18-09-09:Tweak, Avatar, Culture Night

Featuring interviews with Sheila Deegan on Culture night in Limerick, James Kennedy on the new album put together with his group Avatar, Like river to ocean, and Nora Murchu previewing the Tweak festival.
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6-03-09: Foul Play, St Josephs Abbeyfeale

Short piece from early March on the play Foul Play which was put on by students from St Joseph's Abbeyfeale. Here the students do some beatboxing and rapping which are integral parts of the production and director Niamh Bowen talks about working with the students and devising the play.
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27-02-09: Brother Culture, Original Rasta MC interview

From 27th February an interview with Original Rasta MC Brother Culture, who was in Limerick for a gig in Roots Factory. The MC speaks about life on the soundsystems since the 80s, recording, the prodigy and even the spice girls!
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13-02-09: Road Bowling Special

Feedback from the Baader Meinhof Complex that played at the film club in Listowel
Footage of members of the Abbeyfeale Travelling Community playing Road Bowling, recorded by Georgina Downes
Interview with Fintan Lane, author of Long Bullets; A History of Road Bowling in Ireland
Mary Carroll of the NCW film club reviews Emmas Bliss


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If you like this road bowling special you might like to check a short piece we did on outdoor handball alleys in Ireland back in 2005. Read and hear it here.

06-02-2009, Michael Cabot on the Humble Boy

From this weeks show we have an interview with Michael Cabot of the London Classic Theatre Company, who is the director of the Charlotte Jones play Humble Boy that will play at St. Johns Listowel next Tuesday.

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Audio 33: Hunger, Love and Madness, 30th January 2009

Full show from Friday 30th January featuring
Feedback from Listowel Film club showing of Hunger
Interview with Blake Steel
Interview with Simon Yadoo, Love and Madness theatre Company, London about two plays, 'La Ronde' and an adaptation of 'Oliver Twist'


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Audio 32: Unfringed, Synge, Fred, 23-01-09

-Feedback from film club in Listowel (Voxpop item)
-Interview with Joanne Beirne on the line up for the unfringed festival
-Interview with Jamie Hanrahan of Cork based band Fred who will be playing at the aforementioned festival
-Interview with Fiona Brennan, PRO of the Sliabh Luachra Drama group on the two Synge plays they will be doing
-NCW film review with Liam O'Sullivan


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Audio 31: Knockaderry, Limerick Gallery of Art 09-01-09

Full show from Friday 9th January featuring
-Johnny Corkery of the Cloncaugh/Knockaderry drama group talks about their upcoming production of the Frank McGuinness play Factory Girls
-Ciaran Gleeson gives the run-down on the list of films coming up at the Classic Cinema in Listowel as part of their film-club
-Mike Fitzpatrick on the two exciting exhibitions coming up at Limerick City Gallery of Art next Thursday, as well as the launch of the new website for the LCGA
-Ed O'Connor reviews the film, The Third Man, the first in the NCW film club's new season

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Audio 30: Athea's Ahern Athletes, Reviews of 2008

Full show from 12th of December 2008 featuring:
Interview with Tom Ahern who has written about the Ahern Brothers from Athea. The four brothers were outstanding athletes at the start of the 20th century. Tim won the Olympic Gold medal in 1908 in London for the hop step and jump while his brother Dan's world record for the same event stood for 11 years between 1909 and 1920. " Ahern Brothers of Athea, Olympic and World Champions" is available in most local bookstores.
Vicky O Sullivan of the Newcastle West Bookstore talks about the big books of 2008 commercial, sport and local and makes some suggestions about stockings fillers.
Donal O Sullivan talks about the best films of the year just gone, including a selection of some arthouse and foreign language films.
Brief Vox pop with audience feedback on the film "Then she found me" which played in Listowel Film Club at the Classic.
Listings

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Audio 29: Colm Keane, The Beatles, Shane Serrano, Crude 5/12

Full show from 5th December
Colm Keane on his new book "The Beatles, Irish concerts" which talks the Beatles concerts in 1963-4
Shane Serrano, editor/publisher of new bi-monthly magazine Crude taks about the venture.
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Audio 28: 28/11 Neilus O Connor festival Knocknagoshel

Full show from November 28th featuring
Preview of upcoming films in the Classic Listowel, with Kieran Gleeson and Film Club in Newcastle West with Rose Bennis.
Georgina Downes reports from the 5th Neilus O Connor Traditional Music Festival in Knocknagoshel.
Listings.

