A Christmas Miscellany from Dublin and Wexford, with Neil Hegarty, Am Cousins, Michael Harding, Denise Blake, Emer O’Kelly and Paul Howard, and music extracts from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by David Brophy and Gavin Maloney with special guests Gráinne Brookfield, Lisa Lambe and Cormac Kenevey

A mother’s secret recipe, true and untrue tales at Christmas and an extraordinary Holy Night, with Aingeala Flannery, John Toal, Paul Howard, Rachael Hegarty, all recorded at the National Concert Hall with music extracts from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by David Brophy and special guests Colm Warren, Maeve Smyth and Sarah Shine

From a magical Waterford bookshop at Christmas to the library of Alexandria, the journey of the Magi to a snowy homeward trek… with John Egan, Enda Wyley, Peter Cunningham, Judith Mok, Catherine Heaney and James Harpur

A selection from the Sunday Miscellany archives, from the 1960s to the 1990s – with Aodhán Madden, Mervyn Wall, Patricia O’Reilly, John Ryan, Rita Normanly, Stephen Rynne and Brendan Kennelly

The tang of the Atlantic, a stenographer for JFK, Thanksgiving Irish style and a small furry rabbit, with Alexander McMaster, Margaret Kelly, Michael Harding, Sinéad Ingoldsby, Kathy Donaghy and Fred Spengeman

Ghostly encounters, poetic presences, and a recalcitrant car, with Gerald Dawe, Mia Döring, Brian Leyden, Catherine Foley, Dermot Bolger, James Harpur and Lani O’Hanlon

Emigration pangs, the Beatles in Dublin, the snows of Leadville and the freedom of small nations, with Peter Trant, Sheila Maher, Joseph Kearney, Pat Dunne and the late Eileen Battersby

Apples, pears and a bad-tempered pierrot, and saluting Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi, with Pat Dunne, Andrea Carter, Ciarán Cannon, Alice Lyons, John MacKenna and Lani O’Hanlon

Halloween bonfires, Dracula’s origins, an island evacuation and the courage of Hugh O’Flaherty, with Declan Hughes, Breda Joyce, Patrick Griffin, Rachael Hegarty, Joseph O’Connor and Gráinne Quinlan

On a brave busking debut, joining a choir, and the hush that falls when an extraordinary voice starts to sing: the place of music and song in our lives in Dublin, with Kevin Connolly, Denise Blake, Colm Tóibín, Tim Carey and Sheila Maher