Radio Week
The picks of the best of this week’s radio
ENTERTAINMENT
Spoken Stories
SUNDAY, 7PM, RTÉ RADIO ONE ★★★★
Snáithíní Solais by Donegal writer Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde, introduced and read by the author, features this evening. Hope is like filaments of light that shine through in our lives, behind which the truth can be illusive sometimes. In this story, a son explores his relationship with his mother, who has Alzheimer’s, as he tries to gather some of that light which gives their lives meaning.
Jennifer Zamparelli
MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9AM, 2FM ★★★★
Jennifer Zamparelli (pictured) has established her show as essential listening for a huge number of young adults looking for an alternative talk show. The show not only features interviews with guests of interest but also centres on the memories, experiences and opinions of the very people who listen to it.
FACTUAL
The Lyric Feature
SUNDAY, 6PM, LYRIC FM ★★★★
Following the Inny paints a vivid picture of the rich diversity of life along the River Inny, and the surrounding Inny Valley, in South Kerry. Producer J.J. O’Shea journeys along the river from its sources in small tinkling streams in the remote uplands of the Iveragh Peninsula down to where it meets the wide Atlantic ocean close to Waterville.
Tús Áite
MONDAY, 5PM, RNAG ★★★★
Today, for International Women’s Day, an allwoman panel will discuss and debate the main news stories of the week.
Conspiracies: The Secret Knowledge
FRIDAY, 11AM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★
Everyone loves a conspiracy theory these days, it seems, and there’s no shortage of them either. Here, Phil Tinline examines why this has happened and how we can separate baseless theories from real conspiracies by talking to historians, writers and analysts of internet culture.
Down To Business
SATURDAY, 10PM, NEWSTALK HHHH
A lively show focusing on Irish businesses and industry. Bobby Kerr talks to the people behind Irish businesses, both big and small, to get their insights into their industries, other industries and what it takes to be successful.
DRAMA The Christopher Boy’s Communion
MONDAY, 2.15PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★
The premiere of a Faustian drama from the pen of David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross) and directed by actor Martin Jarvis. In New York, a devout Catholic mother (Rebecca Pidgeon, Mamet’s wife) embarks on a combative campaign, even blackmail, to free her son from jail as he awaits trial for mutilating the body of his Jewish girlfriend. A talky piece with a twist in the tale.
Alexie Sayle’s The Absence of Normal
WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★
A series of dark, comic half-hour plays adapted by the writer and comedian Alexei Sayle (who also narrates) from his short stories begins with the dilemma of a top TV commissioning editor who his incapable of making decisions (clearly, some bitter personal experience from the author here). Then he meets two producers who are determined he will green-light their screenplay, Bold As Bacon.