If you missed any of our seasonal programmes, listen back any time at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Some amazing performances at our Christmas concert (in 2 parts, Sun 21 and Thurs 25 December), highlights from previous Christmas's on Sun 28 and welcome to a new year on Jan 4 @rteradio1.bsky.social

Special Christmas Day Miscellany - Palestrina in Rome, Santa suits, kindness from Ireland to Lagos. Music from @rteco.rte.ie + guests, with writers Eithne Shortall, Joseph O’Connor, John Toal, Quentin Fottrell, Rachael Hegarty and Chikere Ohoka. Tune in, 9.10am, Thurs 25 Dec @rteradio1.bsky.social

Songs, seafarers and a guiding star, the story of a smash-hit Irish hymn writer and a meeting with Wham! #sundaymiscellany coming up now... Victoria White, Seán O'Gorman, Lisa McInerney, Jim Maguire, the late Judith Mok, Denise Blake and James Harpur. Tune in! @RTERadio1

Ghosts, matinee idols + a lost manuscript... Full ine-up 1 Nov 2025 Not Walking with Kofi: Georg Grote November Dead List: Louise Kennedy Trying to Remember: Beth Kilkenny Dylan Thomas’s Lost Manuscript: Justin MacCarthy Opera Nights: Roslyn Dee Then and Now: John F Deane @rteradio1.bsky.social

A selection 19/10/25 @rteradio1.bsky.social Red Line Book Festival + Waterford Writers Weekend: Frankie Gaffney, Eileen Battersby, John Connell, AM Cousins, Rosaleen McDonagh, Catherine Foley, Donal Clancy, Far Flung Trio, The Finns, Cór Fear na nDéise: listen: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

How our built environment shapes us: Architecture & the City, marks Open House Dublin '25 (first broadcast 13 October 2024). From 9.10am, Sunday 12 Oct. With Éimear Arthur, Cormac Murray, Emmett Scanlon, Kevin Marinan, Graham Hickey, Julie Cruickshank, @felispeaks.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social

Ringing bells, magical nights in Dublin theatres+ Cork's Lobby Bar, + foraging for treasure... #sundaymiscellany is on air now with Dominic Dromgoole Adam Trodd Bernadett Buda Aoife Barry David Grant and Noelle Lynskey #brianfriel #MaeveBinchy #manchanmagan Tune in! @sweetoblivion.bsky.social

A poetry-infused line-up today... 28/09 @rteradio1.bsky.social Zero Degrees: Donal Hayes September Migration: Grace Wells Free Books: Joe Whelan The Other House: Mary O’Donnell Hartnett Back By the Arra: Mike MacDomhnaill In Between: Beth Kilkenny The Shipping Lanes: Mary O’Malley i.m. Derek Mahon

Strange days, pangs of youth and a “whistling city”… #sundaymiscellany is coming up with Paul Muldoon Carol Taaffe Conall Hamill Georg Grote Antonia Hart Frank Shouldice, 9am-10am @rteradio1.bsky.social 21 Sep listen in for details of our Christmas show with @rteco.rte.ie at the NCH Dublin! 🎄❄️✨

This Sunday, a re-broadcast of our 2024 Culture Night special from Áras an Uachtaráin-great writing &music. 14 Sept, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social with @manchanmagan.bsky.social @timcarey1.bsky.social Mia Döring, Rita Ann Higgins, Donal Ryan, @president.ie www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany/

A special @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social celebrating Irish boglands, in collaboration with Irish Architecture Foundation. With Margaret Hickey, Niamh Donnellan, Karen McHugh, Anthony Baggott, Emmett Scanlon and Claire Cotter. Sept 7, 9.10am @irisharchitecturef.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social

Ireland’s State Coach, bittersweet first day of school, Thackeray’s travels in Ireland, and robbing orchards. @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social is coming up, with Jonathan White, Zoë Devlin, Enda Wyley, Lourdes Mackey, John MacKenna, Grace Wells and Tom Conaty. Aug 31, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social

#LeavingCert result jitters, seeing fox cubs by night + the magic of the circus: Denise Blake, Emma Prunty, Kathy Donaghy, Denis Tuohy, John MacKenna... plus a new poem from Paul Muldoon... Sunday Miscellany is coming up 9am @rteradio1.bsky.social RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 24 August 2025. Tune in!

