Film reviews - Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs - Dracula: Lucy's Passion at the Abbey

Eimear Noone - Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band - From Here to the Great Unknown

Sonny Boy: A Memoir review - Your Own Dark Shadow: A Selection of Irish Horror Stories - An Taibhse

Colin Greenwood - Pat McCabe - Wexford Festival Opera review

Victoria Smurfit - TV reviews - Album reviews

Paul Durcan: 80 at 80 - Jessica Raine and Peter Capaldi - Film Reviews

The Unreal - Debbie Godsell - Aifric Mac Aodha

Richard Flood - The Irish Writers Handbook 2025 - Drogheda Classical Music

Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong - Say Pluto - Professor Jeremy Dibble

TV reviews - Album reviews

Film reviews - Ian Rankin discusses Midnight and Blue - The Shawshank Redemption at 30

Dublin Theatre Festival reviews - Perspectives: Arooj Aftab - Iarsmaí

John Behan: Oddysey - The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

Dr Strangelove - Circling The Square Festival - Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure

TV reviews - Album reviews

Film reviews - Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey - Floating on a Dead Sea

Macdara Yeates - Wexford Festival Opera - Aurora: A Modern Myth

Grania - Holly Munro - Sightless Cinema

Castel Gandolfo - Leonard Bernstein: A Celebration - Farah Nabulsi

Dame Maggie Smith remembered - Niamh Bury - Album reviews

Film reviews - Billy Boggins: A Bathroom Story - Bangers and Crash Percussion Sextet

TV reviews - Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo - Our Precious Planet with the NSO

Lisa O'Neill - Exit, Pursued By A Bear - The Ban

Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey - Charlie Bonner - Be Kind Rewind

Live from the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray for a special Culture Night Arena; with music from Junior Brother, Susan O’Neill and John Spillane as well as conversation with film maker Alan Gilsenan and visual artist Harold Offeh.

Film reviews - Edwina Guckian - Graphic novel adaptation of Lord of the Flies

0800 CUPID - TV reviews - Gerry Harrington

The Women Behind the Door review - Azazel Jacobs - The Jesus Trilogy

The Ace & Deuce of Piping Concert 2024 - Coralie Fargeat on The Substance - Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

Killian Scott - Album Review

Dr John Cooper Clarke - Gary Lightbody - Film review

TV reviews - Sue Prideaux on Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin - Dame Sarah Connolly and Mihhail Gerts

Juliet Stevenson - The Philip Glass Ensemble & NSO - In Vogue: The 1990s

New voices at Dublin Theatre Festival 2024 - Rachel Kushner on new novel, Creation Lake - Beyond The Console

Venice Film Festival - Sam Lee - Album reviews

Film Reviews - Naseem Alatrash - Flann O’Brien on Screen

TV Reviews - Apollo 13: Survival - The Tragedy of Richard III

DanceHall Blues - The Book of Elsewhere -Alicia Vikander on Firebrand - Don't Forget To Remember.

Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin - Toni O’Rourke - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Definitely Maybe - Munichs by David Peace

TV review - Charlie McGettigan – Felix O’Connor

The House - Earth SONNET - Elif Shafak

Greg Kwedar - Fermented Dreams - Dead-End Memories review

New Documentary: Sven - Theatre: The Maestro and the Mosquita - Album Review

Film Reviews - Michael Fassbender - Fontaines D.C.

Seán Keane and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra - TV Reviews - Róisín El Charif

Jim Glennie - 1999 on film - Ham Sandwiches and Discipline

Aoife Kelleher on new film Mrs. Robinson - Peter Devlin - The Alien film series

George Houston - Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes - Album reviews

Film Reviews - Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey - Esker Festival Orchestra

Paul Muldoon - TV Reviews - Liane Lang

Sophie Lenglinge - The Long Way Home - Heart, Be at Peace review

Writer: Colm Tóibín - Dublin Fringe Festival - Singer: Richard Dawson

In tonight’s Olympiad, director Tom Creed discusses Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Jaime Martín talks about Verdi’s Requiem, and mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty explores Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade. Tonight’s programme also features performances of works by Grieg and Mendelssohn by the Allegria Quartet.

A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. In tonight's Olympiad Sean talks to Caoilinn Hughes and Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Kay talks to Booker prize winning Australian author Richard Flanagan.

A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Victoria Kennefick, Paul Muldoon and Elaine Feeney. Tonight's programme also featured music from The Henry Girls.

A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Rory Dunne, Finghin Collins, Jacob Koranyi, Tine Thing Helspeth and Judy Jackson.

A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Wim Wenders, Viggo Mortensen and this year’s Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, Cord Jefferson.

