Sunday Miscellany Live

RTÉ Radio 1 announces special Sunday Miscellany Live series from various locations around Ireland in collaboration with the Heritage Council.

www.heritagecouncil.ie

RTÉ Radio 1 kicks off a special new Sunday Miscellany Live from.series in association with the Heritage Council in the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire on Monday, 8 December and in the headquarters of the Heritage Council on Sunday, 21 December.

The new Sunday Miscellany Live from. series is a development from the typical Sunday Miscellany approach of recording in radio studios around the country. Sunday Miscellany Live from. will instead be recorded in front of live audiences in public venues. This latest series of new writing and music with audiences around Ireland expands the participative possibilities of Sunday Miscellany and brings the distinctiveness of the recording locations to RTÉ Radio 1's national audience.

Michael Starrett, CEO of The Heritage Council says that Sunday Miscellany, through the power of storytelling, provides radio listeners with a more meaningful and accessible way to express our connections to our landscape, history and sense of place.

Clíodhna Ní Anluain, Producer of Sunday Miscellany, says, "This new Sunday Miscellany Live. series will create a series of audio anthologies of connected new writing. While the writings will have local appeal they will equally engage and entertain listeners across the country. With this in mind, the Heritage Council is the perfect partner for this series".

The first Sunday Miscellany live from.will be recorded in the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire on Monday, 8 December at 8pm. Contributors include novelist Julie Parsons, writer and journalist John Waters, art writer and lecturer Jason Oakley, author Tim Carey, poet Enda Wyley and playwright Bernard Farrell. Participating musicians include Máire Bhreathnach and Cormac Breathnach. This event will be broadcast at 9.10am on Sunday, 14 December on RTÉ Radio 1

The second programme which will include contributions from Kerry Hardie, Michael Coady and Gerry Moran will be recorded in the headquarters of the Heritage Council, Church Lane, Kilkenny and broadcast on Sunday 21 December at 9.10am on RTÉ Radio 1. Tickets for Sunday Miscellany live from the Pavillion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire are free and can be reserved through the Pavilion box office on 01-2312929

Details of further dates and locations for the series will be announced early in 2009.