Neither Nor
The music and stories of a young Northern Irish jazz singer, Victoria Geelan. She's neither fully Catholic nor Protestant; neither blind nor partially-sighted. She sings jazz and blues in Derry where ...
5 Apr 201334min
The Curious Ear (2013): Mill Creek Blues
Maurice Brennan has always wanted to visit America. As a child he loved the literature of Mark Twain. On his first visit headed to the Mark Twain Forest Park, Missouri, where he spent a day fly-fishin...
3 Apr 201312min
Two Miles An Hour
Writer Eugene O’Brien takes a trip on a barge through the heart of the midlands, experiencing his home county in a different – and much slower – way than usual.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...
29 Mar 201338min
The Curious Ear (2013): Pink Day
The secretary of a Dublin boys' secondary school, Moyle Park College, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Since then, the teenagers at the Clondalkin school, have held an annual 'Pink Day' a 'no uniform...
28 Mar 201310min
Frank the Poet - A Convict's Tour to Hell
Originally from Cashel, Frank McNamara's songs and poems were spread through convict Australia by his fellow prisoners. Today a new generation of musicians regard him as giving Australia a tradition a...
22 Mar 201350min
Michael Whelan - Air Corps Historian (2006)
Michael Whelan's museum in a huge hangar at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel stores hundreds of artefacts but also thousands of stories behind those objects.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
21 Mar 201324min
Athy Is The 'Hood, Man
It's tough enough being a teenager, trying to work out who you are. But, say you're a teenager with African parents but you've grown up in Ireland. What are you? African? Irish? Or, a bit of both? And...
15 Mar 201338min
Big Brother Big Sister
The joy of milkshakes, driving ranges and just 'chattin' '. Big Brother Big Sister is a programme where young adults meet up with young teenagers once a week for a year. How does it work and what are ...
14 Mar 201310min
