Drama On One

Otherness and isolation are universal experiences, but ones that some experience more than others. Quicksand brings to life the story of a woman who will stop at nothing to protect her son. Starring Donna Dent & Rex Ryan

Shay Healy, recently sold his house in Sandymount in Dublin. He shared the house with his late wife Deedee for 35 years. Shaymo took Kevin Reynolds for a bitter-sweet saunter round the grand old house.

In this episode we hear Writer Ronan Carr and actors Jonathan Ryan and Ali White talking about their work on Ronan's play To Sean with Love

The Aran Islands’ by John Millington Synge, adapted by Joe O’Byrne. Stanley Townsend and Brendan Conroy star as J.M. Synge and islander Mourteen in Synge’s account of life on the Aran Islands.

It's 1979 and a young school boy shirks his right of passage.

a brief befriending in a turbulent Third World country results in the sudden arrival of an African without papers in the cozy West Cork countryside that is an Irish couple's castle.

The Wickedness of Oz written and performed by Kate Gilmore directed by Gorretti Slavin A day in the life of day-dreaming, musicals-obsessed Debbie, brings the listener on a journey that is as magical as it is real..

In ‘Toronto and the State of Grace’, two Cavan brothers journey to Knockfierna Hill in West Limerick, to fulfil a promise to their late mother.

Starring Charlene McKenna and John D Ruddy. A spiteful tick in the next of kin box results in Tom being made responsible for his antagonistic neighbour's body.

can be a boast, a toast, and on occasion a ghostly reminder that the lives we follow are not always the lives we lead.

Thomas McLoughlin and actors Máire Ní Ghráinne and Lise-Ann McLoughlin talk about working on 'Forever Yours' by Thomas McLaughlin

Ronan Carr's radio dramatisation of Sean Kenny's meteoric rise, as brief as it was brilliant, With Owen Roe, Jonathan Ryan, Deirdre Monaghan, Ali White, and Michael James Ford, Produced by Aidan Mathews

The month of August marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Roger Casement on the gallows of Pentonville Prison, London, in one of the most controversial killings in the penal history of the British Empire. Edited by Fintan O'Toole and read by Owen Roe Produced by Aidan Mathews

Tony a Beatles Boffin has a visit from Death and only his encyclopaedic knowledge of the Fab Four can save him.

Recommended PJ O'Connor Awards 2016

In The Wings is a programme in which we meet the performers behind each Drama on One. This week, writer James Butler and actors Steve Blount and Caitriona Ennis discuss James's play 'The Carpet Clown', Producer Kevin Reynolds.

Two fine young criminals are buried in a wooden box by a rival gang. Starring Peter Coonan, Paul Ronan, Steve Blount and Joe Taylor

In The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week we hear from Peter Coonan and Paul Ronan who discuss performing in 'Paulo in the Underworld' by Rory Duffy, which took 3rd place in the 2016 PJ O'Connor Awards

A Matter of Modesty by Anne Marie Kennedy The play took 2nd Place in the PJ O’Connor awards 2016. Directed by Gorretti Slavin

In The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week we hear from some of the cast A Matter of Modesty which took 2nd place in the PJ O'Connor Awards 2016 Produced by Kevin Reynolds

occasional series of 'In The Wings' celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare.This episode features Playwright Marina Carr and Director Rachel West

The first in an occasional series of 'In The Wings' celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare. Featurings actors Peter Macon and Marty Rea who play Othello and Iago in The Abbey Theatre's production of Othello. The production continues until Saturday 11th of June 2016. On sound was Síle Ní Bhaoill and Kevin Reynolds produced.

The Man in the Barn by Louis Kornfeld, directed by Jonathan Mitchell A Drama On One co-production with US podcast - The Truth, made in association with The Hearsay International Audio Arts Festival

Presented by Colin Murphy and produced by Peter Mooney in this episode Stephen Rea and Kevin Whelan join the programme to discuss Translations by Brian Friel, staged at the height of The Troubles in the north of Ireland.

Presented by Colin Murphy and produced by Peter Mooney. In this episode we hear from Mary Keane, Gearóid O’Brien, historian of the amateur drama movement and Nory Relihill from the original cast of Sive.

Peter Hanly and Jennifer O'Dea play two departing passengers in Arthur Reardon's LOVE ME?!, a short and sceptical reflection on the split second which separates the infinitesimal from the infinite in a road traffic accident.

Cowboys Indians and Penny Hairnets through the characters of Girl, Boy and Nellie, leads the listener through their vaporous dwellings as they journey to place and time observing 100 years of rememberings.

