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Sunday Miscellany Sunday 2 November 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 2 November 2025

Episode • 49 Mins • 02 NOV • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 26 October 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 26 October 2025

Episode • 49 Mins • 26 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 19 October 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 19 October 2025

Episode • 51 Mins • 19 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 12 October 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 12 October 2025

Episode • 51 Mins • 12 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 5 October 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 5 October 2025

Episode • 47 Mins • 05 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 28 September 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 28 September 2025

Episode • 49 Mins • 28 SEP • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 21 September 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 21 September 2025

Episode • 50 Mins • 21 SEP • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 14 September 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 14 September 2025

Episode • 49 Mins • 14 SEP • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 7 September 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 7 September 2025

Episode • 49 Mins • 07 SEP • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 31 August 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 31 August 2025

Episode • 48 Mins • 31 AUG • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 24 August 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 24 August 2025

Episode • 48 Mins • 24 AUG • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 17 August 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 17 August 2025

Episode • 50 Mins • 17 AUG • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 10 August 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 10 August 2025

Episode • 47 Mins • 10 AUG • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 3 August 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 3 August 2025

Episode • 49 Mins • 03 AUG • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 27 July 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 27 July 2025

Episode • 49 Mins • 27 JUL • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 20 July 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 20 July 2025

Episode • 48 Mins • 20 JUL • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 13 July 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 13 July 2025

Episode • 48 Mins • 13 JUL • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 6 July 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 6 July 2025

Episode • 46 Mins • 06 JUL • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 29 June 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 29 June 2025

Episode • 48 Mins • 29 JUN • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 22 June 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 22 June 2025

Episode • 48 Mins • 22 JUN • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 15 June 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 15 June 2025

Episode • 46 Mins • 15 JUN • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 8 June 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 8 June 2025

Episode • 45 Mins • 08 JUN • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 1 June 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 1 June 2025

Episode • 46 Mins • 01 JUN • Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 25 May 2025 show image

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 25 May 2025

Episode • 46 Mins • 25 MAY • Sunday Miscellany

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Not Walking with Kofi, by Georg Grote show image

Not Walking with Kofi, by Georg Grote

Clip • 5 Mins • 02 NOV • Sunday Miscellany

November Dead List, by Louise Kennedy show image

November Dead List, by Louise Kennedy

Clip • 5 Mins • 02 NOV • Sunday Miscellany

Trying to Remember, by Beth Kilkenny show image

Trying to Remember, by Beth Kilkenny

Clip • 3 Mins • 02 NOV • Sunday Miscellany

Dylan Thomas’s Lost Manuscript, by Justin MacCarthy show image

Dylan Thomas’s Lost Manuscript, by Justin MacCarthy

Clip • 10 Mins • 02 NOV • Sunday Miscellany

Opera Nights, by Roslyn Dee show image

Opera Nights, by Roslyn Dee

Clip • 6 Mins • 02 NOV • Sunday Miscellany

Then and Now, by John F Deane show image

Then and Now, by John F Deane

Clip • 6 Mins • 02 NOV • Sunday Miscellany

The Deserts of the Midlands by Adam Trodd show image

The Deserts of the Midlands by Adam Trodd

Clip • 5 Mins • 26 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

One Step from the Bog by Anne Gately Mercier show image

One Step from the Bog by Anne Gately Mercier

Clip • 5 Mins • 26 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

A Soft Day on the Bog by Kevin McDermott show image

A Soft Day on the Bog by Kevin McDermott

Clip • 5 Mins • 26 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

The Last Briquette by Marion McGarry show image

The Last Briquette by Marion McGarry

Clip • 5 Mins • 26 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Life Beneath the Sod by Isabella Chiadini show image

Life Beneath the Sod by Isabella Chiadini

Clip • 3 Mins • 26 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Silver Sparks by Alexander McMaster show image

Silver Sparks by Alexander McMaster

Clip • 5 Mins • 26 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

A Last Briquette and a Magic Mountain show image

A Last Briquette and a Magic Mountain

Clip • 35 Mins • 26 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Books, My Ma, and Me, by Frankie Gaffney show image

Books, My Ma, and Me, by Frankie Gaffney

Clip • 4 Mins • 19 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

The Stolen Tulip, by the late Eileen Battersby show image

The Stolen Tulip, by the late Eileen Battersby

Clip • 7 Mins • 19 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

A New Home, by John Connell show image

A New Home, by John Connell

Clip • 3 Mins • 19 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Sean Nós Singing, by Catherine Foley show image

Sean Nós Singing, by Catherine Foley

Clip • 6 Mins • 19 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Hares, a poem by AM Cousins show image

Hares, a poem by AM Cousins

Clip • 1 Mins • 19 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

Synergy, by Rosaleen McDonagh, read by Kathleen Murphy show image

Synergy, by Rosaleen McDonagh, read by Kathleen Murphy

Clip • 5 Mins • 19 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

A Stolen Tulip and a Hare’s Eyes show image

A Stolen Tulip and a Hare’s Eyes

Clip • 37 Mins • 19 OCT • Sunday Miscellany

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Latest News: Live shows and special programmes show image

