Sunday Miscellany Podcast
1) Magical childhoods
Magical woodlands, stone sanctuaries and divine intervention, with Val Mulkerns, Sam McAughtry, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Peter Jankowsky, Catherine Ann Cullen, Liz Nugent and Michael Harding
2) Working yourself, or watching others at it
Labour-saving devices, hard labour, labouring cerebrally or otherwise, all forms of work are the theme of today's archive programme, with John Ryan, Angela O'Rourke, Lar Redmond, Benedict Kiely, James...Show More
3) Rituals at home, rituals in the community
Miscellany 50: The Archives was a special series that celebrated the writing Sunday Miscellany featured in its first 50 years. This programme focused on the theme of ‘ritual’ and featured Hilda Murphy...Show More
4) A flash of pink, a magic box and a bird’s eye view
Over the past 100 years, the seismic impact of Ireland's new public service broadcasting service on individual homes, society and our political landscape, with Felicity Hayes-McCoy, the late JM Dolan,...Show More
5) Roses, Rain and a Door Ajar
Wedding vows, thoughts of home and New Year wishes, from Sweden to Vancouver Island to Rostrevor, County Down, with Conall Hamill, Lani O’Hanlon, Neil Hegarty, Mattie Brennan, Denis Tuohy and Enda Wyl...Show More
6) A Piano Man and a Wexford Ball
Post-Christmas blues and a December birthday, angels of heaven and the origins of Gaelic football in Wexford, with Mary O’Donnell, John Toal, Jackie Lynam, Alison Ní Mháirtín, Paul Rouse, the late Man...Show More
7) A Christmas Day Miscellany
Palestrina in Rome, an outsize Santa suit, and gifts of kindness from the Liberties to Lagos… featuring recordings from the NCH with the RTÉ CO and more, with Eithne Shortall, Joseph O’Connor, John To...Show More
8) Joy to the World: Christmas Miscellany Part 1
A winter wedding, a New Year’s Eve disaster, a Christmas baby and balm for the broken-hearted…Part 1 of Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests Kathleen MacMahon, Paul M...Show More
9) Songs, Seafarers and a Guiding Star
From Skerries to Strabane, East Galway to Alexandria: chance encounters, Christmastime musical delights and a deer of light, with Victoria White, Seán O’Gorman, Lisa McInerney, Jim Maguire, Judith Mok...Show More
10) War Stories and Winter Light
John and Yoko in County Mayo, Con Houlihan at 100 and a sniff of Christmas, with Donal Fallon, Louise Kennedy, Niall McArdle, Peter Cunningham Aidan Hynes and Helen O’Rahilly