A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne.

A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Jared Harris about his father Richard, John Carter Cash and Rosanne Cash reminisce about their father Johnny’s musical legacy and Musician Joachim Cooder, son of Ry Cooder.

A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Mary McGill reviews Colm Toibin’s Long Island, Richard Aldous critiques Kevin Barry’s 'western with Cork accents', The Heart in Winter, Paula Shields explores Salman Rushdie’s Knife, and Paul Whittington reviews Neil Jordan’s autobiography, Amnesiac.

Since 1960 and the publication of her first novel The Country Girls, Edna O’Brien has been one of Ireland’s leading writers. This special programme features two interviews with Arena, the first to mark her 90th birthday and the second, her final interview with Arena, in advance of the production of her play Joyce's Women.

Album reviews - Parade by Rachel Cusk - Grace at 30

Film reviews - Michael Longley - Aoife Ní Bhriain

TV reviews - Suso Cecchi d'Amico profile - Dancing at Lughnasa

Garrett Keogh - Sparks of Bright Matter - Trade/Mary Motorhead

Olympic medals for art - Stephen King’s Carrie at 50 - NSO: Lurline Opera Concert Performance

GIAF 2024 reviews - Patricia Piccinini - An Fear Liath

Kay is joined by playwrights Marina Carr and Mark O’Rowe, actors Cathy Belton, Robert Sheehan, Marie Mullen, and Bosco Hogan. The programme also featured performances by Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo and Trad Rave’s Colm Olwill and Jack Dempsey.

Highlights from our Galway Film Fleadh special, where we were thrilled to host a public interview with the actor Brian Cox to a sold-out audience at the Galmont Hotel.

Movie: Crossing - Book: The Dark Manual - Music: Harpist Aisling Ennis

The Piano Player of Budapest - BLUR : To The End - Loughcrew Opera Gala

'Cosima' by Sheena Lambert - 'The Wise Guy' written and directed by Sam O’Mahony - Album Review

Film reviews - La bohème (Semi-staged) - Shaun of the Dead at 20

Neil Martin - TV reviews - From Her to Eternity at 40

The People Before - Fidil Ghorm - On The Way Out

The Sparrow - Dancing at Lughnasa - Album reviews

Film reviews - Women Impressionists - The Conversation at 50

Éire is Alba - Austin Duffy - TV Reviews

Bafushia - Philip Chevron: The Tuner - Fág do Lorg | Ná Fág Lorg

My My!: ABBA Through the Ages - The Misadventures of Oliver Goldsmith - Ríoghnach Connolly

Charlene McKenna - Angie McMahon - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

EKLEGO - TV Reviews - The Shark Nursery

Stewart Copeland - John Carter Cash - Brian Friel: Beginnings

Allegria Quartet - The Say a Song Project - I Am: Celine Dion

Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge - The Sugar Wife - Album Reviews

Film reviews - Paradise Lost (Lies Unopened Beside Me) - Kiruu

Boyfriends - TV reviews - Cork Midsummer Festival 2024

Amnesiac by Neil Jordan - Salvatore of Lucan - RHA annual exhibition review

Sade Malone - Pipeworks 2024 - Kathleen Jamie

Lemoncello - Agnieszka Holland - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Muireann Bradley - Women's Prize for Fiction 2024

TV Reviews - Perspectives: Philip Glass Cocteau Trilogy - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Tempesta - Molly Aitken on her second novel - Bright I Burn - Album Reviews

Viggo Mortensen - Film reviews - The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

TV reviews - Nineteen Eighty-Four at 75 - CISEACH

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death - Richard Flanagan on new novel - Bette Davis, a celebration at the IFI

Rory Gallagher: Calling Card - Circle Mirror Transformation - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - The Sugar Wife - Brian Cox reads 'If I Must Die' by Refaat Alareer - ÍOMHÁ

TV reviews - Gerald Dawe - Goldberg Variations on accordian - The Molly Films

Jaimé Martin - "Long Island" by Colm Tóibín - Carlow Arts Festival 2024

NCH 2024/2025 Season - Charles Tyrrell and Helen O’Leary - Maria Kelly

The 77th Cannes Film Festival - Hilary Heron: A Retrospective - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Rosanne Cash - Dublin Literary Award winner Mircea Cartarescu

In The Meadows - New TV this week - The Woman in Black

Ransom '79 - The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World - Little Amal: Refugee puppet

The Young Offenders - The Garden Against Time - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Cellissimo 2024 - Making A Show of Myself'

New TV this week - The Instruments of Darkness - Eat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat

