Tragedy strikes and Happy Cullen is left waiting to be churched. In her liminal state Happy, suspended in a moment, battles with and entertains ghosts of past and present in order to step over the threshold and ultimately continue into her future.
Marion O’Dwyerstars as Muriel Denham lives alone since the death of ‘her’ Larry seven years previously. When Konstantin the mysterious Czech rents the downstairs flat, landlady Muriel considers seduction.
Sean Rocks chats to director John Boorman. Sean caught up with John during recording of John's radio play The Hit List for Drama on One.
Strutting and Fretting. Written and performed by Chris McHallem.
by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh & Yvonne Quinn. Winner of Best Radio Drama Script at the 2022 Writer's Guild of Ireland Zebbie Awards
Looking down the barrel of her final fertile years, one modern woman goes on a comical quest to uncover the ifs, hows and crucially the whys of reproducing her genes.
starring Barry McGovern. Kevin Reynolds produced.
Young lovers Nora and Lennon bicker, giggle, sing and chat through their epic problems; travelling one way to Mars; the first Martian baby; moon signs v star sign and what to do about leggy Josie..
a lyrical evocation of loss, lamentation, and the bond between the living & the dead,
Yardstick: Saoirse Ronan stars as Laura in this sonic journey into the world of teenage bullying.
While writing the funeral eulogy for his estranged father, the past blows open for Stephen. Childhood memories of his time in America come flooding back. performed by Owen Roe.
The Venice Suite by Dermot Bolger - a voyage through loss - performed by John Kavanagh
Ahead of the publication of her memoir The State of Dark, the Dutch soprano, writer and vocal coach, Judith Mok, performs her radio piece, Confinements.
Wee Black Bees by Little John Nee, originally commissioned as part of Drama On One’s Science Season. In this drama, we join blues musician, Sparkplug, as he grapples with heartbreak, the welfare of bee populations and the writings of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger.
It's Oscar Night and an escaped felon needs shelter and some quick cash! Starring Maire Hastings Áine Ní Mhuirí & Emmet Kirwan.
Primroses le Colm Mac Con Iomaire: A beautiful and sensitive reflection on the relationships between sons and fathers, who themselves become fathers to sons.
In this edition of In the Wings we hear Bosco Hogan, Colin Campbell, Kate Gilmore and Éanna Grogan discussing Nick Midgley’s play Bloomsday, recorded this year as part the Ulysses centenary. In The Wings is produced by Kevin Reynolds.
A beautiful and sensitive reflection on the relationships between sons and fathers, who themselves become fathers to sons, in an audio memoir of Colm’s three month stay, as a ten-year-old, on Inis Meáin.
Wine from Greenland by Alejandro Niklison explores the meaning of society and identity in the search for absolute freedom. Featuring Charlie Bonner, Frankie McCafferty and Donna Anita Nikolaisen
Escapism and Dime Novels’ by Gerard Frexis Ribera tell the story of two writers, both working in a Spanish prison in the reign of General Franco - but on different sides of the bars. Featuring a cast hailing from Spain, El Salvador, Chile and San Francisco
In The Wings where artists talk about their work and their journey towards performance. Tonight, writer Alejandro Niklison and actors Donna Anita Nicolaisen and Charlie Bonner talk about working on Alejandro’s play Wine From Greenland
The Art of Foot-Binding: Inspired by a classroom discussion of foot-binding, Becky experiments with the ancient practice at home, while family ties are stretched to breaking point.
The regime’s censors say Franco’s Spain is an absolutely paradise and there’s no crime at all - but as a prison guard, Carlos knows better.
The Butcher Boy is Back. Francie Brady released from prison now inhabits a form of rarefied space returning from God's knows where to the place where he once ruled the roost
Pat McCabe, Joe O'Byrne, Nick Dunning and John D Ruddy speak about their work and Brady the Revenant by Pat McCabe
Christy Doyle an Elvis Impersonator reminisces on the life and death of the King of Rock n' Roll and the enormous influence it had on Christy's life in 70's Dublin.
Greta at the Gresham by Bernard Farrell: Boy meets girl in a brief encounter on an ancient island and again in the lobby of a Dublin hotel featuring Bryan Murray and Dawn Bradfield
Remembering the late Sean Kenny, internationally acclaimed set designer. Producer Aidan Mathews
Two climbers take on a steep and dangerous mountain in Mayo, known as 'An Duairceán'.
Featuring Charlene McKenna, John D Ruddy, Louise Lewis, Kate Gilmore, David Pearse, Enda Oates, Tara Lynne O'Neill and Helen Norton
