RTÉ Radio 1

Sunday Miscellany

Arts EN ↓ 166 episodes

Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.

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Oct 18, 2026

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Episodes

Beauty and Birdsong   03.05.2026

A runaway dog, the gift of music and football fever in Venice, with Zoë Devlin, Michael O’Loughlin, Tom Ryan, Roslyn Dee, Dermot Bolger and Grace Wells

Bright Stars, Broadway and the Belfast Blitz 26.04.2026

A jazz legend and the joys of bus travel; delving into the Famine records of North Kerry, and a brown bread gift for Lauren Bacall. With Jim Doherty, Niamh Donnelly, Garrett Igoe, Marion O’Dwyer, Bryan MacMahon and Mícheál McCann

Unexpected Guests and a Whistling City 19.04.2026

An unforgettable road trip, an Irish diplomat’s memories of the Chernobyl disaster and an archivist’s portal to McGahern Country, with John Egan, Carol Taaffe, Joe Hayes, Colin Regan, Antonia Hart and Barry Houlihan

Fairytales, Faraway Places and Falling in Love 12.04.2026

A tribute to In Dublin Magazine, a visit to a Buenos Aires hurling club and advice to the young, with Tim Carey, Alexander McMaster, Grace Wells, Daniel Mulhall, Mary O’Donnell, Mary O’Malley and the late Gabriel Rosenstock

Easter Miscellany 05.04.2026

Radio waves and Roger Casement, a Rhode Island Red sisterhood and Semana Santa in Seville, with John MacKenna, Liz McSkeane, Rory Carroll, Doireann Ní Bhriain, Fiona Hyland, John F Deane and Tom Conaty

Stories of the Rising from Wexford to Dublin 29.03.2026

A special live programme from Wexford Opera House, originally broadcast for the centenary of the Easter Rising, with Billy Roche, AM Cousins, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Prionsías Ó Rathaille and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and music from the Contempo Quartet and more

Old Friends and Youthful Dreams 22.03.2026

Live from the Ennis Book Club Festival, including tributes to the late Nuala O’Faolain and Seán Rocks, with writers Niamh Campbell, Hugo Hamilton, Lemn Sissay, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne and Karen J McDonnell

From Clare to Here 15.03.2026

Live at the Ennis Book Club Festival, with Anne Enright, Abi Daré, Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Mattie Brennan and Lemn Sissay, with music from Blackie O’Connell, Mickey Dunne, The Metals, Diane Daly, Boris Hunka, Liam Hunka, Katie Theasby, Ger O’Donnell

Embers, Oscars and Gold from the Dairy 08.03.2026

Butter and buttercups, teenage rites of passage, and a curly-haired girl… with Ciarán Cannon, Margaret Hickey, John MacKenna, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Murphy, Antonia Gunko Karelina, Tom Conaty and Mary O’Malley

Melody, Meaning and Morning Dew 01.03.2026

A tribute to the late, great poet, Michael Longley, the politics of dress code, a celebration of lambing season, and wild Dingle peninsula Irish words from the much-missed Manchán Magan...with Olivia O'Leary, Peter Cunningham, Kate O'Shaughnessy, Denis Tuohy and Catherine Foley

Rock Stars and Rugby Glory 22.02.2026

Triumph in Twickenham, diamonds and daffodils, and green shoots of hope in dark times, with Mark Horgan, Joseph O’Connor, Olive Travers, Carla King, John O’Donnell and Paul Muldoon

Sea dips and serene cruises 15.02.2026

Bracing coastal waters, past-their-prime vessels and the glorious freedom of swimming, with Mae Leonard, Mervyn Wall, Benedict Kiely, Marie McSweeney, Gerald Dawe, Joe McGowan and Anne Le Marquand Hartigan

Home comforts and ways of living 08.02.2026

The comforts of home, the spaces we inhabit and the things we can't do without, with Maurice Craig, Treasa Brogan, Bill Hammond, Mary Arrigan, Fachtna Ó Drisceoil, Tommy Sands and Elaine Sisson

