Irish violin bow-maker Gary Leahy takes us on a sonic journey in search of exotic materials for a top end bow from Brazilian pernambuco wood to Mongolian pony tail hair.

A vibrant and surprising history of Dublin can be told by visiting one elegant building almost hidden in the city's heart, which Reminds us how much of the new is built on the old thats St. Werburgh's Church

John Beckett, the Man and his Music, explores the unique contribution made by this extraordinary musician to the development of period performance style.

An examination of the earliest notated music in Ireland: Medieval Monastic Chant

IN 2006 Denis Costello visited her at her home in Barcelona where she spoke to him about her native city, her relationship singers such as Placido Domingo and Joan Sutherland and that memorable collaboration with Queens Freddy Mercury

Ian Maleney explores the work of four contemporary Irish writers, and examines the traditions, landscapes, and ideas which run through their unique and surprising books.

As Ireland becomes more urbanised, we are losing language for our places and landscapes. Words are vanishing that refer to animals and birds, to fields and forests and to traditions of outdoor work. This diminishing of language and knowledge coincides with a disengagement from the natural world as lives are increasingly lived indoors and online. It also coincides with a dramatic vanishing of nature itself. In just a generation, Irish rivers running with salmon, the cry of barn owl or bog curlew have become all but folk memory. But does language matter in this? Are names the root of our knowing and caring about something? Or if we’re recording the words instead of using them, is it already too late? In the company of artists, botanists and writers and with an invocation of nature words as soundtrack, presenter Mary Brophy journeys through forest, cluain and wild place in search of answers.

‘Stranieri’ tells the story of extraordinary European musicians who were recruited to the RTE Symphony Orchestra when it was founded 70 years ago.

Through a mix of documentary and drama, 'Last Thoughts' examines the life and work of Ireland's greatest classical composer, John Field.

A journey in the footsteps of composer Claude Debussy, in this centenary year of his death (Centenary of the death of Debussy, died March 25, 1918)