on Tuesday's show...."The 24 Hour Plays", six short plays produced within 24 hours by the best of Irish theatrical talent, the poetry of Celia de Fréine and why the arts have helped make Tallaght Hospital's therapy programme such a success
The death of legendary actress Lauren Bacall was announced today. Ruth Barton, lecturer in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, is in studio to discuss her film career.
Edel Coffey looks at the latest popular fiction just published or about to be published. Her list includes:
Roisin Meaney’s After the Wedding is published by Hachette books
If You Were Me by Sheila O’ Flanagan is published by Headline
The Blazing World from Siri Hustvedt has been longlisted for the Man Booker prize this year…and is published by Simon & Schuster
Ciara Geraghty’s Now That I’ve Found You is published by Hachette Books.
A debut novel from the English journalist Cáitlin Moran called How to Build a Girl, is published by Ebury Press.
A couple of books now that haven’t been published yet:
Each and Every One by Rachael English will be published by Orion Books on the 11th of September.
Finally then is the latest novel from one of the doyennes of Irish popular fiction Cathy Kelly, it’s called It Started with Paris and is available on 9th October from Orion Books
50 Years ago a film was released in Italy which gave birth to a new genre of film-making.
Starring Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone’s ‘A Fistful of Dollars’ was the first of the so-called Spaghetti Westerns. Brian Lloyd was in studio.
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