Owls, Oasis and a literary whodunnit, and tremors of history from the atom bomb to the fall of the Soviet Union. #sundaymiscellany is on the way, 9am 10 August 2025 @rteradio1.bsky.social with David Coughlan @maevelucia.bsky.social Joe Taylor Denise Blake Conor Hanratty Mary O'Donnell. Tune in!

Guardian angels, night owls +boarding school blues: an archive dip's on now @rteradio1.bsky.social: Michael Harding Eugene McEldowney Vona Groarke Peter Jankowsky Geraldine Mitchell Kieran Fagan + the late, much missed Mary Russell. Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

Dreams of Sam Maguire from Killybegs to Kenmare, Leonard Cohen's magical Lissadell concert + more... #sundaymiscellany 9am @rteradio1.bsky.social 27/07/25 @johnnytoal.bsky.social Regina Devenney John S Doyle Tony Griffin Noel King Denise Blake John Cooney #allirelandfinal #Kerry #Donegal Tune in!

Adventures in hitchhiking, hurlers’ hopes and dreams, a barefoot wonder and an elephant in Phibsborough Sunday Miscellany 20/07/25 on now! Doireann Ní Bhriain Joe Whelan Cormac Murray Theo Dorgan Lani O'Hanlon John Allen #HurlingFinal #corkvtipp Listen in/back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

Hazy summer days from West Kerry to Beirut, saluting the pioneering Yeats sisters, + Live Aid 40 years on. #sundaymiscellany is on the way Michael Hilliard Mulcahy Eunan McKinney Mae Leonard Alexander McMaster Angela Keogh Mariam Tell Vincent Woods @rteradio1.bsky.social 9am 13/07/25 Tune in!

From Glastonbury to Monet’s garden, from a bed for the night for the Championship in Clare to a St John's Eve bonfire. Sunday Miscellany is on now Conall Hamill Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha Joe Rooney @johnnytoal.bsky.social @maevelucia.bsky.social Antonia Gunko Karelina @rteradio1.bsky.social

Footballs and faith healers, a nightwalk through Sydney, and a visit to Joyce’s Nighttown... Sunday Miscellany is on air now with Colin Regan Kieran Fitzgerald Grace Wells Fran O'Rourke Katrina Bruna and Christian O'Reilly. #Bloomsday #FathersDay Tune in! #sundaymiscellany @rteradio1.bsky.social

On this morning's #sundaymiscellany 8 June 2025 Ways of Seeing: live at Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Glenn Patterson Emily Byers-Ferrian Maria McManus Trú Scott Flanigan Sinéad McKenna @rteradio1.bsky.social

Exam jitters, the glorious bog lands of Donegal, and the glory days of the Irish Press newspaper remembered. Sunday Miscellany is coming up Sunday 1 June 9.10am Tune in! @rteradio1.bsky.social Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

Rollercoaster of an episode - @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social Epic poem by Vincent Woods, “A Dance in the Gap of Time”.

Campervan travels on the Baltic coast +a change in the weather, bread of heaven and a Colorado Rocky Mountain high… Sunday Miscellany is on the way 9.10am Sunday 25 May @rteradio1.bsky.social with Alexander McMaster @maevelucia.bsky.social Michael Hamell Elizabeth Oxley Vincent Woods. Tune in!

Dinner with the (future) Pope, baby birds and empty nests, a tribute to a beloved brother and a kind of homecoming. #sundaymiscellany is on air now @rteradio1.bsky.social with Gráinne Quinlan William Wall Fabian McGrath Joan Shiels Eileen Heron Hugo Hamilton. Tune in! #eurovision @rte.ie

A joy to see them Sunday Miscellany celebrates the joys of lambing season www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Do yourself a favour and have a listen to this from Sunday Miscellany @rteone.rte.ie: Transporting bees in Dublin www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Always recommend RTE’s Sunday Miscellany for this. Lovely, small, personal, charming stories. 100 or so episodes in the archives. Look forward to the new one all week

Listen back shortly at rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany... or subscribe to our podcast feed -- it will go up later today

Another must-listen episode of @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social Emotional and fascinating.

Post-war wanderings, a pair of Rembrandt portraits, and pilgrimages of the heart: Sunday Miscellany is on now @rteradio1.bsky.social Tune in! Denis Tuohy Clare O'Dea @barbleahy.bsky.social Kerry Neville Alan Cook Lani O'Hanlon Listen in/listen back at rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

Songs of resistance, swimming with seals and a birdman at the bottom of the garden. Sunday Miscellany is on the way 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social Sun 4 May Tune in! Full line-up: 1. The Seal Whisperer: Michael Cullen; 2: The Rice Workers of Vercelli: William Wall...

