Cord Jefferson - Blackshore - Album Reviews

Film reviews - Music of.... series - Classics Now

Jaq: A Top Boy Story - Country Music by Simon Stephens - Victoria Johnston - Sive at the Gaiety

Anthony Boyle - New TV this week - Happiness Then

The Long-Winded Lady - Looking for Brigid - - Art’s Wildest Movement: Mannerism - Ficino Ensemble

Book Review - Bach is back - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - 'The President' latest production - RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Gershwin 100

All of Us Strangers - New TV this week - The Parthenon Marbles Dispute

Live from Dublin Castle, music and chat from Janis Ian, Ralph McTell, Toshín, Aoife Scott, Neil Martin and Louise Mulcahy.

Live from Dublin Castle, music and chat from Stockton’s Wing, Strangeboy, Yankari and Indeceltic.

Krapp's Last Tape review - Dances Like a Bomb - Junk Ensemble - Album Reviews

Film reviews - São Paulo Dance Company - The enduring appeal of Victorian literary characters

The Holdovers - Cristóbal Balenciaga - 28th Festival of Youth Orchestras

New TV this week - Classics Now festival - Dublin Literary Award longlist

Guggi - Hisham Matar - Movies to musicals

The Empty Nest - The Odyssey - Album Reviews

Film reviews - RTÉ Choice Music Prize - Banana Accelerationism

Cillian Murphy - Krapp's Last Tape - Seán Hewitt

New TV this week - Rónán O Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly - Sive

Silva Lumina - A Portrait in Flesh: My Life with Bowie - Midwinter Festival Fauré

The 24 Hour Plays Dublin - Niamh Regan - 25 years of Curb Your Enthusiasm

Film reviews - LAMBCHOP - Selvage

Sofia Coppola - New TV this week - Island City

To wrap up the year, we look back at the cultural highlights of 2023 and look forward to what is to come in 2024 in films, books, TV and music with our panel of experts John Maguire, Sinéad Gleeson, Jenn Gannon and Zara Hedderman.

Film Reviews - Film: Gael Linn at 70 - Sean Sexton: Irish photograph collection

Peacock Theatre: Hammam - 2023 Best Crime Fiction Novels - Music Revolution - Jukebox to TikTok

Inis Meáin doc - Best of theatre 2023 - The Island Years Remastered

Christmas TV - Pogues Exhibit - Art Courses

Oneworld Publications on latest Booker success - Rebel Wife - In the Name of The Father at 30

Film Reviews - The best music books of 2023 - RTÉ Radio Centre at 50

Living the Beatles Legend - Kenneth Womack - Night Side of the River - Jeanette Winterson - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The Musical

Tommy Blaize - New TV this week - Sarah Purser: Private Worlds

A tribute Thomas Kilroy - Trish Murphy - Vladimir's Viennese Christmas Gala Concert - Serpico at 50

Baumgartner by Paul Auster - Self-Determination: A Global Perspective - Album reviews

Film Reviews - Paul Young - Benjamin Zephaniah

Basic Income for the Arts scheme - Conversations On A Playwright - The Drifters Girls

New TV this week - I Dream in Photos - From Ten till Dusk

Imogen from the Heart - The Thinning Veil - Renaissance: a Film by Beyonce - The Coen brothers

Kneecap - Lady Gregory’s short stories - Album reviews

Remembering Shane MacGowan - Film Reviews

You Belong To Me - Marin Alsop - The Quare Fellow

Soda Blonde - Pulp Injection - New TV this week

Paul Lynch - Sunday Miscellany: a Selection 2018 – 2023 - Arian Moayed

Qbanaa - Science fiction round-up - Album reviews

Film Reviews - RTÉ CO - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

Theo Dorgan - John Francis Flynn - JFK on screen

Dublin International Piano Competition - Booker Prize 2023 - Fargo series 5 - dlr First Frames scheme

Rendezvous with Marlene - Peter Pan at the Gate - Ronnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything

The Mission - Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Album reviews

Film Reviews - Paula Meehan - The Crown

Leonard Slatkin - Billy Roche - Bernard Canavan

Blindboy Boatclub - Culture Crush - The Winterreise Project

Winter Papers Vol 9

Aaron Monaghan plays Super-Bogger, a stay-at-home dad with super powers, in a play by Clare Monnelly - TULCA is an annual visual arts festival that uses galleries and unusual venues all over Galway city - Albums by John Francis Flynn, PinkPantheress and David Holmes

