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RTÉ Radio Drama's audio theatre department has for decades proudly brought audiences the very best dramatic writing and performances for radio from Ireland. Listen every Sunday night at 8pm at RTÉ Radio 1, visit rte.ie/dramaonone for more.
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Nothing Ever Happens Around Here by Robert Barrett
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53:30the Winning play in the PJ O'Connor Radio Drama Awards 2020, Nothing Ever Happens Around Here written by Robert Barrett & directed by Gorretti SlavinBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Frizzy Lizzy by Ceara CarneyBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Featuring Aileen Mythen, Risteard Cooper, Lesa Thurman, Patrick Ryan with original Score by Denis Clohessy, written & directed by Charlie McCarthyBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Old Men are Jealous by Jennifer JohnstonBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Good Night Irene & Seventeen Trees by Jennifer Johnston
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51:53We celebrate the memory of writer Jennifer Johnston who died on the 25th of February 2025.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Patrick Kavanagh's epic journey to Dublin Written & Directed by Pat CollinsBy RTÉ Radio 1
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In the Wings - Eternal Lanes of Joy by Pat Collins
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17:44Writer and director Pat Collins and actor Mikel Murfi (Michael Murphy) talk about working on Eternal Lanes of Joy,By RTÉ Radio 1
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A Red Romeo and A Blue Julian by Johnny Farrelly
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52:46A Red Romeo and A Blue Julian by Jonny Farrelly, is a comedic love story, written in verse ~ with a twist!By RTÉ Radio 1
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The Blue Hyacinth by Maeve Brennan adapted by Joe O'Byrne
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53:43Hubert and Rose Derdon have been together for a life, but when Rose dies, Hubert finds he is unable to grieve for his wife, with Barry McGovern, David Herlihy, and Jane Brennan.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Limekiln Lane by Louise Lewis, a powerful account of domestic violence in lockdownBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Abbey actor, Clive Geraghty plays Tom and Deirdre Donnelly his wife Maura in Shay Linehan's first play for the medium of radioBy RTÉ Radio 1
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A journey through the night-world of Cork. Directed by Charlie McCarthyBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Brenda, Maureen and Joanna get to know each other through their stories. But it's the things they’re not saying that really tell the tale.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Fragile Maoilíosa by Charlie McGuinness starring Eamonn Hunt and Muiris Crowley, music performed by Jane Hughes, directed by Gorretti SlavinBy RTÉ Radio 1
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The story of the 11th hour escape from the Nazis in 1938, of Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha and their extended family.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Confinements by Judith Mok We remember Judith Mok, the Dutch soprano, writer, and vocal coach, who died in December 2024.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Mr Sun by Gillian Grattan with Kathy Rose O'BrienBy RTÉ Radio 1
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John Boorman, who turns 92 this Saturday, returned to England in November 2022, after 53 years in his beloved home,The Glebe, in County Wicklow. Stephen Rea and Kevin Reynolds drove to Annamoe to say goodbye.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Treasure House - a series of dramatised stories on the lives of historical figures. Tonight’s programme features the life and times of English writer and clergyman Charles KingsleyBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Wine from Greenland by Alejandro Niklison
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24:44Anton and Ian's conversation leads them to a mutual realisation: man is a caged animal. Will they find freedom, or fail in their quest?By RTÉ Radio 1
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The radio piece revisits episodes in Thomas Kilroy's family's history, the War of Independence, the Civil War and the foundation of the Irish Free StateBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney.
