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Author Sarah Moss chats to Rick about her latest novel, The Winter Guest.

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Steven Benedict looks back at the film that inspired a generation of writers and filmmakers, Sidney Lumet’s Network.

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Jorie Lagerwey and Dee Molumby review series Black Doves (Netflix), Hunting Alice Bell (Channel 4) and The Galway Bay Murders (RTE). 

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Louise Bruton and John Meagher review new releases from James Blunt, Kings of Leon and Alanis Morrisette. 

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2026 RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards nominee Barry Kerr performs live in studio.

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John Maguire and Cara O'Doherty review Onwards and Sideways, Wild Horse Nine and La Bola Negra.

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Fiddler Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh discusses her upcoming performance as part of the Drawing from the Well series at the National Concert Hall.

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Paul Whittington looks back at Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie 50 years on. 

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Author Yiyun Li on her new historical novel about the life of Irish composer John Field, Music Against The Night. 

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Award-winning playwright Clare Monnelly and director Aaron Monaghan about her new play Good Girls.

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Pat Carty reviews Stevie Wonder's recently performance of Songs in the Key of Life at Dublin’s 3Arena. 

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Ahead of the release of her second solo album, An Ciúnas, concertina player Caitlín Nic Gabhann performs live in studio.  

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Author Djamel White chats to Ciara about All Them Dogs, his new gangland thriller set in west Dublin.

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Live from the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris for a special evening celebrating Irish culture in the French capital. Rick is joined by Director of the Centre Nora Hickey M'Sichili, writers Neil Hegarty and Karl Geary, journalist Sophie Gorman, actor Kevin Fowley, and playwright Bryan Delaney. Plus, music from Kevin Fowley and Louise Mulcahy.

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Chris Wasser joins the programme to discuss the newly released Netflix series 'The One About Matthew Perry'.

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Kelly Anne Byrne is in studio to dicuss Amy Winehouse's second album 'Back to Black' which turned 20 this week. 

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Tara Brady and Justin McGregor review Primetime, All About The Money and Gentle Monster. 

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Kartikay Gupta and Stephanie O'Connor discuss their short stories which have been shortlisted for the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2026. 

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Writer Martina Devlin on the great tradition of ghost stories in Ireland. 

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Foy Vance joins Rick in studio to discuss his 60-date world tour and play some tunes. 

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Writer Audrey Niffenegger joins the programme to discuss her new book 'Life Out of Order' 23 years on from 'The Time Traveler's Wife'

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Film critic John Maguire on Ken Russell’s 'The Devils' being re-released. 

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Caitríona O’Leary, Anakronos, on their new production at Kilkenny’s Toil & Trouble where medieval music meets jazz in this compelling reimagining of one of Ireland’s most remarkable manuscripts.

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Bill Whelan, Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala O'Connor, Shaun Davey, and Iarla Ó Lionáird discuss the life and career of the late Dónal Lunny.ss the life and career of the late Dónal Lunny dies aged 79.

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John Armstrong and Alison Jameson, both finalists of this year's RTÉ Short Story Competition, chat to Rick about their work.

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Choreographer John Scott chats to Rick about the Irish Modern Dance Theatre production 'Physical Landscape' coming to the Project Arts Centre.

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Hilary White and Arlene Hunt review the new films Klara and the Sun, Fatherland and Possible Love.

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Galway DJ Count Skylarkin chats with Rick about his upcoming gig at the Lú Festival of Light in Drogheda.

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Ahead of the release of its sixth iteration, we’ll be discussing the global pop-cultural phenomenon that is Grand Theft Auto.

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Ahead of the 300th anniversary of the publication of Gulliver’s Travels, composer Shaun Davey discusses his Gulliver: A Choral Symphony.

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Ralph McTell chats to Rick and plays live in studio.  

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Fiddle player and RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards nominee Clare Sands chats to Rick about her new album and performs live in studio.  

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As Macnas marks 40 years of creating extraordinary public art, Rick look back at the history of the company with Galway theatre-maker James Riordan. 

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Jess Fahy discusses the National Gallery’s new exhibition, Hilma af Klint: Artist and Visionary. 

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For over twenty-five years, novelist Niall Williams has been crafting some of the most lyrical and resonant of Irish stories.

