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Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany

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

RTÉ Radio 1 · RTÉ

117 episodesEN-IE

Show overview

Sunday Miscellany has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 117 episodes. That works out to roughly 70 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 34 min and 38 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-IE-language Arts show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 weeks ago, with 32 episodes already out so far this year. Published by RTÉ.

Episodes
117
Running
2024–2026 · 2y
Median length
36 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

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

Latest Episodes

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What Are We Like?

Aug 9, 202636 min

Feasting Galore and Glen’s Gift

Aug 2, 202637 min

Kerry Dances and Moonlight in Mayo

Jul 26, 202634 min

Blind Dates and Hurling Dreams

Jul 19, 202630 min

Aspirations, Idylls and Apiarists

Jul 13, 202637 min

Heroes, Haste and Pivotal Childhood Moments

Jul 5, 202634 min

Bravery, Beauty and Photographing Veronica

Jun 28, 202631 min

Fathers, Friends and Shakespeare in the Arctic

Jun 21, 202638 min

Live from Listowel Writers' Week (part 2)

Jun 14, 202636 min

Live from Listowel Writers' Week (part 1)

Jun 7, 202639 min

Beaches, Boats and Swims

May 31, 202638 min

Bewitching Music and the Brendan Voyage

May 24, 202638 min

Missed Calls and Second Chances

May 17, 202635 min

Culture Shock and Swimming with Seals

May 10, 202633 min

Beauty and Birdsong

May 3, 202636 min

Bright Stars, Broadway and the Belfast Blitz

Apr 26, 202635 min

Unexpected Guests and a Whistling City

Apr 19, 202638 min

Fairytales, Faraway Places and Falling in Love

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

Apr 12, 202636 min

Easter Miscellany

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

Apr 5, 202639 min

Stories of the Rising from Wexford to Dublin

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

Mar 29, 202635 min
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