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The Salt of Something New

First broadcast: Sunday 30th April 2023, 6pm, RTÉ lyric fm. Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan presents a programme featuring six poets from four continents who are making their mark on the world of Irish poetry.

Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan (left) and Polina Cosgrave

Behind the Veil – the story of Irish nuns

Olivia O’Leary presents a five-part series of The Essay on BBC Radio 3, Monday to Friday at 22:45, 2-6 January 2023.

The First Pure Clear Place

First broadcast: Sunday 12 February 2023, 6pm, RTÉ lyric fm. Leontia Flynn tells the story of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 visit to Ireland and lifelong admiration of WB Yeats.

Presenter Olivia O’Leary and poet Paddy Bushe

Green White Enamel

Another chance to hear a programme on the life and work of Ethna McCarthy on Sunday 29th January 2023 at 6pm on RTÉ lyric fm.

Drawing of Ethna MacCarthy (1931) by Seamus O’Sullivan. Photographed by Stephen Whitehorne. Used with kind permission of Andrew Woolfson.