Sunday Miscellany 27 July 2014
SUNDAY MISCELLANY GOES TO LIMERICK
Presented by RTÉ Radio One, Irish World Academy and Creative Writing at the University of Limerick, our next live recording is at 12.00 p.m. on Sunday 6th May.
This performance will feature writers including Joseph O’Connor, Donal Ryan, Martin Dyar, Sarah Moore Fitgerald and Mary O’Malley, and musicians Boris Hunka, Diane Daly, Seamus Fogarty and more.
Tickets priced at €15 are available from http://www.uch.ie/event/rte-ones-sunday-miscellany/
Sunday Miscellany
The programme's new radio essays and occasional poems, interspersed with complementary music, capture our times, passions and curiosities. The content is selected mostly from open submission, with some commissions. Submissions are welcome from new and established writers alike.
Reportage, appreciations, memory pieces, poetry, travel writing and personal accounts of events and happenings are the stuff of Sunday Miscellany. The programme is part of Sunday mornings since 1968. It is essential listening to many thousands across Ireland and more around the world.
New short essays:
City Grass – a poem by Gerard Smyth
Once Upon a Time in the West by Karl O’Neill
Showtime by Roslyn Dee
Shakespeare and Company by Colette Sheridan
Write on the Tip of My Tongue by Sue Norton
The Book Palace on Thomas Street – a poem by Gerard Smyth
Music:
‘The Arrival of Man’ from Black in the Earth, a musical composition by Adele O’Dwyer performed by the composer on cello with Ioana Petcu-Colon (violin), Dermot Dunne(accordion) and Bernard Reilly (percussion)
The Man with the Harmonica from the film ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ performed by Franco de Gemini, composed, arranged and conducted by Ennio Morricone
Vanitas Vanitatum (mit humor) by Robert Schumann performed by Martha Argerich (piano) and Misha Maisky (cello)
Ist Movement from Andante grazioso, quasi allegretto from 7 Bagatelles by Beethoven performed by Melvyn Tan (piano)
A Fancy by John Dowland performed by O’Dette (flute)
New Short essays: City Grass - a poem by Gerard Smyth; Once Upon a Time in the West by Karl O'Neill; Showtime by Roslyn Dee; Shakespeare and Company by Colette Sheridan; Write on the Tip of My Tongue by Sue Norton; The Book Palace on Thomas Street - a poem by Gerard Smyth
sundaymiscellany@rte.ie
Producer: Sarah Binchy
Broadcasting Co-ordinator: Carolyn Dempsey