Liz Nolan's Classic Drive

Liz Nolan

Weekdays, 4-7pm

Liz Nolan's Classic Drive brings you the perfect soundtrack to your journey home accompanied by news, traffic, business, and entertainment.

For more about Liz, click HERE

Music Played on Classic Drive...

News and weather at 4.30, 5.30 & 6.30
Business and finance news at 5.40
AA Roadwatch at 4.20, 4.45, 5.20 & 6.15

Lismore Music Festival Competition

To celebrate the forthcoming Lismore Music Festival production of Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville at Lismore Castle. Lismore Music Festival have teamed up with Dublin's world famous, Vintage Barbershop, The Waldorf on Westmoreland Street, Dublin to offer listeners the chance to win a Waldorf Works which includes:

• Hot Towel Shave
• Hot Towel Scalp Massage
• Wash, Cut & Finish

We have a Waldorf works each day for 5 days to give away and an exclusive once-off Lismore Music Festival and The Cliff House Hotel Ardmore, festival package which includes

• Rossini Cocktail on arrival at hotel
• Rossini Concert tickets
• Rossini Opera tickets
• Transfers to and from the Cliff House Hotel
• Accomodation on the Sunday 3rd June - B & B
• Complimentary opera programme

To enter the competition all you have to do is listen in to Classic Drive this each day this week and answer the simple question. The overall winner will be chosen from the daily winners on Friday evening.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Extracts from a profile of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau broadcast in the series Voices of the Century on RTÉ lyric fm in December 2000. He was interviewed at his home in Berlin by Jon Tolansky for RTÉ lyric fm.

The extracts cover the following topics :

1. His debut in 1943 when he was just 18, in Schubert's Die Wintereisse.
2. His operatic debut at the State Opera in Berlin in 1948, singing Rodrigo in
   Verdi's Don Carlos.
3. His professional and personal relationship with the conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler.

Click here to listen to the extracts

Luke Clancy

Culture File

Monday - Friday 6.40pm in Liz Nolan's Classic Drive.

Luke Clancy takes a first look at a world of events, entertainment, emerging cultural trends and creative activities in Ireland and abroad. Over the week Culture File will present a mix of crafted features, culture tips, listings and live reviews, leading listeners through music, drama, film, literature, visual arts, design, online and offline media, food and drink trends.

Culture File a daily guide to creativity in the world around us.

A Soundsdoable production for RTÉ lyric fm

Contact us by email culture.lyricfm@rte.ie

For the Culture File webpage, information and podcasts, CLICK HERE