Bracing coastal waters, past-their-prime vessels and the glorious freedom of swimming, with Mae Leonard, Mervyn Wall, Benedict Kiely, Marie McSweeney, Gerald Dawe, Joe McGowan and Anne Le Marquand Hartigan

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The comforts of home, the spaces we inhabit and the things we can't do without, with Maurice Craig, Treasa Brogan, Bill Hammond, Mary Arrigan, Fachtna Ó Drisceoil, Tommy Sands and Elaine Sisson

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Magical woodlands, stone sanctuaries and divine intervention, with Val Mulkerns, Sam McAughtry, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Peter Jankowsky, Catherine Ann Cullen, Liz Nugent and Michael Harding

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Labour-saving devices, hard labour, labouring cerebrally or otherwise, all forms of work are the theme of today's archive programme, with John Ryan, Angela O'Rourke, Lar Redmond, Benedict Kiely, James Plunkett and Sharon Hogan

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Miscellany 50: The Archives was a special series that celebrated the writing Sunday Miscellany featured in its first 50 years. This programme focused on the theme of ‘ritual’ and featured Hilda Murphy, Nuala O'Faolain, Eamon Keane, Margaret Hawkins, Paul Dwyer, Sinéad McCoole and Tadhg Ó Dubhláine

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Over the past 100 years, the seismic impact of Ireland's new public service broadcasting service on individual homes, society and our political landscape, with Felicity Hayes-McCoy, the late JM Dolan, Gerard Stembridge, Margaret Galvin, John Toal and Olivia O'Leary

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Wedding vows, thoughts of home and New Year wishes, from Sweden to Vancouver Island to Rostrevor, County Down, with Conall Hamill, Lani O’Hanlon, Neil Hegarty, Mattie Brennan, Denis Tuohy and Enda Wyley

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Post-Christmas blues and a December birthday, angels of heaven and the origins of Gaelic football in Wexford, with Mary O’Donnell, John Toal, Jackie Lynam, Alison Ní Mháirtín, Paul Rouse, the late Manchán Magan and Eithne Hand (pic: Paula Malone Carty)

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Palestrina in Rome, an outsize Santa suit, and gifts of kindness from the Liberties to Lagos… featuring recordings from the NCH with the RTÉ CO and more, with Eithne Shortall, Joseph O’Connor, John Toal, Quentin Fottrell, Rachael Hegarty, Chikere Ohoka, Lisa Lambe, the Palestrina Choir and Sarah Shine

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A winter wedding, a New Year’s Eve disaster, a Christmas baby and balm for the broken-hearted…Part 1 of Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests Kathleen MacMahon, Paul Muldoon, Mia Döring, Paul Howard, Cauvery Madhavan, the Palestrina Choir and Lisa Lambe

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