Film reviews: Anatomy of a Fall; Dream Scenario; The Marvels, and Ó Bhéal. Cinematographer Robbie Ryan on Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos; Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of his solo career, Robbie Williams has a new four-part Netflix documentary

With two of Ireland’s leading writers: recipient of the Rooney Prize, Dublin Literary Award and the Goldsmith Prize, Mike McCormack tells us about his latest book This Plague of Souls, while Paul Lynch, brings us into the frighteningly recognisable world of his Booker Prize Shortlisted novel Prophet Song. With music from singer songwriter Krea.

The long-awaited memoir ‘My Name is Barbra’ by Barbra Streisand hits bookshelves today - Words and Music at the Dublin Book Festival, with authors Rónán Hession and Edel Coffey - All You Need Is Death is Paul Duane's new film, in which he brings horror and sean-nós singing together - The Buccaneers on Apple TV.

The history of the Irish Film Censor’s Office reflects a fascinating glimpse of Ireland’s socio-political and cultural history - IMRAM the Irish-language literature festival 10 - 18 Nov - Ó Bhéal is an exploration of the rise of hip hop in Ireland - Ekow Eshun, curator of In the Black Fantastic, at the Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda, Nov 8th.

Kelly Jones - Andrew Motion - Album reviews

Film Reviews - Daoirí Farrell - Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore

Carmen – All the Light We Cannot See - The Exorcist at 50

Movie Music Masters at the NCH

Live from the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire, listen back to Arena's special programme for the RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus.

Film Reviews - Wexford Festival Opera - Album Reviews

Andy McClusky of OMD speaks to Sean about the band's new album 'Bauhaus Staircase'. Xnthony takes his epic musical 'Oliver Cromwell is Really Very Sorry' on the road in October and November and speaks to Sean ahead of the tour. The Macnas parade's new designer, Paul McDonnell, and director, James Riordan, join Sean.

Matthew Nolan on his new score for The Birds; Producer Nell Hensey and actor Lila Coleman from 'Falling For The Life of Alex Whelan'; Artist Joy Gerrard on the Festival of Making at the RHA Galleries and Peter McCauley whose story 'On Craigavon Bridge' has been shortlisted for this year's RTÉ Short Story Competition.

The Valley of the Squinting Windows - A Memoir of My Former Self review - Quadrophenia at 50 - RTÉ Short Story Competition 2023

Film Reviews - Sandra Newman - Kristian Bezuidenhout

Foe - Richard Hawley - The Gone - RTÉ Short Story Competition 2023

Live from the Pavilion Theatre Dun Laoghaire, Claire Keegan chats to Sean about her latest book, So Late in the Day and looks back at the success of previous works including Small Things Like These and Foster. The evening also featured music by Niamh Bury.

Eileen Walsh - Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed - Leonardo DiCaprio profile - RTÉ Short Story Competition 2023

Open House Festival 2023 - The Power of Art - Album Reviews

Ruth Barton and Paul Whitington review The Miracle Club, Lies We Tell, Sumotherhood and The Burial - Composer and jazz pianist Sultan Stevenson and his Trio are set to tour Ireland with Music Network from October 24th - Soprano Hannah O’Brien, winner of the 2023 Danone Young Outstanding Female Artist at Wexford, accompanied by Aoife Moran on piano.

Helen Meany reviews some of the plays at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival - James Morrissey tells the story of Garech De Brún and Claddagh Records in his new book Real to Reel - Lessons in Chemistry with Brie Larson on Apple TV - Rob Doyle on his essay 'The Lightning Rod'.

Lies We Tell - Daniel Mason - Lost Lear - The Reckoning

Thaddeus O'Sullivan - Seán Hewitt - This is Art - Dustin O'Halloran

Andy Warhol - Penelope Unbound - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth - I Have A Tribe.

