Seascapes this Friday night 2nd October on RTÉ Radio 1 features the remarkable story of Captain Robert Halpin of Wicklow. Marcus Connaughton meets author and historian Jim Rees to chart the remarkable life at sea of one of this country's great maritime heroes.

This week on Seascapes with Marcus Connaughton we hear from distinguished yachting journalist and writer Winkie Nixon who poses the question - "Why shouldn't the Irish be a seafaring people?" as a follow up to the Thomas Davis Lecture we featured earlier this year in the 25th Anniversary collection "Sailing By" published by The Liffey Press

features round the world sailor Brian Carlin ; Norman Freeman author of The Lure of Far Away Places; Women and the Sea symposium in National Maritime Museum and Titanic diver Rory Golden.

features Captain James Tyrrell of Arklow Shipping ; Niamh Hayes visits The National Rowing Centre in Farran Woods near Ovens; Norman Freeman is In His Element and much more...

features the CEO of The Commissioners of Irish Lights -Yvonne Shields and Captain Robert McCabe and The Great Lighthouses of Ireland initiative; Explores Club Flag destined for Titanic Belfast with Rory Golden; music from Stan Hugill; Colm Plunkett on a narrow escape wearing a life jacket....

features Damian Foxall - Oman Sail MOD 70 in Artemis Challenge and Fastnet Race; Christy Moore ; Gery Flynn of Inshore Ireland ; we remember charismatic skipper Martin Howley ; Norman Freeman off the Straits of Hormoz in Iran and much more ...

features Kirsti O Kelly and Silver Darlings ; Sean Connick CEO of John F Kennedy Trust and the Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience; music from Liam Clancy...

features Liam Quinlan of Quinlan's Kerry Fish ; Hugh Oram on A Bridge that was never built; Bantry Longboats ; Channel Swimmers and Wild Atlantic Way Route Atlas and CD winners in our competition.

Seascapes features Wild Atlantic Way -Route Atlas and music from WAW CD -in our competition; Rory Fitzpatrick ,CEO of National Space Centre; Maritime artist-Brian Cleare ; Channel Swimmer -Maura Twomey .

Seascapes features John Creedon's Wild Atlantic Way new series on RTE One TV starting this Sunday @6.30pm; Commander Brian Fitzgerald of The Naval Service; Olympic Sailor -Annalise Murphy; Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society Museum; Gareth Craig of fotosail and much more.