Episodes
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Jammie Dodgers Episode 5
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep...
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Jammie Dodgers Episode 4
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep...
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A Quarter of Broken Biscuits
Written by Eamon Somers, produced and directed by Berni Dwan, with audio production by Declan McGlade, A Quarter of Broken Biscuits captures a snapshot of life in Dublin’s Liberties in the 1960s. With the main action emanating from a local grocery shop, the characters grapple with two main issues…
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All The Way To Mars and Back
All The Way to Mars and Back by Eddie Naughton Directed by Anna Nugent ALL THE WAY TO MARS AND BACK is about day in the life of a community where the endemic drug problem has become a way of life. It begins with the funeral of a drug addict and ends with yet more deaths. In between, the play…
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Still We Sing
Still We Sing by Martina Collender Directed by Anna Nugent Ghent, 1956, autumn. The play opens to find a small group of actors in rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet. We discover these play-actors are being led Nickolas Locke and they are rehearsing the play in brutal conditions, against all odds. We...
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To The Bone
To The Bone by David Donavan Directed by Anna Nugent To The Bone is a rural drama exploring the relationship between generations and changing attitudes. Jack is helping his father Bob on the family farm but longs for something more. He faces a crossroad as decisions need to be made and…
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Class of 2025
Class of 2025 by Diandra Xavier Directed by Anna Nugent Anisa Kapoor is on the brink of adulthood, juggling school pressure, family expectations, and the endless chatter of her virtual assistant. When she’s asked to give a graduation speech, she must choose between perfection and honesty. Vivian...
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Tenterhooks
Tenterhooks by John Morton Directed by Sarah Baxter Tenterhooks is a darkly comic drama about two strangers, adrift in their lives who keep meeting in various suicide black spots over the course of a summer. Brid is a self-styled damsel in distress looking for a knight in shining armour to rescue...
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Home
Home by Carol RooneyDirected by Anna Nugent ‘Home’ is a monologue play following three generations of a Dublin family during the first half of 2020. Eileen a Clontarf native is enjoying every moment of retirement and all the social activity she can, her niece Niamh is heading into her 50’s and...
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Dead Platoon
Young men, think twice before whipping out your spray paints after dark, hoping to have some fun at the expense of the defenseless dead in that old local cemetery near you. Dead Platoon a new radio drama, written and produced by Berni Dwan, directed by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh, with sound tech by…
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The Moth Hour
Written and produced by Berni Dwan and directed by Cian O’Náraigh, The Moth Hour is a dramatic case of female personality, resilience, strength of character and adaptability kicking in when the safety of daylight is replaced by something darker than dark. All told by one character at three key...
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Growing Up in the Big Smoke, Unrhymed and Acapella
Growing Up in the Big Smoke, Unrhymed and Acapella is a memoir of growing up in Dublin as a child of the nineteen-sixties, a teenager of the nineteen-seventies, and a young woman of the nineteen-eighties, a memoir that captures the prevailing social and cultural norms of those decades. You…
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Jammie Dodgers Episode 3
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep...
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Jammie Dodgers Episode 2
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep...
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Don’t B 2 Keen Mr. Matchmaker
Don’t B 2 Keen Mr. Matchmaker by Conrad JB Ethan, a young Dublin gay man, disillusioned with his prospects of ever owning a house in the capital, sets off to deep rural Ireland in search of a Sugar Daddy. Written as a reaction to John B Keane’s ‘The Matchmaker’, Don’t B 2 Keen Mister Matchmaker...
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Konstantin
Konstantin by Ultan Pringle [powerpress] Konstantin follows the entwined lives of lifelong partners Nina and Allie. Beginning when they’re 18 and setting out to explore the world and finishing when they’re in their late 80s and preparing to leave it, Konstantin is a story of two lives lived and...
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Fingers Crossed
A new audio drama by Colette Cullen. Two very different couples meet in the waiting room of a fertility clinic – Adam and Sera for their fifth IVF cycle, Jess and Jessica for their first. As they pass the time chit chatting there are some surprising revelations. Cast: Emma Dargan-Reid as Jessica...
