Listen now 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.[Read More…]
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High Spirits
New audio drama High Spirits by Méabh de Brún – Listen Now! 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,[Read More…]
The Whale and the Swan
New audio drama broadcasting at 6pm on Thursday the 1st June 2023. The Whale and the Swan by Fiona Browne Marie is pregnant at a young age and finds herself in the care of the nuns. Her daily reality is stark and brutal. In order to survive she creates her[Read More…]
Jumping for Joy
New audio drama airing 4th May 2023 at 18.00 Jumping for Joy by Rachel Walshe A young woman decides to end her life on high point by jumping off a building before her happiness can turn sour. However just as she is about to jump, she is stopped by a[Read More…]
Jumping for Joy
New audio drama airing 4th May 2023 at 18.00 Jumping for Joy by Rachel Walshe A young woman decides to end her life on high point by jumping off a building before her happiness can turn sour. However just as she is about to jump, she is stopped by a[Read More…]
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[Read More…]
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[Read More…]
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[Read More…]
New Audio Drama – Black Cherry
Part 1 broadcasts at 16.30 on Friday 26th November and concludes on Friday 3rd December at 16.30 with Part 2. Black Cherry is written by Krystal Sweedman and directed by Anna Nugent. The play is the latest in Near FM’s New Drama Hour series of plays by women playwrights. In[Read More…]
Alarm Bells
Broadcasting Tuesday December 14th at 6pm, on Near FM Alarm Bells is a radio play written and produced by the Green Ember Arts collective. It portrays the escalating housing crisis through an anthology of short scenes in which a small fraction of those most affected by homelessness are represented. Alarm[Read More…]
