From Cherbourg to Belmullet to Western Vancouver: friendship, poetry and voyages of the heart, with Mattie Brennan, Peter Cunningham, Cathy Sweeney, Grace Wilentz, Michael Gallagher and Aidan Mathews

Silk Road meditations, dreamy prophecies and the hard winter of 1947, with Emer O’Kelly, Eileen Casey, John MacKenna, Alexander McMaster, Lani O’Hanlon and Denis Tuohy

Diplomatic travels and inner journeys, from Leitrim to Lourdes, from Ontario to Togo and Nauru – meeting a Daniel O’Donnell fan along the way… a New Year Miscellany with Joe Hayes, Pat Boran, Nuala O’Connor, Angela Keogh, Niall McArdle and Mary O’Malley

A friendly spy, Joyce’s favourite music, and remembering the Dead at Christmastime… with archive from and tributes to some much loved writers we lost this year. With Kevin Mc Dermott, Justin Kilcullen, Conor Hanratty, Judith Mok, Emer O’Kelly, Catherine Foley and Gerald Dawe

Christmas food, seasonal gifting and contemplation and a Dublin legend, with John Toal, Donal Fallon, Maggie Armstrong, Margaret Galvin, John F Deane and James Harpur

Reflections on the Christmas season and an unexpected house guest, a miniature Miscellany for Christmas Eve, with Olive Travers, James Harpur and John F Deane

Puccini in Rome, Star Wars fever and a child’s Christmas wonder: part 1 of Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests, with writers Joseph O’Connor, Rachael Hegarty, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, Paul Howard and Joe Kearney

Stories of the revolution and the Irish revival, and heroes and heroines of every hue, with Declan Kiberd, Jim Maguire, Mary Hassett, Síobhra Aiken, Ger Fitzgibbon and James Harpur

Saluting Notre-Dame on its grand reopening, wild geese on the wing, rediscovering a love of Latin and saying Thank You to life – by way of Joan Baez and Violeta Parra, with Kathleen O’Meara, Zoë Devlin, James Harpur, Tom Ryan, John MacKenna and Kathy Donaghy

Guy Mitchell in Finglas, a century old bank raid, and other tales from the 80s and 90s programme archive, with Aodhán Madden, Nuala Hayes, Brian Leyden, Richard Roche, Hugh Oram and Mae Leonard