To coincide with Bloomsday on Thursday, The Book On One (RTE Radio 1, 2.45 p.m., Monday to Friday) broadcasts specially recorded excerpts read by Barry McGovern from James Joyce's first published novel, A Por- trait of the Artist as a Young Man.
ANOTHER Joyce is remembered this week in The Emergency (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m., Tuesday). Colm Keane uncovers the story of William Joyce, better known as Lord Haw Haw, the Irish-born Nazi propagandist who broadcast from Berlin for the duration of the second World War. Features rare material from Joyce's broadcasts, including his final drunken broadcast in 1945.
THE Rough Magic season continues with Hidden Charges by Arthur Riordan in the Play Of The Week (RTE Radio 1, 9 p.m., Tuesday). Darragh Kelly plays Mark, a nominee for a literary award and "gratuitous culchie basher" with a long-suffering girlfriend in a drama which satirises two conflicting attitudes in rural Ireland.
MORE satire and comedy on Golden Comedy Classics - Round The Horne (BBC Radio 2, 9.30 p.m., Thursday) - a tribute to Kenneth Horne (the first of six) who died 30 years ago this year. With selected repeats of Round The Horne.
The locals were fascinated with the larger-than-life Lily Shing Shang. She was glamorous and wealthy and loved hunting and horse-racing. But she died alone in squalor. In The Documentary On One (RTE Radio 1, 7 p.m., Wednesday) Jacqui Corcoran tells the story of Lily Shing Shang who lived near her in Co Waterford.
Don Black narrates a six-part, biographical tribute to the successful and happier lyricist Dorothy Fields in Dorothy Fields - The First Woman of Broadway (BBC Radio 2, 10 p.m., Friday).
There's more to hormones than meets the eye. A new five-part series, Raging Hormones (BBC Radio 4, 9.30 a.m., Tuesday), looks at those tiny chemical messages that happily take the blame and the bows for the flirtatious, the moody and the thrill-seekers among us. It's official now that a flirt-a-day can help you work, rest and play - just flutter those eyelids to stimulate the heart and the immune system and produce more energy than a cup of coffee.