The Lyric Feature is RTÉ lyric fm's weekly documentary and music feature programme. Programmes are produced in house by Lyric fm staff or in collaboration with independent production companies. Subject matter varies from week to week but most of the programmes aim to provide insight into music and music making.
The Lyric Feature
Friday, 7 - 8pm
The Lyric Feature Friday 14 June 2013
The Lyric Feature Friday 14th June 2013
Bespoke
The first of three programmes celebrating poetry.
“Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than eye.” Seamus Heaney
A miscellany of poetry and music including archive gems from the RTE Spoken Word Vinyl Archive and beyond. From Shakespeare to Laurie Anderson, Kipling to Leonard Cohen and Roger Moore to Paula Meehan.
Presented and produced by Eithne Hand
BESPOKE ONE – Words and Music Played
When in Disgrace... Shakespeare (Published by RADA) Rufus Wainwright From the CD When Love Speaks EMI label
Last Stand Dennis O'Driscoll (From RTE Radio Archive) Recorded 2011 From Dear Life ( Anvil Press Poetry 2011)
Dear John Julie Feeney From CD Clocks Mitten Music
Recuerdo From A Few Figs for Thistles - Edna StVincentMillay Library of Congress Recordings On POETRY ON RECORD CD Shout Label
The Waking Theodore Roethke - Kurt Elling From CD Nightmoves (Concord)
Night Feed Eavan Boland From RTE Radio Archive, From Collected Poems. Carcanet Press. April 1994
Those Dancing days are gone. W.B.Yeats -Carla Bruni, From CD No Promises
Epic Patrick Kavanagh Collected Poems 2004 Claddagh Records - From CD Almost Everything
Neansin Bhán Joe Heaney - Roisin Chambers-RTE CD 10 Years of Ceili House
High Summer Seamus Heaney RTE Lannan Collection CD From Collected Poems Faber
Take this Waltz Cohen/Lorca Leonard Cohen Greatest Hits
Because I could not stop for Death - Emily Dickinson - Juliet Stevenson From Catching Life byThroat.Virago Press/Hachette CD
On coming from a broken home - Gil Scott Heron- CD I’m New Here. 2010 XL Label
Sailing to Byzantium - W.B.Yeats- Victor C Clinton Baddeley-Vinyl: Jupiter Records
The Lark in the Clear Air - Trad Air - Cathy Jordon / CD.All the Way Home.Blix St.
Danny Deever - Rudyard Kipling - Roger Moore - From Catching Life by the Throat- Virago Press/Hachette CD
Villanelle – Berlioz - Veronique Gens - CD Berlioz. Virgin Classics
as freedom is a breakfast food.. - e.e.cummings - Library of Congress US 1958 - From POETRY ON RECORD - Shout Records
My Love is like a red red Rose - Robert Burns - Andreas Scholl - On CD Wayfaring Stranger
Embers - Samuel Beckett - Jack McGowran - Claddagh Records CCT03CC
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The Lyric Feature
Bespoke - a miscellany of poetry and music from Shakespeare to Laurie Anderson including archive gems from RTÉ's spoken word vinyl collection.
Producer: Olga Buckley
Production Co-ordinator: Eoin O Kelly