Music from Niall O Connell, Tom O Connor, Cormac O Connor, Glenn Hornibrook and Ned Casey.

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Audio 27: Andrew Flynn director of Character by Mark Dillon

Interview from the show of the 21st of November with Andrew Flynn director of 'Character' a play by Mark Dillon which received its World Premier in Limerick recently.

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Audio 26: Catherine Eaton, Athea, Preston Reed 14/11/08

Full show from 14th of November featuring
-Catherine Eaton, talking about her play Corsetless that played at St. Johns Theatre, Listowel
-Vox pop from the fair day in Athea
-Interview with Preston Reed, famed guitarist
-Vox pop, preview of Bernadette Soubirous, play by Glórach Players, Abbeyfeale
-NCW film club preview, Ed O'Connor on Shut up and Shoot Me

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Audio 25: Pat Kinevane, knocknagoshel, Samhlaiocht

This full show from 31st October 2008 features
Pat Kinevane talking about his play 'forgotten'
A vox pop taken by Georgina Downes at the Halloween festival in Knocknagoshel
An interview with Jason O Mahoney about the Samhlaiocht Kerry film Festival
Preview of the Newcastle West film club
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Audio 24: Jerry Harmon storyteller 24/10/08

An interview from the October 24th show with Jerry Harmon. Deep in the foothills of the Blue Ridge/ Appalachian mountain chain in North Carolina, Jerry was born into a family rich in the tradition of story telling and music. Jerry is recognized as an accomplished guitarist with a unique style and a gifted songwriter and singer. He was in Ireland for the Lough Gur Story tellers festival


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Audio 23: Saviours, Cuisle, Ellio Villafranca 10/10/08

Full show from Friday 10th October
featuring
Liam Nolan, co-director of the acclaimed new Irish boxing Documentary "Saviours" talks about the film. Concentrating on three boxers from this North inner city Dublin Club, it has run on the festival circuit but now gets its commercial release. It runs in Storm Cinema in Castletroy from Friday 10th.
Vox pop from Classic Cinema Listowel film club showing of the 'The Visitor'
Preview of Cuisle poetry Festival taking place in Limerick.
John Daly of Limerick Jazz Society talks about upcoming gig with cuban musician Ellio Villafranca
Preview of Newcastle West Film Club next show "Garage"

Music on the show from Ellio Villafranca

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Audio 22: Kieran Herlihy, Keith O Rahilly, Jim Corbett 3/10/08

Full show from Friday 3rd October
featuring

Kieran Herlihy speaking about 'Full Stop' his exhibition currently running in Limerick Printmakers.
Keith O Rahilly talking about his new exhibition 'Inward' in Newcastle West Library
Author Jim Corbett interviewed about his book 'Not while I have ammo'
Preview of next Newcastle West film club offering.
and new contributor Georgina Downes reading extracts from 'Not while I have ammo'

Music from Brian McNamara

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Audio 21:Nu Killa Beats, There are Little Kingdoms 26/09/08

Last Fridays show
featuring
Kevin Barry talking about the stage adaption of his short story collection "There are Little Kingdoms"
Code talking about the long running Nu Killa beats club night and his subtle audio record label.
Preview of the Newcastle West Film club showing of "Margo at the Wedding"

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photo of Mairtin de Cogain (there are little kingdoms) by Mike MacSweeney

Audio 20 : Tweak, Last Train from Holyhead, Film club

Full show from Friday 19th September
featuring
Interview with Nora Ni Muruchú from Tweak- new digital art festival in Limerick
Interview with Kieran Gleeson of the Classic Cinema in Listowel previewing new film club season
Interview with Bernard Field, writer of the play 'Last train from Holyhead'
Mary Carroll previews next film 'savages' from Newcastle West Film Club

Music from Deirdre Scanlons new album 'faces'
and we should be dead

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Audio 19: Melodica Deathship, Brahms in Castleconnell 29-08-08

This podcast is a full show. The first guest is Exile Eye, an irish rapper. He talks about the Melodica Deathship, a new EP of his, the irish hip hop scene and the influence of Bobby Sands whose track 'Back home in Derry' is reworked on the EP. Next up is Joan McKernan from the Limerick county arts officer who talks about the upcoming Brahms season in Castleconnell and the perception that classical music is elitist.

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