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.

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

In this three-part series, Michael Lee explores the rich imaginative idealism that informed so much music in the Romantic Era. In the final programme: Music as personal disclosure, entering the private world, Robert Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert.

In this three-part series, Michael Lee explores the rich imaginative idealism that informed so much music in the Romantic Era. Programme 2: Balancing the demands of virtuosity and poetry, Niccolo Paganini, Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt.

In this three-part series, Michael Lee explores the rich imaginative idealism that informed so much music in the Romantic Era. Part 1 The Revolutionary Sublime

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

Mary Brophy goes to the wild places to explore how the diminishing of our language for the natural world coincides with the diminishing of the natural world itself.

On the 150th anniversary of the death of Berlioz, Thomas Hampson and Graham Johnson, discuss the influence of Thomas Moore on his music.

Musicologist Barra Boydell brings us on a walking tour of Handel’s 18th century Dublin

The Macroom-born soprano Rita Lynch – winner of the Radio Eireann John McCormack Competition 1939 - is re-discovered through the memorabilia from her daughter’s attic.