On this morning’s programme, we heard: The Short Cut by Grace Wells; The Magic of the B-Side, by John MacKenna; The Festival by Carol Nicholas; In Search of Ancestors, a poem by Kevin Mc Dermott; Scouting For Boys by Chris McHallem; Scáthanna/ Shadows, a poem in Irish and English by Catherine Foley, and Bloody Friday, by Olive Travers

Grace Wells goes on a mission to find a short cut from Clare to Clonmel

A poem in English and Irish, by Vincent Woods

James Harpur on the break with the sacred that polluted rivers signify

Tommy O’Rourke on Lena Rice, Ireland’s only female Wimbledon champion

Lani O’Hanlon tries not to tame a feral cat

Conall Hamill on two contrasting national day celebrations in Paris

Monica Corish stays up late for the moon landing

On this morning’s programme, we heard: Bouncing on the Moon by Monica Corish; Bastille Day 1979 by Conall Hamill; The Fields in his Eyes by Lani O’Hanlon; Irish Queen of Wimbledon by Tommy O’Rourke; Rivers of Life by James Harpur and, Soul/ Anam, a poem in English and Irish, by Vincent Woods

Justin MacCarthy's childhood sojourn in the Lebanon