Alice Munro dies at 92 - Caoilinn Hughes - Blackwater Valley Opera Festival 2024 - Pulp Fiction at 30

60 Years of a Hard Day’s Night - Night Dances - New acquisition by the Hugh Lane Gallery - Three Colours trilogy

Big Banana Feet - Taoscadh ón Tobar - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - The 50s: The Decade That Changed the World - Mufutau Yusuf

Bass-baritone Rory Dunne, accompanied by Aoife Moran on piano, joined Sean in Studio 8 to perform pieces from Don Pasqale and Carmen. Jenn Gannon and Chris Wasser review Dark Matter, Bodkin and the third series of Welcome to Wrexham. Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth speaks to Arena ahead of concerts with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

To celebrate the launch of their new album 'That Golden Time', Conor O'Brien and his band perform new songs and favourites live in front of a Studio 1 audience.

To celebrate the launch of their new album 'That Golden Time', Conor O'Brien and his band perform new songs and favourites live in front of a Studio 1 audience.

‘James’ by Percival Everett - Sit Stand Smoke - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - The Pride - Elaine Feeney - ‘All the Good Things You Deserve’

Paul Auster - TV Reviews - 13 Tongues - Niamh Mulvey - The Amendments

Deirdre O'Mahony - The Quickening - Ruth Clinton - This Fearless Maid II - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Cork Stories - Elizabeth Moynihan - Celebrity - Bonnie and Clyde

Siobhán Cullen - Seven Samurai 70th Anniversary - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Judi Jackson - Gammy

39th Cúirt International Festival of Literature - TV Reviews

That They May Face The Rising Sun - Matilda Lloyd and Alexandra Whittingham - ‘Knife’ by Salman Rushdie

Jilly Morgan's Birthday Party - Bláth na hÓige - Paul Muldoon

Album Reviews - Tuesdays With Morrie

Film Reviews - Verdigris - The Pillowman

Arlene Hunt and Mary McGill review Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Blue Lights and The Jinx: Part 2. Artist Mick O'Dea talks about his latest exhibition What Is the Stars? Alvy Carragher chats about and reads from her latest collection, What Remains the Same

Author Jan Carson talks about her new short story collection 'Quickly, While They Still Have Horses'. Composer David Downes and poet Adam Wyeth on 'there will be no silence'. Director Niall Henry and cast members Sandra O’Malley and Aisling Mannion from 'The Last Pearl'

Lankum's Ian Lynch speak about his score for Paul Duane's new film, All You Need is Death. Ferdia Lennon on his new book Glorious Exploits. Art historian Jess Fahy provides her art highlights in Berlin.

Eimear Walshe - The Pull of the Stars - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Eoghan O’Ceannabháin

TV Reviews - Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson - Opponent - Milad Alami

Blue Lights - The Memories of Others - The Blues Brothers

Children of the Sun - Civil War - Caledonian Road

The Music of Quincy Jones - We Realised The Power Of It - IMMA Exhibition - Album Reviews

John Maguire and Cara O’Doherty review 'Scoop', 'Monkey Man', 'One Night in Millstreet' and 'Io Capitano'. David Harrington and Paul Wiancko from the legendary Kronos Quartet spoke to Kay about bringing their 'Five Decades Tour' to the NCH on May 12th. Jenn Gannon joined Kay to review the new Netflix series 'Ripley' starring Andrew Scott.

Sonya Kelly - One Night in Millstreet - TV Reviews - Marlon Brando Centenary

Yankari Afrobeat Special

STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces review - Lemn Sissay - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - John Murry - Ricky Tomlinson

New TV this week - Franz Rogowski - Niamh Bury

INO present Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade - 2024 Dublin Literary Award Shortlist - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at 20

Viet Thanh Nguyen - Tana French - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Fiona Monbet - Catriona Shine

Cara Dillon - New TV this week - Exploring art collections abroad

Maxim Vengerov - Small Hours: The Long Night of John Martyn - Jennifer Lopez

Bold Moves - The Rising of the Moon - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Shaun Davey - Until August

RTÉ Short Story Competition - Mary Costello - New TV this week

Harry Clarke's Geneva Window - Marianne Keating - Warren Beatty

Oscar 2024 reaction - Celebration of Allen Ginsberg: Poetry & Song - Abair Festival 2024

Scott McKendry - Oscar predictions - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Elina Garanca - Miki Berenyi

Ray Winstone - Ava DuVernay - New TV this week

Rita Ann Higgins - Kinship - Iness Mezel

Jamie Duffy - Carys Davies - Denis Villeneuve profile

Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin, Marina Carr’s new play Audrey or Sorrow opened at the Abbey Theatre on Wednesday night - Red Menace, Joe Thomas’s sequel to last year’s White Riot - Up for review are new albums by Liam Gallagher John Squire, Everything Everything, and Faye Webster.

