New writing (from Miscellany50: The Archives, a special series celebrating the writing Sunday Miscellany featured in its first 50 years. This programme focused on the theme of 'water'):

Swimming is an Art by Mae Leonard (from 2002)

The Forty Foot by Mervyn Wall (from 1968)

Our Inland Waterways by Benedict Kiely (from 1973)

Two Unlikely Ladies of the 40's by Marie McSweeney (from 1996)

Mayo Mantra by Gerald Dawe (from 2005)

The Hunter Gatherer by Joe McGowan (from 2006)

Swimming the Moon by Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (from 1997)

Music:

Over the Waves from Chet Atkins

the Hornpipe from Handel’s Water Music performed by the Academy of St Martin In The Fields

A Boat on the Ocean from Mirrors by Ravel, played on piano by Vlado Perlemuter

Báidín Fheilimí by Emmett Spiceland

Sí Beag, Sí Mór, performed by Seán Ó Riada

Bank Holiday by Ernest John Moeran, performed on piano by Una Hunt