Confessions of a cocktail piano teen sensation, Father Damo goes to Ted Fest, a letter to Letter from America, and sawing wood in a Siberian gulag, with Conor Linehan, Michael O’Connor, Henrietta McKervey, Joe Rooney, Joe Kearney and Grace Wilentz

Clowns, candymen and a pocket calculator: a poem celebrating human ingenuity and playfulness, with Neil Hegarty, Henrietta McKervey, Leo Cullen, Evelyn Conlon, AM Cousins and James Harpur

Arboreal hieroglyphics, respectable attire, Gershwin’s Irish influence and a love that couldn’t be stopped. With Kevin McDermott, Margaret Galvin, Jim Doherty, Lourdes Mackey, Moya Canon, Denise Blake and James Harpur

Nervous patients, home from home and the saint among the box hedges, with Rebecca Hunter, Jenny Beale, Peter Trant, Barbara Scully, Niall McArdle and Margaret Galvin

From Old Moore’s Almanac to the jellyfish apocalypse with birdwatching on the Dodder and capturing a flapper skate along the way, with Joe Kearney, Rebecca Hunter, Fiona Hyland, Alexander McMaster, Pier Kuipers and Vincent Woods

Stepping out to dance class, serenading a new arrival, skulduggery in a Scottish graveyard – and rereading the searing Diary of Anne Frank, with Elizabeth Oxley, Peter Cunningham, Emer O’Kelly, Rory Gleeson, Paul Johnston and Vincent Woods

Paintings and poetry, mending and making do, reciting Yeats in New Delhi and a long night of the soul in the Emergency Department, with Daniel Mulhall, Catherine Foley, John MacKenna, Aidan Mathews, Margaret Hickey and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eip

The 'big snow', the real Gabriel Conroy, finding profundity in simplicity and tumbles on winter streets, with Alexander McMaster, Enda Wyley, Conall Hamill, John F Deane, Michael O'Connor and Mary O'Donnell

Absent angels, a post-Christmas brush with the law, and a reckoning with Yeats country, with Grace Wilentz, Michael Harding, John MacKenna, Enda Wyley, Brian Leyden, and Sharon Hogan

Christmas trimmings from Miscellany regular contributors John F Deane, James Harpur and Enda Wyley

A special Miscellany from the National Opera House, Wexford, with writers Joe Kearney, Margaret Galvin, Paul Rouse, Antonia Gunko Karelina, Joe Brennan and Alison Ní Mháirtín, and music extracts from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by David Brophy with special guests Piaras Ó Lorcáin and John Molloy

A special Miscellany from the National Opera House, Wexford, with writers Joe Kearney, Margaret Galvin, Paul Rouse, Antonia Gunko Karelina, Joe Brennan and Alison Ní Mháirtín, and music extracts from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by David Brophy with special guests Piaras Ó Lorcáin and John Molloy

A Christmas Miscellany from Dublin and Wexford, with Neil Hegarty, Am Cousins, Michael Harding, Denise Blake, Emer O’Kelly and Paul Howard, and music extracts from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by David Brophy and Gavin Maloney with special guests Gráinne Brookfield, Lisa Lambe and Cormac Kenevey

A mother’s secret recipe, true and untrue tales at Christmas and an extraordinary Holy Night, with Aingeala Flannery, John Toal, Paul Howard, Rachael Hegarty, all recorded at the National Concert Hall with music extracts from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by David Brophy and special guests Colm Warren, Maeve Smyth and Sarah Shine

From a magical Waterford bookshop at Christmas to the library of Alexandria, the journey of the Magi to a snowy homeward trek… with John Egan, Enda Wyley, Peter Cunningham, Judith Mok, Catherine Heaney and James Harpur

A selection from the Sunday Miscellany archives, from the 1960s to the 1990s – with Aodhán Madden, Mervyn Wall, Patricia O’Reilly, John Ryan, Rita Normanly, Stephen Rynne and Brendan Kennelly

The tang of the Atlantic, a stenographer for JFK, Thanksgiving Irish style and a small furry rabbit, with Alexander McMaster, Margaret Kelly, Michael Harding, Sinéad Ingoldsby, Kathy Donaghy and Fred Spengeman

Ghostly encounters, poetic presences, and a recalcitrant car, with Gerald Dawe, Mia Döring, Brian Leyden, Catherine Foley, Dermot Bolger, James Harpur and Lani O’Hanlon