Rope A Dope – Jabberwock - Tarrac - Interview with the Vampire

Jape - Gerald Dawe - The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger - Peep Show

The Great Escaper - Wexford Festival Opera - John Behan 

Ken Loach - Shaun Dunne - Album reviews

Remembering Michael Gambon - Film Reviews - Burnt Out

Festival of Italian and Irish Literary in Ireland - RTÉ Concert Orchestra Beethoven - Martina Evans

The Loved Ones - Kristin Hersh - Hungry Hill

Obituary - Hannah Peel - Vanya - Marina Abramovic

Adaptation Film Festival - Edwina Guckian - John McGahern & Leitrim - John Tuohy - Local artists and their current projects

Film Reviews - Audrey Molloy - Mel Mercier

Strange Boy - Emma Talbot -Timescapes Soundwalk - Orfhlaith Foyle

The Women, We Will Rise - The Super Models preview -40th EVA International - Kylie Minogue

The Lesson - The swerve - Album Reviews

Falling To Earth My Summer With Bowie -Breathwork - Zona Franca - Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel - History Play

Film Reviews - Drogheda Classical Music - James Hanley

Woman of Winter - The Gallant John-Joe - When the Moon Spun Round.

Sebastian Faulks - David Keenan - Prasanna Puwanarajah

You’re the One - Thirsty Ghosts - Oscailt

Stop Making Sense - The Changeling preview - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Zadie Smith

NSO and Jaime Martín: Brahmas, Byrne and Berlioz - Review: Decoding Turner - Sofia Coppola.

Somewhere Out There You - Flight - A Bird in Winter

Only An Octave Apart - Seán Corcoran Series - Venice Film Festival

Book: The Wren - Dublin Fringe Festival - Album Review

Film reviews - Marvin Gaye - 50 year anniversary - Wheel of Time

We remember the life and work of the poet Seamus Heaney on the 10th anniversary of his death. Guests: * Paula Meehan * Chris Morashof * Rosie Lavan * Neil Martin * Blake Morrison * Geraldine Higgins

Music - Joachim Cooder - Dublin Fringe - Hothouse by Malaprop - Art - Candice Breitz - Comedy Drama - The Lovers

Film - Apocalypse Clown - Theatre - SS Eastland disaster - Music - U2 (Zooropa Tour anniversary)

Review: Celebrating David Hockney - Drainage Scheme - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - The Woman in the Wall review - Open Up by Thomas Morris

Tosca – Northern Ireland Opera - Star Wars: Ahsoka - Taking Liberties - Masters of Tradition fest – Bantry August 23-27

CoisCéim Dance Theatre, bringing their art to The Grand and Royal Canals in Dublin - Passages, Director Ira Sachs’ latest work - Who is Erin Carter?, A seven-part limited series coming to Netflix.

Eimear Quinn and the Dublin Brass Ensemble - The Garden of Shadows, Artist Jony Easterby returns to the Botanic Gardens & the Dublin Fringe Festival - Though the Bodies Fall, Richard Aldous has been reading Noel O’Regan’s new book - Right Wing Protest Song USA, the latest from Simon Maher.

Smiths Doc on One, David Coughlan discusses the new documentary - Shelter, Declan Burke has been watching Prime Video’s new show - Album Reviews, Brian Boyd & Aoife Barry have been listening to - Hozier Unreal Unearth/ Rhiannon Giddens, You're The One/ Margaret Glaspy, Echo The Diamond.

Film Reviews, Arlene Hunt & Donald Clarke have been watching, Blue Beetle /Lie With Me /The Future Tense - From Out the Land, Aine Ryan & Jack Reardon tell us more - The Late Night Writers Club, Annie West discusses her new graphic novel.

Sounds From A Safe Harbour, Enda Walsh tells us more - Bonny Light Horseman with RTÉ Concert Orchestra will be in Ireland this September - The Road to Joe, A new production from Glass Mask Theatre and writer Carmel Winters.

The Devil Himself, writer/director Paul Nugent - Women of Art and Medicine at RCPI Heritage Week- Westworld At 50 with Dave Hanratty - Border Bienalle, Rita Duffy discusses the exhibition.

Nickel Creek, American bluegrass trio Nickel Creek play the National Concert Hall in Dublin next week - Deep Fake at the Civic Theatre, from playwright Niall Austin - Jack Nicholson, 65 Years In Film with Steven Benedict.

