Arena
781 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIrish podcast exploring what's happening in the world of arts, culture and entertainment. Listen live every weeknight on RTÉ Radio 1 from 7-8pm. Listen to individual clips at rte.ie/arena. Presented by Sean Rocks.
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Episodes
Review: "If All the World and Love Were Young" by Stephen Sexton
August 30, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutesColm Keegan reviews "If All the World and Love Were Young" by Stephen Sexton
Album reviews
August 30, 2019 12:00 - 18 minutesZara Hedderman and Simon Maher review “Monomania” from Join Me In The Pines, “Norman Fucking Rockwell” from Lana del Rey and “Twelve Nudes” from Ezra Furman
"This Is Happiness" by Niall Williams
August 30, 2019 12:00 - 13 minutesNiall Williams, author of "This Is Happiness"
Poet Moya Cannon
August 28, 2019 12:00 - 8 minutesPoet Moya Cannon discusses and reads from her new collection "Donegal Tarantella".
Maura Laverty - A Celebration
August 28, 2019 12:00 - 11 minutesPlaywrite and actor Bairbre Ní Chaoimh discusses her new play "Maura Laverty – This Was Your Life" co- written with Yvonne Quinn about trail blazing cookery writer, banned novelist & playwright Maura Laverty.
Music In Monsktown
August 28, 2019 12:00 - 16 minutesPianist Hugh Tinney preforms and talks Music In Monkstown.
Rewind By Catherine Ryan Howard - A Review
August 28, 2019 12:00 - 11 minutesDeclan Burke reviews Catherine Ryan Howard's new book "Rewind"
Ray Scanell- Live Music
August 27, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutesLive music from actor, musician and comedian Ray Scannell creator of "The Bluffer’s Guide To Suburbia".
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance - A Review
August 27, 2019 12:00 - 10 minutesLiam Geraghty reviews The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
Tom Burke - The Souvenir
August 27, 2019 12:00 - 11 minutesActor Tom Burke talks about his new film "The Souvenir"
Minefield at The Dublin Fringe Festival
August 27, 2019 12:00 - 13 minutesPlaywrite and actor Clare Monnnelly and Director Aaron Monaghan discuss Clare’s new play Minefield part of this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival.
Gavin Friday – Bertolt Brecht In Music
August 26, 2019 12:00 - 17 minutesA celebration of the music of Bertolt Brecht with Gavin Friday.
Great Bakes of Literature
August 26, 2019 12:00 - 13 minutesAhead of the new season of The Great British Bake Off Jarlath Killeen, TCD School of English examines the role of food in literature.
Tommy Weir - Exhibition in The RHA
August 26, 2019 12:00 - 10 minutesPhotographer Tommy Weir talks about his new exhibition in the RHA.
Playwright Lisa Tierney Keogh
August 26, 2019 12:00 - 9 minutesPlaywright Lisa Tierney Keogh discusses her new play This Beautiful Village.
Album reviews
August 23, 2019 12:00 - 19 minutesLouise Bruton and Brian Boyd review "Lover" from Taylor Swift, "The Centre Won’t Hold" from Sleater Kinney and "Lover" from Noah Gundersen
TV preview: season 5 of "Peaky Blinders"
August 23, 2019 12:00 - 11 minutesArlene Hunt previews the new season of "Peaky Blinders"
Review: "Cold Warriors – Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War" by Duncan White
August 23, 2019 12:00 - 10 minutesPeter Murphy reviews "Cold Warriors – Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War" by Duncan White (published by Little Brown)
Film reviews
August 22, 2019 12:00 - 27 minutesRuth Barton and Justin MacGregor review "Pain and Glory", "Never Grow Old" , "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" and "Angel Has Fallen"
"Renailssance" at the National Galley of Ireland
August 22, 2019 12:00 - 6 minutesSinead Rice and Andrea Horan discuss their artistic collaboration on Renailssance
Anniversaries of albums by Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley
August 22, 2019 12:00 - 13 minutesAoife Barry and Alan Corr mark anniversaries for two significant albums by Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley
Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 - "Gym Swim Party" by Danielle Galligan and Gavin Kostick
August 21, 2019 12:00 - 9 minutesDanielle Galligan and Clelia Murphy chat about their play "Gym Swim Party"
"The Beacon", a play by Nancy Harris and Druid Theatre
August 21, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutes"The Beacon" is a new production by Druid Theatre, written by Nancy Harris and directed by Garry Hynes
Review: "Three Women" by Lisa Taddeo
August 21, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutesEdel Coffey reviews "Three Women" by Lisa Taddeo (published by Bloomsbury)
Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 - "Wishful Thinking" by Shaunna Lee Lynch
August 20, 2019 12:00 - 6 minutesShaunna Lee Lynch, writer of the play "Wishful Thinking"
1959, an important year in jazz - part 2
August 20, 2019 12:00 - 10 minutesCormac Larkin continues his look at an important year in jazz
"The Troubles On Film", a film by Mark Cousins
August 20, 2019 12:00 - 16 minutesMark Cousins, creator of "The Troubles on Film"
Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 - "Lux Alma" by Alma Kelliher
August 20, 2019 12:00 - 11 minutesAlma Kelliher, creator of the stage persona "Lux Alma" which she will perform as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival
Dublin Feminist Film Festival 2019
August 19, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutesOonagh Kearney and Vanessa Gildea, participants in the Dublin Feminist Film Festival
Ivan Kavanagh, director of "Never Grow Old"
August 19, 2019 12:00 - 14 minutesIvan Kavanagh chats about his latest film "Never Grow Old"
Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 - "Sauce"
August 19, 2019 12:00 - 8 minutesCamille Lucy Ross and Ciara Elizabeth Smyth whose play "Sauce" is at the Dublin Fringe Festival
Review: "The Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song" by Dylan Jones
August 19, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutesTony Clayton Lea reviews "The Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World’s Greatest Unfinished Song" by Dylan Jones (published by Faber & Faber)
September issue of Vogue
August 16, 2019 12:00 - 15 minutesPeter O’Brien and Bairbre Power discuss why the September issue of Vogue is so important
Album reviews
August 16, 2019 12:00 - 21 minutesZara Hedderman and Eamon Sweeney review "When I Have Fears" from The Murder Capital, "i, i" From Bon Iver and "Forevher" from Shura
"Skin" by E.M. Reapy
August 16, 2019 12:00 - 11 minutesE.M. Reapy chats about her second novel "Skin" (published by Head of Zeus)
Suggestions for arts & culture podcasts
August 15, 2019 12:00 - 15 minutesNadine O’Regan and Alan Swan with suggestions for good Irish and international arts and culture podcasts
Film reviews
August 15, 2019 12:00 - 23 minutesYvonne Nolan and Darryl Jones review "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood", "Good Boys" and "Transit"
"The Bad Trip" by James Riley
August 15, 2019 12:00 - 16 minutesJames Riley chats about his latest book "The Bad Trip" (published by Icon Books)
"Matriarchs", a play by Anne Chambers at Westport Town Hall Theatre
August 14, 2019 12:00 - 13 minutesAnne Chambers chats about her play "Matriarchs"
"Reading Brendan Behan", edited by John McCourt
August 14, 2019 12:00 - 17 minutesDerek Hand and Michael Cronin, contributors to "Reading Brendan Behan" (edited by John McCourt, published by Cork University Press)
"The Hunger", an opera by Donnacha Dennehy at the Abbey Theatre
August 14, 2019 12:00 - 13 minutesDonnacha Dennehy, composer of the opera "The Hunger"
An exhibition by Fiona O'Dwyer at Limerick City Gallery of Art
August 12, 2019 12:00 - 8 minutesFiona O’Dwyer exhibition at the Limerick City Gallery of Art - "I Went up the Mountain with Somebody Else's Story and Came Down with My Own"
Review: "I Am Sovereign" by Nicola Barker
August 12, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutesEdel Coffey reviews "I Am Sovereign" by Nicola Barker, (published by William Heinemann)
Career retrospective of Quentin Tarantino
August 12, 2019 12:00 - 18 minutesChris Wasser with a career retrospective of Quentin Tarantino
Review: "Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios" at the National Gallery of Ireland
August 12, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutesDr Kerstina Mortensen reviews "Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios" at the National Gallery of Ireland
Film reviews
August 08, 2019 12:00 - 22 minutesRoe McDermott and Gavin Burke review "Animals", "Gaza" and "The Sun Is Also A Star"
Don Paterson at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019
August 08, 2019 12:00 - 11 minutesScottish poet Don Paterson, who is a guest at the upcoming Kilkenny Arts Festival
Review: "Kinky Boots" at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
August 07, 2019 12:00 - 9 minutesGearóid Farrelly reviews "Kinky Boots", coming to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
History of record labels - XL Recordings
August 07, 2019 12:00 - 9 minutesJim Carroll with the history of XL Recordings
Mícheál 'Moley' Ó Súilleabháin at Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019
August 07, 2019 12:00 - 16 minutesSinger, actor and poet Mícheál ‘Moley’ Ó Súilleabháin (son of the late Mícheál)