Shakespeare’s seven ages, Jane Austen at 250, Cretan Resistance fighters in WW2 + a last Lourdes pilgrimate. Sunday MIscellany is coimng up @danmulhall.bsky.social Roslyn Dee John Toal John McKenna AM Cousins and the late, much missed Eileen Battersby. Tune in: @rteradio1.bsky.social 9.10am 27 April

I will be on @rteradio1.bsky.social’s @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social tomorrow morning with an essay of ‘Shakespeare & Plato’s Ghost’. The programme starts at 9.10 am.

Easter miracles, bell chimes and baby chicks -- and taking the plunge to sing in public. #sundaymiscellany is on the way @fachtna.bsky.social Aidan Mathews Roslyn Dee Olivia O’Leary Maria Moynihan James Harpur Listen in/listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1... Coming up 9.10am! @rteradio1.bsky.social

Swooping swallows, stubborn donkeys and the therapy of lambing season; Meskel in Lebanon and a starstruck fan meets Sam Beckett. Sunday Miscellany, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social 13 April 2025 Tune in! Kate O’Shaughnessy Louise Kennedy Peter Cunningham Joe Kearney Jenny Beale John F Deane @rte.ie

Bedsit blues + poker nights, the enduring power of the Great Gatsby + an intriguing story of a long ago Irish debtors' prison. #sundaymiscellany 6 Apr 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social @timcarey1.bsky.social Rebecca Hunter @briancrowley7.bsky.social Brian Crowley Jessica Freed Frank Kavanagh Roslyn Dee

If you’d like to listen to my essay - ‘Letters From The Past’ from today’s @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social here ya go. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The delight of a handwritten letter, the beauty of Ireland's South-West, and a mother-daughter rite of passage. #sundaymiscellany is on the way @barbarascully.bsky.social Jamie O'Connell Brian Daly James Harpur Joanne Hynes @conalcreedon.bsky.social Amenazeb Khan 9.10am Sun @rteradio1.bsky.social 📻

Delighted to have a script on tomorrows @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social. Called Letters From The Past, it describes the joy of finding a bag of letters from 1983, written by my Ma to me who was working as a rep in Gran Canaria for JWT. I hope you enjoy. 9am @rteradio1.bsky.social tnrw

Bittersweet memories and a mighty mouse, revolutionary whispers and a tribute to #TonyGregory #sundaymiscellany is coming up with John Toal Catherine Foley Justin MacCarthy Rosaleen McDonagh Kathleen Murphy Paula Meehan Durgham Mushtaha Tune in!📻Sun 23 Mar 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social #PaveePoint

My essay ‘Teddy’s Irish Bards’ will feature on tomorrow morning’s edition of @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social. Check it out on @rteone.rte.ie at 9.10 am when I will take you to the Badlands of North Dakota.

Delighted to be a part of tomorrow's line-up. In great company. #GrandStretch

A Riverdance romance, a White House welcome, and a Dublin hidden gem: Sunday Miscellany☘️is coming up Sun 16 March 2025 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social Tune in! 📷 @liznugent.bsky.social @danmulhall.bsky.social @karenjmcdonnell.bsky.social Georg Grote Anne Delaney Rachael Hegarty #Pogues #RonnieDrew

A friendship forged in music, a century-old literary scandal, a tiger-striped feline warrior... #sundaymiscellany Sun 9 March 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social Philip Judge Alexis MacIsaac Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha Lourdes Mackey Amanda Bell #BrianConnor #EleanorMcEvoy #MargaretBarrington Tune in!

Delighted to have a haibun about our cat Tamburlaine the Great on @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social tomorrow 🙏💫

Gongs, goldfinches and Olympic gold; sea monsters, stone music and stars of the silver screen with John O'Donnell Zoe Devlin Val O'Donnell Niall McArdle Catherine Foley #RonnieDelany #MaggieSmith #Jaws #Deise @RTERadio1 Listen in/listen back! Sun 2 March 📻 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

Great show this morning - loved it. Well worth a listen back

Sun 23 Feb: Strange encounters, emigrant tears and ghost signs of Dublin, Wexford tales + climbing Carrauntuohil. Listen back link coming up shortly! www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sundaymiscellany Jamie O'Connell Margaret Galvin John MacKenna AM Cousins Aoife Barry and Billy Roche @rteradio1.bsky.social