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Poets, pirates, penitents, AE, Matt Talbot, a garden gnome, and plans for the summer solstice, with Joe Kearney, Fran O’Rourke, Katrina Bruna, Gavin Corbett, Grace Wells and Rachael Hegarty 

Telephone conversations, travel woes, dashed dreams and devoted love, with Nicole Flattery, Conall Hamill, Rory Gleeson, Barbara Scully, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and John F Deane 

Birds, bees, the Boyne, the Shannon, and keeping faith with The Boss, with Vincent Kenny, Cathal Ó Gallchóir, Kerry Neville, Grace Wells, Kevin Connolly and Elma Walsh 

Double Booker Prize winner and creator of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood speaks to Arena ahead of her appearance at the Clifden Arts Festival - Pianist Barry Douglas on the Music at Monkstown festival - Lie Low, a new play about sex, violence and PTSD as part of the Dublin ... Show More

Jennie Longdon, Baylen Leonard and Ben Earle take you backstage at The Long Road Festival 2025 as they talk to the biggest artists on the line-up00:36 – Drake Milligan10:32 – Larry Fleet21:57 – First Time Flyers28:36 – Halle Kearns34:21 -Gareth41:30 – Ashley Monroe46:25 – Midland ... Show More

Every month, Kristian Nairn, aka Hodor from HBO’s Game Of Thrones, brings you his own personal selection of the best house, tech and progressive around. As well as providing candid insight into the life of a leading actor, Kristian shines the spotlight on some of his favourite ar ... Show More

Emily is the brainchild of the Australian actor Frances O'Connor, which is her debut as a writer and director - Patrick Spottiswoode will deliver the Dr Tom Walsh Lecture on Shakespeare's Rough Magic at Wexford Opera Festival. Paul Clements on his biography of writer Jan Morris - ... Show More

Operatic tenor Nicky Spence and recorder player and Baroque flautist Heidi Fardell are the studio guests of Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe. In today's five-track journey they head from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Belgium, a rural French château, a charitable instituti ... Show More

Peter Capaldi talks about his latest album – Sweet Illusions – a nod to the thriving 80s music scene in Glasgow where Peter made his musical debut fronting The Dreamboys. Through the Shortbread Tin is a new National Theatre of Scotland production about the supposed third century ... Show More

Every month, Kristian Nairn, aka Hodor from HBO’s Game Of Thrones, brings you his own personal selection of the best house, tech and progressive around. As well as providing candid insight into the life of a leading actor, Kristian shines the spotlight on some of his favourite ar ... Show More

As Liverpool enters the Swiftularity with the arrival of the arrival of the record-breaking phenomenon that is Taylor Swift and her Eras world tour, Nick visits the Taylor Town Trail - the new art trail dedicated to the singer's albums/eras - in the city centre and talks to one o ... Show More

Beyoncé's Renaissance: we discuss Beyoncé's house and disco inspired new album – her first solo material in six years - and her huge significance as an artist and cultural icon. Nick is joined by Jacqueline Springer – curator, music journalist and lecturer- and by the writer an ... Show More

In November's episode we mark the old festival of Samhain, and the end of the harvest - while in our ancient woodland the animals, too, are saying goodbye to autumn. We explore the fire folklore that abounds at this time, from Guy Fawkes to Will o' the Wisps, and The Breath sing ... Show More