John McKenna's period play tracks an obscure and enormous life that cuminated in strangulation on the town gallows.

A Disturbed State of Affairs by Joe O'Byrne. Explores the early hours of the April Insurrection of 1916

A 1916 soundscape weaving archive, music and spoken word together on a journey that begins with the world’s first ever radio broadcast.

Tugann beirt dhreapadóir faoi shliabh ard i gCondae Mhuigheo, darb ainm ‘An Duairceán'.

In this episode we hear writer Aodh Ó Domhnaill, and actors Niall Tóibín and Diarmuid de Faoite, discussing Aodh’s play, An Duairceán Producer Kevin Reynolds.

Clinderstone featuring John D. Ruddy, Ruth McGill, and the music of Paddy Glackin (fiddle), Dearbhla Collins (piano) Composer Adam Gorb ReynoldsFunded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television License Fee.

In this four part series  Alan Stanford explores Shakespeare’s King Lear with Leaving Certificate students in Longford from Convent of Mercy, St Mel's College, Scoil Mhuire Longford, Carrigallen Vocational School and Moyne Community School. Producers: Kevin Reynolds and Siobhan Mannion.

In this four part series  Alan Stanford explores Shakespeare’s King Lear with Leaving Certificate students in Longford from Convent of Mercy, St Mel's College, Scoil Mhuire Longford, Carrigallen Vocational School and Moyne Community School. Producers: Kevin Reynolds and Siobhan Mannion.

In this four part series  Alan Stanford explores Shakespeare’s King Lear with Leaving Certificate students in Longford from Convent of Mercy, St Mel's College, Scoil Mhuire Longford, Carrigallen Vocational School and Moyne Community School. Producers: Kevin Reynolds and Siobhan Mannion.

n this four part series  Alan Stanford explores Shakespeare’s King Lear with Leaving Certificate students in Longford from Convent of Mercy, St Mel's College, Scoil Mhuire Longford, Carrigallen Vocational School and Moyne Community School. Producers: Kevin Reynolds and Siobhan Mannion.

‘On Buxton Hill’ - a portrait of life in the flat-lands of Cork city. Written and performed by Kevin Barry. Produced by Kevin Brew

an intimate confession of a forgotten lover in a deathbed testimony to her surviving sweetheart with Olwen Fouéré, Andrew Bennett and Deirdre Monaghan

In The Wings where artists discuss their work.. In The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week writer Peter Sirr and actor Olwen Fouéré share their thoughts and experiences of working on Radio Carla written by Peter Sirr.

The Performance Corporation to make a radio version of their operatic treatment of James Joyce’s best-loved short story, ‘The Dead’. Created by Irish composer Ellen Cranitch and playwright Tom Swift, directed by Jo Mangan. Theatrical producer: Breda Cashe

Sinead Gleeson in conversation with composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist. Brian Eno

a tale of war, nobility and occasional cross-dressing. With some adult content both upstairs and downstairs, this is Farkham Hall at Christmas’, by Chris McHallem

Beautiful Lofty Things – an evening with WB Yeats was written and presented by Roy Foster and directed by Lynne Parker.

The Playboy of the Western World – A Musical for Radio with all music composed by Justin McCarthy and adapted for radio by Diarmuid de Faoite.

Continuing our Columban themed All Saints’ Night, Barry Mc Govern stars as Columbanus In Kerry Hardie with Olivia O'Leary

presented by Mary McAleese

12 Stones in the Water by Karl O'Neill, directed by Gorretti Slavin, starring Aoibhinn McGinnity and Deirdre Monaghan. Based on true events this dark tale centres around the death of 3 year old Annie Slavin in Armagh in 1888 and the involvement of Bellina Prior who was found ‘guilty but insane’ of her murder.

Martin Sheen talks to Sean Rocks about his life and his craft,

Five school-going teenagers are distracted by fantasies of the opposite sex in this week’s play - ‘Honey’ by Neil Flynn

In The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week writer Neil Flynn, and actors Aoife Duffin  and Patrick Ryan chat about working on Neil’s play Honey. Produced by Kevin Reynolds

In October 2007, John Kelly met with and spoke to Peter Brooke as part of the 50th Dublin Theatre Festival. In a wide ranging interview, Brooke reflected on the human mystery of acting, the healing process of theatre, his love of cowboy films and the artistry of the Marx Brothers .