Latest News: Live shows and special programmes

Podcast Downloads & Links - Sunday Miscellany show image

Podcast Downloads & Links - Sunday Miscellany

Submission Guidelines show image

Submission Guidelines

Sunday Miscellany at Christmas show image

Sunday Miscellany at Christmas

Sunday Miscellany On the Road show image

Sunday Miscellany On the Road

Miscellany 50 show image

Miscellany 50

Weekly Podcast Version

Ghosts, Goldcrests and a Lost Manuscript show image

Ghosts, Goldcrests and a Lost Manuscript

Clip • 40 Mins • 02 NOV • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

A Last Briquette and a Magic Mountain show image

A Last Briquette and a Magic Mountain

Clip • 35 Mins • 26 OCT • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

A Stolen Tulip and a Hare’s Eyes show image

A Stolen Tulip and a Hare’s Eyes

Clip • 37 Mins • 19 OCT • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Architecture, Home and the City show image

Architecture, Home and the City

Clip • 39 Mins • 12 OCT • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Ringing Bells and Magic Nights show image

Ringing Bells and Magic Nights

Clip • 35 Mins • 05 OCT • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Both Sides Now show image

Both Sides Now

Clip • 33 Mins • 28 SEP • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Strange Days and Seasonal Moods show image

Strange Days and Seasonal Moods

Clip • 37 Mins • 21 SEP • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Sun and stardust, Irish words for rain and a gift from Edna O’Brien show image

Sun and stardust, Irish words for rain and a gift from Edna O’Brien

Clip • 34 Mins • 14 SEP • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Writing the Bog, Part 1 show image

Writing the Bog, Part 1

Clip • 37 Mins • 07 SEP • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Back-to-school blues, Thackeray’s Irish tour, and Dev’s favourite transport show image

Back-to-school blues, Thackeray’s Irish tour, and Dev’s favourite transport

Clip • 36 Mins • 31 AUG • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Exam Jitters and Curtain Raisers show image

Exam Jitters and Curtain Raisers

Clip • 32 Mins • 24 AUG • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Angels, Animals and Daughters of Memory show image

Angels, Animals and Daughters of Memory

Clip • 40 Mins • 17 AUG • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Oasis, Owls and a Wildean Whodunnit show image

Oasis, Owls and a Wildean Whodunnit

Clip • 36 Mins • 10 AUG • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Night Owls and Guardian Angels show image

Night Owls and Guardian Angels

Clip • 36 Mins • 03 AUG • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Dreaming in Green and Gold show image

Dreaming in Green and Gold

Clip • 33 Mins • 27 JUL • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Hurling, Hitch-hiking and a Baby Elephant show image

Hurling, Hitch-hiking and a Baby Elephant

Clip • 34 Mins • 20 JUL • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Live Aid and Limpets show image

Live Aid and Limpets

Clip • 36 Mins • 13 JUL • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

A New York State of Mind show image

A New York State of Mind

Clip • 33 Mins • 06 JUL • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Ways of Seeing, Notions of Home show image

Ways of Seeing, Notions of Home

Clip • 33 Mins • 29 JUN • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Travelling West, Travelling East show image

Travelling West, Travelling East

Clip • 38 Mins • 22 JUN • Sunday Miscellany (Podcast)

Christmas Miscellany 25/12/2024

Sunday Miscellany, Wednesday 25 December 2024 show image

Sunday Miscellany, Wednesday 25 December 2024

Clip • 57 Mins • 25 DEC 24 • Christmas Miscellany

Terry the Turkey, by John Toal show image

Terry the Turkey, by John Toal

Clip • 8 Mins • 25 DEC 24 • Christmas Miscellany

Harry Kernoff: Fifty Years Gone, by Donal Fallon show image

Harry Kernoff: Fifty Years Gone, by Donal Fallon

Clip • 6 Mins • 25 DEC 24 • Christmas Miscellany

Deck the Halls, by Maggie Armstrong show image

Deck the Halls, by Maggie Armstrong

Clip • 8 Mins • 25 DEC 24 • Christmas Miscellany

A Gift from the Family, by Margaret Galvin show image

A Gift from the Family, by Margaret Galvin

Clip • 6 Mins • 25 DEC 24 • Christmas Miscellany

That Night, by John F Deane show image

That Night, by John F Deane

Clip • 6 Mins • 25 DEC 24 • Christmas Miscellany

The Falcon Carol, a poem by James Harpur show image

The Falcon Carol, a poem by James Harpur

Clip • 1 Mins • 25 DEC 24 • Christmas Miscellany

Turkeys, traditions and Christmas contemplation show image

Turkeys, traditions and Christmas contemplation

Clip • 45 Mins • 25 DEC 24 • Christmas Miscellany

Miscellany Extra 24/12/2024

The Tale of the Curly-Haired Girl and the Mouse, by Olive Travers show image

The Tale of the Curly-Haired Girl and the Mouse, by Olive Travers

Clip • 5 Mins • 24 DEC 24 • Miscellany Extra

Advent Calendar, a poem by James Harpur show image

Advent Calendar, a poem by James Harpur

Clip • 1 Mins • 24 DEC 24 • Miscellany Extra

Christmas Eve, a poem by John F Deane show image

Christmas Eve, a poem by John F Deane

Clip • 1 Mins • 24 DEC 24 • Miscellany Extra

Seasonal reflections and unexpected guests show image

Seasonal reflections and unexpected guests

Clip • 10 Mins • 24 DEC 24 • Miscellany Extra

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