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42:42Al McKenna stars as iconic broadcaster Terry Wogan in Wogan's Sweet Sixteen by Kenneth Sweeney.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Programme exploring Radió Éireann Players, the repertory company for radio in Ireland formed in 1947 first broadcast 19th August 1997.By RTÉ Radio 1
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a compendium of thoughts and stories on climate activism. Combining interviews, archive and dramatised excerpts, The Burning Question looks for hope in a time of frightening harm to the planet, in the eloquence of activists, court challenges, new thinking, and immersive recordings of the natural world.…
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A podcast producer finds a set of code books. They are the Marconi International Code books. They contain 500 pages of 5-letter codes and their translations. The main character starts to read the codes obsessively and twist them into her own life story. In themselves the codes form extraordinarily poetic lists…
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After a decade of living it up and haven' the craic, Sharon returns to her mother, her roots and her hometown.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Playwright & composer Roger Gregg weaves his signature blend of storytelling, poetry, music and song into a haunting journey.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Based on true events, Haughey/Gregory tells the story of the Gregory Deal, agreed by Charles J. Haughey and Independent TD, Tony Gregory, in 1982.By RTÉ Radio 1
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The last, High King of Ireland by Patrick Fogarty
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46:42The Last, High King of Ireland tells the story of a day in the life of a hard-drinking man, Tapper to the locals, on his daily travels from morning to night in the fictional town of Molinheer.By RTÉ Radio 1
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an Irish woman in London experiences a dramatic and life changing event that forces her to look at her life choices. With the help of a motley crewBy RTÉ Radio 1
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A comic tale of narcotics, fast food and a mother's love for her son, set in Belfast at the height of the pandemic. Winner of Best Radio Drama IMRO Awards 2024By RTÉ Radio 1
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An Englishman remembers a holiday to Dingle in 1968, while his memories are revised and re-animated by his friend, the Story Poacher.By RTÉ Radio 1
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The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge, adapted by Joe O'Byrne
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57:58The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge, adapted and dramatised for radio by Joe O'Byrne.By RTÉ Radio 1
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based on the true story of the hijacking of an Aer Lingus plane in 1981, by an ex-Trappist monk with a burning desire to know the Third Secret of Fatima.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Three masculine monologues, a suitor, a stalker, a spouse..By RTÉ Radio 1
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A tense two-hander in which a middle-aged couple ruminate on the sombre detail of a tragic death in the family starring Andrew Bennett and Cathy BeltonBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Write Your Mind is a play about Youth Mental Health, weaving together monologues devised by writers with young people.By RTÉ Radio 1
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A Piece of Monologue, performed by Barry McGovern as part of our Beckett SeasonBy RTÉ Radio 1
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The Old Tune by Samuel Beckett: Adapted from the radio play La Manivelle by Robert PingetBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Drama On One continues its Beckett Season with All That Fall directed and produced by Barry McGovern, starring Pegg Monahan and Aidan Grennell.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Published as a novel in 1953, Watt tells the story of a nomadic manservant who works for a Mr Knott.By RTÉ Radio 1
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As part of our Beckett season, we broadcast a special programme curated from a brace of Bowman Sunday Eight Thirty programmes made in 2006By RTÉ Radio 1
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Marion O’Dwyer stars as Maeve, a woman defiantly at peace in her new oasis – A ghost estate - in Dropping Slow by Belinda McKeon.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Creatives in Conversation - Sinéad O'Connor
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39:04In October 2002 Sinéad O'Connor recorded a ‘Rattlebag Special’ with Myles Dungan, marking the release of her album Sean-Nós NuaBy RTÉ Radio 1
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Karen Ardiff shows there's no statute of limitations on a parent's licence to pine.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Creatives in Conversation - Paulo Coelho
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1:13:10In this Rattlebag public interview from 2001, Brazilian author Paulo Coelho spoke to Myles Dungan. about his work and his extraordinary life.By RTÉ Radio 1
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A costume designer on a film set pours herself into three dresses. Part of Drama On One's online short form season.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Janis Ian talking to Sean Rocks from March 2004By RTÉ Radio 1
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I Am Not Your Knacker by Rosaleen McDonagh
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16:26Rosaleen Mcdonagh explores themes of racism, identity, disability and marginalisation, channelling the literary activism of James Baldwin, and her own.By RTÉ Radio 1
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Creatives in Conversation - John McGahern
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1:23:51John McGahern in conversation with Myles Dungan..By RTÉ Radio 1
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