Hollywood Strike Latest, Tara Brady brings us the latest on the SAG-Aftra Strike - Album Reviews, Eamon Sweeney & Kate Brennan-Harding - Public Image Ltd/ The Hives/ Bonnie “Prince” Billy/ Jungle - The City of God Author, Michael Russell - Luke Kelly Festival, Sean Cannon tells us what to expect.

Film Reviews, Ruth Barton & Paul Whittington have been watching - Gran Turismo / Face Down / L'Immensitá / Haunted Mansion - The Well of Saint Nobody, the tenth book from writer and film-maker Neil Jordan - Painkiller, Jenn Gannon has been watching the story behind OxyContin on Netflix.

Mick Pyro discusses his new album - Kwame Dawes Poet in Residence at this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival - Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop, A new documentary series from Netflix - Yeats Poetry Prize, marking the 100th anniversary of W.B. Yeats Nobel Prize for Literature.

William Friedkin RIP with Paul Whittington - Prom Mom Author Laura Lippman - Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann, Husband and wife fiddle players Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy - Jason and the Argonauts at 60 with Declan Burke.

Bench Tales - Physical - Season 1,2 & 3 - ALBUM Review

Lizzo's Looming Lawsuits - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at 70 - The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - Crook Manifesto.

Booker Prize Longlist, John Self take us through today's announcement - Sean Moylan, An Irish Revolutionary from Michael Patric - The Testament of Cresseid, Seamus Heaney at Kilkenny Arts Festival - International Master Course at NCH, Gwendolyn Masin joins us to discuss the course.

Franz Ferdinand, Alex Kapranos, front man of the Glasgow band, celebrating 20 years of hits - Sweeney, Ciarán Hinds & Neil Martin - GAZE Film Festival, with their special guest David Hoyle.

Film Reviews - Album Reviews - Sinead O'Connor Tribute

Druid Theatre Company always had a passion to put on one of Ireland’s great playwrights, Sean O’Casey's, The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock. As the company stage the trilogy at the Galway International Arts Festival before embarking on a national tour they join Arena to discuss.

I Could Read The Sky, Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke - Sinead O'Connor RIP, Dave Fanning, Paul McLoone, Sinead Gleeson & Kate Brennan-Harding share their thoughts and condolences as the tragic news breaks that Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has passed away at the age of 56.

Dexys - Glass Menagerie - Stephen Curry Documentary

Titanic the Musical - Special Ops: Lioness - Ordinary Human Failings - History of Hollywood Unions

GIAF Visual Art, Festival Director Paul Fahy introduced us to The Oligarch’s Nightmare a work commissioned by the festival - GIAF Review, with Mary McGill & Judy Murphy - Film Reviews, John Maguire & Tara Brady have been watching - Barbie // Oppenheimer // My name is Alfred Hitchcock.

Join Arena for our Special from the Galway International Arts Festival with guests Colm and Brenda Meaney. Luke Murphy and Darcy Grant as well as photographer's Lorraine Tuck & Brian Cross

Stumped, at Bewley’s Theatre with Barry McGovern & Michael James - Women’s Football Anthem, Maria Walsh has written an anthem ‘Come On Ireland (Giving Us The Right To Dream) feat Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D Higgins - Jenn Gannon has been watching the new Prime Video series Fifteen-Love and series 2 of The Bear on Disney+

The Beautiful Road, new album from Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly - Youth, teacher and author Kevin Curran - What We Carry With Us, Joanne Hynes first solo exhibition.

Extinction, Iarla Ó Lionáird - Christopher Nolan Review, with Chris Wasser - Art Monsters by Lauren Elkin.

The Second Murderer, Denise Mina brings us this new Philip Marlowe mystery, The Second Murderer - 50 years of Queen, Pat Carty takes a look at the birth of the band and their path to stardom - Album Reviews, Zara Hedderman & Brian Boyd have been listening to - Rita Ora / Mahalia / Sam Burton.

Film Reviews, Dave Hanratty & Deirdre Molumby have been watching - The Deepest Breath // While We Watched // Squaring the Circle - My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock, the title of a new film, from Northern Irish director, Mark Cousins.

