scoil Mhuire Longford, Carrigallen Vocational School and Moyne Community School. Producers: Kevin Reynolds and Siobhan Mannion.
In this four part series Alan Stanford explores Shakespeare’s King Lear with Leaving Certificate students in Longford from Convent of Mercy, St Mel's College, Scoil Mhuire Longford, Carrigallen Vocational School and Moyne Community School. Producers: Kevin Reynolds and Siobhan Mannion.
n this four part series Alan Stanford explores Shakespeare’s King Lear with Leaving Certificate students in Longford from Convent of Mercy, St Mel's College, Scoil Mhuire Longford, Carrigallen Vocational School and Moyne Community School. Producers: Kevin Reynolds and Siobhan Mannion.
‘On Buxton Hill’ - a portrait of life in the flat-lands of Cork city. Written and performed by Kevin Barry. Produced by Kevin Brew
an intimate confession of a forgotten lover in a deathbed testimony to her surviving sweetheart with Olwen Fouéré, Andrew Bennett and Deirdre Monaghan
In The Wings where artists discuss their work.. In The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week writer Peter Sirr and actor Olwen Fouéré share their thoughts and experiences of working on Radio Carla written by Peter Sirr.
The Performance Corporation to make a radio version of their operatic treatment of James Joyce’s best-loved short story, ‘The Dead’. Created by Irish composer Ellen Cranitch and playwright Tom Swift, directed by Jo Mangan. Theatrical producer: Breda Cashe
Sinead Gleeson in conversation with composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. Brian Eno
a tale of war, nobility and occasional cross-dressing. With some adult content both upstairs and downstairs, this is Farkham Hall at Christmas’, by Chris McHallem
Beautiful Lofty Things – an evening with WB Yeats was written and presented by Roy Foster and directed by Lynne Parker.
The Playboy of the Western World – A Musical for Radio with all music composed by Justin McCarthy and adapted for radio by Diarmuid de Faoite.
Continuing our Columban themed All Saints’ Night, Barry Mc Govern stars as Columbanus In Kerry Hardie with Olivia O'Leary
12 Stones in the Water by Karl O'Neill, directed by Gorretti Slavin, starring Aoibhinn McGinnity and Deirdre Monaghan. Based on true events this dark tale centres around the death of 3 year old Annie Slavin in Armagh in 1888 and the involvement of Bellina Prior who was found ‘guilty but insane’ of her murder.
Five school-going teenagers are distracted by fantasies of the opposite sex in this week’s play - ‘Honey’ by Neil Flynn
In The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week writer Neil Flynn, and actors Aoife Duffin and Patrick Ryan chat about working on Neil’s play Honey. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
In October 2007, John Kelly met with and spoke to Peter Brooke as part of the 50th Dublin Theatre Festival. In a wide ranging interview, Brooke reflected on the human mystery of acting, the healing process of theatre, his love of cowboy films and the artistry of the Marx Brothers .
The Man in Two PIeces written by Gerard Adlum and directed by Gorretti Slavin tells the story of a a travelling vaudeville troupe and the 14-year-old boy who runs away with them. Led by the emcee, song-and-dance man and all-round impresario, Kerrigan played by Stephen Brennan.
n The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week writer Gerard Adlum and renound actor Stephen share their thoughts and experiences of working on The Man in Two Pieces written by Gerard and directed by Gorretti Slavin Producer Kevin Reynolds
Boy meets girl in a brief encounter on an ancient island in an Irish lake, and they talk through the moonlit night of this and that and their two bespoken lives. They will meet again
The team behind Bernard Farrell's radio drama ‘Greta At The Gresham’ actors Bryan Murray and Dawn Bradfield sharing their thoughts. Sound Supervision was by Mark Mc Grath, Producer was Kevin Reynolds.
Sean Rocks talks to Conor Mc Pherson, the Dublin dramatist whose mastery of the monologue brought him from the Bush Theatre in London to Broadway success with his break-through play The Weir.
