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Drama on Newstalk
by Newstalk
Series celebrating the best in home-grown radio drama, from some of Ireland's finest radio producers. CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainment Listen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk
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Apres
Après is a new and riveting psychological thriller radio drama written and produced by Emily Gillmor Murphy and directed by Ciaran Gallagher. A warning that strong language is featured in this drama, as well as themes of violence and coercive control. The production stars Marty Breen (Three…
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Mmanwu
Mmanwu is a radio drama that delves into the complexities of maternal struggle, mental health, and the clash between tradition and modernity. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Onitsha, Nigeria, the story follows Ada, a young widow grappling with the overwhelming grief of losing her husband…
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Passengers
Sight Nor Sound Theatre and producer Alan Meaney bring you a comedy of pretence and playfulness in ‘Passengers’. Two people at very different moments in their lives end up beside each other in the VIP waiting lounge at the airport. They make small talk, share a beer, and unwilling to reveal their...
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The Cost of Living
Drama on Newstalk presents THE COST OF LIVING, an original radio comedy-drama by Anna Merritt and Deborah Wiseman. The story is a heartfelt and humorous exploration of marital breakdown in a challenging financial landscape in the Ireland of today. Jen and Tony Tully’s twenty-six-year marriage is...
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Speak Through Your Silence
The story of a great Irish poet and the teacher who helped her fear of speaking in public. Principal Anne sees a rolled up ball of paper fall out of Mary Ogun-Banwo's schoolbag. She opens it to reveal a beautiful poem, written fully in the Irish language. Reluctantly, Mary allows her to enter it...
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Third Time Lucky
This weekend, Documentary & Drama on Newstalk airs the premiere of Third Time Lucky, a topical comedy-drama in which IMRO-nominated producer Brian Gallagher explores the tensions that arise when allotment holders discover that there is pyrite in their community centre. Third Time Lucky is told...
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The S.P.A. Weekend
The S.P.A. Weekend is a spooky and hilarious new audio drama written by Emily Gillmor Murphy and produced by the award-winning production team of Hugh Hick and Heather MacLeod. The S.P.A. Weekend will be broadcast on Newstalk on Sunday 11th August at 7am, repeated Saturday 17th August at 9pm, and...
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To Heaven Or To Gubacreeny
This goes back over a hundred years for a drama set in the midst of the ‘Spanish Flu’. During the 1918 ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic, a desperate father brings his sick daughter to find the ‘Miracle Well’ in Gubacreeny. ‘1918 Ireland: Having just lost his wife from Spanish Flu, a desperate father vows…
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Sandwich
Drama on Newstalk presents SANDWICH, an original radio comedy-drama that follows a frazzled single mum, Eleanor, who is plunged into turmoil when her eco-activist teen daughter, Hazel, is arrested for holding the Minister of the Environment hostage live on TV. While trying to dissuade the police...
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Lansdowne '73
Drama on Newstalk presents a new drama produced by Jonathan Farrelly and Katerina Economides. Lansdowne ‘73 is a fictionalised version of historical events. ln January 1973, the English Rugby Team came to play lreland at Lansdowne, nearly a year to the day of Bloody Sunday... even though they…
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The Man Who Talks To Statues
Drama on Newstalk presents “The Man Who Talks To Statues”. An original radio drama that tells the story of Darryl, a thirty-year-old Corkonian. Darryl crashes his father’s car, following which he goes on a magic realist road trip to Limerick and Dublin, encountering characters ranging from...
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The Murder Of Mark Clinton
‘Murdered while ploughing a field in Meath, belonging to his uncle, Mark Clinton was the victim of a widespread campaign by ex-British soldiers to grab land and re-divide it before the dawn of the Irish Free State. A group of local volunteers spent the next three months (and beyond) avenging his...
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#ANTIGONE
Playwright Colin Murphy brings an ancient classic right up the present day in Antigone, the story of a plague, a refugee crisis, a coup, and a body too dangerous to be buried. A plague. A refugee crisis. A coup. This is #ANTIGONE - a dystopian alternative Ireland in which the worst fears of the...
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Changing Coasts
Set in an Irish coastal town threatened by sea level rise, the story follows two researchers tasked with interviewing the remaining residents about the area's past, present and uncertain future. The researchers hold opposing views about the importance of their work and, as they learn more about…
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How I Murdered Lucrezia
Newstalk presents a new radio drama, ‘How I Murdered Lucrezia’ adapted from a short story by Órfhlaith Foyle. Set in an Irish secondary school, outside Galway city, it is a meditation on lust, violence and obsession. A High School shooting has taken place with recently arrived student Lucrezia…
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High Density
Drama on Newstalk presents the premiere of “HIGH DENSITY”, in which IMRO-nominated producer Brian Gallagher explores the tensions that arise in a community when one resident in a small cul-de-sac refuses to sell her home to a developer who wants to build apartments on the site. Starring Marion...
