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.
Sunday Miscellany
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
Sunday Miscellany Podcast, 3rd November 2019
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
Remembering John McGahern by Eamon Maher
A tribute to the late John McGahern
The Witch and the Eternal Lamp by Clare O'Dea
Historical tales from the central Swiss canton of Glarus
An Afternoon in November by John MacKenna
A young John MacKenna's visit to the confessional
Making Marmalade by Mary O'Malley
a poem by Mary O'Malley
Funeral Crosses in the Sceach by A M Cousins
When television cameras come to town, some things may not be what they seem
Starlings, a poem by John F Deane
A poem by John F Deand
About The Show
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
Music Played on the Show
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
Sunday Miscellany
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sundaymiscellany@rte.ie
Producer: Sarah Binchy
Broadcasting Co-ordinator: Carolyn Dempsey