Programme 3 -The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams This week: the curious case of The Rose Tattoo. Presented by Colin Murphy. Featuring,Clara Simpson, Kate Binchy and Caitriona Crowe of the National Archives of Ireland.
Charlie McCarthy's sympathetic study of chromosomal disability. Joe Taylor is eloquent as the speechless subject, with Aine Ní Mhuirí as Mammy to her son Jelly and Mum to her daughter Ann, played by Dawn Bradfield.
The Fund by Conor Malone took 3rd place in the PJ O’Connor awards 2015 and deals with the very topical issue of The International Monetary Fund. Based on true events and centering around Davison Budhoo and his dramatic 150 page letter of resignation from the IMF in 1988.
In The Wings where we meet the artists behind each radio drama. In this week’s edition we hear from Peter Coonan, Aine Ni Mhuiri, Tony Tormey and Hilda Fay who performed in ‘Serenity’ by Andy Burns.
First runner up PJ O’Connor Awards 2015. Niall battles with alcohol and the twelve steps.
The famous philosopher’s post-War pilgrimage to the peace and quiet of Connemara is proving problematic. He can’t construe the English of the Irish natives, let alone the Irish of his English-speaking neighbour. With Bob O’Mahoney, Maíre Ní Ghráinne and Brendan Conroy. Produced by Aidan Mathews
Winners 2015 Perpetual Trophy in the 63rd RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival The Palace Players, Fermoy with Conversations On A Homecoming
In the last in a short series of programmes “ WB and Me - A Poet's Choice of Yeats' Poems”, Rita Ann Higgins offers her personal reflections on Yeats’ “Broken Dreams”, “The Fascination of What’s Different ” and “What Then?”. On Sound was Tom Williams Producer Kevin Reynolds
This week the programme looks at the career of Anew McMaster and of the ‘Fitups’ which he brought to every town and village in Ireland. Presented by Colin Murphy and produced by the late, great Peter Mooney. The programme was Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee.
For the month of June 2015 Drama on One presents a short series where poets offer their personal responses and reflections on favourite poems by WB Yeats. Michael Longley offers his personal reflections on Yeats’ “The Wild Swans at Coole”, “To A Squirell at Kyle-na-no” and “A Last Confession”.
The series, presented by Colin Murphy, focuses on the times when what was happening on the Irish stage reverberated on the streets outside. Programme 2 The riots that first greeted Sean O Casey's 'The plough and the Stars'. Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee.
Programme 3 -The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams From Stage to Street presented by Colin Murphy and produced by the late, great Peter Mooney. deals with the notable occasions when Irish theatre and topical politics collided in real time. This week: the curious case of The Rose Tattoo.
This short play takes place during the interval of a play. Two characters, He and She discuss the characters on stage..
WB and Me - A Poet's Choice of Yeats' Poems” . Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan offers a personal reflection on Yeats’ “Hound Voice” Produced by Kevin Reynolds
Episode 1 - The Playboy of The Western World - John Millington Synge Guests Declan Kiberd, Marie Mullen,Thomas Conway -Producer Peter Mooney. The programme was Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence
In memory of one of RTE Radio’s truly great Producers, Peter Mooney. The series, presented by Colin Murphy, focuses on the times when what was happening on the Irish stage reverberated on the streets outside. Programme 1:The Playboy of The Western World - John Millington Synge Producer: Peter Mooney.
