Sunday Miscellany Sunday 3 November 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:
Remembering John McGahern, by Eamon Maher;
The Witch and the Eternal Lamp, by Clare O’Dea;
An Afternoon in November, by John MacKenna;
Making Marmalade, a poem by Mary O’Malley;
And
Starlings, a poem by John F Deane
Music:
Schubert’s Serenade, played on cello and violin by Julian Lloyd Webber
You Put A Spell on Me, by Nina Simone;
Inisheer, by Thomas Walsh, played on accordion, fiddle and guitar by Benny McCarthy, Brendan Clancy and Dónal Clancy
On today's programme: Remembering John McGahern by Eamon Maher; The Witch and the Eternal Lamp by Clare O'Dea; An Afternoon in November by John MacKenna; Making Marmalade, a poem by Mary O'Malley; Funeral Crosses in the Sceach by AM Cousins And Starlings, a poem by John F Deane
A tribute to the late John McGahern
Historical tales from the central Swiss canton of Glarus
A young John MacKenna's visit to the confessional
a poem by Mary O'Malley
When television cameras come to town, some things may not be what they seem
A poem by John F Deand
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
Serenade
Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello)
3:38
I Put A Spell On You
Nina Simone
2:47
Inisheer
Benny Mccarthy, Brendan Clancy And Dónal Clancy
2:20
Sonata In A Major, Op. 3, No. 1
Aniello Desiderio
1:15
When The Saints Go Marching In
Louis Armstrong (Trumpet, Vocals)
2:42
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Producer: Sarah Binchy
Broadcasting Co-ordinator: Carolyn Dempsey