Piano works from the great masters

Including music from Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Mendelssohn Schubert, Schuman, Faure, Granados, Field and more

Introduced by John low

Produced by Conor O’Hagan

The Cathy O'Connor Podcast

Cathy Kelly is a Irish former journalist and writer of women's fiction. In 2001, her novel Someone Like You won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

She is popular around the world: a number one bestseller in Australia and New Zealand, and published in many different languages.

Cathy is involved with many charities and has been an Ambassador for UNICEF Ireland since 2005.

Join us for a very special podcast as Travel Departments expert guide Getie takes us on a tour of Cape Town, the Garden Route & Winelands. Listen in and find out why you need to tick this magnificent country off your bucket list.

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Overture!

Overtures, preludes, intermezzi and introductory music from the great masters.

Including works by Mozart, Beethoven, Handel. Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Verdi, Berlioz, Elgar and more

You’re going to love this music!

Tommie spent many years as one of our best known and best loved broadcasters. From the West of Ireland he became RTE’s Europe correspondent for 12 years, before spending a long time as Northern Editor. He’s had a great view of history and has been our witness to it. He spent a long time successfully battling cancer but it has never held him back; now’s he’s enjoying life to the full.

Select Hotels by Senior Times

The Executive Chef at the four star Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney, John Drummond has carved out an illustrious career in catering, winning medals at international competitions with the Irish Panel of Chefs. He has been at The Gleneagle Hotel for the last twenty-six years, and has vast experience of serving up superb menus to large numbers of guests. Big weddings are very challenging for a top chef and his team, and John shares his secrets of how to get it right with minimum stress.

Professor Brian Caulfield of TCD is a very active academic specialising in Transport and the carbon and climate impacts coming out of it. He’s published multiple papers on the topics, he provided advice to the Citizen’s Assembly on Climate Change and is also on the steering group reviewing the Greater Dublin Transport Strategy. He and Conor have met on the radio a few times but this is a chance for a longer chat.

He commutes long distance.

He plays flute on the Birmingham trad scene.

He retrains as a flute maker and moves to Sligo.

Gary Cooke's Trailblazers: Paul Harrington Part Two by Senior Times