Updated / Sunday, 11 Apr 2021
21:23
John O Donnell introduces Rainbow Baby, his new RTÉ Drama On One play, which will be broadcast this Sunday (April 11th) at 8pm on RTÉ Radio One - listen to it above.
A rainbow baby is traditionally a baby born after previous efforts to conceive have ended in miscarriage, still-birth, infant loss, or neonatal death. It’s an uplifting image, the miraculous brightness after a dark time; and that a rainbow occurs naturally only adds to the sense of wonder.
But what happens if there’s no rainbow? There are lots of people who for their own reasons decide that they do not want to have children, but for those who do, their ongoing childlessness is a kind of grief. Guilt, shame, anger are just some of the emotions experienced by would-be mothers (and fathers), many of whom will tell you that the desire to have a child never goes away.
Updated / Thursday, 11 Mar 2021
18:34
Drama On One producer Kevin Reynolds introduces
Lear in Lockdown, an epic new series of RTÉ podcasts to help students study Shakespeare s
King Lear - including scene analysis with actor and director Alan Stanford, teachers and students sharing Leaving Cert sample answers, theme explainers, favourite quotes and the King Lear Quiz where (just like the Leaving Cert) all your favourite questions come up! I ll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?
King Lear. Act 3, Scene 4
Lear in Lockdown had its genesis in 2005, when renowned actor and director Alan Stanford joined the RTÉ
Writings from our Long Story Short series
first lockdown, a selection of writings.
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This week on Drama On One: As we mark the anniversary of the first lockdown, we present a selection of new Irish writing commissioned over the past twelve months, each of them connecting in some way with our experience of the pandemic
Kevin Reynolds a bhí i mbun léiriú.
Debbie Wright played Charlie.
The Jumpin Inn series was originally commissioned by Earagail Arts Festival and the Glens Arts Centre, Manorhamilton.
Sound Supervision was by Ruth Kennington
The producer for RTE was Kevin Brew
Siobhán Mannion introduces
Small Bones, her new RTÉ Drama On One play which will be broadcast this Sunday at 8pm on RTÉ Radio One - listen to
Small Bones above.
When I was asked to write a piece for
Drama On One that would reflect the present moment, I knew early on that the central character would be someone working in the arts.
And so our heroine is a musician, an artist grounded. The play is a nod to all those - on stage and off - whose lives and livelihoods depend on communal shared experience, the presence of a crowd.
The Monsignor & The Supernatural - Pat McCabe s Drama On One play rte.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rte.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.