Film Reviews - Andy Bell - Drawing from the Well: Tommie Potts

KORMAC - Maxine Peake - New TV this week

Imagining Ireland at the National Concert Hall - Pregnant with a Drag Queen - Four Daughters

Jared Harris - Irish Baroque Orchestra - Victoria Kennefick

Pat Kinevane - Album Reviews - After a Dance: Selected Stories by Bridget O’Connor

Film Reviews - Armistead Maupin - Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer

Baltimore - Na Peirsigh/Persians - New TV this week

Wim Wenders - Leslie Jamison - TWIG

Roddy Doyle - You spin me round - A Matter of Time

Breakin’ Brothers - Life of Pi - Album Reviews

Film Reviews - Audrey or Sorrow - The Henry Girls

New TV this week - Michael Winterbottom - Valentine’s Day Films

A Modest Proposal - Possession - Killian Farrel

Bellow - Quint - Miloš Karadaglic

Tonight's Arena comes live from the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar as Rough Magic celebrates 40 years. Featuring chat, readings and music from the company's players through the years including Anne Enright, Declan Hughes, Owen Roe and the artistic director, Lynne Parker.

Declan Burke and Gemma Creagh review The Iron Claw, Occupied City and Double Blind. Gay-Yee Westerhoff and Eos Counsell, or FIRL, make their debut at the Spike Cello Fest. John Meagher gives his verdict on Zara Larsson's 'Venus', Britney Howard's 'What Now', and Declan McKenna's 'What Happened to the Beach?'

New TV this week - Driven Snow - Norman Jewison

Taigh Ty Teach - Michael Cunningham -Alim Beisembayev

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

Play: The Verdict - Film: Cairo Conspiracy, Director Tarik Saleh - Album Review - Metallica, Daughter & Blondshell

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.

Swedish-Egyptian Director, Tarik Saleh who made The Nile Hilton Incident in 2017 discusses his new spy thriller, Cairo Conspiracy.

Play: The Verdict - Film: Cairo Conspiracy, Director Tarik Saleh - Album Review - Metallica, Daughter & Blondshell

Zara Hedderman and Pat Carty touch on The Script’s Mark Sheehan the guitarist from rock band The Script who sadly died today. Then they review these new albums: 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.

Film Reviews, Chris Wasser & Gemma Creagh have been watching Renfield // Barber // One Fine Morning - Werther, The Irish National Opera is about to tour Ireland with Werther. Sophie Mottley directs the production & mezzo-soprano Niamh O’Sullivan stars.

Beth Orton at Body and Soul festival - Gone Self Storm from Harry Clifton - A Call to You, A contemporary dance project - Obsession, new on Netflix.

Barber, Fintan Connolly the co-writer and director & Actor Helen Behan - The Red Bird Sings, written by Irish author Aoife Fitzpatrick - Anamnesis a new album from Síle Denvir.

Conleth Hill, Simon Delaney and Sean Campion on their new production of 'The Price' at The Gate; Ciara King reviews 'Boom Boom! - The World vs Boris Becker'; and Dave Hanratty and Louise Bruton review new albums from Ellie Goulding and Yaeji.

Film Reviews, John Maguire and Arleen Hunt have been watching Air // Lola // Super Mario Bros - The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Chris O Rourke has been to see the stage show at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse - The Speculations of Country People, Majella Kelly's debut poetry collection.

LOLA, Written and Directed by Andrew Legge - Shy, Author Max Porter brings us his new book - Shakespeare and the Irishman, Professor of English at Trinity, Andy Murphy discusses Trinity's New Exhibition - Beef, Jenn Gannon reviews the new Netflix series.

An Old Song, Half Forgotten, Deirdre Kinahan, Bryan Murray and his partner Una Crawford O’Brien discuss this new play - Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv Author Andrey Kurkov - Windham-Campbell Prize, Author Darran Anderson

King Crimson Documentary - Transatlantic - Picasso 50th Anniversary - Heritage Cinema

Ghosts at The Abbey Theatre, Director Mark O’Rowe & Cathy Belton who plays Helena Alving - The Good Mothers on Disney+ reviewed by Declan Burke - Album Reviews with Zara Hedderman & Simon Maher, Boygenius, The Record // David Kitt, Idiot Check // Arxx, Ride Or Die

Film Reviews, Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves // Night of the 12th // Tetris - Cormac Begley Live at Vicar Street - Lessons in Kindness, poetry collection by Dani Gill.