earts and flowers hung from the handlebars. A graveyard of bicycles The world of the ghostbike looms closer for David, as an accident churns up memories of an ex-girlfriend, Grace. Starring Emmet Kirwan, Gene Rooney and Andrew Bennett, beginning RTÉ Drama On One's Short Form Season. Sound: Damian Chennells. Producer: Kevin Brew
Pat Boran,Poet and Publisher offers a personal reflection on Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Inisfree”, “The Long Legged Fly” and “High Talk”. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
Eating Seals and Seagull’s Eggs by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú. To generations of Irish students Peig Sayers, is often an object of derision. Eating Seals and Seagull’s Eggs is her story, largely. Meet Peig Sayers as you have never heard her before. Performed by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú and Louise Lewis
A German detective drama about a nuclear family and the forty shades of Green ...with Patrick Dawson,Kathy Rose O’Brien,Aileen Mythen, Deirdre Monaghan, Jennifer O’Dea, Michael J. Forde and Peter Hanly Produced by Aidan Mathews
This week in In The Wings we hear from the writer Erhard Schmied and the cast of his Play Greetings from Fukushima Produced by Kevin Reynolds
Starring Kate O'Toole, the play is set in Brussels in the not too distant future. The UK is about to vote on leaving the EU and Uzikistan has won the Eurovision Song Contest. Rachel Bell may be the last UK EU commissioner which spurs the pro European Rachel and her Irish spokesperson Patrick Sarsfield, to conspire to make the EU more relevant to t
In The Wings. a programme in which radio artists discuss their work. This week writer Aidan Mathews and actor Ray Scannell share their thoughts and experiences of working on Judgement written by Aidan Mathews with John Kavanagh playing Socrates and Ray Scannell as Crito. Producer Kevin Reynolds
In The Wings where practitioners discuss their work. Sir Henry’s in the ‘90s….Were you there? Over ten years ago the spiritual home of Cork’s first generation of ravers closed forever. Deep marks the occasion by exploring the social and political backdrop of the time. Featuring Ray Scannell and produced by Kevin Reynolds
My Name is Saoirse, written and performed by Eva O’Connor is the story of a 15 year old girl coming of age in 1980’s Ireland.
Judgement is a version of Plato’s Crito by Aidan Mathews. Featuring John Kavanagh as Socrates and Raymond Scannell as Crito.
It’s the summer of 1988 and Cork’s emigration generation are following the beat… in perfect time, for a Music Movement simmering from Sir Henry’s, the original home of house music in Ireland.
Líon Mo Bhearna – le Sorcha Fox agus Emer O’Carroll, aistrithe agus léirithe ag Rossa Ó Snodaigh. Written: Iseult Golden, David Horan, Carmel Stephens (Inis Theatre)Featuring Sorcha Fox and Emer O'Carroll Directed by Rossa Ó Snodaigh Series producer on Drama on One is Kevin Reynolds
Playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy reads from his memoir, in a radio version directed by Patrick Mason.
A comedy about a man who tries to escape the reality of unemployment. Instead he pins his life’s ambition on winning a model making competition. Written and performed by Pat McGrath and directed by Alan King
In memory of actor Thomas Studley. The drama narrates with deceptive simplicity the arguments of two old men over the proper site for the weaver's burial. As their absurd, comic controversy rages, new love and life begin for his youthful widow. (First TX: March 1961)
Andrew Bennett and Cathy Belton star as Michael and Sandra a middle-aged couple ruminating on the small and sombre detail of a tragic death in the family in the hope of finding light and life at the end of an endless post-mortem involving a culprit as well as a casualty.
Writer Noni Stapleton and actors Enda Oates and Bairbre Ni Chaoimh share their thoughts and experiences of working on the radio drama ‘Charolais’ by Noni Stapleton
A seasonal edition of IN THE WINGS lets the Genie get out of the bottle, gets Cinders get to the ball, boosts Jack up the beanstalk and puts the Beauty to sleep.
