Radio Week

The picks of the best of this week’s radio

ENTERTAINMENT

Sunday Miscellany

SUNDAY, 9AM, RTé RADIO 1★★★★

The ever-popular mix of ‘music and musings’ from radio essays to appreciations, memory pieces, poetry, travel writing and personal accounts.

Jennifer Zamparelli

MONDAY, 9AM, 2FM ★★★★

The young adults’ alternative talk show, hosted by Jennifer (pictured) that features interviews with guests and centres on the opinions of listeners.

King Louis The First Of Britain TUESDAY, 4PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★

Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the death of jazz great Louis Armstrong. Here, Byron Wallen, one of the UK’s finest trumpeters, finds out why ‘Satchmo’ made such an impression on everyone he met.

Michael Spicer: Before Next Door

THURSDAY, 11PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★

Michael Spicer, who won millions of fans with his satirical The Room Next Door videos, gets a full series of his radio comedy, which charts his progress in real life.

FACTUAL

Annual Ecumenical Embrace Farm Accident Remembrance Service

SUNDAY, 11AM, RTé RADIO 1★★

The Catholic Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin Denis Nulty, and the Rev Canon Patrick Harvey, Church of Ireland Rector of the Abbeyleix & Killermogh, lead the service. Mairéad Lavery, former editor of Irish Country

Living, delivers the keynote address and traditional music is led by Tina Cuddy.

The House That Vanished MONDAY-FRIDAY, 2.15PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★ One day, Neville Presho returned to his home on the remote Tory Island to find it had disappeared into thin air. This intriguing documentary series, which continues daily, follows his search for the truth about what happened to his home.

Michael Palin’s Memory Palaces

WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★

Michael fires BBC man James Peak deep inside Terry Gilliam’s mind to tap into his memory banks. It’s a surreal idea, but it is essentially a fun interview with the director and Python star about his life and career in comedy and films.

Morning Ireland

THURSDAY, 7AM, RTé RADIO 1 ★★★

To mark the centenary of the agreement to the Truce and the declaration of the ceasefire in the War of Independence, the team will be reporting live from Dublin City Centre.

Lasracha

FRIDAY, 9PM, RNAG ★★★★

In the second programme in this new series focused on musicians in the Americana style of music that mixes rock, folk and country influences, Seán Ó hÉanaigh will be focusing on the Eagles. Seán will give us the band’s background, and play some of their most important and best-known tracks.

DRAMA

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

MONDAY, 10.45PM, BBC RADIO4★★★★ Episode one of ten of the radio version of the classic novel. Hale is on the run from Pinkie’s mob. He thinks they mean to murder him. Brighton is a big place — but is there anywhere for him to hide and who will give him refuge?r

MUSIC

Aedín Gormley’s Sunday Matinee

SUNDAY, 1PM, LYRIC FM★★★★

On the American day of Independence, Aedín’s featured artist is composer Aaron Copland. And she continues the Stateside celebrations with concerts of music by the first African American woman to have her work performed by a major American orchestra, Florence Price (pictured).

Classical Pride

SUNDAY, 9PM, CLASSIC FM ★★★★

The barrister and TV judge Robert Rinder celebrates some of classical music’s greatest gay composers and musicians in this new, six-part series. In the first episode, he marks America’s Independence Day with a look at

the lives of US composers Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.

The Full Score

MONDAY, 1PM, LYRIC FM ★★★★

The Full Score brings you another concert from the recent West Wicklow Music Festival in Russborough House featuring festival artistic director Fiachra Garvey (piano) and Rachel Kelly (mezzo-soprano).

Ceol Binn ó na Beanna MONDAY TO FRIDAY, 7PM, RNAG★★★★ All week on the show, the best of Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy over the years.