Telling the Whole Story: Taking Our Place - Lie Low - The Sixth Commandment

A Century of Irish Female Artists - Poet Jane Clarke - Directors and Actor Relationships

The Deepest Breath - Dublin HandelFest - Songs of Blood & Destiny - Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture at 100

Fun Home, at the Gate Theatre - Emergency at Bewley’s Café Theatre, Ruairi Leneghan plays Josef and the script is by Sam Ford - Album Reviews, Nadine O'Regan & Eamon Sweeney were listening to - PJ Harvey // Anonhi and the Johnsons // Lucinda Williams

Film Reviews, Ruth Barton & Declan Burke have been watching - Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part One / Elemental / Smoking Causes Coughing - Past Lives, The debut feature from the Korean-Canadian writer Celine Song - Anna Mieke, at Earagail Arts Festival

Freedom Letters, part of this year’s Cairde Arts Festival. Olesya Zdorovetska & Mary Branley tell us more. - Then You Run, Alan Corr has been watching the new drama coming to Sky - American Graffiti, Steven Benedict takes a look back at George Lucas' second film as it turns 50.

In the Middle of the Fields by Mary Lavin, Kathleen McMahon and Alice Ryan, two of Mary Lavin’s grand-daughters discuss her work - Love Without Walls, director Jane Gull’s feature film will premiere in Ireland as part of the Galway Film Fleadh - The Hour after Happy Hour, Mary O’Donoghue's collection of Short Stories, written over ten years.

Donal Lunny & Lisa O’Neill, Earagail Arts Festival - Girl on an Altar, Marina Carr & Annabelle Comyn - Wham!, Pat Carty has been watching WHAM!, the new Netflix Documentary.

La Syndicaliste, Maureen Kearney, Isabelle Huppert & Jeán Paul Salomé - Sinéad Mac Aodha, Seoda - new collaboration between Literature Ireland and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature - Album Reviews, Alan Corr & Aoife Barry have been listening to - Grian Chatten // Brigid Mae Power // Geese.

Film Reviews, Arlene Hunt & Donald Clarke have been watching - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny // Run Rabbit Run // Hello Bookstore - One Bullet Director Carol Dysinger at Galway Film Fleadh - The Bee Sting, Mary McGill has been reading Paul Murray’s long-awaited fourth novel.

West Cork Literary Festival, poets Molly Twomey & Hannah Sullivan - Hijack, Apple TV+ Chris Wasser review - Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, Edel Meade sings live in studio - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Paul Whittington looks back on the previous movies.

Maylis Besserie's new novel, Scattered Love / Jean Gannon, on Greta Gerwig / Daragh Downes reviews A Thread of Violence, by Mark O'Connell / Paul McLoone on Bowie and Ziggy Stardust

Hucklebuck - The Graces - Nick Drake - Under Milk Wood

Film Reviews, Paul Whittington & Tara Brady have been watching - Asteroid City, No Hard Feelings, The Last Rider - I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, Lorrie Moore's new novel - Claudia Boyle, Claudia Boyle International Soprano at St Bridget's Cathedral in Kildare.

Wes Anderson, chats about his new movie and more - The King and I coming to the Bord Gais Energy Theatre - Darling, new book from India Knight.

The Hare, at Cairde Arts Festival Sligo - Elsewhere, from Yan Ge - 12 Ensemble at Cork Midsummer Festival

Richard Kearney, new novel Salvage & West Cork Literary Festival - Pipeworks Festival, The Tallis Scholars at Christ Church Cathedral - The Wicker Man at 50 from Siobhán Kane.

An extended interview with the esteemed singer-songwriter as he brings us through the songs of his latest release, Folkocracy. In album reviews, Nadine O'Regan and Simon Maher give their verdicts on the latest releases from Queens of the Stone Age, Creep Show and Yusuf/Cat Stevens.

Women’s Prize for Fiction, Barbara Kingsolver for her novel Demon Copperhead - Film Reviews, The Flash // Sunlight // Greatest Days - Anton Jablokov, violinist & Stefano Moschetti, guitarist.

Stewart Copeland, on early life, playing with The Police, and reimagining their classics for orchestra - RiP Cormac McCarthy, with Colum McCann - Richard Ford reads extract from latest novel 'Be Mine'

Christy Dignam RIP, Tom Dunne, Jerry Fish & Pat Carty - Black Mirror, Writer Charlie Brooker and executive producer Jessica Rhoades - Sunlight director Claire Dix (*This film is about assisted dying, euthanasia) - Caroline Shaw at Louth Contemporary Music Society's Festival.

