Drama On One
423 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsRTÉ Radio Drama's audio theatre department has for decades proudly brought audiences the very best dramatic writing and performances for radio from Ireland. Listen every Sunday night at 8pm at RTÉ Radio 1, visit rte.ie/dramaonone for more.
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Episodes
Personal Space by Mairéad Kiernan
October 24, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutesa lonely young shop worker Helen develops an unhealthy fascination with her charismatic new housemate Lola. Stars Evanna Lynch
Strutting and Fretting by Chris McHallem Drama On One
October 17, 2021 12:00 - 53 minutesOn the last night of a spectacularly unsuccessful tour of Macbeth, the lead actor sits in his dressing room trying to work out where it all went wrong.
In the Wings - Personal Space by Mairéad Kiernan
October 13, 2021 12:00 - 23 minutesIn this Episode Évanna Lynch, India Mullen Mairéad Kiernan and Emmet Kirwan speak about their lives on stage and on screen and discuss working on Mairéad's play Personal Space. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
In the Wings - Strutting and Fretting by Chris McHallem
October 11, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutesIn this episode actor and writer Chris McHallem and director Conall Morrisson speak about their work on stage and on air. Produced by Kevin Reynolds
In the Wings -#Maura Laverty This Was your Life Drama On One
October 11, 2021 12:00 - 14 minutesby Bairbre NíChaoimh & Yvonne Quinn. In this episode actor and writer Bairbre Ní Chaoimh & actor & director Joan Sheehy talk about their work on stage and on air.
Strutting and Fretting by Chris McHallem Drama On One
October 10, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutesPerformed by Chris McHallem and directed by Conall Morrison. On the last night of an unsuccessful tour of Macbeth, the lead actor sits in his dressing room trying to work out where it all went wrong.
#Maura Laverty This was your Life
October 10, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutesby Bairbre NíChaoimh & Yvonne Quinn. Bringing Ireland's first celebrity chef & all round trailblazer, Maura Laverty back to RTÉ where she spent over 30 years presenting her own radio show.
No Love Lost by Dylan Tighe Drama On One
October 03, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutesStarring Thomas Collins and Gina Moxley. The play explores a relationship between a young Traveller man and an older woman
Democratic Decision by Maeve Binchy
September 19, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourwe continue ourseason with the third of four plays written by Maeve Binchy. First broadcast in 2006, ‘Democratic Decision’ by Maeve Binchy stars Colette Proctor, Daphne Carroll and Pegg Monahan.
Tia Maria by Maeve Binchy Drama on One
September 12, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourTia Maria by Maeve Binchy starring Oscar winning actress Kathy Bates.
Infancy By Maeve Binchy Drama On One
September 05, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutesINFANCY by Maeve Binchy followed by Maeve Binchy and Myles Dungan in Public Interview in The National Concert Hall, Dublin, 2002.
The Maeve Binchy Season - Tia Maria by Maeve Binchy
August 31, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourFirst broadcast in 2007 and recorded in Galway during the Film Fleadh. Maria returns to Ireland for the first time since leaving in 1976, aged 17. There is one unresolved issue to settle - if possible. Her nephew Fergal is detailed as her chauffeur. After a rocky start, they embark on a road trip from Dublin to Galway.
The Maeve Binchy Season - Gordon Snell on Life with Maeve Drama On One
August 31, 2021 12:00 - 19 minutesAs part of our Maeve Binchy Season, Maeve’s husband of 35 years, writer Gordon Snell tells us a little about himself, and reflects on life with Maeve.
The Maeve Binchy Season - Maeve Binchy and Myles Dungan in Public InterviewDrama on One
August 31, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourIn 2002 Maeve decided to channel her inner Sinatra and, after two years of retirement, emerged triumphantly in this public interview with Myles Dungan.
The Maeve Binchy Season - Infancy by Maeve Binchy
August 31, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutesFirst broadcast in 2005 as part of a 'Seven Ages of Man' series. This the story of baby Fintan, an infant savant, who understands everything, but has a problem communicating.
The Maeve Binchy Season - Democratic Decision by Maeve Binchy
August 31, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutesFirst broadcast in 2006, Eithne, Kitty and Maggie are approaching four score years, and are thinking of a celebration.. However, their respective families are less than enthusiastic. There is only one thing to be done - make a democratic decision!
The Maeve Binchy Season - Be More Maeve!
August 31, 2021 12:00 - 58 secondsIn 2013 RTÉ Producer Sarah Binchy synthesised what her wise aunt taught her about life. “Be More Maeve!” is voiced by RTÉ colleagues Sharon Ní Bheoláin, Áine Lawlor, Kathryn Thomas, Brenda Donohue, Áine Kerr, Emer Horgan and Sinéad Mooney.
The Maeve Binchy Season - Golden Oldie My Arse by Maeve Binchy
August 31, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutesFirst broadcast in 2006, as part of a Human Rights Season (suggested and supported by Maeve through Amnesty International director Sean Love), Golden Oldie My Arse took a comic tilt at Ageism.
Sorry Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher
August 29, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutesSorry Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher directed by one of Ireland's leading theatre directors and Tony Award winning Garry Hynes.
In the Wings - Sorry Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher
August 22, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutesDruid Theatre members, director Garry Hynes and actors Marie Mullen, Brian Doherty and Seán McGinley speak about their careers and working on Sorry Wrong Number by Lucille Flecther for Drama on One
Swept Under the Carpet by Sarah McKenna Drama on One
August 22, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutesSwept Under the Carpet by Sarah McKenna: Jamie is the story's narrator. A ten-year-old, autistic, bird-watching enthusiast who loves black currant squash.