Emigration pangs, the Beatles in Dublin, the snows of Leadville and the freedom of small nations, with Peter Trant, Sheila Maher, Joseph Kearney, Pat Dunne and the late Eileen Battersby

Apples, pears and a bad-tempered pierrot, and saluting Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi, with Pat Dunne, Andrea Carter, Ciarán Cannon, Alice Lyons, John MacKenna and Lani O’Hanlon

Halloween bonfires, Dracula’s origins, an island evacuation and the courage of Hugh O’Flaherty, with Declan Hughes, Breda Joyce, Patrick Griffin, Rachael Hegarty, Joseph O’Connor and Gráinne Quinlan

On a brave busking debut, joining a choir, and the hush that falls when an extraordinary voice starts to sing: the place of music and song in our lives in Dublin, with Kevin Connolly, Denise Blake, Colm Tóibín, Tim Carey and Sheila Maher

Gauls, gossamer, and marram grass, and finding refuge – a special Sunday Miscellany from the Iron Mountain Festival recorded at the Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, with Brian Leyden, Mary Byrne, Zak Moradi, Alice Lyons, Vincent Woods, Eleanor Shanley and Garadice with Tom Morrow, Zoé Basha and Ultan O’Brien

Memories of a cinema paradise, Ireland’s early contribution to global aviation history and a mother’s reaction to her daughter's first grey hair. With Dermot Bolger, Kathy Donaghy, Patrick Griffin, Olive Travers, Moya Cannon and Antonia Gunko Karelina

A talent for losing things, a teenage emigrant at large in London, and the sounds and colours of the island of Iona. With Anthony Glavin, Enda Coyle Greene, Liz Nugent, John F Deane and Enda Wyley

Silver at the Ploughing, playful national stereotypes, and Dublin city architect Herbert Simms’s extraordinary achievement, with Rory Gleeson, Fran O’Rourke, Lani O’Hanlon, Tim Carey, Bernadett Buda and Elizabeth Oxley

A second chance at learning to read, and other journeys through education, memory, arts and crafts and more, with John Forkin, Barbara Scully, Justin MacCarthy, Grace Wilentz, Lani O’Hanlon and Grace Wells

Mythical lands, new beginnings, an unforgettable fellow-student and the kindness of strangers. A mix of new and recent archive recordings with Conall Hamill, Mary O'Donnell, Fred Tuite, Olive Travers, Catherine Foley and Gerald Dawe

Earthed lightning, letters of freedom, and a late love poem: a celebration of the late Seamus Heaney to mark his tenth anniversary. With Grace Wells, Gerald Dawe, Denise Blake, Mícheál McCann, Seamus Heaney and Marie Heaney

A transcendent experience at the Botanic Gardens, reflections on the Famine and the Irish language and a lifelong passion for the novels of Thomas Hardy. Sunday Miscellany features Valerie Waters, Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Michael O’Loughlin, Mary O’Donnell, John Egan and Lani O'Hanlon

Summer in Viareggio, Venetian fizzy delights, Seventies TV and Robert Graves at home, with Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Gerry Moran, Alan Finnegan, Catherine Foley, Mary O’Donnell and John F Deane

Celebrating architecture and landscape, story and song, and the hidden histories contained in our country's archives, a special programme to mark National Heritage Week with Virginia Teehan, Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin, Olivia O'Leary, Grace Wilentz, Angela Keogh and Thomas McCarthy

A selection from the Sunday Miscellany archives, from the 1970s to the 1990s - with Nuala Hayes, John Ryan, Peter Jankovsky, Aidan Carney, Judith Hoad and Eamon Keane

A special programme as Kerry battles Dublin for the All-Ireland, with memories also of past glorious victories for Cork, Galway and more, with Joe Ó Muircheartaigh, Brendan O'Sullivan, Pat Cunningham, Mary Lavery Carrig and Diarmuid O'Donovan.

Kilkenny hopes, Limerick dreams, “horlinge” through the ages and an umpire hangs up his boots, with Joe Kearney, Lourdes Mackey, Stephen O’Byrnes, John Kelly, Gerry Moran and Feargal Purcell

Breaking new ground in arts, crafts -- and fashion; the pioneering Yeats sisters; and why everyone’s dog is the best dog with writers Eunan MacKinney, Michael O’Loughlin, Joanne Hynes, Lani O’Hanlon, Noel King, Mia Döring and Gerald Dawe.

