Sunday Miscellany Sunday 7 July 2019
Miscellany50 Live from the Project. Last winter 10 concerts were recorded in the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, to mark 50 years of Sunday Miscellany, on air since 1968. Contributors had as their starting point a year since 1968 when Sunday Miscellany started to broadcast. If you would like to listen back to any of the concerts or the archive programmes which aired prior to the concerts, do click here
Sunday Miscellany
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
Sunday Miscellany Podcast, 7th July 2019
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
Summer in Andorra
Michael O'Loughlin and his wife meet some of the locals while cat-sitting in Andorra
Twenty-Two Houses
Tim Carey has a problem filling in the Garda Vetting Form.
Land Love
Mary O'Donnell remembers her childhood summers spent happily in the fields of Monaghan
The Moderately Distinguished Angela Thirkell
Angela Thirkell, a self-confessed snob, was horrified at the thought that her friends might read her books
In The Levant
Justin MacCarthy's childhood sojourn in the Lebanon
About The Show
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
Music Played on the Show
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
Sunday Miscellany
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Producer: Sarah Binchy
Broadcasting Co-ordinator: Carolyn Dempsey