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Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Don Giovanni - John Banville on Gulliver's Travels at 300 - Suspended Chorus

Arena Encore - Úna Ní Dhonghaíle // Eric Whitacre // HamsandwicH

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena Encore - Fra Fee // Dan Donnelly's Arm // Toshín & Cáit Ní Ríain

Arena (Podcast)

Sáile - Fashion in Film - CRTL: Essays on Video Games - Gordon Snell tribute

In The Ring with Dan Donnelly - The Palm House - Excalibur at 45

The Unchosen with Fra Fee - Big Thief - The Spirits of Maritime Crossing

Arena (Podcast)

Arena Encore - Venice Biennale // Filmmaker David Gleeson // Review: Lena Dunham's Famesick

Film Reviews - The Madonna of Asia - The Steps

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena Encore - Aoife Ní Bhríain & Cormac McCarthy // William Blake at the NGI // Remembering Moya Brennan

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena (Podcast)

Arena Encore - SexyTadhg performs in studio, Schiaparelli at the V&A and Rosaleen McDonagh on her debut novel

Arena (Podcast)

Linear Flux - Delirium Archive - Ciseach

Remembering Gabriel Rosenstock - Schiaparelli at the V&A - Diatribe Stage at New Music Dublin - Stephen Sexton at the Granard Booktown Fest

Arena (Podcast)

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Celebrating Mary Lavin, remembering John McGahern and Wexford Festival Opera

Film Reviews - Wexford Festival Opera - Communion

Remembering Ronnie - Phoeno - Easter art

Celebrating Mary Lavin

Doctor Millar on his new album 'I am Vermin'

Jackie Nickerson on her new book and Exhibition 'Stateside'

Rita Perry's Kill Your Darlings - 20th anniversary of John McGahern's passing - The Lives of Others

Film Reviews - Album Reviews

Arena Encore - Sex and the City creator Michael Patrick, SNL UK and Orwell: 2+2=5

Arena (Podcast)

Saturday Night Live UK - Life Aid in the National Photographic Archive - Rembrandt's Promise

George Orwell - The Good Luck Club - Patient: Soldier

Arena Encore - A Woman of Substance Jessica Reynolds, Liza Minnelli's memoir and the death of Dolores Keane

Film reviews - Tuesdays With Morrie - Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!

Jessica Reynolds - Of Mornington - Look What You Made Me Do

Arena's St Patrick's Day Arts Quiz

Irish folk singer Dolores Keane dies aged 72 - The East Asia Film Festival Ireland 2026 - Krapp's Last Tape

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Element Pictures, Paul Muldoon, and the art of Casting!

Film reviews - The Madison - Rusalka

Joe Stilgoe - Spring as inspiration - How to make a killing - Glasshouse perform Björk

RTE Short Story Competition - Daughter Of A Drum - The Academy Award for Achievement in Casting

Element Pictures - Paul Muldoon - Ashes to Fashion

Arena's Oscar Edition

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Retirement Plan, Mary Costello and John O'Donnell

Film reviews - Kristian Bezuidenhout - Ethnology: a love song for Connemara

Retirement Plan - Morrissey - A Beautiful Loan

Mr Hoo and other stories - Couture - Hello Charlie

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Bowie Fest, Marianne Faithfull doc, Band T-shirts & Amanda Seyfried

Film reviews - Mike Garson on Bowie - Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold

Man on the Run - Ubu Roi - Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There

Broken English - As if nothing could fall: Essays on monuments - The Ballad of Johnny and June

Ian Lynch - Sweat, Sounds and Stories: A Love Letter to Old T-Shirts - The Testament of Ann Lee - Ciaran Creagh

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore -

Film reviews - Spring poetry - Dani Larkin

Rough Trade at 50 - Dublin International Film Festival - RHA

Consumed - 2026 Dublin Literary Award Longlist - Petrified

Robert Duvall dies aged 95- Trainspotting at 30 - Scene + Heard 2026 - The Secret Agent

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - Wuthering Heights, Bad Bunny, Taxi Driver at 50 & poet Eoin Devereux

Film reviews - The Wardrobe Department - Gardening Leave

Bad Bunny - The song is nearly over - In Vitro

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast - Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age - Taxi Driver at 50

The Plough and The Stars turns 100 - The enduring legacy of Emily Brontë - Story of a Day

TV Reviews - Album Reviews

Arena Encore - Abel Selaocoe, SisterS, and Bob Dylan's album Desire turns 50

Film Reviews - Plastic - Bob Dylan's Desire at 50

Abel Selaocoe - A Quiet Love - As If

Sisters - Infinity - Bach Cantata series 2026

Arena Bank Holiday Music Special

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - John Bishop, George Saunders, Kathryn Ferguson & John Butler

Film reviews - Travellers’ Tunes - How I Became A Wave

These Sacred Vows - Fair Deal - Nostalgie

George Saunders - The films of Jean-Luc Godard - Cello Concerto No. 1 – Hostile Summits

John Bishop - Rob Doyle - Return to Palestine

TV reviews - Album reviews

Arena Encore - The Odyssey, Paul Mescal & Sibéal

Film reviews - Midwinter Festival -Departure(s) by Julian Barnes

Patient Labyrinth - Daniel Mendelsohn - The History of Sound

Arena Tradfest special 2026

Valentino - Bryan Washington - Little John Nee - 38th European Film Awards

TV reviews - Film reviews

Arena encore

Arena RTÉ100 Special

Mark Kermode - The Crucible - Brokeback Mountain at 20

Brendan Fraser - EUREKA DAY - Sister Wake

The 83rd Golden Globes - Dido's Lament - ClassicsNow - Peggy Seeger

TV reviews - Music 2026

Arena Encore

Film reviews - A Slow Fire - The Cunning Little Vixen

Hamnet - David Keenan - Fiction in Translation

Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie -Olivia Laing - He Dies in the End

Ailbhe Reddy - Turner as Inspiration - First Fortnight Festival 2026

The Essential Seán Rocks - part 2