Category: Radio Shows
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Medium Wave Maisie…
You know me, music has always been my go-to: it’s been medicine, balm, inspiration, fuel. Radio too: warm comfort, pushing images and pictures long before television, songs and chat, information, comment and a world of opportunities. It evokes strong memories. It fascinates me still and will never lose its charms. As I type, I’m listening…
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Three Miles Over, Three Miles Down
So it’s done. Finally. “Three Miles Over and Three miles Down” is a radio documentary project that took form a few years ago but in reality started in the summer of June 2009 when I interviewed former Castlecomer miner and author, Séamus Walsh. Back then, I was producing and presenting a show called People In…
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Radio and me…
I first stepped behind a mic in 1979 in Sarsfield Road, Inchicore, home of Radio Dublin, courtesy of the legendary DJ Pat James. He’d started himself some time previously and had landed a Friday night gig at the equally legendary McGonagle’s nightclub just off Grafton Street, so even he couldn’t be in two places at…
Martin Bridgeman 