Sunday Miscellany Sunday 12 May 2019
Tickets for next year's recording at the Ennis Book Club Festival in Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare, have just gone on sale.
A new book celebrating 50 years of Sunday Miscellany has just been published by New Island Books. This anthology of essays and poetry were read for the first time at Miscellany50, a live event in the Project Arts Centre last December.
Sunday Miscellany
New Writing:
You’ll Never Walk Alone, by Mark Brennock,
Hedgehog, by Margaret Hickey;
In Search of the Homeplace, by Kevin McDermott;
In The Name of the Father, by Roslyn Dee;
And
The 17th of May, 1974, by Rachael Hegarty
Music:
You’ll Never Walk Alone, sung first by the crowd at Anfield last Tuesday night, and then by Gerry and the Pacemakers;
Sugar, Sugar, by the Archies;
Duetti Irlandesi for Cello and Piano: Im Aonar Seal, composed by Frank Corcoran and played by Martin Johnson on cello with Fergal Caulfield on piano,
And Midnight Rider, by the Allman Brothers
Sunday Miscellany Podcast, 12th May 2019
On today's programme: You’ll Never Walk Alone by Mark Brennock, Hedgehog by Margaret Hickey; In Search of the Homeplace by Kevin McDermott; In The Name of the Father by Roslyn Dee; and The 17th of May 1974 by Rachael Hegarty
You'll Never Walk Alone, by Mark Brennock
In an extraordinary week for Liverpool Football Club, Mark Brennock explores the story of the song "You'll Never Walk Alone"
Hedgehog by Margaret Hickey
Margaret Hickey recalls a spectacular culinary disaster
In Search of the Homeplace by Kevin McDermott
Kevin McDermott contemplates family roots and a sense of belonging
In the Name of the Father by Roslyn Dee
Roslyn Dee pays tribute to the Dunlop road racing dynasty, ahead of the North West 200
The 17th of May 1974 by Rachael Hegarty
Rachael Hegarty recalls the day of the Dublin/Monaghan bombings
About The Show
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
Music Played on the Show
You'll Never Walk Alone
Gerry And The Pacemakers
2:40
Sugar Sugar
The Archies
2:57
Duetti Irlandesi For Cello And Piano:
Martin Johnson On Cello With Fergal Caulfield On Piano
2:42
Midnight Rider
The Allman Brothers Band
2:56
Sunday Miscellany
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Producer: Sarah Binchy
Broadcasting Co-ordinator: Carolyn Dempsey