Arena Monday 19 May 2014
on Thursday's show....film reviews, marking 100 years since the death of Debussy and a Scandi noir take on a Shakesperean classic
Arts News
with Alan Corr - Kate O'Toole reveals the ashes of her father Peter O'Toole are being kept at Áras an Uachtaráin until he can be laid to rest in the west of Ireland, the 10th Dublin Dance Theatre Festival starts tomorrow, Collins English Dictionary asks for public submissions for new additions to the dictionary - (words like felfie, adorkable have already been suggested)
"Chestnut Street" by Maeve Binchy
Evelyn O'Rourke reviews "Chestnut Street", a collection of short stories and the last novel by Maeve Binchy (published by Orion)
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Erik Poppe, film-maker
the Norwegian film director Erik Poppe talks about his latest film “A Thousand Times Goodnight”, with Juliette Binoche as a war photographer and also starring Irish actors Maria Doyle Kennedy and Lauryn Canny
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The Hard Ground
interview with Marlene Enright and Pat Carey, vocalists with Cork band The Hard Ground.
Official website: www.thehardground.com
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Learning the alphabet
the poet Colm Keegan reads his essay ‘LMNOP’, about the challenge of learning the alphabet when he was a child
Robert Crumb, animator
Dan Nosella looks at a 6-volume collection of the animator Robert Sketchbooks, 1964-1981(published by Taschen)
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Music Played on the Show
Glory
Wye Oak
5:08
Bells And Bow
The Hard Ground
3:03
Ashes
The Hard Ground
2:30
Arena With Seán Rocks
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