Looking for a recommendation? Three RTÉ cultural musts for the week ahead:
Mon 10.00pm, RTÉ Radio 1
This week on Inside Culture: Fionn Davenport joins writer Stacey Gregg and director Sophie Motley as they rehearse their play Override for this year's Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival; British computer scientist Dr.Sue Black speaks about her efforts to rescue Bletchley Park, the centre of British code-breaking operations during WWII; Painter, Dreamer, Clown is a retrospective of the work of Belfast born painter Gerard Dillon (pictured above: his Yellow Bungalow). It's currently running at The Ulster Museum; Jazz musician Brian Dunning and music journalist Billy O'Hanluain join Fionn in studio to remember their friend the Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart who died recently; Scottish designer Ivor Williams specialises in design for death and dying at the Helix Centre at St. Mary’s Hospital in London - Fionn meets him at The Science Gallery in Dublin to hear about his work and how technology can be used to help young people come to terms with grief.
Mon - Fri 11.20pm, RTÉ Radio 1
This week's Book on One is the acclaimed Solar Bones by Mike McCormack, read by the author.
A Co Mayo man sits in his kitchen on All Souls’ Day and considers the events of his life.
'Solar Bones' is published by Tramp Press.
3. The Friday Concert with Paul Herriott
Friday 8.00pm Lyric FM
This week's Lyric Concert comes live from Dublin's National Concert Hall as part of Composing The Island: A Century Of Music in Ireland 1916 - 2016. The programme has pieces written in the 1930s and '40s, including Howard Ferguson's Parita for Orchestra, Frederick May's Symphonic Ballad and Aloys Fleischmann's The Four Masters. Soprano Maire Flavin appears with the TE Concert Orchestra under conductor Gavin Moloney.
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