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Samantha Azzopardi (Pic: Australian Police Journal)

Finding Samantha: Episode 5 recap - things get seriously crazy

Debbie - spotlight on a Neo-Soul star in the making

Emma Doran

Emma Doran: "I went off to explore and got as far as Courtown"

RTÉ & Screen Ireland announce 2023 Storyland projects

Other Voices Anam presents Ye Vagabonds, Cormac Begley & more

Fear & Loathing on the Croisette: Paul Duane's Cannes diary

Mystery Train - your weekly selection of tracks from John Kelly

Listen: We celebrate the Children's Books Ireland Awards 2023

Childrens Books Ireland

Dublin Literary Award winner Katja Oskamp

German author Katja Oskamp wins 2023 Dublin Literary Award

The Works Presents: John Kelly (L) meets Linda Buckley (R)

Composer Linda Buckley talks to The Works Presents

the works presents

Cruinniú na nÓg 2023 is back – and supported by RTÉ

Cruinniú na nÓg

The John Kelly Mixtape

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John Kelly and the late Harry Belafonte

Meeting Belafonte - John Kelly on an audience with a legend

The John Kelly Column

John Kelly on Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love - a 'work of genius'

Remember the time Liam Brady (L) took the Mystery Train with John Kelly (R)?

Out of midfield - John Kelly on Liam Brady and his records

The original Sun Studios recording facility run by Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee

John Kelly on writing about what you love - and saying thanks

Matsuo Basho (1644 – 1694), was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan (Pic: Getty)

John Kelly: How an Irishman in Tokyo translated a master of haiku

Composer John cage, pictured in 1958

John Kelly on two sound men who changed how we hear things

John Kelly on keeping it simple and being awake to nature

Horslips' The Táin - John Kelly on the album that saved his life

John Kelly on the wonder of Elvis Presley's Sun Sessions

John Kelly on the sacred sounds of the almighty Al Green

John Kelly on Aretha Franklin's gospel classic Amazing Grace

John Kelly on Dusty Springfield's Memphis masterpiece

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Boss level: David McCullagh on Bruce's triumphant Dublin shows

Aoife Moore: 'Pray for Our Sinners offers a voice to those who resisted'.

Voices of the resistance - Aoife Moore on Pray For Our Sinners

U2 celebrated - the best of Bono & co from the RTÉ archives

Sylvia Plath in Ireland - The Lyric Feature returns

The Lyric Feature

The iconic statue of a cinema usher outside Dublin's Screen Cinema, now demolished

Lights out: The diaries of a Dublin cinema usher

Celebrating Brendan Behan at 100 - enjoy a feast of Behan

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

Ulysses - listen to the epic RTÉ dramatisation

RTÉ Short Story Competition 2023

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RTÉ Short Story Competition 2022: (L-R) judges Éilis Ní Dhuibhne and Lisa McInerney, 2022 winner Brendan Killeen, and judge Ferdia MacAnna

RTÉ Short Story Competition 2023 - last chance to enter!

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Claire Kilroy: 'Although there are no rules in writing, there are definitely expectations'.

What I like in a short story: Claire Kilroy's tips for writers

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Ferdia MacAnna: 'Give me conflict, atmosphere, a curious, significant setting'.

Ferdia MacAnna on what he looks for in a good short story

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Kathleen MacMahon: 'I love a story that manages to fit life's span into the short form'

Kathleen MacMahon on what she looks for in a good short story

RTÉ Short Story Competition

RTÉ Short Story Competition 2022 - read the shortlisted stories

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Brendan Killeen, author of 'Big Why, Little Why'

RTÉ Short Story Shortlist: Big Why, Little Why by Brendan Killeen

RTÉ Short Story Competition

Arena on RTÉ Radio 1

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Werner Herzog - the trials & tribulations of a moviemaking legend

The year of Picasso - Arena celebrates the life of Pablo

Yu Ming is Ainm Dom

"It's not a new phenomenon at all - short films in Irish on Arena

"A very dark book" - Colm Toibin on a John McGahern classic

The films of James Cameron: Arena on the king of the movie world

Screen icon Charlotte Rampling talks to RTÉ Arena

Show Your Work - The Dublin Review celebrated on RTÉ Arena

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The Best Of Documentary On One

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Documentary on One: Coffin Falls from the Sky

Documentary On One

Irish cannibals on the high seas - Documentary On One

Documentary On One

Documentary On One: Meet the GPO girl with 100 known aliases

Documentary On One

Rooftop protest during the Spike Island riot (Pic: Irish Examiner archive)

Documentary On One: Prison riot on Spike Island

Documentary On One

Documentary On One: From disability and addiction to boxing glory

Documentary On One

Documentary On One: The story of Old Man Belfield

Documentary On One

The search for #JusticeForNoor - Documentary on One

Documentary On One

Documentary On One: The couple who reunited after forty years

Documentary On One

Documentary On One: Murder at La Mancha

Documentary On One

Documentary On One: the Irish caught up in the fall of Kabul

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Documentary On One: Dancing Nancy, the unlikely Mayo bomber

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The Zodiac killer's Irish alibi - Documentary On One

Documentary On One