Broadcasting every Friday afternoon at 3.30 from June 27th to July 25th Devised and produced by Berni Dwan, and funded by Coimisiún na Meán, Charmers and Chancers: Chaucer’s Cheerleaders, is a five-part series that attempts to link five key medieval professions – military, religious, legal, medical, trading – as depicted[Read More…]
Programmes
A selection of programmes available on Near fm 90.3
A Wild Year on the Northside
Broadcasting in June – Thursday 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th at 7pm Listen to episode 1 now This new series will take a lyrical look at a year in nature on the Northside of Dublin City. Each of the four episodes will focus on a different season and give listeners[Read More…]
Trinity Talks: Dublin’s Hidden Histories
Broadcasting Thursdays at 6pm – April 24th, May 1st, May 8th, May 15th, May 29th and June 5th Listen back to previously broadcast programmes here Dublin’s Hidden Histories is the latest series of ‘Trinity Talks’ from the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Near FM. In[Read More…]
The Hugh Lane Concert series – The Art of the Fugue
Broadcasting on Tuesday March 11th at 2pm. In this special episode, Harpsichordists Rachel Factor and Yonit Kosovske present a duo performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of the Fugue) BWV 1080. Composed in Bach’s final decade of life, this monumental masterpiece was scored for unspecified[Read More…]
The Hugh Lane Concert series – Mayah Kadish & Tim Cape
Broadcasting on Tuesday 11th February at 2pm on Near FM Near FM is delighted to present the latest in our Hugh Lane Concert series, featuring renowned violinist Mayah Kadish accompanied by Tim Cape on electronics. The concert was recorded on Jan 12th 2025 in Dublin’s Hugh Lane gallery as part[Read More…]
Growing Up in the Big Smoke, Unrhymed and Acapella
Gets its premier broadcast on Near FM, Friday afternoon, January 10th at 3.30pm Growing Up in the Big Smoke, Unrhymed and Acapella, is a memoir of growing up in Dublin as a child of the nineteen-sixties, a teenager of the nineteen-seventies, and a young woman of the nineteen-eighties, a memoir[Read More…]
Jammie Dodgers
November 1st, 8th and 15th at 19.00 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[Read More…]
Unearthed, Dublin working class literary voices
Broadcasting every Friday at 3.30pm, starts Friday October 11th. Unearthed is a five part series that captures a wide diversity of Dubliners reading their original poetry and prose. In many cases we hear Dublin working class accents and voices not often associated with the literary world. Many of the writers[Read More…]
Don’t B 2 Keen Mr. Matchmaker
New Audio Drama this Friday 20th September at 7pm. Don’t B 2 Keen Mr. Matchmaker by Conrad JB Ethan, a young Dublin gay man, disillusioned with his prospects of ever owning a house in the capital, sets off to deep rural Ireland in search of a Sugar Daddy. Written as[Read More…]
Life After Stalin – A Dubliner’s Diary
Starts Friday September 6th around 12 noon Life after Stalin – A Dubliner’s Diary is a new 12 part series written and presented by Paul Harrison. In the series Paul reflects on how he was born in 1953, the day before Joseph Stalin died. Paul take’s a light-hearted look at[Read More…]
