Rté - Drama On One Podcast

Winner of the 2023 Zebbie Award for Best Radio Script. The radio version of the acclaimed stage show. Written and performed by Joanne Ryan.

Featuring Eamonn Kelly and Hugh Leonard

performed by Barry McGovern, and directed by Daniel Reardon. A Piece of Monologue is introduced by Gerry Dukes,

Gerry Dukes has been remembering his own meetings with the writer on numerous occasions in the 1980s.

The Beckett Season is made possible by the kind permission of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

curated from a brace of Bowman Sunday Eight Thirty programmes made in 2006 celebrating the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth. In this program

All That Fall by Samuel Beckett directed by Barry McGovern introduced by Gerry Dukes 

Drama On One begins its Beckett Season with Watt, adapted and performed by Barry McGovern.

The story of a young woman's search for her mother. We follow Lizzy as she deceives her controlling father to journey to London.

A hurling love story set in Waterford. Janet Walsh (a hurling novice) journeys into the world of Ireland's beloved national sport in search for belonging.

Sloth by Eugene stars Jim Norton and is introduced by the author.

In 2014 Poetry Ireland and the Peacock Theatre hosted a very special event, Eavan Boland in conversation with Paula Meehan to celebrate Eavan’s 70th birthday

Fearg le Máire Mhac an tSaoi

Another chance to hear the voice of Ireland’s ‘keeper of language,’ Seamus Heaney in a Rattlebag Public Interview with Myles Dungan

Greed by Jennifer Johnston, performed by Ingrid Craigie.

Kazuo Ishiguro spoke to Myles Dungan in a Rattlebag public interview recorded in 2005, coinciding with the publication of his novel, Never Let Me Go.

Madame Cassandra by Edna O'Brien, is inspired by the sin of Envy, performed by Rosaleen Linehan (Mrs Gentleman) and Michael Collins (The Man)

Continuing Drama On One's Seven Deadly Sins series. Performed by Mark Lambert and introduced by the author.

In 2003, Pat McCabe was invited to give a Rattlebag Public Interview presented by Myles Dungan at the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire to coincide with the publication of his novel Call Me The Breeze.

In this Creatives in Conversation we hear Fiona Shaw's 2009 Michael Littleton Memorial Lecture entitled The Elephant and the Nightingale - the enduring nature of language in theatre