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The return of Richie - Jape talks to RTÉ Arena

Jape is an Irish electronic band centring around songwriter and lead singer, Richard Egan.

Peep Show - RTÉ Arena on a TV comedy classic, 20 years later

The cult classic Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show premiered 20 years ago, when fans were introduced to flat mates Mark (played by David Mitchell) and Jez (played by Robert Webb) and their cringe-inducingly awful antics.

RTÉ Arena • 09 Oct 23

The Great Escaper - RTÉ Arena on Michael Caine's latest movie

The Great Escaper is the title of a new movie that brings together two genuine icons of cinema, Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine.

RTÉ Arena • 06 Oct 23

The Loved Ones: RTÉ Arena on the Gate's Theatre Festival premiere

In The Loved Ones, Erica Murray's new play, three women are thrown together by force of circumstance – all linked by one man, Robin, who has died six months earlier in London.

Theatre • 04 Oct 23

Remembering Michael Gambon on RTÉ Arena

Famed actor and Cabra born Irishman Michael Gambon has died, he was 82 - RTÉ Arena remembers an acting giant above.

RTÉ Arena • 30 Sep 23

Reviewed: Andrew Scott plays ALL the parts in Uncle Vanya onstage

Andrew Scott is a familiar face these days on our TV screens, whether it's as the hot priest in Fleabag or the dastardly Moriarty in Sherlock.

RTÉ Arena • 28 Sep 23

Wave on - composer Hannah Peel talks to RTÉ Arena

A "sonic alchemist" is how Music Radar magazine describes electronic composer, Hannah Peel.

RTÉ Arena • 27 Sep 23

RTÉ Arena's Culture Night Special on RTÉ Radio 1

Seán Rocks presents Arena's Culture Night special from The Glens Centre in Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim.

Culture Night • 22 Sep 23

Guiding Bells - RTÉ Arena celebrates the magic of Mel Mercier

RTÉ Arena • 25 Sep 23

Woman of Winter - poet Vona Groarke talks to RTÉ Arena

Poet Vona Groarke's latest work Woman of Winter is a new version of the 'Lament of the Hag of Beara' from the 9th century Irish.

RTÉ Arena • 21 Sep 23

Theatrical trailblazer Tim Crouch talks to RTÉ Arena

Playwright and performer Tim Crouch is a rule breaker.

RTÉ Arena • 20 Sep 23

The Seventh Son - author Sebastian Faulks imagines the future

The author of Birdsong, Charlotte Gray, A Week in December and Bond novel Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks is as close to a Renaissance Man as English fiction comes - he talks to RTÉ Arena above.

RTÉ Arena • 18 Sep 23

Oscailt: composer Jennifer Walshe on A.I. and the Irish landscape

Questions of technology, artificial intelligence and the Irish landscape inform composer Jennifer Walshe's latest work, Oscailt.

RTÉ Arena • 13 Sep 23

RTÉ Arena remembers the life and work of Seamus Heaney

RTÉ Arena remembers the life and work of the poet Seamus Heaney on the 10th anniversary of his death

RTÉ Arena • 11 Sep 23

Madonna, 40 years on - her classic debut album revisited

Forty years ago a young artist named Madonna released her self-titled debut album.

RTÉ Arena • 06 Aug 23

Inside The Divine Feminine: Dexys' Kevin Rowland talks to Arena

Irish musical elements and references weren't particularly welcome in somewhere like Birmingham in the late 1970s and early 1980s

RTÉ Arena • 02 Aug 23

Listen to RTÉ Arena's DruidO'Casey special

RTÉ Arena travelled to Galway to meet the team behind the epic production...

RTÉ Arena • 28 Jul 23

Strike! RTÉ Arena on the history of Hollywood's unions

Until very recently, whenever we went to the cinema or turned on the television, all our attention was focused on the screen, and not what went on behind that screen to deliver the entertainment.

RTÉ Arena • 28 Jul 23

Listen: Arena's tribute to Sinéad O'Connor

RTÉ Arena responds to the passing of an Irish music legend.

RTÉ Arena • 26 Jul 23

Ordinary Human Failings: RTÉ Arena on Megan Nolan's new novel

In 2021, Megan Nolan made her name as a gifted author with her first novel Acts of Desperation, the tale of a young woman's difficult romance set in the Dublin arts scene.

RTÉ Arena • 26 Jul 23

RTÉ Arena takes a trip to the Galway International Arts Festival

Join RTÉ Arena at this year's Galway International Arts Festival

RTÉ Arena • 25 Jul 23

On the road - Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O'Reilly talk to RTÉ Arena

Two leading lights of Irish music joined RTÉ Arena for a tune and a chat

RTÉ Arena • 25 Jul 23

The ghost of Alfred Hitchcock - Mark Cousins talks to RTÉ Arena

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock is the title of a new film, from Northern Irish director, Mark Cousins.

RTÉ Arena • 21 Jul 23

The Second Murderer: RTÉ Arena on the return of Philip Marlowe

'Down those mean streets a man must go,' wrote Raymond Chandler of his iconic private eye Philip Marlowe, 'who is not himself mean.'

RTÉ Arena • 18 Jul 23

Songs of Blood & Destiny - when Trish McAdam met Marina Carr

An epic poem in conversation with the past and the present while always taking stock of what it really means to be human, Marina Carr's I Girl has been reimagined into a striking feature film

RTÉ Arena • 13 Jul 23