The Butterfly Effect – Friday 21st Feb @ 6pm on Near FM In August 2013, through the support of the Simon Cumbers Media Fund, Joseph O’Connor and Paul Loughran travelled to Tanzania to discover how one butterfly farming project is educating local communities on the importance of protecting the environment[Read More…]
Programmes
A selection of programmes available on Near fm 90.3
To The End Of The Earth
To The End Of The Earth is a new 5 part 30 minute Radio Documentary series, starting on Feb 10th 2014. The Series focuses on the Irish Military Diaspora in South America and features the incredible lives of: Ambrose O’Higgins John MacKenna Bernardo O’Higgins Admiral William Brown Ernesto “CHE” Guevara[Read More…]
Reinterpreting 1913
Reinterpreting 1913 is a Sound and Vision funded radio series which explores the artistic influence of the 1913 Lockout in Ireland. It begins Friday 24th of January at 6pm and runs for 3 weeks (January 24th, 31st and February 7th) on Near FM. The series looks at the influence that[Read More…]
Ireland’s Oceans
Ireland has over 1400 km of coastline and 220 million acres of seabed, some of it as deep as 5km. Our seas have weathered our coastlines and shaped our climate. In the distant past the freezing of these oceans created the icecaps that sculpted our land. And when the ice[Read More…]
Ireland’s Oceans
Ireland has over 1400 km of coastline and 220 million acres of seabed, some of it as deep as 5km. Our seas have weathered our coastlines and shaped our climate. In the distant past the freezing of these oceans created the icecaps that sculpted our land. And when the ice[Read More…]
Drama on the Northside
A new 3 part drama anthology series by local writers and performed by local drama groups. Tue 17th Dec 4.30pm – ‘Playing for Time’ by Henry Hudson Set in a concentration camp in Eastern Europe in early 1945. Levi Esser is a middle-aged Jewish violinist. He plays in the camp[Read More…]
The Arts Show
The Arts Show Tuesdays 7-8pm The Arts show is a weekly magazine style programme, hosted on alternate weeks by Robbie Kane and Rebecca Blomfield, and Norma Burke and Maura Walsh. The show features Live music in studio with bands and artists, and interviews with various people including poets, drama groups,[Read More…]
Pobal Chluian Tarbh, Inné agus Inniu
Tá Pobal Chluian Tarbh , pobal deonach Gaeilge, ar an saol ón mbliain 1972 agus é mar aidhm aige?Pobal a thógáil le Gaeilge?. Reachtáileadh iliomad imeachtaí le dha scór bliain anuas dírithe ar idir óg agus aosta.Ón mbliain 1980 i leith reachtáiltear Éigse Chluain Tarbh ?féile pobail seachtaine- ina mbíonn eagrais[Read More…]
The Long Way Home – Celebrating 30 Years of the Peter McVerry Trust
Broadcasting Jan 30, 31 & Feb 03 @ 6.30pm Please note – On Wednesday January 29 at the Twisted Pepper (Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1) Jim Carroll of the Irish Times will interview Peter McVerry as part of the Banter sessions . Doors open at 6pm and the interview begins at 6.30pm. Admission is free[Read More…]
Lovers of Life
Lovers of Life is a 4 part documentary series, which captures a snapshot of the Dublin Independent Music scene in 2013. At a time when the music industry worldwide is having to continuously change[Read More…]