A programme in which artists talk about their work. Tonight we hear from Ballyduff Drama Group
writer Manchán Magan and actor Eva O’Connor discuss their work on Broken Croí Heart Briste a comedic and heartfelt look at fractured relationships, using a blend of Irish and English to reveal the truth behind our passions.Produced by Kevin Reynolds
In the Wings from RTÉ Drama on One where theatre practitioners discuss their work in radio and beyond. This week we hear from founding members of The Cup Theatre Company, Kate Gilmore and Laurence Falconer
Pulse Music / Ceol Cuisle A sonic journey into the thoughts and poetic imagination of the late West Limerick poet Michael Hartnett. Directed and Researched by Dylan Tighe Original music and sound design by Seán Mac Erlaine
Pulse Music / Ceol Cuisle A sonic journey into the thoughts and poetic imagination of the late West Limerick poet Michael Hartnett. Directed and Researched by Dylan Tighe Original music and sound design by Seán Mac Erlaine
Justin and Florrie need Larry's help - but it all hinges on a conversation in a hot-air balloon
With John Kavanagh as Mulligan in monologue and actor-impressionist Joe Taylor as (almost) everybody else within earshot
Bombshell written by Fiona Looney Featuring Bernadette Mc Kenna, Brendan Conroy, Mark O’Regan Ryamond Scannell and Joe Taylor Sound Supervision was Mark Dwyer Produced by Aidan Mathews
Brady - The Revenant by Patrick Mc Cabe Many years since The Butcher Boy , we meet Francie Brady. But he is a changed person - a shell of what he was, a ghost, a phantom - a Revenant.
wo Cavan brothers journey to Knockfierna Hill in West Limerick, to fulfil a promise to their late mother.
The second in a short season of work celebrating Limerick as The City Of CultureConference Call written by Paul Meade Directed by Eithne HandCast Peter Hanly Patrick Byrnes Karl Quinn Anne Byrne Sound supervision was by Mark Mc GrathSeries Producer Kevin Reynolds
Ulster Volunteers was written by Gary Mitchell and the play moves through two time zones - the Battlefields of Belgium in 1916 and the Battlegrounds of Belfast today.
Walking the Road by Dermot Bolger is a dramatic, imaginative exploration of the life of Meath poet Francis Ledwidge
This week we hear from poet and playwright Dermot Bolger and actors Peter Hanly and Sam Mc Govern as they discuss Dermot’s play Walking The Road – a dramatic imaginative exploration of the life of Meath poet Francis Ledwidge. Walking The Road by Dermot Bolger is next week’s Drama On One
The piece includes authentic diary entries and love letters capturing glimpses of the human side of battle. The piece incorporates ‘Fighting Cowardice’ written by Gary Mitchell who kindly gave permission to include the piece in the WW1 Roadshow which recently took place in Trinity College Dublin Directed by Gorretti Slavin
We continue our month of WW1 related dramas with ‘The Milliner and The Weaver’ written by Marie Jones and directed by Gorretti Slavin.
Different Stages is a series of four programmes looking at four different acting styles and traditions in Ireland. In this, the first programme, Actor and co-founder of Field Day Theatre Company, Stephen Rea looks at the evolution and development of what became known as the “Abbey Style” of acting.
Different Stages is a series of four programmes looking at four different acting styles and traditions in Ireland. Tonight Comedienne June Rogers celebrates the tradition of Variety Perfomance in Ireland and the art of Pantomime - so ..... look out, she's behind you ........
Elizabeth (Dawn Bradfield) and Martin (Stephen Jones) are both suffering a huge grief and loss and take a weekend away in a country to see if they can save their relationship. April Showers took 3rd place in the 2014 PJ O'Connor Awards.
Mark Lambert stars as Ireland’s most famous ex-Jesuit and Jonathan White as the great tenor of the gramophone era in A CHRISTMAS REVERIE, the record of an imaginary encounter by landscape-artist Ian Gordon who won second place in the 2014 PJ O’Connor Awards.
One Way Telephone by Philip Davison invites the listener to get engaged with crossed telephone lines where the under pressure, Bartley and his estranged parents, Noreen and Manus prove that advances in modern technology doesn’t mean advances in human communication.
