Brave – new audio drama

Broadcasting Thursday Nov 16th at 6pm 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. Through Mairead’s story, our author Maura Campbell explores “why it might be seen as ‘brave’ to apply a word that’s generally represented as something very different […]

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Golden Years – Outside Broadcast

Tune in on Monday Oct 2nd at 11am for a fantastically atmospheric Outside Broadcast from the Golden Years Community Group in Darndale. Join Magic Moments’ John Markey, and Gerry Cooley as they present music, interviews, songs and stories with Golden Years members, marking International Day of Older persons. Production Team Producer  – Debbie McMahon. Presenters – John Markey and Gerry Cooley. Floor manager – Paula Wiseman.  Technical Coordination  – Paul Loughran. Sound and Edit – Gabor Zajzon. Social benefit programming is made […]

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New Training and Broadcast course

We are particularly looking for people living and working in Dublin 17 to get involved. Are you interested in presenting on the airways? Have you ever listened to the radio and thought: ‘Why does no-one talk about….?, How come nobody sounds like me? Why are there not more women on air?’ Why does no-one ever play… Maybe I could do that’ Then this is the place for you! Learn the skills to become a broadcaster on Near FM and host your own radio […]

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Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery

Broadcasting every Friday at 3.30pm, starts Friday June 30th Welcome to Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – an eight-part history lesson concentrating on a unique aspect of Irish culture, heritage, and experience – the Hedge School. With the participation of educational historians and practitioners, actors, and researchers from the community, we will demonstrate that modern-day alternatives have much in common with Hedge Schools in that they operate on the margins [some more than others], they tend to be viewed as […]

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Deirdre O’Leary and Alex Petcu in Concert

Broadcasting Tuesday June 20th at 2pm Recorded as part of the Sundays at Noon concert series in the beautiful surrounds of Dublin’s Hugh Lane gallery, on May 7th 2023, Near FM present a concert of clarinets and percussion by Deirdre O’Leary and Alex Petcu, performing works by Ross Edwards, Barry O’Halpin, Adam Scott Neal, Kevin Free and Susan Kander. We also have an interview with Deirdre, Alex and composer and Barry O’Halpin. The programme is presented by Cliodhna Ryan. Produced […]

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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 secrets and the undeniable bond of siblinghood. Directed by Anna Nugent Caoimhe Mulcahy as Rachael Méabh de Brún as Mags Patrick de Monfort as Mike Paul Nugent […]

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