Dublin Literary Award - Speed the Plough - Klondike - Granard Booktown

Hamlet - Síomha - Dreamland - Catalyst International Film Festival

Jenn Gannon on the final season of Succession; 'Is It Still Raining?' is a new exhibition of paintings by artist Sophia Campbell; and Andrea Cleary and Paul McLoone review Lankum’s new release False Lankum, Depeche Mode’s Memento Mori and Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.

Ahead of a sold-out concert at the National Concert Hall, Martin Hayes talks to Sean about 'Peggy’s Dream', the new album with his Common Ground Ensemble. For film review night, Ruth Barton and Paul Whitington cover 'God’s Creatures', 'Infinity Pool', 'The Five Devils' and 'John Wick: Chapter 4'.

Dublin: A Writer’s City investigates the extent to which Dublin has been created by its authors, poets and dramatists - Peter Whelan on the busy spring and summer ahead for the Irish Baroque Orchestra - Television BAFTAs nominations - Great Expectations, the Charles Dickens classic, is the new Sunday night drama on BBC TV.

Paul Mescal and Emily Watson discuss their new film 'God's Creatures', Jennifer Tiexiera tells us about the new documentary she has co-directed called 'Subject', Cahal Dallat on his WB Yeats walking tour of London which is narrated by Ciaran Hinds, and Dave Hanratty reviews Apple TV+'s The Big Door Prize.

Fibin Director Stephen D’Arcy - Book review - Art of Darkness: Goth Music - Johannes Vermeer exhibition 2023 - Amsterdam - Craig Walker & The Cold

Liam Neeson and Neil Jordan bring Raymond Chandler’s private eye back in Marlowe. Shazam! Fury of the Gods marks the return of the Gotham City hero. Pearl, a slasher movie about a wife whose husband is away at war in 1918. Allelujah, a gentle comedy set in a hospital. Rye Lane, a London romcom - New albums by U2, Miley Cyrus and Ailbhe Reddy.

Next week, writers Colm Tóibín, Niamh Campbell and archivist Catriona Crowe come together online for a special discussion of The Barracks - Patrick O’Kane plays David Trimble in a fictional account of the last few days of the Good Friday Agreement negotiations - The Kilfenora Céilí Band takes to the stage of the National Concert Hall.

The world premiere of Shaun Davey’s Refuge, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, at the NCH, with cellist Sinéad O’Halloran - Rosemary Jenkinson on her latest collection of short stories, Love in the Time of Chaos - Extrapolations, a new series telling the familiar story of humanity’s struggle to offset the effects of climate change.

Tartuffe - Music Network Trio - Transatlantic Commissions - Irish language IFI Irish Film Archive

With Andrew Bennett & Carrie Crowley from An Cailin Ciuin, Journalist Lesley O’Toole, Ben Zauzmer, Author of "Oscarmetrics", Marcus Jones, Awards Editor, TV & Film at IndieWire & our live panel Ruth Barton, Paul Whittington, Tara Brady & John Maguire.

Film Reviews, Dave Hanratty and Gemma Creagh have been watching Scream 6, Champions & My Sailor, My Love - Director of The Artist and the Wall of Death, Maurice O’Brien - Albums, Zara Hedderman and Eamon Sweeney have been listening to - Sleaford Mods, Huw Evans & Fever Ray.

Na Cailleacha - Sarah Buckley - Poetry Celebrating International Women's Day - First Cut Film Festival - Fiachra Garvey

The longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced - Richard Eyre’s latest film Allelujah celebrates the spirit of elderly patients in a geriatric ward - Becoming Frida Kahlo, a three-part television series begins on BBC Two this Friday - The Ennio Morricone Experience at the Pavilion Theatre celebrates the great Italian Maestro.

Moving Hearts & The RTÉ Concert Orchestra - Nicole Flattery’s first novel, Nothing Special - Nomos: O’Riada Reimagined, Ordnance Survey brings experimental electronic music to the work of Sean O'Riada.

Niall McCabe brings his new album Rituals - Richie Baneham on another Oscar Nomination - Album Reviews Brian Boyd & Aoife Barry were listening to U.S. GIRLS, Bless This Mess // Slowthai, Ugly // Hello Mary, Hello Mary

Chris Wasser and Deirdre Molumby have been watching Creed 3, Close, & Fashion Reimagined - “My Sailor, My Love” Starring James Cosmo as Howard and Bríd Brennan as Annie, against the odds, and the beautiful backdrop of Achill Island, they fall in love - Eleanor Catton returns with a new novel, Birnam Wood.

Hangmen by Martin McDonagh - National Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall - Daisy Jones & the Six

Olivier Awards - Running Feet, Sharp Noses - Pop Art Pioneers - Dark Side of the Moon 50 Years Old

In The Dry, a 35-year-old woman returns to Dublin after years of partying in London. Staying sober is going to be harder than she thought - For 40 years, Brian Maguire has explored the aftermath of conflict and violence. Four monumental paintings make up his new exhibition The Clock Winds Down - Steven Benedict profiles director James Cameron.

The Consultant, Dave Hanratty has been watching The Consultant new to Prime TV starring Christoph Waltz - Crawford Art Gallery, Cristin Leach discusses the new exhibition Site of Change: Evolution of a Building - Album Reviews, Alan Corr & Louise Bruton have been listening to Gorillaz//Ron Sexsmith//Caroline Polachek

Film reviews with Declan Burke and Arlene Hunt, What’s Love Got to do With It // Broker // Creature - Reconstructing Mondrian at Hugh Lane - Louis Stewart Legacy

Nine Apples of Gold from Karan Casey - Brian Dillon's New Work Affinities - Django on Sky - Limerick Literary Festival - Future Tense Documentary

Sean speaks to Sebastian Barry, on the occasion of the publication of his new book Old God’s Time. Old God’s Time revolves around retired Garda, Tom Kettle, a man who has ‘washed up’ in a granny flat lean-to attached to a Victorian Castle in Dalkey.

King - Christine Tobin - Mincéir at DIFF - Fleishman is in Trouble

New Electric Ballroom - Creature - Album reviews

Film Review , 4 new films - Declan Hassett's play, Sisters - Apple TV's Hello Tomorrow

Madame Butterfly is one of the most celebrated romantic operas of all time - Rushdie has just published his 15th novel, Victory City - Jonathan Harvey has written the new panto Mother Goose - Clare Langan exhibition

Peter O’Toole Documentary - Valentines Day Opera and Poetry - Here and Now Dance - Broken Talkers Manifest

A review of Janet Malcom’s Still Pictures - Deirdre Purcell, RIP - Patricia Hurl at IMMA - Atomic Hope Documentary - Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh Exhibition

Maeve Clancy’s graphic novel The Irish Civil War is the retelling of the story of the Irish Civil War - The Gold is a new six-part BBC drama about the 1983 raiding of a security depot near Heathrow - Pat Carty and Aoife Barry review All of This Is Chance, Lisa O'Neill's new album; Sitting Pretty by the Academic; and This is Why by Paramore.

Arena's tribute to Burt Bacharach RIP - Film Reviews,

Maria Callas - Women Talking - Heard a Long Gone Song - Funny Woman

Music Network Folk Supergroup - The Stamp of Beauty - Common Work

Tales from the Holywell, Damien Dempsey at Abbey theatre - Paco Robanne RIP - Album reviews

Behan at 100 - Arena Special with - Donal Fallon, Peter Sheridan, Daoirí Farrell, Anne Buckley and Macdara Yeates

Film Reviews - St Dymphna at the National Gallery of Ireland - Sultans of Ping Radio Documentary

Rebel Irishwomen at the NCH - Old Biddy Talk - Celebrating Brigid Through Objects - At Bridget’s Well - Finding a Voice

Stinging Fly anthology A tribute to The Bell - You Resemble Me - Radiohead Jazz Symphony

Old Ghosts - All the Beauty in the World - Toy Fights

My Father’s House Review - LUCIA - Albums

Mairead and Bridin - Jig Jam - Lorcan MacMathuna - Jig Jam

The Schubert Song Cycle - La Voix Humaine at the National Concert Hall - Film reviews

Oscar Nominations - Stephen Spielberg Profile - Shrinking

Dervish - Matt Ó - Louise Mulcahy - Leila Jane

Extraordinary - The Bell Ringer - Album Review

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis - Film reviews & Bafta Nominations - Film: More Than Ever

Classics Now - Blockbuster Exhibitions - Hedge School in Doolin

Celebrating the Voice - TradFest 2023 - Streetcar - The Mary Magdalene Experience at Rua Red

Danti Dan play by Livin Dred - Inishowen Traditional Orchestra & Choir - Gina Lollabrigida RIP - Doolin Hedge School

Classics Now - The Coiffured - Album reviews

TÁR - Film Reviews - The Last of Us

Coisceim,The Piece with the Drums - Kevin Higgins RIP - The Dublin Bowie Festival - The Mystery of Four - Classics Now Fest

Seamus Begley RIP - TradFest - Judy Collins - The Child in Striped Pyjamas - Break Point

Paul McLoone has been watching If These Walls Could Sing - David Wray, piano / Sandra Oman, soprano / Simon Morgan, baritone - Happy Valley has returned after a seven year hiatus and Jenn Gannon has been watching the new series.

