Audio Drama – Blind Date

Thursday 23rd February at 18.00 Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a blind date by mutual friends. What have they to lose? A compelling and intense drama about looking for love. Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a blind date by mutual friends and long-term coupleHelen and Dave. Sophie, a pretty, sexually confident thirty-year-old, is looking forsomething more permanent than her usual transient relationships. Karl, a good-lookingthirtysomething, agrees because he thinks Helen secretly fancies him and […]

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We need more women behind the mic!

Are you a woman, interested in presenting on the airways? Have you ever listened to the radio and thought: ‘Why does no-one talk about….? 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 community media broadcaster on Near FM and host your own radio programme. No experience necessary.  To register email dorothee@near.ie Near FM are running their next […]

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Independent Radio Exchange

Broadcasting every Friday at 7pm, starts Friday Feb 3rd. Near FM are excited to be involved in a brand new European wide radio series. The Independent Radio Exchange (Indie-RE) is a music programme playing new, independent music from across Europe. Broadcasting on Near FM every Friday at 7pm. The series is produced by a team of community radio stations from 8 European countries. Near FM are in partnership with Radio Student (Slovenia), Radio Corax (Germany), Radio Helsinki (Austria), EMA (Spain), […]

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Mendelssohn re-imagined

Podcast now available at https://nearfm.ie/podcast/the-hugh-lane-concert-series-the-fews-ensemble/ This 90 minute programme features an exhilarating performance by Newry Chamber Music group, The Fews Ensemble, as they reimagine Mendelssohn by performing the original Octet in E-flat major in it’s entirety for the first time in Ireland. The original octet was written when Mendelssohn was only 16!  The performance also features works by Northern Irish composers Amy Rooney and Brian Connor. The concert programme is interspersed with an insightful interview with virtuosic musicians Joanne Quigley-McParland […]

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Audio Drama – Jammie Dodgers

New audio drama Jammie Dodgers – Thursday December 8th 2022 at 18.00 Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay adult responsibility and not sleep with each other. They fail on all counts. Jammie Dodgers is a show that explores that time in your early twenties […]

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Audio Drama – Breathing Space

Airing Thursday November 3rd at 18.00 is Breathing Space, a comedy drama about an accidental astronaut being ghosted by a space agency on her journey to Mars. Bridget Jones meets Gravity while Waiting For Godot. It is the year 2032 and civilian guinea pig Ciara Fitzpatrick is aboard the first solo flight toMars. When Mission Control fails to make contact and the daily audio diary entries shesends out are ignored, she quickly realises how far she is out of her […]

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