On today's programme: Front line defenders and local heroes... a New York friendship under lockdown... and the love story of the late Tiede and Elisabeth Herrema. With writers Frank Shouldice, Helen O'Rahilly, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Quentin Fottrell and Angela Keogh.

Front line defenders and local heroes... a New York friendship under lockdown... and the love story of the late Tiede and Elisabeth Herrema. With writers Frank Shouldice, Helen O'Rahilly, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Quentin Fottrell and Angela Keogh.

This week we re-broadcast a special live programme from University of Limerick with writers Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Malley, Donal Ryan, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Mae Leonard and William Keohane with live music from among others Blackie O'Connell, Seamus Fogarty, and the Irish World Academy House Band

This week we re-broadcast a special live programme from University of Limerick with writers Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Malley, Donal Ryan, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Mae Leonard and William Keohane with live music from among others Blackie O'Connell, Seamus Fogarty, and the Irish World Academy House Band

Cold water swimming, Glen Hansard's other birthday and an Orangeman under the bed... With Brian Farrell, Jackie Lynam, Gerald Dawe, Karen Sorensen, Margaret Hickey, and Larry McCluskey

Cold water swimming, Glen Hansard's other birthday and an Orangeman under the bed... With Brian Farrell, Jackie Lynam, Gerald Dawe, Karen Sorensen, Margaret Hickey, and Larry McCluskey

Cold water swimming, Glen Hansard's other birthday and an Orangeman under the bed... With Brian Farrell, Jackie Lynam, Gerald Dawe, Karen Sorensen, Margaret Hickey, and Larry McCluskey

In this programme: adventures in homeschooling, decluttering opportunities, Daniel O’Connell’s Notre Dame connection, a pandemic reading list and more with contributions from Barry McCrea, Kate Kerrigan, Conall Hamill, Grace Neville and poems from Geraldine Mitchell and Catherine Foley

Chocolate eggs and ice eggs, church bells and birdsong, tropical fish, the composer Ravel, and big and small acts of solidarity this Easter time... With Alan Finnegan, John Toal, Colin Murphy, Rachael Hegarty and Lani O’Hanlon

Chocolate eggs and ice eggs, church bells and birdsong, tropical fish, the composer Ravel, and big and small acts of solidarity this Easter time... With Alan Finnegan, John Toal, Colin Murphy, Rachael Hegarty and Lani O’Hanlon