Radio Previews

Monday

Monday

Lyric Notes (Lyric fm, 9.30 a.m.) In The Quiet Corner this week Mick Lally reads a selection of poems in Irish from An Duanaire: 1690-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed. Thomas Kinsella also reads from his translation of the collection.

Is There Life After Work? (RTE Radio 1, 3.30 p.m.)E Radio 1, 3.30 p.m.)

Tuesday

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One Moment in Time (RTE Radio 1, 7.35 p.m.)E Radio 1, 7.35 p.m.) Marian Carroll talks about her miracle cure at Knock in 1989.

Play of the Week (RTE Radio 1, 9 p.m.)E Radio 1, 9 p.m.) Festival of Light, the first in a season of three plays by Stephen Buck, tracks a young couple starting out life in their first semi-d in a satellite suburb.

Wednesday

The Documentary on One (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m.)E Radio 1, 7.05 p.m.) In Forty Days and Nights on the Reek artist Chris Dorris talks about the time he spent living and working on Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo.

Thinking Allowed: The Sex Tourist, the Expatriate, His Ex-Wife and Her Other (BBC Radio 4, 4 p.m.) Julia O'Connell talks about sex tourism following a recent trip, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, to the Dominican Republic.

Thursday

The Open Mind (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m.)E Radio 1, 705 p.m.) A repeat of Spike Milligan's 1983 account of his Indian boyhood. His was the "mystery voice" that fooled everyone in the New Year's quiz.

Not So Different (RTE Radio 1, 9.30 p.m.)E Radio 1, 9.30 p.m.) TV broadcaster and asthma sufferer Fiona McShane talks about the daily challenges which face her.

Friday

The Bridie Gallagher Story (RTE Radio 1, 2 p.m.)E Radio 1, 2 p.m.) The rise and fall of the Irish 1950s singing legend.

Theatre of the Air (RTE Radio 1, 9 p.m.) E Radio 1, 9 p.m.) The Shadow of the Glen by J.M. Synge with Mick Lally and Marie Mullen - directed by Garry Hynes.

Scenes That Are the Brightest (RTE Radio 1, 10 p.m.) E Radio 1, 10 p.m.) Music from the world of opera and song, including excerpts of The Irish Ring and some of Moore's melodies.