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In this episode Paula Wiseman chats with Gerry Clabby – Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications & National Contact Point for EU LIFE Programme and also Professor Kevin Mcdonnell – professor at the School of Agriculture and Food Science and lead on the Farm4more Project.

This is the inaugural programme presented by DJ Pozo.

Music across different genres from Africa was sampled in this edition. Enjoy !

Dublin Punk Untold examines the role Ireland’s capital city played in the punk era. Inspired by the Hope Collective’s Great Gig Memories book, producer and broadcaster Neil Farrelly has spent the past year and a half examining archives and interviewing the people who created Ireland’s punk scene.

In episode one, There was Nothing,  we hear about how oppressive and dull Dublin was in the mid 1970’s, the explosion of pirate radio, Dublin’s first Zines, how the Radiators from Space formed and the tragic death of Patrick Coultry at the Belfield’s Burning Festival.

Made with the support of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television licence fee.

DJ Pozo presents an hour and a half of sound and beats from around the continent of Africa. This particular episode also features an interview with the Dublin-based Afrobeat artist Boye PapaG.

 

Want to know more about coming-of-age novels and films and how they continue to inspire and motivate us today? Join Berni Dwan, and her intergenerational guests, on a brand new eight-part series – Growing up Between the Dustjackets – to discover how these universally loved stories are relevant to people of all ages facing their own social challenges today. Learn about young people – in fiction, memoir, and real life – succeeding beyond all expectations despite being challenged by misogyny, racism, indoctrination, fundamentalism, homophobia, prejudice, war and poverty.

Episode 5:

Being Influenced: To Kill a Mockingbirdand The Book Thief – TY students from Marino College – Allana O’Hanlon, Demi Duffy, Meda Kovatchi, Olivia Rodrigues, Aleksandr Klankert, Jose Sanchez, Alan Aboah, Rafael Giurgila.

Series is produced and presented by Berni Dwan. Sound by Ed Grannell. Dramatic readings by Tara Power and Alan O’Brien. Music by Hannah Cogan. Supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound and Vision scheme through the Television Licence Fee

Michael Sullivan chats with Optometry Ireland President John Weldon about Optometry Ireland’s call for expansion of eye-care services in the Community.

Visit:  www.optometryireland.ie

Myra Gleeson chats to Dr Pauhla McGrane Co- founder of the Dollymount Drifters Sea Shanty Group. They will be singing the Sligo Wild Atlantic Shanty Festival June 16th. Dr Paula McGrane has a research background in biological Oceanography and underwater noise research that poses a threat to our.

 

Myra Gleeson chats to John Horgan Sales & Marketing Manager with the GPO Museum. To talk about reopening the wonderful Museum. Plus future plans. The beautifully designed Museum is just behind the GPO building in O’Connell Street.

 

Myra Gleeson chats to Lauren Cleary, a member of the museum team to talk about the “Little Museum of Dublin” history, display and what the Little Museum has planned for the coming months.

 

 

Labour Party TD, Duncan Smith joins Johnny Holmes to discuss the lack of state services available at ground level for Ukrainian refugees.

Visit:  www.labour.ie