Swift boxes, borders and safe places to nest: More live recordings from Ballyshannon, Derry and most recently, the Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, with writers Neil Hegarty, Maureen Boyle, Louise Kennedy, Kerri Ní Dochartaigh and Colette Bryce

A special programme on the theme of home and belonging, recorded recently at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, with Cherry Smyth, Wendy Erskine, Mícheál McCann, John Toal and Maureen Boyle

Tango dancing, a golden Wimbledon ticket, musical glory days, dancing friends and Dev, with Antonia Gunko Karelina, John Egan, Gerald Dawe, Roslyn Dee and Charles Lysaght.

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

A Bloomsday special recorded for the centenary of Joyce's epic novel in the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. With Rachael Hegarty, Emer O’Kelly, Joseph O’Connor, Sara Keating, Declan Kiberd, Barry Gleeson, Malachy Robinson, Anita Vedres, Dermot Dunne, Darina Gallagher and Sinéad Murphy

The perfect Sunday fry, nosy neighbours at a house viewing and what it means to be an individual. An archive selection from the 1970s to the 1990s, with William Wall, Bernice Harrison, John Ryan, Eric Cross, Stephen Rynne and Mary Arrigan

Turf footing, a silent retreat and a Communion day in Cahir, with Colin Regan, Niamh Campbell, Peter Cunningham, Frank Shouldice, Margaret Galvin and Vincent Woods

Gentle strolls and the morning commute, the Mendelssohns and the Wyse Powers, and a dark day in Dublin and Monaghan, with Katrina Bruna, Daniel Mulhall, Kate Carty, Kevin McDermott and Lorna Siggins

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

The glory days of advertising, a fjord in Mayo and a maypole in Finglas, with Liz Houchin, Pat Dunne, Phlip Judge, Dermot Bolger, Rachael Hegarty, John F Deane and Catherine Foley.

A border centenary, Venice in Shakespeare’s day, outsiders, memory and forgetting, with Peter Trant, Elizabeth Oxley, Pauline Kelly, Tim Carey, Elizabeth Power and Vincent Woods

President Theodore Roosevelt’s Irish obsessions, farewell to Long Wave 252, and a birdman at the bottom of the garden, with Daniel Mulhall, Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, Emer O’Kelly, Paul Hughes, Lani O’Hanlon and Denise Blake

John Huston, Hedy Lamarr, the Good Friday Agreement at 25 and Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Leipzig, with Maria Hayden, John McDonald, Hester Scott, John F Deane, John Toal and Vincent Woods

Meeting Lauren Bacall, Gonzaga College’s triumph and Camille Souter’s vivid art, with Marion O’Dwyer, John O’Donnell, Emer O’Kelly, Alannah Robins and Neil Hegarty

A selection from the Miscellany archive from the 1970s and 1980s, with writers Mervyn Wall, Val Mulkerns, Dominic Roche, Patricia O’Reilly, Benedict Kiely and Eric Cross

Memorable moments of motherhood, rebel songs and a glorious St Patrick’s Day parade, with Maeve Edwards, James Harpur, Clare Monnelly, Pier Kuipers, Geraldine Mitchell, Colin Regan and Claire Garvey

The night U2 became U2, the extraordinary life of million selling novelist, Ethel Voynich, and wild Irish words, with Michael McNamara, Deirdre McQuillan, Peter Francis, Manchán Magan, Catherine Foley and Kate Carty

Fawns and foxes, birdwatching and Babycham, and Pelé’s Dalymount date, with Feargal Ó Dubhghaill, Margaret Galvin, Desmond Traynor, Ann Marie Durkan, Brian Farrell and Catherine Foley

A terrifying World War II encounter, Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty’s courage, a life changing summer in Germany and a mysterious jar of pickles, with James Harpur, Felicity Hayes-McCoy, Mark Brennock, Katrina Bruna, Joseph O’Connor and Michael O’Loughlin

A departing bank and a cash free society, forgotten revolutionary Darrell Figgis and fiddler Mickey Finn, with Sharon Hogan, Peter Cunningham, Chris McHallem, Margaret Galvin, Joe Kearney and Miriam Uhlemann

Jane Austen’s Irish love, a pair of border collies, a basket of eggs and Schubert’s Trout Quintet, with Paula Shields, Lourdes Mackey, Jody Clarke, Sara Shine, Lani O’Hanlon, John F Deane and Vincent Woods