This feel-good film was produced by Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, and directed by the Swiss filmmaker - and Bond veteran - Marc Forster - First fortnight - Notifications Off They have commissioned work by Electronic Sheep - Till star Danielle Deadwyler plays Mamie Till-Mobley

John Maguire & Ruth Barton have been watching Till, A Man Called Otto, Empire of Light, The Pale Blue Eye, Alcarrás. Guy Barker is back with a new take on Charles Mingus, where he explores the artists who inspired Mingus himself.

Between Worlds' The Life of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin - Music for Galway - Turner: The Henry Vaughan Bequest

Christmas TV Highlights - Crime Fiction 2022 - Music Books 2022

Film Reviews - Dessie O’Halloran doc TG4 - Enda Wyley on Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

The Outsider is a new documentary marking the 30th anniversary of Bacon’s death and is presented by U2's Adam Clayton - ‘Crude’ is the Dundalk singer songwriter’s third album - Paul Whitington - The actress was born one hundred years ago this month.

Piaf at the Gate review - A Christmas Carol - First fortnight, Spliced

The Art of Panto Writing - European Film Awards - Toy Show The Musical

Memento Civitatem at NGI - Linnar Looris, Artistic Director Estonian National Ballet - Spoken Stories 2 - The Light of Day Tony O Shea retrospective

Film Reviews - Gemma Creagh and Dave Hanratty review White Noise, Nocebo and The Silent Twins. Love Songs is a new dance show by choreographer Philip Connaughton & opens at Project Arts Centre, Dublin in December. The Busk Record, which will be released tomorrow, with all proceeds going to the Dublin Simon Community.

A brand-new documentary to mark 50 years of Raidió na Gaeltachta, on how the station breathed new life into Ireland's music and song tradition - So what is it that makes certain books so hard to get on to the big screen? All Heaney's one hundred and one translations can be found in a single volume, edited by Marco Sonzogni.

Fíbín are deep in preparation for this year’s panto Fionn agus an Bradán Feasa - Lynch/Oz explores the links between David Lynch and The Wizard of Oz - Three Pines is Prime Video's lavish, atmospheric rendering of author Louise Penny's best-selling mystery series - The death was announced of Cheers actor Kirstie Alley.

We broadcast from the set of The Weir, written by Olivier award-winning and Tony award-nominated playwright Conor McPherson, directed by Caitriona McLoughlin, Abbey Theatre artistic director. Also on set are all the cast (Jolly Abraham, Peter Coonan, Brendan Coyle, Sean Fox and Marty Rea) and musicians Éamonn Cagney and Courtney Cullen.

The Sight and Sound Movie Poll comes around every 10 years, and takes into account the favourite films of critics around the world - The Patient is a 10-part drama centering around a successful psychotherapist, Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) and his unusual patient (Domhnall Gleeson) - We review new albums by White Lung, Sophie Jamieson and RM.

Deirdre Molumby & Chris Wasser have been watching Violent Night, How to Tell a Secret and North Circular - The Cure remain one of the most influential and successful bands to arise from the post-punk movement of the late ’70s - Paul Nugent gives A Christmas Carol another twist in his play Orson Welles’ Christmas Carol.

With music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Beauty and the Beast now runs at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre - The Last of the Light is a collection of memoir, short stories, poetry and photographs by Marc O Riain - Stephen Lawlor’s latest show at the Oliver Sears Gallery is this deep exploration of famous masters’ works.

Well I Just Kind of Like It is a new collection of writing edited by Wendy Erskine, about art in the home and the home as art - Crash Ensemble are a group of world-class musicians who play the most adventurous and groundbreaking music of today - Slow Horses on Apple TV Plus is back for Season 2, with Gary Oldman as a foul-mouthed spy.

The Irish Aesthete, Ten Years in the Making: an exhibition of Robert O’Byrne’s photographs - Had he lived, yesterday would have been Jimi Hendrix’ 80th birthday - Netflix’s spin on DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, starring The Crown’s Emma Corrin.

Under Milk Wood is one of the best known and loved creations of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Now Cerys Matthews has adapted it for young readers - The 16th Waterford International Film Festival is currently underway with entries from all over the world, including ‘Dead Dog’ by Joe Rooney - New albums by Stormzy, Anna Mieke and Damian O’Neill.