Magical childhoods 01.02.2026

Magical woodlands, stone sanctuaries and divine intervention, with Val Mulkerns, Sam McAughtry, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Peter Jankowsky, Catherine Ann Cullen, Liz Nugent and Michael Harding

Working yourself, or watching others at it 25.01.2026

Labour-saving devices, hard labour, labouring cerebrally or otherwise, all forms of work are the theme of today's archive programme, with John Ryan, Angela O'Rourke, Lar Redmond, Benedict Kiely, James Plunkett and Sharon Hogan

Rituals at home, rituals in the community 18.01.2026

Miscellany 50: The Archives was a special series that celebrated the writing Sunday Miscellany featured in its first 50 years. This programme focused on the theme of ‘ritual’ and featured Hilda Murphy, Nuala O'Faolain, Eamon Keane, Margaret Hawkins, Paul Dwyer, Sinéad McCoole and Tadhg Ó Dubhláine

A flash of pink, a magic box and a bird’s eye view 11.01.2026

Over the past 100 years, the seismic impact of Ireland's new public broadcasting service on individual homes, society and our political landscape, with Felicity Hayes-McCoy, the late JM Dolan, Gerard Stembridge, Margaret Galvin, John Toal and Olivia O'Leary

Roses, Rain and a Door Ajar 04.01.2026

Wedding vows, thoughts of home and New Year wishes, from Sweden to Vancouver Island to Rostrevor, County Down, with Conall Hamill, Lani O’Hanlon, Neil Hegarty, Mattie Brennan, Denis Tuohy and Enda Wyley

A Piano Man and a Wexford Ball 28.12.2025

Post-Christmas blues and a December birthday, angels of heaven and the origins of Gaelic football in Wexford, with Mary O’Donnell, John Toal, Jackie Lynam, Alison Ní Mháirtín, Paul Rouse, the late Manchán Magan and Eithne Hand (pic: Paula Malone Carty)

A Christmas Day Miscellany 25.12.2025

Palestrina in Rome, an outsize Santa suit, and gifts of kindness from the Liberties to Lagos… featuring recordings from the NCH with the RTÉ CO and more, with Eithne Shortall, Joseph O’Connor, John Toal, Quentin Fottrell, Rachael Hegarty, Chikere Ohoka, Lisa Lambe, the Palestrina Choir and Sarah Shine

Joy to the World: Christmas Miscellany Part 1 21.12.2025

A winter wedding, a New Year’s Eve disaster, a Christmas baby and balm for the broken-hearted…Part 1 of Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests Kathleen MacMahon, Paul Muldoon, Mia Döring, Paul Howard, Cauvery Madhavan, the Palestrina Choir and Lisa Lambe

Songs, Seafarers and a Guiding Star 14.12.2025

From Skerries to Strabane, East Galway to Alexandria: chance encounters, Christmastime musical delights and a deer of light, with Victoria White, Seán O’Gorman, Lisa McInerney, Jim Maguire, Judith Mok, Denise Blake and James Harpur

War Stories and Winter Light 07.12.2025

John and Yoko in County Mayo, Con Houlihan at 100 and a sniff of Christmas, with Donal Fallon, Louise Kennedy, Niall McArdle, Peter Cunningham Aidan Hynes and Helen O’Rahilly

Bicycles and Belfast Boys 30.11.2025

George Best and Harry Gregg’s footballing friendship, a long-forgotten fire in the Liberties and a poet in Kinsale, with Roslyn Dee, Las Fallon, Sharon Hogan, John Toal, Oliver Sears and Enda Wyley

Grief and History: Voices from Bloody Sunday, 2020 23.11.2025

A special programme marking the anniversary of one of the worst days of violence of the War of Independence, with the support of the GAA Museum at Croke Park. With Colin Regan, Chris Shouldice, Michael Foley, Anthony Ryan, Anne Dolan, Paul Rouse and Louise Hogan

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