The exam results are out and after the tears of joy or disappointment have dried there are practicalities to consider. Getting into College (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m,. Thursday) offers a platform for students and parents to discuss the best options on offer. Teri Garvey presents the live phone-in with a team of experts including Mary O'Donnell career guidance consultant and Angela Crean of the British Council. Tel: 1850-715815.
THE Booker award-winning Hotel du Lac published in 1984 is read by Susan Fitzgerald on The Book on One (RTE Radio 1, 2.45 p.m., Monday to Friday). Anita Brookner's love story follows Edith Hope, a romantic novelist, who takes refuge in a Swiss hotel out of season and meets the man who could change her life.
RICHARD Crowley talks to Paul Keating, former Australian prime minister, in Powerful Shadows (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m.). Keating explains why he saw Ireland as a commercial springboard to Europe.
THE second Sunset Concert (Lyric fm, 9.30 p.m., Wednesday) from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry features the Viennese quartet Quatuor Mosaiques with music by Haydn and Mozart.
CHRISTOPHER Lee's rendition of Mad Dogs and Englishmen is just one of the highlights from the star-studded gala concert which took place earlier this year to celebrate the centenary of Sir Noel Coward's birth. A cast of 40 perform their favourite songs, sketches, poems and plays - plus reminiscences from many who knew him personally - in Blithe Spirit - A Centenary of the Words and Music of Noel Coward (BBC Radio 2, 10 p.m., Friday).
AND finally some sound stories to enliven those grand "weather-talk" moments - whether it's a fleeting street meeting, a shared elevator or any queue. In a new series Strange Weather Days (BBC Radio 4, 9.30 a.m., Tuesday) meteorologist Helen Young seeks out the drama - freak snowstorms, weird balls of lightning, showers of dead piscatorial projectiles, manna and frogs.