The Full Series is now available online. Welcome to Hedge Schools Beyond the Shrubbery – an eight-part history lesson concentrating on a unique aspect of Irish culture, heritage, and experience – the Hedge School. With the participation of educational historians and practitioners, actors, and researchers from the community, we will[Read More…]
Programmes
A selection of programmes available on Near fm 90.3
Deirdre O’Leary and Alex Petcu in Concert
Broadcasting Tuesday June 20th at 2pm Recorded as part of the Sundays at Noon concert series in the beautiful surrounds of Dublin’s Hugh Lane gallery, on May 7th 2023, Near FM present a concert of clarinets and percussion by Deirdre O’Leary and Alex Petcu, performing works by Ross Edwards, Barry[Read More…]
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…]
Hungry Gap, Fat Friars, Food Poverty
Broadcasting every Thursday at 2.30pm, starts May 25th, 2023. Welcome to our new three-part food history series Hungry Gap, Fat Friars, Food Poverty, produced by Berni Dwan. In this series we will explore food and drink production and consumption in Ireland and Britain over one thousand years starting at 1000[Read More…]
Billy O’Brien in concert
Broadcasting on Near FM on Tuesday March 7th at 2pm. Recorded as part of the Sundays at Noon Concert series, on Nov 20th 2022, Billy O’Brien (piano) performs a concert of Alexander Skriabin – 24 Preludes op. 11 and Olivier Messiaen – Premiere Communion de la Vierge from Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jesu.[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…]
Independent Radio Exchange
Broadcasting every Thursday at 4.30pm Near FM are excited to be a partner on the Independent Radio Exchange (Indie-RE), a music programme playing new, independent music from across Europe. Broadcasting on Near FM every Thursday at 4.30pm. The series is produced by a team of community radio stations from 8[Read More…]
