John Quinn visits Ballyfin, Co. Laois where he spent five years as a boarder in the 1950s.

A celebration of the life and work of Seamus Ennis that looks at an important but lesser known aspect of the work of this giant of Irish traditional music.

He was one of the most famous pianists of his age but is now largely forgotten, the Limerick born composer George Alexander Osborne

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.