Saints and swallows, the early days of Dublin Airport, and Brendan Behan’s love of the sea, with Blanaid Behan, Conall Hamill, Máirín O’Malley, Jim Culleton, Rachael Hegarty, Noelle Lynskey and John MacKenna

Brussels brunches, birthday feasts and "little cow" fudge in the Warsaw ghetto, with Frank Kavanagh, Noelle Lynskey, Oliver Sears, John MacKenna and Charles Lysaght

Face blindness and body work, sun, stars, and seeing infinity in a grain of sand, with Dermot Bolger, William Wall, Mary O’Donnell, Rita Ann Higgins, Lani O’Hanlon and John F Deane

Home remedies and medical miracles, vanishing Dublin and 70 years of Waiting for Godot, with Alan Graham, Margaret Galvin, William Wall, Aoife Barry, Liam Lally and John F Deane

Showbusiness families and the ties that bind, with Ferdia MacAnna, Conall Hamill, Emer O’Kelly, Nollaig Rowan, Olive Travers and Lani O’Hanlon

Re-published due to earlier technical issues - featuring St Francis and the moving crib, Joe Dolan and Dennis O'Driscoll remembered, and UL at 50, with Nollaig Rowan, Kevin McDermott, Mary Wall, Mae Leonard, Declan O'Driscoll and John F Deane

Bleary farewells and new year beginnings, stormy western seas, Jane Austen's nieces' Donegal connection, and remembering the great Pele, with Neil Hegarty, Emer O'Kelly, Conor Hanratty, Karl O'Neill, Niamh Campbell and Barbara Scully

Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests: a mix of new and archive recordings from this annual event, recorded at the National Concert Hall. Singers Róisín O’Reilly, Connor McKeown and Andrew Gavin feature, and the writers include Tim Carey, Edel Coffey, Paul Howard and the late Eileen Battersby

Bats, flies, Santa Claus malfunctions and seasonal homecomings - Part 1 of the festive celebration, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests, conducted by Gavin Maloney. With writers Declan Kiberd, Kathleen MacMahon, John Toal, Paul Howard, Rachael Hegarty and soloists/special musical guests Mia Cooper, Úna Walsh, Trú and Connor McKeown

St Francis and the moving crib, Joe Dolan and Dennis O’Driscoll remembered, and UL at 50, with Nollaig Rowan, Kevin McDermott, Mary Wall, Mae Leonard, Declan O’Driscoll and John F Deane.

A selection from the very first edition of Sunday Miscellany in November 1968, with the voices of Anthony Cronin, Val Mulkerns, Patrick Kavanagh (who died the year before the programme went on air; his piece was recorded by actor Pat Layde), John Ryan and Eric Cross

A cello and a nightingale, General Custer's last handshake, aspirational social housing initiatives and finding your own voice, with Joe Kearney, Henrietta McKervey, John MacKenna, Mary Kate O'Flanagan, Ronan Kelly, James Harpur and John F Deane

Discovering the site of Troy, remembering the great Christy Hennessy, clearing a family home and Erskine Childers: the riddle of the man, with Fran O’Rourke, Philip Judge, Mary Wall, Barbara Scully, Peter Cunningham and Grace Wilentz

School reunions in the trenches, overcoming language barriers to find a common humanity, Mick Dell from Clonmel and the Kildare native whose work was quietly revolutionary, with James Harpur, Maria Farrell, Margaret Galvin, Brian Patterson, Mae Leonard and Rachael Hegarty

A fashion plate changes shape, endangered languages, the salmon of knowledge, a blue cup in Bucharest and close ties with the poetry of Leland Bardwell, with Philip Judge, Clare O'Dea, Grace Wells, Frank Shouldice, Catherine Foley and John McLachlan

Colm Tóibín’s favourite soprano, Dracula and the Sligo cholera epidemic, Puccini at home and Kilkenny’s first ‘witch’, with Colm Tóibín, Louise Kennedy, Karl O’Neill, Muriel Bolger, AM Cousins and Gerry Moran

The church that provided guidance to a boy in Finglas West, memorable Dublin first nights, avian invaders at Wexford Festival Opera and unsung female rebels of 1798, with Brian Farrell, Margaret Galvin, Dominic Dromgoole, Tom Mooney, AM Cousins and Denise Blake

Soft, fresh days in Inishbofin, Irish hospitality, treasured possessions, missing Brendan Kennelly and a chocolate cake for Pete Seeger, with John Toal, Helen Lahert, Daniel Mulhall, Leo Cullen, Mae Leonard and Gudrun Boch-Mullan.

