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Programme 1: 23rd November 2004
Dr. Katalin Kiss:  Professor at the Zoltán Kodály
Pegagogical Institute of Music, Kecskemét, Hungary
http://www.kodaly-inst.hu

Chloe Goodchild:   Performer, recording artist and
teacher of voice and sound
http://www.thenakedvoice.com

Tom Wilson:  Voice consultant

Programme 2: 30th November 2004
This week we will be talking to the tenor Emmanuel
Lawler at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in
Rathmines, Dublin. 
Click here for a biography of Emmanuel Lawler

The music on the programme:
Nessun Dorma from Puccini's Turandot,sung by Emmanuel
Lawler, with the RTECO conducted by Gearóid Grant.
Santa Lucia sung by Emmanuel Lawler
M'Appari, by Flotow, sung by Emmanuel Lawler
Come my Beloved by Handel, sung by John McCormack
Ah! mes amis quel jour de fete, from La Fille du
Regiment, by Donizetti, sung by Luciano Pavarotti
Ev'ry Valley shall be Exalted from Messiah by Handel,
sung by Emmanuel Lawler
Time to Say Goodbye sung by Emmanuel Lawler

Programme 3: 7th December 2004
This week Bernadette will be talking to Tríona and Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill.

Programme 4: 14 December 2004
This week Bernadette Comerford meets Ethna Barror, the inspirational conductor of the Lindsay Singers. Her debut as a choral director came at the age of fourteen, when she coached a school choir in St. Mary's, Arklow for a Gilbert and Sullivan production. The Lindsays have won every top choral award in Ireland, and many abroad. As one adjudicator commented: "We think the angels must sing like this choir" . In November 1999 Dublin's Lord Mayor presented The Lindsay Singers with the Vocal Heritage Award for their outstanding contribution to music in Ireland over the past 40 years. Now in her late eighties, 'Mrs. B' is still rehearsing with her choirs twice a week.

Programme 5: 21st December 2004
This week Bernadette talks to Anne Grendon, who has been singing since she was a child but who only took up formal lessons in her early fifties.  Anne spent some of her early years working in the laundry of the Mercy Convent in Athy, where Sister Rita would say "Anne, sing us a song and we'll get through this ironing 
quickly".  Anne married young, and had nine children, two of whom died in early infancy.  She worked hard outside the home also, but always enjoyed her singing, and now goes for weekly lessons in Dun Laoghaire Music Centre.  She is also a loyal member of the choir in Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Johnstown, Co. Dublin.

Programme 6: 28th December 2004
In the last programme of the series, Bernadette Comerford talks to two professional classical singers who hit the high notes:  soprano Virginia Kerr, and counter-tenor Jonathan Peter Kenny.