This Friday 10/01/25 sees the Irish release of Maria,a biopic of Maria Callas with Angelina Jolie in the title role. But Liz Nolan got there first with a 2023 radio documentary where she told the story of the singer who she first encountered as a teenage soprano.

Poet Gerald Dawe explores the enduring appeal of the west of Ireland landscapes to writers and artists.

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of The Pogues' second album Rum Sodomy & The Lash, music critic Mike Glennon set out to make a documentary to mark the occasion - the result, A Dream of Foreign Lands.

The premiere of a new opera by composer Irene Buckley, inspired by the poem Chaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire.

In 2018, actor Sharon Mc Ardle and playwright Declan Gorman set out to create a theatre piece based on diaries kept by revolutionary and writer Dorothy Macardle during her incarceration at the time of the Irish Civil War.

Approaching thirty years together as an ensemble, the ConTempo Quartet spent their formative years in Romania in Central Europe before moving to the west coast of Ireland as Galway Music Residency's Ensemble in Residence in 2003

Kate Meyrick was a trailblazer: a business woman, a nightclub owner, a mother and a celebrity prisoner. In spite of the fact that she made 100s of newspaper headlines there has never been a full length documentary made of her life.

In a change to our schedule, we rebroadcast Generational Resistance: Granny’s Intentions and the Birth of the Irish Beat Scene, featuring interviews with lead singer Johnny Duhan, who sadly died this week.

Ireland has white tailed sea eagles as well as golden eagles, both having been recently reintroduced. In this episode Anja Murray and Brían Mac Gloinn travel to Garinish Island in west Cork and also hear from National Parks and Wildlife Service Ranger Clare Heardman about the nesting and breeding habits of these wonderful birds.

In this episode ecologist Anja Murray and musician Brían Mac Gloinn visit a busy nesting colony of little terns on the Wicklow coast and talk with ternprogramme conservation manager from BirdWatch Ireland, Brian Bourke, about the lives of these beautiful birds.