Keywords is a brand new series presented by Zoë Comyns, broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 Extra on Sunday nights at 8pm. It brings together stories, sounds and words that you have recorded yourself - each week guided by a keyword.
Featuring established and emerging writers, sound artists and poets, over the series you'll hear voice memos and calls, music, essays and fiction
The fourth episode's keyword is By Nature - listen above.
In her story Loft, the writer Nuala O’Connor has her characters carry bird’s eggs from a loft onto a busy bus: "We put the eggs into our pockets, white specked and warm, no larger than stones."
Actor and writer Jody O’Neill takes her inspiration from the quiet roads in Dublin city and the underground network of trees coming to life in the absence of human life: "And now that the people were gone, they could finally get on with their lives."
Writer Alexi Francis considers the state of being lost in a forest full of myth and magic in her story Let me dream, let me forget that I’m lost.
Paying attention to the smaller things around him is something that Bill Geraghty does in his garden. Recorded by his son, radio producer Liam Geraghty, we hear Bill pottering around his crop of onions and tomatoes and hear how he encounters a young robin redbreast.
Keywords: listen to the entire series to date
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In her Berlin apartment, writer Emma Flynn records her diary as she attempts to grow plants from seeds. She compares her efforts with her mother in Ireland over a video call and observes the plants growing on her neighbour's balcony.
Regan Hutchins and Kevin Donovan take early morning walks in the Phoenix Park which is close to their home. The sight and sound of skylarks fill them with joy and amusement.
John Smith is an Irish radio producer living in Canada and he has recorded the poet and academic Tim Lilburn. Tim lives on Vancouver Island and speaks about his struggles to feel a sense of place when he moved there.
Tim found his way through language and the sounds of words as a way to become part of nature: "Land is the language in linguistic form".
Keywords, RTÉ Radio 1 Extra, Sunday nights at 8pm