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Togetherness
‘Togetherness’ tells the story of the narcissistic Dervla who on her agony aunt style podcast ‘Wagon Wheel’ with her long suffering co-host Fidelma recounts the onesided story of a recent breakup with girlfriend Megan while a confused call in listener tries to make sense of the meandering tale....
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Awakenings
Awakenings is a five-act play about tolerance, making the effort to understand other points of views when recognised in context, and strengthening rather than weakening ties when differences have been acknowledged. In Awakenings, the conflicting views around religion, popular culture, and...
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Brave
Mairead (50s) is thinking of applying for promotion whenever her manager Helen retires. She asks for Helen’s opinion on the matter, confiding in her boss that she’s autistic. Mairead is taken aback when Helen calls her ‘brave’ and ponders why disclosing her neurology should be seen that way....
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Heartburn
Near FM presents new audio drama ‘Heartburn’, written by Caitlin Magnall-Kearns; directed by Anna Nugent. Heartburn is a modern take on the rom-com that looks at fatness and friendship. Set over one night in Belfast it follows Chris, a writer, and Lou, a “dinner-lady man” by day and pint puller…
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A Fishy Tail of Sound and Fury
Want your Shakespeare battered or filleted? Listen to A Fishy Tail of Sound and Fury, a new radio drama written and produced by Berni Dwan, and directed by Brendan Laird. What’s on the menu? Food snobbery and copy culture served up with lashings of lovely Shakespeare, infused with socialist...
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High Spirits
New audio drama High Spirits by Méabh de Brún – 6pm June 8th 2023 Three siblings and one in-law gather after a patriarch’s burial to honour a very unusual letter of wishes. Their late father wants to be contacted in the afterlife, and so begins a dark comedy full of suspect séances, family…
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The Whale and the Swan
New audio drama broadcasting at 6pm on Thursday the 1st June 2023. The Whale and the Swan by Fiona Browne Marie is pregnant at a young age and finds herself in the care of the nuns. Her daily reality is stark and brutal. In order to survive she creates her own world among the hanging sheets of…
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Jumping for Joy
A young woman decides to end her life on high point by jumping off a building before her happiness can turn sour. However just as she is about to jump, she is stopped by a man calling himself the Angel of Death, and it seems he rather she stay alive. Directed by Anna Nugent Eva – Rachel Walshe...
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Blind Date
Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a blind date by mutual friends. What have they to lose? A compelling and intense audio drama about looking for love. Content Warning: Sexually explicit material and references to sexual violence. Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a blind date by mutual...
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Jammie Dodgers Episode 1
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep...
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Breathing Space
Breathing Space, a comedy drama about an accidental astronaut being ghosted by a space agency on her journey to Mars. Bridget Jones meets Gravity while Waiting For Godot. It is the year 2032 and civilian guinea pig Ciara Fitzpatrick is aboard the first solo flight to Mars. When Mission Control...
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Angry Bird
Rounding off our second series of new audio drama from women writers is 'Angry Bird' by Tamsin Larby. Eileen Nolan is a 75-year old ‘force of nature’ who has had enough and because she has nothing to lose, that makes her ferocious! She sees the populist Far Right as not only dangerous, but comes...
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Alarm Bells
Alarm Bells is a radio play written and produced by the Green Ember Arts collective. It portrays the escalating housing crisis through an anthology of short scenes in which a small fraction of those most affected by homelessness are represented. Alarm Bells examines the reality of the housing...
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Black Cherry – Part 2
Black Cherry is written by Krystal Sweedman and directed by Anna Nugent. The play is the latest in Near FM’s New Drama Hour series of plays by women playwrights. In Black Cherry a catalytic event ripples through the generations. There’s Paul, who was accused of a raping a young woman, when he was…
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Black Cherry – Part 1
Black Cherry is written by Krystal Sweedman and directed by Anna Nugent. The play is the latest in Near FM’s New Drama Hour series of plays by women playwrights. In Black Cherry a catalytic event ripples through the generations. There’s Paul, who was accused of a raping a young woman, when he was…
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Paddy Goes to Petra – Part 2
Paddy Goes to Petra is written by Aine Ryan and directed by Anna Nugent. The play is the latest in Near FM’s New Drama Hour series of plays by women playwrights. The play follows the story of middle aged farmer Paddy who, dealing with profound grief following the unexpected loss of a loved one,...