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Sniper Joe and Sister Jim
What happens when the stupidest man in Irish history is charged with expelling the British Empire from Ireland? Sniper Joe & Sister Jim answers this question and more in a new radio comedy drama for Newstalk. As Ireland enters the final year of centenaries commemorating its ‘decade of change’,...
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An End of Term
Set in Waterford city, ‘An End of Term’ charts the decline of a marriage. Following a series of frustrating Counselling sessions and a series of uncomfortable telephone conversations, Michael , a school teacher and his wife Maura, a Hairdresser, attempt to reconnect their increasingly diverging...
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Waiting For Faro
A modern reimagining of Samuel Beckett’s classic play, Waiting for Godot - as an unrelenting satire on the worldwide budget airline industry. Waiting for Faro was written by Eoin Byrne, directed by Jennifer Griffin and produced by Sarah Eva Manson, with location sound recording and foley by Roger...
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The Piana Man
“The Piana Man” is a one episode drama/musical/comedy about a tourist town entertainer, Danny Boylan - referred to by the venue's owner, Nancy Crowley, as "Danny Boy - to appeal to the Irish Americans". To his face she calls him her "people magnet" and that he certainly is. All goes sweetly…
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Belong: Drama On Newstalk
The latest radio drama to be broadcast by Newstalk 106 – 108fm as part of its weekly Documentary & Drama On Newstalk series is ‘Belong’. ‘Belong’ is an original radio drama by Fred O’Connor & Daithí McMahon about one man’s experience of homelessness in modern Dublin The radio premiere of ‘Belong’...
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Idlewild: Drama On Newstalk
Premiere of new Irish radio drama on gangland feuds The latest radio drama to be broadcast by Newstalk 106 – 108fm as part of its weekly Documentary & Drama On Newstalk series is Idlewild. In Idlewild, producer Brian Gallagher brings us his radio adaptation of Jimmy Murphy’s stage-play, a drama…
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The Dead Key Episode 2: Drama On Newstalk
New Spy Thriller airs on Newstalk The latest homegrown radio drama to be broadcast as part of the Drama On Newstalk series is The Dead Key, a contemporary spy thriller by Alan Meaney and Jason Gill. This weekend, Drama on Newstalk are proud to broadcast the premiere of a new original Irish radio...
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The Dead Key Episode 1: Drama On Newstalk
New Spy Thriller airs on Newstalk The latest homegrown radio drama to be broadcast as part of the Drama On Newstalk series is The Dead Key, a contemporary spy thriller by Alan Meaney and Jason Gill. This weekend, Drama on Newstalk are proud to broadcast the premiere of a new original Irish radio...
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Yummy Mummy: Drama On Newstalk
Yummy Mummy: Radio Drama Premieres on Newstalk this weekend ‘Yummy Mummy’ is an original radio drama by Aisling O’Connor and Siobhan Clarke about a woman’s struggle to find her place in a modern materialistic Ireland Lydia Cummings is a 40-year-old mother of two young teens, recently returned to...
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Secrets: Drama On Newstalk
This weekend, Drama on Newstalk will broadcast the premiere of new radio drama “Secrets” in which IMRO-nominated producer Brian Gallagher travels back in time to a seaside holiday in Sixties Ireland, during which two women face an intriguing moral dilemma. “Secrets” tells the story of the…
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Paid In Full: Drama On Newstalk
A brand-new home-grown radio whodunnit This weekend, Drama on Newstalk airs the premiere of “PAID IN FULL”, in which IMRO-nominated writer/producer Brian Gallagher looks at the murder-mystery genre in an Irish setting, with twists, turns, and nothing being quite what it seems. Written in the…
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Searching For Daddly Dee: Drama on Newstalk
Desmond P Walls was on the passenger list of Aer Lingus flight 712 which went down at Tuskar Rock in 1968. There were no survivors. His son Dezy was 19 at the time. The solo play, Searching for DADDLY DEE is Dezy’s true story. “At nineteen life was life. I mean every person who counted was alive,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Series celebrating the best in home-grown radio drama, from some of Ireland's finest radio producers.
CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainment
Listen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk
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Series celebrating the best in home-grown radio drama, from some of Ireland's finest radio producers. CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainment Listen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app...
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