Radio Week
The picks of the best of this week’s radio
ENTERTAINMENT
Sunday Miscellany
SUNDAY, 9.10AM, RTÉ RADIO ONE
★★★★
A mix of music and musings from radio essays to reportage, appreciations, memory pieces, poetry, travel writing to personal accounts of events and happenings, Sunday Miscellany has been entertaining listeners since 1968.
The Book Show
SUNDAY, 7.03AM, RTÉ RADIO ONE ★★★★ The Book Show this week will feature Louise Nealon talking about her muchanticipated debut novel Snowflake and the very popular Anne Griffin (pictured) answering questions for a book club about her just released novel Listening Still.
Ken Bruce
FRIDAY, 9.30AM, BBC RADIO 2 ★★★★
Ken takes a look at the entries for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest which takes place this week in Rotterdam. Irish hopes lie with Leslie Roy who’ll be singing Maps. Mercifully, Belarus’s entry – which drew immediate dislike from Eurovision fans on its release in March – has been disqualified.
FACTUAL
Talking History
SUNDAY, 7PM, NEWSTALK ★★★★
Dr Patrick Geoghegan takes a critical look at some of the great personalities and political, social and cultural events in history. Talking History focuses on the human side of history — unravelling the gritty and sometimes uncomfortable side we don’t usually hear much about.
The Hard Shoulder MONDAY-FRIDAY,4PM, NEWSTALK ★★★★ Kieran Cuddihy bring his style of straighttalking to this opinion-led drivetime talk show, covering everything from current affairs and politics to sport and business.
MUSIC
Sunday Night Is Music Night SUNDAY, 7PM, BBC RADIO 2 ★★★★
Capital Voices bring us a bundle of big Abba (pictured) hits – including The Winner Takes It All, Super Trouper, Dancing Queen and Waterloo – in this recorded concert.
The Alternative
SUNDAY, 10PM, 2FM ★★★★
With the news of the album’s re-release, this week seems like the perfect time to jump back to the year 1992 for Toasted Heretic’s celebrated album Another Day, Another Riot.
DRAMA
The Lyric Feature
SUNDAY, 6PM, LYRIC FM ★★★★
Barely 18 years of age, Gerald Doyle was more interested in football and chasing girls at céilís than anything else. But soon he was swept up in the seismic events of Easter Week in 1916 and saw first-hand action against the occupying English troops, arrest, internment, imprisonment, the firing squads, his own Court Martial and sentencing to hard labour, exile and penal servitude. Terrible Beauty, a hybrid of radio drama, memoir and sound design, is his story.
Drama On One
SUNDAY, 8PM, RTÉ RADIO ONE ★★★★ The Wickedness of Oz is 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...
Exit Lines
MONDAY, 6.30AM, 1.30PM, 8.30PM, BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA ★★★★
On a dark November night, three men die in separate and mysterious circumstances. Donald Gee and Philip Jackson star in this five-part dramatisation of Reginald Hill’s gritty detective drama, featuring the detectives Peter Pascoe and Andy Dalziel.
The Ronan Collins Show MON-FRIDAY, 12NOON, RTE RADI ONE
★★★★
This ever-popular show features music to suit every generation as Ronan gives a special shout out to listeners enjoying ‘roundy’ birthdays and anniversaries.
An Bóthar go Nashville
MONDAY, 9PM, RNAG ★★★★
Jó Ní Chéide is a country music woman at heart and it shows in the great selection of music she plays for her listeners every Monday with lots of tidbits about the songs and artists.