Grieving Time by Rachel Fehily
August 15, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutesGrieving Time by Rachel Fehily starring Joe Taylor
Dubliners by James Joyce - Grace Drama On One
August 01, 2021 12:00 - 49 minutesA Summer of Dubliners by James Joyce - Grace
Dubliners - Clay & Ivy Day in the Committee Room by James Joyce
July 25, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutesWe continue our season of summer Sundays with the RTÉ Players dramatisation of stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Tonight we broadcast two more classic stories - Clay and Ivy Day in the Committee Room
Dubliners - A Painful Case & A Mother by James Joyce
July 18, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutesDrama on One continues its Summer of Dubliners with A Painful Case and A Mother by James Joyce
Dubliners - After the Race & Counterparts Drama On One
July 11, 2021 12:00 - 41 minutesRTÉ Players dramatisation of stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Tonight, two masterpieces in miniature - After the Race & Counterparts
Dubliners - Eveline & A Little Cloud -Drama on One
July 04, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutesRTÉ Players dramatisation of stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Tonight, two masterpieces in miniature - Eveline & A Little Cloud
Dubliners - Two Gallants & The Boarding House
June 27, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutesRTÉ Players dramatisation of stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners. Tonight, two masterpieces in miniature -Two Gallants and The Boarding House
Dubliners - After The Race
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 16 minutesThe fifth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. College student Jimmy Doyle tries to fit in with his wealthy friends.
Dubliners - Araby
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutesThe third story in James Joyce's Dubliners. A boy falls in love with the sister of his friend, but fails in his quest to buy her a worthy gift from the Araby bazaar.
Dubliners - Clay
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutesThe tenth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. The spinster Maria, a laundress, celebrates Halloween with her former foster child Joe Donnelly and his family.
Dubliners - The Boarding House
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 19 minutesThe seventh story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Mrs Mooney successfully manoeuvres her daughter Polly into an upwardly mobile marriage with her lodger Mr Doran.
Dubliners - The Dead
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourThe fifteenth story in James Joyce’s Dubliners. Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and later, as he speaks with his wife, has an epiphany about the nature of life and death. At 15–16,000 words this story has also been classified as a novella.
Dubliners - A Little Cloud
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 33 minutesThe eighth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Little Chandler's dinner with his old friend Ignatius Gallaher casts fresh light on his own failed literary dreams. The story also reflects on Chandler's mood upon realising that his baby son has replaced him as the centre of his wife's affections.
Dubliners - Ivy Day In The Committee Room
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutesThis is the twelfth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Minor politicians fail to live up to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell.
Dubliners - A Mother
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutesThis is the thirteenth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Mrs Kearney tries to win a place of pride for her daughter, Kathleen, in the Irish cultural movement, by starring her in a series of concerts, but ultimately fails.
Dubliners - Grace
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 48 minutesThis is the fourteenth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. After Mr. Kernan injures himself falling down the stairs in a bar, his friends try to reform him through Catholicism.
Dubliners - An Encounter
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutesThe second story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Two schoolboys playing truant encounter a perverted, middle-aged man.
Dubliners - Two Gallants
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutesThe sixth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Two con men, Lenehan and Corley, find a maid who is willing to steal from her employer.
Dubliners - Eveline
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 12 minutesThe fourth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. A young woman weighs her decision to flee Ireland with a sailor.
Dubliners - Counterparts
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutesThe ninth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Farrington, a lumbering alcoholic scrivener, takes out his frustration in pubs and on his son Tom.
Dubliners - The Sisters
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutesThe opening story in James Joyce's Dubliners. After the priest Father Flynn dies, a young boy who was close to him and his family, deals with his death superficially.
Dubliners - A Painful Case
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutesThe eleventh story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Mr Duffy rebuffs Mrs Sinico, then, four years later, realises that he has condemned her to loneliness and death.
United States Versus Ulysses
June 13, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutesThe United States versus Ulysses by Colin Murphy Directed by Conall Morrison. With original music by Si Schroeder.
In The Wings - The Gallant John Joe by Tom Mac Intyre
June 09, 2021 12:00 - 11 minutesIn tribute to Tom Hickey on his month’s mind, In this episode we hear the voices of Producer and composer Bill Whelan and Lee Hickey, son of the late Tom talking about the two Toms - Hickey and McIntyre The Gallant John Joe by Tom McIntyre was broadcast in tribute to Tom Hickey on his month’s mind. Listen back here
The Gallant John Joe by Tom Mac Intyre
June 06, 2021 12:00 - 48 minutesStarring Tom Hickey Produced by Bill Whelan
The Sisters & An Encounter by James Joyce
May 30, 2021 12:00 - 41 minutesThe Sisters & An Encounter by James Joyce
No One Ever Asked me That
May 23, 2021 12:00 - 48 minutesWritten & devised by Louise Lewis, Nyree Yergainharsian and Gorretti Slavin 2021 and women are reclaiming themselves. They have the right to choose. But that doesn't mean they are all choosing the same thing. Supported by real stories from real women, this play follows Jenny and Claire's opposite journeys along the same path.
Digging for Fire
May 20, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutesComposer Daragh Dukes and Radio Producers Eoin O Kelly and Kevin Brew explore the nature of youthful creativity as they remember their participation in the Limerick band scene of the early 1990s.
The Wickedness of Oz by Kate Gilmore
May 16, 2021 12:00 - 41 minutesThe Wickedness of Oz written and performed by Kate Gilmore. A day in the life of day-dreaming, musicals-obsessed Debbie, brings you on a journey that is as magical as it is real...