22 year-old Sam has been diagnosed with having the mental capacities of a boy of 10. He lives with his over-protective parents. When Sam meets city- girl Sue the pair strike up a friendship which develops into a more sexual encounter. This union triggers a chain of events which lead to a dramatic climax.
Crash Course on Earth by Joe O'ByrneJenny and Martin imagine a life that is not to be..
Drama On One’s weekly series with theatre practitioners. This week we hear from performers Raymond Scannell, Arthur Riordan, Aileen Mythen and Clare Barrett about their work on the forthcoming radio drama, ‘Sam And The Animal Man’ by Claes Johansen. Producer Kevin Brew Series Producer: Kevin Reynolds
Tá Susan (Maria Doyle Kennedy) agus Irene (Caitríona Ní Mhurchú) ag siúl amach le fada. Ach tá teannas eatarthu. Téann siad chuig Martin (Denis Conway) le haghaidh Teiripe chun cabhrú leo i gcomhthéacs an dearcadh difrúil atá eatarthu faoi phósadh agus pháistí. Tugann Martin léargas as an nua dóibh agus é ag cabhrú leo teacht ar réiteach
Sick of life in her war-torn country, guided by MTV hits and Hollywood sitcoms, Stefica takes on a new name and embarks on a quest for an American education, and ends up in a Dublin lap dancing club. With frankness and humour, she teaches us the tricks of the trade--and shares secrets she can't tell anyone else.
In tonight’s programme, writer and performer Mirjana Rendulic and director by Aoife Spillane-Hinks share their thoughts and experiences of working on Broken Promise Land
The piece centres on one woman’s struggle amidst the poverty of 1913 tenement life in Dublin.
In tonight’s programme writer and performer Louise Lewis, writer Simon Managhan and director Gorretti Slavin share their thoughts and experiences of working on “The Churching of Happy Cullen" by Louise Lewis & Simon Manahan
In The Wings – a programme in which artists talk about their work. In this episode writer Hugh Travers, director Ronan Phelan, sound designer Trevor Furlong and actor Michael Ford Fitzgerald share their thoughts and experiences of working on “Lambo" by Hugh Travers
RTÉ Radio Drama presents, "In The Wings”, a catch-all programme for edited interviews with actors, writers, sound designers, musicians and other drama practitioners. This programme features Ronan Carr author of Redemption Beating.
Pondling by Genevieve Hulme BeamanFollowing its success last September in the Dublin Fringe, Drama On One presents the radio version of Pondling, written and performed by Genevieve Hulme Beaman.
Lambo by Hugh Travers is a fictionalised account of a story that stormed the airwaves and gripped the nation almost three decades ago. A story of brutality and bloodshed, of depravity and gross deception. A story of murder. Gerry Ryan has killed a lamb! Kind of. Maybe..
It’s crunch-time in the Creggan as vigilante Jimmy prepares to kneecap a high-status hooligan. Can either victim avoid such genuflection to the cult of violence? Frank McCusker and Conor O’Neill star in a sombre two-hander about the criminal justice which has made the North of Ireland an orthopaedic centre of excellence.
It’s Oscar Night in the off-the-beaten-track home of aging sisters Annabelle and Miranda.
This topical play deals with the modern obsession of dieting. Set in an Easi-Slim clinic we meet the highly driven Val and the motherly Breda. Both attend the weekly clinic for the weigh-in and strike up an unlikely friendship. While the voice of conscience booms from on high, the Easi-Slim instructor reigns over all
The Venice Suite; A Voyage Through Loss by Dermot Bolger In Memory of Bernie, 3rd July 1958-26th May 2010
‘It’s a Worthless Life’ written by Mike Finn and starring Pat Shortt. George Buckley, an investment banker is shown the error of his ways when he is visited by the angelic Jimmy Stewart. The acclaimed Pat Shortt leads this stellar cast In this Celtic Tiger take on ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. Directed by Brian Kelly.