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Wexford Festival Opera marks its 75th anniversary. From its modest beginnings in 1951, it has grown into one of the world's most respected opera festivals, earning an international reputation for reviving neglected masterpieces and nurturing new talent.

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Chris Wasser and Louise Bruton review VisionQuest (Disney+), Crystal Lake (Sky) and The Party (Virgin).

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Zara Hedderman and Nadine O’Regan review new releases from Fontaines DC, Arborist and Declan O’Rourke.

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Donald Clarke and Sarina Bellissimo review survival thriller Whalefall and documentaries NAZA and Forever Is Now.

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Ahead of the release of his new album, Belly of the Beast, Whozyerman? chats to Rick and performs live in studio.

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Actor Luke Grimes chats to Rick about the latest season of Taylor Sheridan's American neo-Western Marshals. 

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Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times chats to Rick about Faber confirming it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK. 

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Singer-songwriter Maya Libbey performs live in the studio.

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Ashley Keating of The Frank and Walters chats to Rick about Cork's most iconic music venues.

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Playwright and director Enda Walsh and actors Séamus McLean Ross and Aoise Meaney discuss the major new production at The Everyman marking three decades of the play.

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Poets Vona Groarke and Martina Evans discuss this year’s Circling the Square Literary Festival.

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Paul Whittington discusses Marathon Man at 50.

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Limerick artist Strange Boy performs live in studio and chats to Rick about his recently released second album, Say Nothing.  

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Jenn Gannon and Chris Wasser review Mike Flanagan’s reboot of Stephen King’s Carrie and Channel 4's comedy series It Gets Worse, and discuss why The Celebrity Traitors is so compelling.

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Graham Smyth and John Meagher review new releases from Troye Sivan, Morgana and Pet Shop Boys. 

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A look back into the RTÉ Archives to mark Anne Carson winning the Nobel prize in Literature, 2026. The Canadian poet joined Vincent Woods in studio in March 2011, on a visit to Dublin as a guest of the Poetry Now festival in Dún Laoghaire. In the interview, she discusses her work translating from the Greek classics, and her own poetry and criticism, including her books The Autobiography of Red, Eros the Bittersweet, and Nox – which she describes as an epitaph to her late brother Michael.

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Jenny Vila, founder and Creative Producer of La Mecànica chats to Rick about A Teen Odyssey an immersive and highly original production at this year's Baboró International Arts Festival for Children. 

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John Maguire and Cara O'Doherty review Aaron Sorkin’s new Facebook film The Social Reckoning, Andrew Garfield in The Uprising and new Irish documentary Lesbian Lines.  

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Sue Rainsford discusses her new novel From Out My Heart.      

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Christopher Eccleston and Madeleine Madden discuss Chasing Millions - the upcoming heist comedy about the 2004 Northern Bank robbery. 

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Dr Barry Houlihan chats to Rick about a new exhibition marking 20 years since the death of John McGahern, which has opened at the University of Galway.

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Choreographer Akram Khan discusses his work Kaash, which will be part of a landmark triple bill of internationally acclaimed contemporary dance works coming to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre as part of NŌS by Luail.

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Acclaimed theatre and opera director Ben Barnes chats to Rick about Side Stage, a collection of his writing about theatre.

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German composer Heiner Goebbels and internationally acclaimed violinist Claire Duff of the Irish Baroque Orchestra discuss the Irish premiere of Goebbels' landmark music-theatre work, Songs of Wars I Have Seen, at the National Concert Hall.

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Mezzo-soprano Niamh O’Sullivan on Irish National Opera's upcoming production of Bizet's Carmen.  

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Andrew Garfield discusses his upcoming role as a rebellious farmer in the historical action drama, The Uprising.

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Paul Whitington discusses our obsession with Jane Austen.

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Ahead of the release of their debut album, The Stone Man, The Wran perform live in studio.

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Chris Wasser and Dee Molumby review War (Sky/Now), Kill Jackie (Prime) and East of Eden (Netflix).

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Louise Bruton and Cian Sullivan review new releases from The Whileaways, Johnny Marr and Blossoms.

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Cork band Diveboy chat to Rick and play live in studio.

