Broadcasting Tuesday July 15th at 2pm – Near FM presents episode 36 in our Hugh Lane Concert series with Korros Ensemble. The ensemble perform with the beautiful and unusual combination of flute, clarinet and harp. In the concert we hear works by Astor Piazzolla, Claude Debussy, Elizabeth Poston, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and[Read More…]
Programmes
A selection of programmes available on Near fm 90.3
Dead Platoon
Dead Platoon can be heard on Friday, July 18th at 7pm. Young men, think twice before whipping out your spray paints after dark, hoping to have some fun at the expense of the defenseless dead in that old local cemetery near you. Dead Platoon a new radio drama, written and[Read More…]
The Hugh Lane Concert series – Susannah de Wrixon and Conor Linehan
Broadcasting on Tuesday July 8th at 2pm – Near FM presents episode 35 in our Hugh Lane Concert series with Susannah de Wrixon on vocals and Conor Linehan on piano, with a diverse programme of song and piano music including works by Shakespeare, Bucchino, Weill, Joyce, Gershwin, Sondheim and original[Read More…]
Charmers and Chancers, Chaucer’s Cheerleaders
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…]
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…]
