RTÉ Radio Drama's audio theatre department has for decades proudly brought audiences the very best dramatic writing and performances for radio from Ireland. Listen every Sunday night at 8pm at RTÉ Radio 1, visit rte.ie/dramaonone for more.
Latest episodes
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44 min
In The Middle of The Fields by Mary Lavin
In The Middle of The Fields by Mary LavinBased on the acclaimed stage production of Mary Lavin's short story, directed by Joan Sheehy, and originally produced by Blood In The Alley…
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46 min
The Ballad of the Stolwijk Rescue by Brían MacGloinn
The Ballad of the Stolwijk RescueAnother chance to hear the award-winning documentary from our colleagues in The Lyric Feature. In December 1940, eight fishermen from Arranmore Isl…
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48 min
Wake by Irene Kelleher
Wake by Irene KelleherIn this touching comedy we eavesdrop on the thoughts of a young woman during her mother’s wake in the family home, in a play that explores the indeterminacy o…
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32 min
Horace by John O'Donnell
Horace by John O'DonnellFidelma has a special gift. So when young couple Tom and Cathy join the bereavement counselling group, Fidelma sees a way that she can help them – until oth…
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56 min
Hecuba by Marina Carr
Hecuba written by Marina CarrTroy has fallen and the humiliated and bereaved, Hecuba, Trojan Queen wipes the blood of her slaughtered sons and grandsons off her body. As more sacri…
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56 min
Longing Lasts Longer by Penny Arcade
Longing Lasts Longer by Penny Arcade.Longing last Longer is a kick-ass comedy with guts, it's a refutation of nostalgia, It's a crack at gentrification; not only the gentrification…
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48 min
The Curse of the Button Accordion by Sharon Mannion
Sharon is not a happy child! On the contrary she is a young girl obsessed with the predictions of Nostradamus, the third secret of Fatima and the end of the World! She is worried t…
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46 min
The Last, High King of Ireland by Patrick Fogarty
The Last, High King of Ireland by Patrick FogartyThe Last, High King of Ireland tells the story of a day in the life of a hard-drinking man who has bestowed upon himself the title…
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47 min
Mr Sun by Gillian Grattan
Marie, a single mother in the dormitory suburbs, hides her unhappiness behind harsh humour; but the tedious, elderly neighbours she dismisses turn out to be hiding from harm themse…
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51 min
Charolais by Noni Stapleton
Charolais a surreal comedy about love, longing and one woman’s intense rivalry with a Charolais heifer. This is a muddy place of simmering desire minced with a loneliness that cuts…
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55 min
Islands - with Chris Watson & Luke Clancy
From Ross Island to Galapagos to the possibly mythical isle of HyBrasil, world renowned sound recordist Chris Watson teams up with Writer/Presenter Luke Clancy, Composer Irene Buck…
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55 min
Islands - with Chris Watson & Luke Clancy
From Ross Island to Galapagos to the possibly mythical isle of HyBrasil, world renowned sound recordist Chris Watson teams up with Writer/Presenter Luke Clancy, Composer Irene Buck…
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47 min
From the River of Ghosts by Roger Gregg
an intimate love letter commemorating the lives of a working family pursuing their dreams over several generations in America’s rust belt.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in…
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50 min
No Love Lost by Dylan Tighe
No Love Lost by Dylan Tighe, explores anti-Traveller racism through the prism of a love story between a young Traveller man and an older woman.See omnystudio.com/listener for priva…
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51 min
Three Our Fathers by Karl O'Neill
In a sinister triptych that mimics a hall of mirrors, Karl O'Neill’s three masculine monologues draw parallel portraits – a suitor, a stalker, a spouse – of concave Man obsessed wi…
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39 min
Hurl by Katie Honan
Hurl by Katie Honan is a hurling love story set in Waterford. Part Marty Morrissey, part Bridget Jones, Janet Walsh (a complete hurling novice) journeys into the world of Ireland's…
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39 min
Hurl by Katie Honan
Hurl by Katie Honan is a hurling love story set in Waterford. Part Marty Morrissey, part Bridget Jones, Janet Walsh (a complete hurling novice) journeys into the world of Ireland's…
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47 min
Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison
With Nick Dunning as Magnus Sparling and Barry McGovern as the paterfamilas Edwin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform…
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47 min
Eureka Dunes by Philip Davison
With Nick Dunning as Magnus Sparling and Barry McGovern as the paterfamilas Edwin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform…
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41 min
Wee Black Bees by Little John Nee
blues musician, Sparkplug grapples with heartbreak, the welfare of bee populations and the writings of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor…