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The Last, High King of Ireland tells the story of a day in the life of a hard-drinking man, Tapper to the locals, on his daily travels from morning to night in the fictional town of Molinheer.

an Irish woman in London experiences a dramatic and life changing event that forces her to look at her life choices. With the help of a motley crew

A comic tale of narcotics, fast food and a mother's love for her son, set in Belfast at the height of the pandemic. Winner of Best Radio Drama IMRO Awards 2024

An Englishman remembers a holiday to Dingle in 1968, while his memories are revised and re-animated by his friend, the Story Poacher.

The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge, adapted and dramatised for radio by Joe O'Byrne.

based on the true story of the hijacking of an Aer Lingus plane in 1981, by an ex-Trappist monk with a burning desire to know the Third Secret of Fatima.

Three masculine monologues, a suitor, a stalker, a spouse..

A tense two-hander in which a middle-aged couple ruminate on the sombre detail of a tragic death in the family starring Andrew Bennett and Cathy Belton

Write Your Mind is a play about Youth Mental Health, weaving together monologues devised by writers with young people.

A Piece of Monologue, performed by Barry McGovern as part of our Beckett Season

The Old Tune by Samuel Beckett: Adapted from the radio play La Manivelle by Robert Pinget

Drama On One continues its Beckett Season with All That Fall directed and produced by Barry McGovern, starring Pegg Monahan and Aidan Grennell.

Published as a novel in 1953, Watt tells the story of a nomadic manservant who works for a Mr Knott.

As part of our Beckett season, we broadcast a special programme curated from a brace of Bowman Sunday Eight Thirty programmes made in 2006

Marion O’Dwyer stars as Maeve, a woman defiantly at peace in her new oasis – A ghost estate - in Dropping Slow by Belinda McKeon.

In October 2002 Sinéad O'Connor recorded a ‘Rattlebag Special’ with Myles Dungan, marking the release of her album Sean-Nós Nua

Karen Ardiff shows there's no statute of limitations on a parent's licence to pine.

In this Rattlebag public interview from 2001, Brazilian author Paulo Coelho spoke to Myles Dungan. about his work and his extraordinary life.

A costume designer on a film set pours herself into three dresses. Part of Drama On One's online short form season.

Janis Ian talking to Sean Rocks from March 2004