Irish Music Festival: Tunefest - Play: Asylum Workshop - Four-part drama: Best Interests - Tim Murtagh: Tenements of Dublin

Take That and their cultural impact - The Full Monty, new series on Disney+ - Album Reviews, Andrea Cleary& Brian Boyd have been listening to Niall Horan, The Show // Janelle Monáe, The Age of Pleasure // Christine and the Queens, Paranoïa, Angels, True Love

Film Reviews / Chevalier / Medusa Deluxe / War Pony / Flamin’ Hot - Rita Duffy 'Persistent Illusion' Exhibit at the Crawford Art Gallery - We look back at Cleopatra (1963) at 60

Walkabout The Tree Whisperer at the Botanic Gardens - Political Films with Steven Benedict - The Crowded Room review by Dave Hanratty

Morgan Freeman and Eric Meier, will join the RTÉ Concert Orchestra later this week to MC the Delta Blues Project. The Idol is a new six-part television drama on Sky Atlantic. Celebrated German film composer, Hans Zimmer, comes to the 3 Arena.

Actor and writer Gina Moxley on her new show, I Fall Down: a Restoration Comedy, recalling her time as an art student in Cork in the 1970s - Gods of Tennis on BBC2 on how an extraordinary generation of players turned themselves into celebrities - New albums by Foo Fighters, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

Aingeala Flannery’s novel, The Amusements, won the 2023 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award - Dave Hanratty and Deirdre Molumby review new films: Carmen; Reality; Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse; The Boogeyman - The West Cork Chamber Music Festival in and around Bantry - A Century of Style: Fashion Photography, now at the Ulster Museum.

The true story of a whistleblower whose actions fuelled a media storm over apparent Russian interference in US elections - The fictional story of Deena Garvey who disappeared in 2004, leaving behind a daughter and a sister - Information for Birth Mothers - The Dublin International Chamber Music Festival kicks off next week.

This year for the first time, the RHA Gallery has included a work generated by AI in its annual exhibition, which received criticism - Up Late, a new poetry collection by Nick Laird. - White House Plumbers, a new mini-series set behind the scenes of the Watergate scandal - RIAM students get the chance to perform with the NSO - Graham Knuttel RIP.

Patricia Forde is the 7th Laureate na nÓg, Ireland’s Children’s Literature Laureate - Shot From All Sides by Cormac Figgis, a book of live music photography - Dabhach Bhríde – by boat to Inis Oírr Pilgrim Exhibition with works by Frances Bermingham and Mary Fahy - The phenomenon of films inspired by historical consumer products, or specific brands

Cannes Film Festival 2023 - West Side Story Theatre Tour - Album Review

Film Reviews, The Little Mermaid / 406 Days / Sisu / Hypnotic - Bell X1, new album, Merciful Hour.

Green and Blue - Poker Face - Tina Turner RIP

Falling Animals, Sheila Armstrong - Mihhail Gerts at National Concert Hall - RHA Annual Exhibition - Arnold Schwarzenegger Profile

Martin Amis emerged in 1973 with The Rachel Papers and went on to produce 14 novels - Darragh McKeon’s second novel, Remembrance Sunday, is rooted in the trauma of the Enniskillen bombing of 1987 - Moxie on ‘Reflecting Migrations’, a concert at Tradition Now in the NCH - Bodybodybodybody is a dance and music performance at Carlow Arts Festival.

MacBeth Opera, Blackwater Valley Opera Festival - Jess Gillam, West Wicklow Chamber Music Festival - Album Reviews, Paul Simon // Lewis Capaldi // Kesha & In tribute to Andy Rourke we play The Boy with the Thorn in His Side.

Film Reviews, Beau is Afraid // Fast X // Under the Fig Trees - Sleeping on Islands, by Andrew Motion - Lovetrain2020, Dublin Dance Festival

The Ballad of Mossy Flood, from Seamus O’Rourke - National Symphony Orchestra Concerts, Christian Reif conductor & soprano Julia Bullock - 406 Days, Joe Lee documentary.

