Arena Friday 20 November 2020
On Monday's Arena with Seán Rocks, Arena teams up with Dublin's Temple Bar TradFest. Music and chat from Dervish, The Hothouse Flowers, The Mulcahy Family, singer Karan Casey ,harpist, Seána Davy and piper, Louise Mulcahy.
Daily arts and popular culture show.
This year's Dublin Book Festival includes other literary festivals such as Murder One, the Irish Crime Writing Festival. Founder of Murder One, Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin known to her readers as Sam Blake, authors, Andrea Carter and Jane Casey choose their favourite classic crime novel and how it has influenced their work. www.murderone.ie
The Abbey will premiere "14 Voices from the Bloodied Field" which commemorates the 14 lives lost in Croagh Park on Sunday, November 21, 1920. Billy Roche and Deirdre Kinahan are two of the writers and discuss The Centenary of Bloody Sunday with Seán Rocks.
Brian Boyd and Zara Hedderman review new albums for Arena. JYellowL is a Nigerian-born, Dublin-based songwriter and rapper with his much-anticipated debut album, 20/20 Division, Paloma Faith's, Infinite Things and Korean K-pop megastars, BTS.
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Presenter: Seán Rocks