Bound by Regulations was my first ever radio documentary. I was inspired to make it when I discovered that, while […]
Dancing with Two Left Legs
Dancing with Two Left Legs is a one hour documentary about the power of music to mourn, to commemorate, to […]
What’s the Irish for Bedtime Story?
In 2010, Irish musician Paul Roe achieved his ambition to perform the first ever Irish language version of Bedtime Stories, […]
Bantry Bay
‘Bantry Bay’ was broadcast as a Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm on Sunday 16 September 2018 at 6 pm. […]
Poetry Aloud
First broadcast as a Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm on Sunday 6th January 2019; repeated Sunday 6th October 2019. Since […]
My Modest Proposal
290 years after poet, cleric and satirist Jonathan Swift made what he called ‘A Modest Proposal’ to solve the problem […]
An Oriental Romance: Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh
A programme to mark the 200th anniversary in 2017 of the publication of Thomas Moore’s epic oriental poem Lalla Rookh and […]
Crossing The Sound
Poet Gerald Dawe (1952-2024) brings us on a poetic odyssey through the west of Ireland. First broadcast as a Lyric […]
A Cradle Song
The story of a rare collaboration between the Irish composer Brian Boydell and American poet John Berryman. First broadcast as […]
A Radical Life
Biographer Susan Manly explores the radical life of the Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849). Broadcast as a Lyric Feature on […]