History of Soul at NCH - High Desert - Crawford Exhibition

Steeltown Murders, with Philip Glenister - The Dublin Dance Festival, Catherine Gaudet - Werner Herzog, German director - Soundwalk, Ellen Reid

The Stones and Brian Jones, Nick Broomfield's new documentary - The Man Who Played with Fire - Album Reviews, Alison Goldfrapp // Dropkick Murphy’s // BC Camplight

Film Reviews, Book Club: The Next Chapter // Plan 75 // Aosta Valley - The Eight Mountains - National Symphony Orchestra, At The National Concert Hall with conductor Jaime Martin - Adventures in Wonderland, by Paul Charles

Irish National Opera, Così fan tutte - Dublin Dance Festival, The Ark - The Array Collective - The Mary and Alan Hobart Collection, IMMA

Michael J Fox, Still - Badhands - Bealtaine Poetry Line - Tongues Untied

Seán Keane Tribute - Joe Elliot of Def Leppard - Crime Writing w/Declan Burke

Coronation Music w/David Brophy. - Award-winning Play, Master Class. - Album Reviews

We review Guardians of the Galaxy Volume Three, Return to Seoul, and Lakelands - Claire Kilroy’s new novel Soldier Sailor is the story of a woman navigating being a mother for the first time - Silo is a new post-apocalyptic TV show based on a series of sci-fi novels by Hugh Howey.

The hero of Billy O’Callaghan’s novel The Paper Man was part of the Austrian team who played Germany in 1938 - The NGI celebrates painter Lavinia Fontana, Trailblazer, Rule Breaker - The Irish Concertina Orchestra take to the stage in Glór Ennis - A new translation of The Lament for Art O’Leary by John FitzGerald, for the 250th anniversary.

Hamilton preview w/Aedín Gormley - Ed Sheeran's Docu-Series - Review - Siobhan McDonald, Artist Exhibition

Citadel - spy series on Prime Video. HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL comes to Dublin. Album Review - The First Two Pages of Frankenstein, That! Feels! Good! & Blood Orange.

Film Reviews, Tara Brady and Paul Wittington, Ann // Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry // Little Richard: I Am Everything // Rodeo - The Rose Tattoo, A new translation, by Vanessa Fielding and Catherine Joyce - Victoria Melkovska, A Ukrainian poet, who has lived in Dublin since 2003.

Punk Poet, Jeffrey Lewis - Lakelands, Actor Éanna Hardwicke - Poetry Day Ireland, Eavan Boland Legacy.

Harry Belafonte RIP - Ann - The House of Bernardó Alba, Galway Theatre Festival

Sylvia Plath, Sixty Years On - Jim Broadbent - The Mysterious Mr. Lagerfeld - Restoration at Russborough House

Festival in a Van with FELISPEAKS,  Dagogo Hart and Samuel Yakura, collectively known as WeAreGriot - Eyes Guts Throats Bones by Moira Fowley - Album Reviews, Brian Boyd & Lauren Murphy have been listening to Everything But the Girl // Rodrigo y Gabriela // Feist, Multitudes

Film Reviews, Deirdre Molumby & Dave Hanratty have been watching - Pray for Our Sinners // Evil Dead Rise // Missing - A Bit of a Writer, A Bit of a Writer: Brendan Behan’s Complete Collected Short Prose - All Ireland Drama Festival, All-Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone, which is presented in association with RTÉ.

Cúirt Festival Galway, Haunting Fiction - Dead Ringers, on Prime Video - An Inspector Calls, at the Gaiety Theatre.

Raging Bull, 4K Re-Release - The Disappointed Tourist, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny - John Fogerty & Creedence

Cúirt Festival Galway - David Kitt - One Dublin, One Book

The Verdict, Actor Jason Merrells talks about his character, Frank - Cairo Conspiracy, Director, Tarik Saleh discusses his new spy thriller - Album Reviews & Mark Sheehan RIP, Zara Hedderman and Pat Carty have been listening to Metallica, 72 Seasons //Daughter, Stereo Mind Game // Blondshell, Blondshell.

Actor Jason Merrells talks about his character, Frank in Play The Verdict. Set in the Irish enclave of Boston, this is the powerful bestselling courtroom thriller that inspired a multi Academy Award-Nominated film starring Paul Newman. The play is coming to the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.