Diversity 365
RTÉ celebrates diversity 365 days a year with regular programmes and special documentaries.
Explore our ongoing coverage now.
- Spectrum
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RTÉ Radio 1, Saturdays, 6.03pm
RTÉ Radio's weekly intercultural show, Spectrum, investigates Ireland's response to its changing ethnic and cultural makeup. Putting a national issue in international context, the show debates, comments on and analyses how Ireland is dealing with its new multiculturalism. The programme is presented by Zbyszek Zalinski. Get the Spectrum podcast
- No Place Like Home
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RTÉ One, Friday, 7.30pm
Watch the first three series on demand on RTÉ.ie.
Presenter Bob Kelly wanders the high roads and by roads of Ireland to meet the country's new intercultural faces and ask them their story of how they came to live in Ireland. He then takes a portable video camera to their places of origin to meet their friends and family and find out what they have left behind.
- George Lee In China
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Complete series available on demand on RTÉ.ie
RTÉ Economics Editor George Lee travels to China in this four-part series where he looks at the changing culture, a red-hot economy and new ties with Ireland.
- American Dream Dead or Alive
Complete series available on demand on RTÉ.ie
In this two-part documentary, RTÉ's Mark Little travels through the Sunbelt states - along America's New Frontier - to see whether the trauma of the Bush years and the threat of recession has killed the American dream, or if that dream is about to be reborn.
- Who's Afraid of Islam?
Complete series on demand on RTÉ.ie
RTÉ's Mark Little journeys across the globe in search of a clearer understanding of Islam in this three-part series, which sets out to provide an Irish audience with a better appreciation of what it means to be Muslim.
- Festival of World Cultures
Every August, 200,0000 people descend on Dún Laoghaire in Co Dublin for the annual intercultural celebration, and RTÉ is there to film the best performances and sample the other sights and sounds of the capital's most colourful event.
Listen to Rhythms of Life, a seven-part series featuring highlights from last year's festival