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Director Tom Creed discusses his new production of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis starring Marty Rea.

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Paul Whittington and Ruth Barton review Digger, Verity, The Weight and Knife, a new documentary about Salman Rushdie.

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Dr. Sinéad McCoole, Head of Exhibitions, Learning and Programming at the National Library, discusses Ballybeg Goes Global, a celebration of Brian Friel's international legacy. 

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Zara Hedderman on Lawrence, the iconoclastic frontman of the English indie pop band Felt. 

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Dónal Gallagher, brother of the late Rory, discusses his memoir, Edged in Blue: A Rock 'n' Roll Odyssey with Rory Gallagher. 

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Jess Fahy discusses the portraits of the O’Connell women that hang on the walls of Derrynane House. 

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Eamon Sweeney and John Meagher review new releases from Gilla Band, Beck and Gurriers.

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Justin Mac Gregor and Tara Brady review Hope, Sense and Sensibility, Her Private Hell and The Lost Children of Tuam. 

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Canadian pianist and winner of the 2025 Dublin International Piano Competition, Carter Johnson, performs live in studio.  

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Author Margaret Kelleher discusses her book Mary and Padraic Colum: The Lives and the Dream. 

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Steven Benedict looks back at David Lynch's Blue Velvet 40 years on.  

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Rick is joined by former judge and writer Neil Hegarty, former competition winner John O'Donnell, and the Short Story Series producer, Sarah Binchy, to celebrate 40 years of the RTÉ Short Story Competition and discuss this year’s shortlist.

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Colm Ó Foghlú and Aoife Ní Bhriain discuss their Stiúideo Cuan–commissioned works, plus a live studio performance from Aoife.

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Chris Wasser and Jenn Gannon review Brothers (Apple TV+), Monster: Lizzie Borden (Netflix) and Tall Tales and Murder (RTÉ).

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Hugo Weaving discusses his latest film, The Airport Chaplain.  

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Director Claire O’Reilly and actors Oliver Flitcroft and Ghaliah Conroy discuss Visions, a new Abbey Theatre production written by Eoghan Quinn.

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Caitríona Balfe discusses the new big-screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility, her role as Mrs Dashwood, and working alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esme Creed-Miles and Fiona Shaw.

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A.S. Fanning discusses his latest album Take Me Back To Nowhere, his first headline tour in Ireland in nine years, and his dark, atmospheric sound.

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Martina Devlin and Irish Fiction Laureate Éilís Ní Dhuibhne celebrate the joy of public libraries, from borrowing and reading to the enduring magic of books and stories.

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Mary Cremin, co-curator of Technologies of Peace, takes us through the new exhibition at IMMA.

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Jan Carson discusses No Vacancy, her new collection of microfiction about staying in hotels around the world. 

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Liam Neeson and Monica Dolan discuss The Lost Children of Tuam, the new drama about historian Catherine Corless and her research into the former Mother and Baby Homes. 

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Paul Whittington discusses Michael Mann’s Manhunter at 40.  

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Amanda Coogan and Leanne Quigley discuss a new performance of Teresa Deevy’s play Dignity by Dublin Theatre of the Deaf.  

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Xnthony chats with Rick about the world premiere of Lourdes! The Musical at the Civic Theatre in Tallaght as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2026. 

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A special broadcast live from Studio One to celebrate Culture Night. Featuring performances from Lasairfhíona, harmony vocal group Landless, concertina virtuoso Jack Talty, uilleann piper Mark Redmond, and guitarist Michael McCague, alongside poetry readings from Martin Dyar. 

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Hilary White and Sarina Bellissimo review Queen At Sea and Bad Apples. 

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Chris Wasser and Dee Molumby review the latest series of Slow Horses and Sharon Horgan’s new series Youth. 

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Dave Haslam discusses his new book Creative Journeys: Intimate conversations with artists, actors, writers and musicians. 

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Writer and producer Dennis Kelly on adapting Roald Dahl’s Matilda into a musical. 

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Hugo Hamilton on adapting his novel Every Single Minute into the new stage production NUALA. 

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English folk singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy performs live in studio. 

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Poet Pádraig Ó Tuama discusses his new collection, Love Between Men.

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