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Paddy Goes to Petra – Part 1
Paddy Goes to Petra is written by Aine Ryan and directed by Anna Nugent. The play is the latest in Near FM’s New Drama Hour series of plays by women playwrights. The play follows the story of middle aged farmer Paddy who, dealing with profound grief following the unexpected loss of a loved one,...
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Allie Down the Boghole
Near FM presents another in our New Drama Hour series, audio dramas exclusively by women writers. “Allie Down the Boghole” by Megan McDonnell. The story follows Allie, a young girl in rural Ireland who is something of a latch-key child. She is, more often than not, left alone by her noticeably...
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Kipper
Near FM presents Kipper by Gemma Doorly. Kipper – Tormented by an unjust past and reeling from past experiences Kerry seduces drunken Sam at a wedding. It seems like an innocent one night stand but Kerry has other ideas which will implicate Sam in a serious allegation. Will the police believe her...
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All Honey
All Honey by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth *Listener advisory – this audio drama contains strong language All honey is a dark, modern day farce about a group of friends forced to face each other’s deadly sins. The play takes place in the apartment of Ru and Luke, a couple in their early 30’s, who are...
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Benched
Near FM launch a new season of the New Drama Hour. A series of darkly funny, challenging and innovative audio dramas from up and coming women writers.Becn Following on from season 1, this new collection will bring some of the best new writing to the airwaves brought to life by a cast and crew of...
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We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House
Concluding Near FM’s series of new audio drama written exclusively by women, we present ‘We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House’ by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth. We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House is a dark, absurd comedy about a family divided by lethal maternal misogyny. Four sisters are reunited shortly...
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The Tea Lady
Continuing Near FM’s series of audio drama written exclusively by women, we present ‘The Tea Lady’ by Tara Maria Lovett. The Tea Lady is a black comedy and tells the Story of Minnie, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary secret. Minnie and her daughter Amber have been kidnapped by a man called...
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Double Dealing
Continuing Near FM’s season of audio drama written exclusively by women, we present Double Dealing by Rose Byrne. Arthur Muldoon is an Irish hypnotist and con-artist, who use his powers to con people. He has a very professional approach to his work. After working in England for a number of years...
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Plain Speak
New audio drama from Dorothy Cotter. It’s a Saturday night in Soho and Siobhán and Danny are on a doomed first date. Tinder virgin Danny has a serious case of foot in mouth while Siobhán, weary of the London dating scene, already has one foot out the door. Awkward turns to tense, tense becomes...
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The Love of Small Appliances
An audio drama set in an apartment of the near future, owned by Sive Chand, a futurist working in Galway. Sive is in a relationship with Jahzara Dunne, who is a chocolatier in the city. Sive’s home AI (Artificial Intelligence), Tara, offers organisation support for Sive, and monitors all the...
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Buckle
Presented as part of our season of new audio drama from women writers, Buckle by Christine Madden. Lily Albright’s teenage son is dead. The man who pleaded guilty to his murder is in prison. What compels Lily to visit her son’s killer in prison? Yet she does, repeatedly, searching for answers to...
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Petals
Winner of Best Radio Drama at the Celtic Media Awards 2020. Petals is the story of one girl and her journey towards the night of a lifetime along with the trail of lust, longing and loss she finds on the way. Written entirely in verse, Petals takes a vibrant look at what it means to be sexually...
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These Lights
The first in a monthly anthology of new radio drama, is These Lights, written and performed by Jessie Doyle. Broadcasting on International Women’s Day, March 8th at 1pm on Near FM 90.3 Set in the not so far future and taking place in a very different but at the same time very familiar Dublin…
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