Arena Podcast - 1st October 2025

Mark Ronson - Mr. Scorsese - RTÉ Short Story CompetitionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TV reviews - Album reviewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live from the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire for a special event to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. Rick was joined by Bernard O’Donoghue and Rosie Lavan, who edited this new edition of Heaney’s work; poets Moya Cannon and Victoria Kennefick; and critic Fintan O’Toole.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve Pyke - Victoria Beckham - Cressida LeyshonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rebecca Ferguson in A House of Dynamite - Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon - Pianist and composer Jamie DuffySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rick O'Shea talks to Anna Carey about the life of deceased author Jilly Cooper, to Jordan Fisher about the production of Fiddler on the Roof coming to the Bord Gais Energy and Helen Meany and Chris O’ Rourke chat all things Dublin Theatre Festival.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cian Sullivan and Louise Bruton review the week's hot new releases with Rick O'Shea, Chris Wasser and Jenn Gannon chat to Rick about this week's TV and we pay a tribute to the late, great, Manchan Magan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rick O'Shea is joined for film reviews by Declan Burke and Cara O'Doherty, the creators of Ghost Voltage - Peter Murphy and Colm Mac Con Iomaire and to rising Dublin hip-hop star Khakikid.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rick O'Shea hosts a live session with Innie-K, a conversation with Alan Gilsenan about his new film Riverrine and Finghin Collins joins us in studio to talk about the Monkstown Music Festival.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Denouement - Gore Vidal - How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.