The Man in Two PIeces written by Gerard Adlum and directed by Gorretti Slavin tells the story of a a travelling vaudeville troupe and the 14-year-old boy who  runs away with them. Led by the emcee, song-and-dance man and all-round impresario, Kerrigan played by Stephen Brennan.

n The Wings is a programme in which artists discuss their work. This week writer Gerard Adlum and renound actor Stephen share their thoughts and experiences of working on The Man in Two Pieces written by Gerard and directed by Gorretti Slavin Producer Kevin Reynolds

Boy meets girl in a brief encounter on an ancient island in an Irish lake, and they talk through the moonlit night of this and that and their two bespoken lives. They will meet again

The team behind Bernard Farrell's radio drama ‘Greta At The Gresham’ actors Bryan Murray and Dawn Bradfield sharing their thoughts. Sound Supervision was by Mark Mc Grath, Producer was Kevin Reynolds.

Sean Rocks talks to Conor Mc Pherson, the Dublin dramatist whose mastery of the monologue brought him from the Bush Theatre in London to Broadway success with his break-through play The Weir.

Programme 3 -The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams This week: the curious case of The Rose Tattoo. Presented by Colin Murphy. Featuring,Clara Simpson, Kate Binchy and Caitriona Crowe of the National Archives of Ireland.

This week we hear from Playwright Gary Mitchell

Finalist in the 63rd RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival Athlone..

Charlie McCarthy's sympathetic study of chromosomal disability. Joe Taylor is eloquent as the speechless subject, with Aine Ní Mhuirí as Mammy to her son Jelly and Mum to her daughter Ann, played by Dawn Bradfield.

Finalists RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival in Athlone 2015

The Fund by Conor Malone took 3rd place in the PJ O’Connor awards 2015 and deals with the very topical issue of The International Monetary Fund. Based on true events and centering around Davison Budhoo and his dramatic 150 page letter of resignation from the IMF in 1988.

Runners up in the 63rd RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival

In The Wings where we meet the artists behind each radio drama. In this week’s edition we hear from Peter Coonan, Aine Ni Mhuiri, Tony Tormey and Hilda Fay who performed in ‘Serenity’ by Andy Burns.

First runner up PJ O’Connor Awards 2015. Niall battles with alcohol and the twelve steps.

The famous philosopher’s post-War pilgrimage to the peace and quiet of Connemara is proving problematic. He can’t construe the English of the Irish natives, let alone the Irish of his English-speaking neighbour. With Bob O’Mahoney, Maíre Ní Ghráinne and Brendan Conroy. Produced by Aidan Mathews

Winners 2015 Perpetual Trophy in the 63rd RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival The Palace Players, Fermoy with Conversations On A Homecoming

In the last in a short series of programmes “ WB and Me - A Poet's Choice of Yeats' Poems”, Rita Ann Higgins offers her personal reflections on Yeats’ “Broken Dreams”, “The Fascination of What’s Different ” and “What Then?”. On Sound was Tom Williams Producer Kevin Reynolds

This week the programme looks at the career of Anew McMaster and of the ‘Fitups’ which he brought to every town and village in Ireland. Presented by Colin Murphy and produced by the late, great Peter Mooney. The programme was Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee.

For the month of June 2015 Drama on One presents a short series where poets offer their personal responses and reflections on favourite poems by WB Yeats. Michael Longley offers his personal reflections on Yeats’ “The Wild Swans at Coole”, “To A Squirell at Kyle-na-no” and “A Last Confession”.

The series, presented by Colin Murphy, focuses on the times when what was happening on the Irish stage reverberated on the streets outside. Programme 2 The riots that first greeted Sean O Casey's 'The plough and the Stars'. Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee.

Programme 3 -The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams   From Stage to Street presented by Colin Murphy and produced by the late, great Peter Mooney. deals with  the notable occasions when Irish theatre and topical politics collided in real time. This week: the curious case of The Rose Tattoo.

This short play takes place during the interval of a play. Two characters, He and She discuss the characters on stage..

