Sunday Miscellany Sunday 7 July 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.
New Writing:
On this morning’s programme, we heard:
Summer in Andorra by Michael O’Loughlin
Twenty-two Houses by Tim Carey
Land Love by Mary O’Donnell
The Moderately Distinguished Angela Thirkell by Emer O’Kelly
And
In the Levant by Justin MacCarthy
Music:
The music was:
Lili Marleen sung by Marlene Dietrich
Look at Me by John Lennon
The Monaghan Jig played by Cormac de Barra on harp, with Fionán de Barra on guitar and Mario nGoma on percussion
And
Play, Orchestra, Play, by Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence
On this morning's programme we heard: Summer in Andorra by Michael O'Loughlin; Twenty-Two Houses by Tim Carey; Land Love by Mary O'Donnell; The Moderately Distinguished Angela Thirkell by Emer O'Kelly; and In the Levant by Justin MacCarthy
Michael O'Loughlin and his wife meet some of the locals while cat-sitting in Andorra
Tim Carey has a problem filling in the Garda Vetting Form.
Mary O'Donnell remembers her childhood summers spent happily in the fields of Monaghan
Angela Thirkell, a self-confessed snob, was horrified at the thought that her friends might read her books
Justin MacCarthy's childhood sojourn in the Lebanon
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
Lili Marlene
Marlene Dietrich
2:55
Look At Me
John Lennon
2:49
The Monaghan Jig
Cormac De Barra (Harp)
3:19
Play, Orchestra, Play
Noel Coward/Gertrude Lawrence
1:27
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Producer: Sarah Binchy
Broadcasting Co-ordinator: Carolyn Dempsey