At the time of his 10th anniversary, it is only natural to turn again to the work and to the voice of Seamus Heaney.
From the late 1960s until his death in 2013 he regularly contributed to RTÉ. Here are ten key arts and culture radio programmes in which Seamus Heaney is either the person being interviewed or whose work is the focus.
The first is an in-depth conversation between the poet and RTÉ presenter Mike Murphy in 2000 for the series Reading the Future.
Heaney was 61 and says he is at the ruminant stage where you begin to get a new perspective. You see what has happened to yourself and you try to put some shape on it.
The final programmes are the two-part series called Professor Heaney, made after his death and first broadcast in 2014 when the focus is on Heaney the teacher at two of the world's most prestigious universities: Harvard and Oxford.