WB and Me - A Poet's Choice of Yeats' Poems” . Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan offers a personal reflection on Yeats’ “Hound Voice” Produced by Kevin Reynolds

Episode 1 - The Playboy of The Western World - John Millington Synge Guests Declan Kiberd, Marie Mullen,Thomas Conway -Producer Peter Mooney. The programme was Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence

In memory of one of RTE Radio’s truly great Producers, Peter Mooney. The series, presented by Colin Murphy, focuses on the times when what was happening on the Irish stage reverberated on the streets outside. Programme 1:The Playboy of The Western World - John Millington Synge Producer: Peter Mooney.

earts and flowers hung from the handlebars. A graveyard of bicycles The world of the ghostbike looms closer for David, as an accident churns up memories of an ex-girlfriend, Grace. Starring Emmet Kirwan, Gene Rooney and Andrew Bennett, beginning RTÉ Drama On One's Short Form Season. Sound: Damian Chennells. Producer: Kevin Brew

Pat Boran,Poet and Publisher offers a personal reflection on Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Inisfree”, “The Long Legged Fly” and “High Talk”. Produced by Kevin Reynolds

Eating Seals and Seagull’s Eggs by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú. To generations of Irish students Peig Sayers, is often an object of derision. Eating Seals and Seagull’s Eggs is her story, largely. Meet Peig Sayers as you have never heard her before. Performed by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú and Louise Lewis

A German detective drama about a nuclear family and the forty shades of Green ...with Patrick Dawson,Kathy Rose O’Brien,Aileen Mythen, Deirdre Monaghan, Jennifer O’Dea, Michael J. Forde and Peter Hanly Produced by Aidan Mathews

This week in In The Wings we hear from the writer Erhard Schmied and the cast of his Play Greetings from Fukushima Produced by Kevin Reynolds

Starring Kate O'Toole, the play is set in Brussels in the not too distant future. The UK is about to vote on leaving the EU and Uzikistan has won the Eurovision Song Contest. Rachel Bell may be the last UK EU commissioner which spurs the pro European Rachel and her Irish spokesperson Patrick Sarsfield, to conspire to make the EU more relevant to the people, with disastrous results for Anglo Irish relations!

In The Wings. a programme in which radio artists discuss their work. This week writer Aidan Mathews and actor Ray Scannell share their thoughts and experiences of working on Judgement written by Aidan Mathews with John Kavanagh playing Socrates and Ray Scannell as Crito. Producer Kevin Reynolds

In The Wings where practitioners discuss their work. Sir Henry’s in the ‘90s….Were you there? Over ten years ago the spiritual home of Cork’s first generation of ravers closed forever. Deep marks the occasion by exploring the social and political backdrop of the time. Featuring Ray Scannell and produced by Kevin Reynolds

My Name is Saoirse, written and performed by Eva O’Connor is the story of a 15 year old girl coming of age in 1980’s Ireland.

Judgement is a version of Plato’s Crito by Aidan Mathews. Featuring John Kavanagh as Socrates and Raymond Scannell as Crito.

Written and performed by Raymond Scannell, and directed by Tom Creed. A radio version of the acclaimed stage production. It’s the summer of 1988 and Cork’s emigration generation are following the beat… in perfect time, for a Music Movement simmering from Sir Henry’s, the original home of house music in Ireland. Writer/Performer: Raymond Scanell Director: Tom Creed Sound Design: Carl Kennedy Sound Supervision: Damian Chennells Theatrical Producer: Jen Coppinger Producer for RTÉ: Kevin Brew Series Producer: Kevin Reynolds

Nothing and no one go to the moon

In The Wings Deep by Raymond Scannell Drama On One

Líon Mo Bhearna – le Sorcha Fox agus Emer O’Carroll, aistrithe agus léirithe ag Rossa Ó Snodaigh. Written: Iseult Golden, David Horan, Carmel Stephens (Inis Theatre)Featuring Sorcha Fox and Emer O'Carroll Directed by Rossa Ó Snodaigh Series producer on Drama on One is Kevin Reynolds

Playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy reads from his memoir, in a radio version directed by Patrick Mason.

A comedy about a man who tries to escape the reality of unemployment. Instead he pins his life’s ambition on winning a model making competition. Written and performed by Pat McGrath and directed by Alan King

two old men argue over the proper site for the weaver's burial..

In memory of actor Thomas Studley. The drama narrates with deceptive simplicity the arguments of two old men over the proper site for the weaver's burial. As their absurd, comic controversy rages, new love and life begin for his youthful widow. (First TX: March 1961)

Love, longing and one woman's rivalry with a Charolais heifer..

Andrew Bennett and Cathy Belton star as Michael and Sandra a middle-aged couple ruminating on the small and sombre detail of a tragic death in the family in the hope of finding light and life at the end of an endless post-mortem involving a culprit as well as a casualty.

A seasonal edition of IN THE WINGS lets the Genie get out of the bottle, gets Cinders get to the ball, boosts Jack up the beanstalk and puts the Beauty to sleep.

Writer Noni Stapleton and actors Enda Oates and Bairbre Ni Chaoimh share their thoughts and experiences of working on the radio drama ‘Charolais’ by Noni Stapleton