Tales of the street and tales of home, Moonlight in Mayo and life before “Love Me Do”, with Joe Whelan, Tess Hughes, Pat Dunne, Judith Mok, Margaret Galvin and Kevin Marinan

Michael Hartnett, well-timed acts of kindness, Maeve Binchy’s favourite poem, a pioneering comprehensive school and more, with Denise Blake, Margaret Galvin, Mike Mac Domhnaill, Tim Carey and Gordon Snell

Father Ted as a young man, ploughmens' dreams, autumnal meditations and Shakespeare's Garth Brooks connection, with Fred Tuite, Emer O'Kelly, Fran O'Rourke, Sarah Traynor, Lani O'Hanlon and John F Deane

A live programme from Portumna, Co. Galway from the recent archive, with Grace Wells, Anne Marie Kennedy, Louis de Paor, Noelle Lynskey, Bernard O’Donoghue, the Contempo Quartet and Breda and Claire Keville

Meeting the Queen, Gorbachev in Shannon, Donegal sayings, mixtapes and more, with Joe Hayes, Denise Blake, John MacKenna, Jackie Lynam, Roslyn Dee and Rachael Hegarty

An unexpected exhibit in Derry, a schoolboy faces losing his best friend, seeking refuge from a New York heat wave, an Ecuadorian aeroplane in Galway, adventures in cat sitting and a tribute to Donal Musgrave, with Neil Hegarty, Joe Whelan, Yvonne Judge, Pat Coleman, Quentin Fottrell and Catherine Foley

Bittersweet homecoming journeys, Donnybrook Fair carousing through the ages, an extraordinary encounter with Princess Diana and tributes to Séamus Heaney, with Peter Trant, Paul Doran, Ann-Marie Durkan, Chris McHallem, Kevin McDermott and Rita Ann Higgin

A walk-on part in the Michael Collins film, the craze for Collins in London, a grandfather’s secret, travel discombobulations in JFK and more, with Joyce Hickey, John MacKenna, Margaret Galvin, Lourdes Mackey, Thomas McCarthy and Ruth Deasy

Aga Khan Cup dreams, the celebrated 1792 Belfast Harp Assembly, Irish-Libyan family memories and recalling “the King”, with Amy Redmond, Kevin McDermott, Emily Cullen, Farah Abushwesha, Gerry Moran and Noel King

Mel Gibson in Meath, the legendary Con Houlihan remembered, the art of letter-writing and more, with Christina Hession, John MacKenna, Denis McClean, Rita Ann Higgins, AM Cousins and Oliver Sears

The Irish abroad, door dancing, stargazing and more, with Margaret Hickey, Brian Farrell, Tim Carey, Daniel Mulhall, John Toal and, from the Miscellany archive, Maeve Binchy

A beloved vintage Galway jersey, a life-expanding sea voyage, swimming on the radio and the silence of Valentia Island, with Christina Hession, Joe Kearney, Brendan O’Sullivan, Breda Joyce, Brian Cosgrove and Noel King

Hurling heroes of Kilkenny and Limerick, a fox at midnight, a female freemason, and channelling your inner Kate Bush, with Gerry Moran, Christina Hession, Stephen O’Byrnes, Emer O’Kelly, Catherine Foley and Joe Kearney

Inspirational art of ancient Greece, Paris under the Nazi's, being a Francophile, a life at sea and the small things that give us hope, with Isabel Nolan, Maylis Besserie, Clíona Ní Ríordáin, John Tuomey and Niamh O'Malley

Summer swimsuits, student summers abroad, evocations of New York and Greece and links between Ireland and Brittany, with Mae Leonard, Shane O’Sullivan, Lauren Green, Gary Coyle and Neil Hegarty

Seán MacBride remembered, Eric Ravilious’s distinctive art, a dramatic Sligo jailbreak, and a lifelong love of an uncool pop star, with John Hedigan, Mary O’Donnell, Doreen Finn, Breege Brennan, Joe Kearney and Gerald Dawe

Marking the centenary of Joyce’s epic novel at Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, a vibrant live mix of words and music with Rachael Hegarty, Emer O’Kelly, Joseph O’Connor, Sara Keating, Declan Kiberd, Barry Gleeson, Malachy Robinson, Anita Vedres, Dermot Dunne, Darina Gallagher and Sinéad Murphy

