Paper by Michael O'Connor

Sunday Miscellany Sunday 1 March 2020

***Summer 2020 update*** Miscellany remains open for submissions but we're receiving far higher numbers of scripts than usual, and, as ever, we have far more excellent pieces to choose from than we can use. If you're sending something in, make sure to read the guidelines first and bear in mind that, as stated in those guidelines, after an initial acknowledgement of your submission you’ll only hear from us again if we’re in a position to proceed to a recording.

Miscellany50, a series celebrating 50 years of Sunday Miscellany, is currently going out on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturday evenings at 7pm. An anthology from the series is also on sale, published by New Island Books.

Sunday Miscellany

New Writing:

Mr Haughey's Honey by Brian Farrell;
Uncle Doctor by Mary Dowey;
Gathering by Barbara Scully;
SS Garlinge by Niall Kelly;
Take Away, a poem by AM Cousins, and that was recorded at Sunday Miscellany Live at Waterford Writers Weekend last autumn;
Ash Wednesday, a poem by Síghle Meehan;
And
Paper by Michael O’Connor

Music:

A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert;

South Australia by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem;

José Feliciano's version of Light My Fire by the Doors;

We Sail The Ocean Blue, from HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan, sung by the
Glyndebourne Opera Chorus with the Pro Arte Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent;

Is Fada Mo Chosa Gan Bróga, by Caitlín Maude;

And

Temptation, by Tom Waits, arranged by David Piltch and played on piano by Aaron Davies with Howard Levy on harmonica

Keywords

Brian Farrell, Mary Dowey, Barbara Scully, Niall Kelly, A M Cousins, Sighle Meehan, Michael O'Connor

Sunday Miscellany Podcast, 1st March 2020

On this Sunday's Miscellany, Adventures at sea... the pleasures of an open fire... and a press photographer's special present from Charles Haughey. With writers Barbara Scully, Brian Farrell, Michael O'Connor, and music from the Clancys, Gilbert and Sullivan, Shirley Bassey and more