Seascapes Friday 14 February 2020
Seascapes
Seascapes, the RTÉ maritime programme with Fergal Keane. Seascapes brings you around our coasts and onto traditional and modern boats and yachts for a taste of the great outdoors.
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Retired sea captain, Brendan Forde spent 50 years at sea working for Irish Shipping & other lines, now aged 88, he lives in Raheny in Dublin. In his first story tonight he remembers witnessing an atomic explosion from the deck of an Irish Shipping vessel in the Pacific Ocean. Jim O'Toole is the Chief Executive of BIM, which hosted a seminar in Carlingford, Co. Louth, for Ireland's oyster producers. Jim speaks about the oyster sector & about the Irish seafood sector. Plus our regular contributor Hugh Oram has been looking at Ireland's most historically significant river, the Boyne.
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About The Show
Seascapes, the RTÉ maritime programme with Fergal Keane. Seascapes brings you around our coasts and onto traditional and modern boats and yachts for a taste of the great outdoors. Whether you are a trawlerman or a yachtie, Seascapes will be of interest to you.
Seascapes
Contact the Show
By email: seascapes@rte.ie
By post: RTÉ Radio 1,
Donnybrook,
Dublin 4
Presenter/Producer: Fergal Keane