Swifts, swallows and the Skerries triathlon, meeting Paul McCartney, and Ulysses in the jazz age, with Margaret Galvin, Gerry Mullins, Tim Carey, Ann Marie Durkan, Angela Keogh and Colin Murphy

Considerations around The Great Book of Ireland, created by Irish artists, writers and composers between 1989-1991, which in time would echo other great books of the past with Thomas McCarthy, Michelle McAdoo, Dorothy Cross, the late Mathew Sweeney and Michael Coady

Exam anxieties, audience protests, overheard conversations and Maeve Binchy’s writing advice, and fearless Dervla Murphy remembered, with Margaret Ward, Rachael Hegarty, Ian Sherry, Bernard Farrell, John Toal and Pádraig Ó Macháin

Bright visions, wonderful parties and things of the spirit: a special Miscellany marks the Arts Council of Ireland’s 70th anniversary, with John Banville, Shelly Furlong, Diarmaid Ferriter, Iarla Ó Lionard and Marina Carr

Secret languages, silent retreats, Ireland’s last Viceroy and things not to put on pizza, with Niamh Campbell, Jonathan White, Seán Beattie, Olive Travers, Nuala O’Connor and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

Mary Maher remembered, a snatch at Eurovision fame, glory days in a Dingle pub and meditations on a sense of home, with Séamus Dooley, Tom Clonan, Sharon Hogan, Mary Wall, Joe Ó Muircheartaigh and Mary O’Donnell

Barley sticks and bonbons, teenage anxieties, a mysterious hill, a haybarn and a poem for Strokestown, with Tim Carey, Leo Cullen, Lani O’Hanlon, Martine Madden, Vincent Woods, Mia Döring and Noelle Lynskey

Full-body tattoos, finding poems on the Dart, rainy day picnics, meeting the Hothouse Flowers and more, with Joe Kearney, John MacKenna, Catherine Foley, Jackie Lynam, Denise Blake and John Toal

Pot-bellied pet lambs, unopened Easter eggs, composer Maurice Ravel and a monastic retreat on Caldey Island, with John Toal, Jonathan Duignan, Mae Leonard, Margaret Galvin, John F Deane, Leo Cullen and Noelle Lynskey

Dreamy journeys by bus, a lost 1916 dispatch, and the opera houses of Tirana, Berlin and Odessa, with Michael O’Connor, Frank Shouldice, Lourdes Mackey, Frank Kavanagh, Eva Bourke and John F Deane

A fraught father-son relationship, a lost friend, and Milo O’Shea remembered, with Joe Dowling, Oliver Sears, Margaret Galvin, John MacKenna, AM Cousins, Rosyln Dee and Grace Wilentz

Soap bubbles and speech therapy, a couch collector, a Kurdish boy in Ballyshannon, and Mother’s Day labours of love, with Margaret Galvin, Dermot Bolger, Olive Travers, Denise Blake, Joe Whelan and Rachael Hegarty

The wearing of the green in Ireland and Pakistan, new words for wine and painter Seán Keating remembered, with Gerald Dawe, Rosheen Callender, Mary Dowey, Bernadett Buda and Carla King

Football, feminism and friendship; the island of Montserrat’s Irish links; and “the lads that will never be old,” with Joe Kearney, Yvonne Judge, John Toal, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Murphy, Conall Hamill and Catherine Foley.

Wild words as Gaeilge from the Dingle peninsula, snowdrops, chocolates and the city of Kyiv through the decades, with Manchán Magan, Peter Trant, Bernadett Buda, Catherine Foley, Grace Wells, Joe Hayes and Vincent Woods

Meeting John Wayne, a wanderer in Paris, the tenements of Edinburgh and more, with Paddy Murray, Maïa Dunphy, Margaret Galvin, Grace Wilentz, Bert Wright, Kathleen Murphy and Michael O’Loughlin

Comedy on Zoom, places that feel like home, and writer Leland Bardwell remembered, with Conor Horgan, Jody Clarke, Pauline Shanahan, Brian Leyden, Joe Kearney, Barbara Scully and Vincent Woods

Mountain light, lockdown love, a prayer to St Valentine and more, with John MacKenna, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Murphy, Joe Whelan, Margaret Galvin, Rachael Hegarty and Denise Blake