Film reviews - Maria Doyle Kennedy - Arnaud Depleschin

A live broadcast from the Museum of Literature Ireland, to mark the publication of Winter Papers, a collection of essays, short stories, interviews and poems, with photography. With Winter Papers editor, Kevin Barry, along with some contributors to this year’s collection, Belinda McKeon, Dragana Jurišic, Brian Leyden, and Jessica Traynor.

The extraordinary legacy of film composer Elmer Bernstein will be celebrated on 9 Dec at Dublin's NCH - She Said by Maria Schrader is a biographical drama based on the NYT investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein - A new exhibition in The Kerlin Gallery is celebrating the artist Stephen McKenna, with rarely seen early work.

20 years after his death, legendary actor, poet and singer Richard Harris tells his story in a new documentary film ‘The Ghost of Richard Harris’ - Wednesday, Netflix’s new series about Wednesday Addams - We celebrate the life and work of Martin Scorsese, one of the most talented directors in Hollywood history, who turned 80.

Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These, is set in 1985, where we meet Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant in New Ross - Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing is Poetry Ireland’s new anthology by Martin Dyar - We review new music by Norwegian electronic duo Royksopp, and Weyes Blood.

John Maguire and Aingeala Flannery review three new films, Aftersun, Aisha and Armageddon Time - Tolka, a brand new Irish literary journal set up to promote ‘formally promiscuous non-fiction’ - Elizabeth Cope at VISUAL in Carlow, entitled The Palpable Bump on the Bridge of the Nose.

The Australian musician Jessie Lloyd, artist in residence for Galway’s Song from an Open Road Festival, holds her indigenous culture at the heart of her creativity - Sounding Sionna: A Celebration Of Music & Dance takes place in UL Concert Hall - Transformer is Lou Reed’s second album, which turns 50 this month.

Jack Viertel will take part in The Stars and Stripes Shaded Green, a series of public readings exploring Irish American theatre at Druid - Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, was released in cinemas in November 1942, 80 years ago this month - Nutcracker Sweeties by Ballet Ireland, an Irish twist on The Nutcracker.

The tender relationship between Calum, played by Paul Mescal, and his daughter is the cornerstone of Aftersun - Hereafter by Vona Groarke is the imagined story of her great grandmother - In My Father’s Dragon, a young boy is having trouble adjusting to life in a new town - 1899, an eight-part series set on an 19th century ocean liner.

In Nocebo, Irish film maker Lorcan Finnegan explores themes like consumerism, human exploitation and the fast fashion industry - Chris Thile, American mandolin player, songwriter and composer - New albums by Bruce Springsteen and Warhaus.

Louise Kennedy and Wendy Erskine - John Francis Flynn with Ross Chaney on drums - Jessica Fahy - Art and Writing at the Hugh Lane

New films: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Aisling Trí Néallaibh: Clouded Reveries, No Bears - Independent director John Sayles is in Ireland to take part in the first Dingle International Film Festival this weekend - Berte & Harmey’s work, Nul Punt Wolk, looks at aerial imaging, aviation, mapping and landscape boundaries.

Frank Berry’s new film Aisha turns its lens on the Irish immigration system through the experience of a Nigerian woman who lives in an asylum centre - What should poetry do? This is the question that poet Pat Boran explores at The Leaves Festival - New series The English starring Emily Blunt is set in 1890s mid-America.

In The Crown season 5, the royal saga has reached the 90s and the public implosion of the Prince and Princess of Wales' marriage - The filmmaker Ciara Nic Chormaic has made a feature documentary about Doireann Ni Ghriofa and her creative process - Cowboy Junkies bring their blues-tinged alt-country sound to the National Concert Hall on Nov 17.

Glen Hansard read The Philosophy Of Modern Song, the long awaited new book from Bob Dylan - Wendy Erskine reading from her short story Anti Treaty about a cut throat tv talent show - Dave Hanratty and Zara Hedderman review Alpha Zulu by Phoenix, Palomino by First Aid Kit, and Back Home by Big Joanie.

We review new films: Living, Watcher and The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby - Short Stories in Print, a limited edition collection of unpublished work by some of Ireland’s leading writers - Fermanagh singer and songwriter Clara Tracey’s new album is called Black Forest.

Aura by Ruth McGinley and Neil Martin celebrates Irish airs with classical arrangements - Persona is an interactive visual art exhibition that explores the notion that there are multiple versions of ourselves - During lockdown, photographer Conor Horgan imagined what Ireland would look like if the state had indeed collapsed.

The Marriage Portrait is a novel set in Renaissance Italy which simmers with court intrigue - After a life of being written about, lead singer of U2 and activist, Bono has decided to write his memoirs - For the first time in 145 years, Irish National Opera bring William Tell back to Irish shores at the Gaiety Theatre this month.