Arena

Seán talked to traditional singer and bouzouki player Daoirí Farrell, who played "Pat Rainey" and "The Galway Shawl" at Tradfest 2020

Spoken word artist Stephen James Smith performed live at Tradfest 2020 with two very distinctive musical acts, Lemoncello and The Silken Same.

Cua is a trio comprising John Davidson, Shane Booth and Ros O'Meara. They played two live tracks for Arena at Tradfest 2020 - "Hardslacks" and "Get Along Home Cindy"

Maria Doyle Kennedy performs songs from her latest EP, "Songs from the Kitchen Table" in a Studio 8 session for RTÉ Arena. Maria is accompanied by husband, Kieran Kennedy on piano for "All the Feels" and on guitar for the expansive "Going Home". She chats to Seán about her successful career and upcoming concert at Tradfest.

Dave Lordan reviews "The Death of Jesus" the final part of a trilogy of enigmatic novels by JM Coetzee in which David, a strange, gifted, young orphan, comes to live with a couple of fellow refugees.

The latest album are reviewed by Louise Bruton and Alan Corr. These include Halsey's "Manic", Aoife Nessa Frances, "Land of No Junction", Bombay Bicycle Club, "Everything Else has Gone Wrong" and Eminem's "Music to be Murdered By".

Roe McDermott and Chris Wasser review the latest film releases including Terrence Mallick's, A Hidden Life, Bombshell, Just Mercy, based on the true life story of Bryan Stevenson and Waves.

Music for Galway hosts its annual Midwinter Festival of classical music this weekend, dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Musicologist, Richard Wigmore will give two talks about the composer at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway and joins us to disciss.

The most prolific author in Irish crime fiction, Jo Spain published her debut novel, "With Our Blessing", in 2015. Her latest and eighth novel is "Six Wicked Reasons" is out now. Jo Spain discusses her latest book and upcoming projects.

"A Long Petal of the Sea" is the latest novel from award-winning, best-selling, Chilean writer Isabel Allende. The book was inspired by the life of Victor Pey and begins during the Spanish Civil War through to the 1990s.