Ulysses at 100: birdwatching, birthdays and Joyce in Trieste Birdwatching on Sandymount Strand, the trailblazing Wyse Powers and Joyce’s obsession with his own birthday, with Fionn Ó Marcaigh, Gerry Moloney, Cora Crampton, Tim Carey, Nuala O’Connor and Kevin Mc Dermott

Joyce’s wartime refuge and his favourite song, Bloody Sunday remembered, and the day Otto Frank came to visit, with Lorna Siggins, Máirín O’Malley, Seán Beattie, Fran O’Rourke, Judith Mok and Colette Bryce

A late blooming hurling career, the heart-searing songs of Robbie Burns – and “little cows” fudge in the Warsaw Ghetto, with Oliver Sears, Margaret Galvin, Tim Carey, Bert Wright, and Grace Wilentz

The silence of the salt desert, the Mullers of Kilmore Quay, the wine of the Rubiayat and the genius of Jack B Yeats – A M Cousins, Dermot Bolger, Mary O'Donnell, Lani O'Hanlon and Niall McArdle

Playwright Brian Friel remembered: marking the current production of Faith Healer at the Abbey Theatre and the recent RTÉ television documentary, Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman, we rebroadcast our Miscellany programme to the playwright. With Joe Dowling, Emma O'Doherty, Denis Conway, Nuala Hayes, Vincent Woods and David Grant

Remembering the big snow of 1982... teaching your mother to waltz... and celebrating Boss Croker, Peg Woffington, and other real life figures in Joyce’s Ulysses with Maeve Edwards, Daniel Mulhall, Lani O'Hanlon, Bernard Farrell, Cathy Sweeney and Kevin McDermott

More from our annual live show at the National Concert Hall (mix of new and archive material) with special guests Olivia O’Leary, Manchán Magan, AM Cousins, Thomas McCarthy, Eavan Boland, Paul Howard, Lisa Lambe, Caoimhe Ní Fhlaharta, Séamus Ó Flaharta, the Voice Squad, Geraldine Doherty, and Cormac Kenevey and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

A Christmas show from the National Concert Hall with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests Lisa Lambe, Cormac Kenevey, Conor Linehan, Caoimhe Ní Fhlatharta, Séamus Ó Flatharta, Lisa McInerney, Emer O’Kelly, John Toal, Denise Blake and Joe Kearney

Christmas homecomings, winter light, a turkey pluckers’ concert and sweet singing in the choir with Conor Horgan, Margaret Galvin, Rachael Hegarty, Niall McArdle, Kevin McDermott and John F Deane

Diaspora yearnings, an alternative winter solstice, an audience with Samus Ennis and Christmas with the Count, with Jim Galvin, Christina Park, Tom McGurk, James Harpur, Lourdes Mackey and Mary Maher

Celebrating travel writer Dervla Murphy’s independent mind and adventurous spirit, from Lismore to Delhi, Ramallah to Kabul: affectionate tributes from Lelia Doolan, Clare O’Grady Walshe, Patrick Cockburn, Jo Murphy-Lawless, Kate Thompson and Raja Shehadeh

A Cavan copper king, a New York fashion queen, and Irish American connections from Washington to Montana… a Thanksgiving-infused Sunday Miscellany, with Brian O’Donovan, Mary Coleman, Dan Mulhall, Grace Wilentz, Deirdre McQuillan and Denise Blake

Affectionate tributes to the late Brendan Kennelly, midnight moonlighters, wild geese and more, with Brendan Kennelly, Tom Clonan, Breda Joyce, Barbara Scully, Gerald Dawe and Paddy Moran

Oscar Wilde in November, appreciating Dublin's Custom House, and a Leonard Cohen requiem, with Cathy Sweeney, Tim Carey, Louise Kennedy, Brian Farrell, John MacKenna and Catherine Foley

Revisiting Brideshead revisited, running your first marathon, and the Hellfire Club and the “wrong sort of tourist”, with Joe Kearney, Karen J McDonnell, Tom Ryan, Denise Blake, Maura Gilligan and Kevin McDermott

Marking the 70th Wexford Festival Opera: stories, music and song from Wexford, with Margaret Galvin, Joe Brennan, Tom Mooney, Jackie Morrissey, AM Cousins and Sinéad O’Reilly

Beloved pets, a visit to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and remembering Tony McMahon, with Kevin McDermott, Ann Marie Durkan, Lani O’Hanlon, Grace Wilentz, Michael O’Connor, Declan Collinge and JM Dolan