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RTÉ Choice offers you a mix of Irish and international programming in a new and exciting format. RTÉ’s arts, features and dramas are combined with up to the minute reporting from news services around the world, comedy, arts and documentaries to bring you a world of radio in one service. RTÉ Choice takes the best of RTÉ’s night time programmes and schedules them throughout the day along with a selection of programmes from RTÉ’s rich radio archives. RTÉ Choice includes broadcasts from the BBC World Service, America’s National Public Radio (NPR) network, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands and Radio France International. |
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Joyce's Dublin: An Exploration of 'The Dead' Wednesdays, 6.15pm James Joyce's short story, 'The Dead' is set on January 6th., 1904, in Dublin. It's a classic. It tells the story of a dinner party held and its aftermath when two of those attending travel through the snow-covered streets to a room in the Gresham Hotel. This new series draws on research and archive collections in UCD, the National Library and the National Archives. "Joyce's Dublin; An exploration of 'The Dead'" has been commissioned by the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) at UCD and produced by Athena Media. The series is presented by Barry McGovern. Click here for the podcast, photos, links and other material. |
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RTÉ Choice win gold at the 2009 PPI Awards RTÉ Radio took home a total of 11 Gold Awards at the 2009 PPI Awards, held in Kilkenny. RTÉ Choice, one of RTÉ Radio's seven digital stations, took home the award for Best Documentary Feature. Colette Kinsella (left) was the recipient of the Gold PPI award for her RTE Choice documentary, 'Through Cairo Airport'
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A Prairie Home Companion, National Public Radio (U.S.) Saturdays, 6pm A Prairie Home Companion has been on the go for more than 30 years. Featuring Garrison Keillor and broadcast live in the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul, A Prairie Home Companion presents comedy sketches, music, and Garrison's signature monologue, "The News from Lake Wobegon." There has been plenty of adventure in the past 30-plus years — broadcasts from Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Iceland and almost every one of the 50 states; wonderful performers, little-known and world-renowned; standing ovations and stares of bewilderment. We've missed planes, coped with lost luggage, dodged swooping bats and hungry mosquitoes, plodded through blizzards, and flown by the seat of our pants. Today, A Prairie Home Companion is heard by more than 4 million listeners each week on |
some 580 public radio stations, and abroad. Garrison recalls, "When the show started, it was something funny to do with my friends, and then it became an achievement that I hoped would be successful, and now it's a good way of life."
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Girl Talk with Evelyn O'Rourke From Alan Sugar's Apprentice to Dublin's Fair City: Loose Women Comes to RTÉ Radio. BBC Apprentice star Jennifer Maguire, Clelia Murphy from Ireland's official top-rating soap Fair City, RTÉ Television presenter Geri Maye and Gerry Ryan Show reporter Evelyn O'Rourke went on a girls' day out in Dublin to mark the launch of Girl Talk. The brand-new digital radio series which was broadcast on RTÉ's digital station RTÉ Choice at the end of 2009. Every week presenter Evelyn O'Rourke invited a squad of sharp-shooting female guests into studio. If you missed the broadcast, click here to download the podcast |
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Car Talk, National Public Radio (U.S.) Car Talk puts you behind the wheel of America’s best known radio show dedicated to cars and their owners. A fun-loving pick me up with all sorts of car related banter, facts and figures, stories and quizzes, music and phone-ins. Even if you don’t like cars, you’ll love Car Talk It started as a segment on another NPR show, but nine months later in Autumn 1987 they launched Car Talk. According to hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi: “We, like you, remain entirely mystified and have no idea what combination of prescription medicines brought about a decision like this out of NPR's management. We can only assume that they were looking for some |
cultural diversity, trying somehow to balance their high quality programming with crud like ours. Stations turned to us in droves — much in the same way that lemmings flock to the sea.” Brought to you by RTÉ Choice |
Documentary, BBC World Service Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9am A range of BBC World Service’s high impact documentary series, dealing with important and arresting global issues. With cutting-edge reportage, it’s compelling listening for all world citizens. There is a range of BBC World Service documentaries on Choice at the same time on Wednesday and Friday mornings and again on Sundays at 2.30pm. Brought to you by RTÉ Choice |
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Europe Today, BBC World Service Monday to Friday, 5pm An hour of BBC World Service news reports, comment and interviews with politicians and opinion formers from across Europe. Europe Today provides international context and in-depth coverage of European political, economic and social affairs to an international audience. The programme looks at trends and developments across the region and builds a ‘European conversation’ by bringing people across the continent together to discuss the issues that matter to them. |
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I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, BBC International Tuesdays, 8am First broadcast in 1972, this hugely popular BBC panel game regularly features high-calibre comedians such as Stephen Fry, Sandy Toksvig, Paul Merton and Jeremy Hardy. Presented by the late, great Humphrey Lyttelton with Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Barry Cryer and Colin Sell is at the piano.
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Monday 702, RTÉ Radio Mondays, 7.02am from 1 December Tim Lehane, veteran producer, with a wry view of the world of audio, returns to the schedule with his series from 1994, "Monday 702". Ear catching, often humorous, Tim finds thoughts and audio trinkets from around the world in the days when the term digital was but a watch face design.
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Morning Edition Monday to Friday, 12pm Morning Edition airs Monday through Friday on more than 600 NPR stations across the United States, and around the globe. For more than two decades, NPR's Morning Edition has prepared U.S. listeners for the day ahead with two hours of up-to-the-minute news, background analysis, commentary, and coverage of arts and sports. Morning Edition’s cast of regulars includes correspondents Susan Stamberg, Juan Williams; commentator Frank Deford; news analyst Cokie Roberts; and newscasters Jean Cochran and Carl Kasell. The programme is hosted by NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Renee Montagne |
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Radiolab, WNYC (U.S.) Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Radiolab comes out in seasons of 5 shows and is heard on over 150 stations. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. In November 2003 Robert and Jad were discussing the mystery of how memory works, when one of them came up with the idea of taking that conversation into the recording studio. They talked to some scientists, and Jad embroidered and illustrated the resulting conversations with sounds and music. Before long, Robert and Jad decided to team up and re-launch Radiolab in its current form. |
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The Strand, BBC World Service The Strand gives listeners a truly global guide to the world of arts, culture and entertainment. Through the week Harriett Gilbert and Mark Coles bring you news of the best films, books, music, theatre, art and design - as well as live studio performances, celebrity guests and reviews. |
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Wait Wait….Don’t Tell Me! Mondays, 8am Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz programme. Each week on the radio Irish listeners can test their knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the U.S. news and entertainment world while figuring out what's real news and what's made up. Neither the panellists nor the listeners know what they will be asked, although, being sensible people, they know that if Britney Spears or Arnold Schwarzenegger does anything even mildly odd during the week, it will probably come up. |
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