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Download: The Free School Trailer Think back, what were your least favourite parts of school? Maybe math, maybe physics, maybe you just hated gym. Now imagine a school where you didn’t have to do anything you didn’t want to. A school with no exams, no homework, no classes, not even any teachers. What if I … Continue reading The Free School – Upcoming Newstalk Documentary →

Download: The Bee Loud Glade – EP1 – Gerry Murphy To subscribe to this series and lots more from Roger Gregg, check out the brand new Crazy Dog Audio Podcast The Bee Loud Glade Cabaret is a series of twelve bite-size programmes bringing some of the best of the contemporary Irish spoken word scene to … Continue reading The Bee-Loud Cabaret on RTE Lyric →

Download: The Art of Television The A.R.T of Television is a historical comedy about censorship, set in the early years of Irish TV broadcasting. A time when government and church fought young broadcasters struggling to innovate on the nation’s fledgling television channel. American writer Claude Chabert lands a job on the early Irish soap opera ’Home … Continue reading The Art of Television →

Download: The Muse Unbidden The Muse Unbidden is an exciting one off drama from Roger Gregg, one of Ireland’s most influential radio dramatists. The play, a success on stage at the Collaborations festival in Smock Alley theatre in 2012, follows a group of would-be poets enrolled in a performance poetry workshop led by a charismatic … Continue reading The Muse Unbidden →

Download: ART Trailer Dead Medium Productions Presents ‘The A.R.T of Television’! It’s winter 1968, the long hangover after the Summer of Love. A.R.T is Ireland’s finest, and indeed only television station. But the nations flagship soap ‘Home Farm’ is failing as viewers frog march towards the satanic protestant seduction of the BBC. American ad man … Continue reading The ART of Television – All new comedy drama, coming soon! →

Download: Migrant Fictions (54 Megs) Migrant Fictions is an ambitious new drama project, bringing together the talents of a diverse group of immigrant writers to capture their experience as émigrés to Ireland. German-Polish writer / director Dominik Turkowski developed five short drama scripts through workshops with writers from the immigrant community. Their stories capture the … Continue reading Migrant Fictions →

A new podcast in which two writers attempt to develop a film in real time, with no preparation. Featuring Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal. Download: Let’s write a film – Episode 2. Previous episodes.

A new podcast in which two writers attempt to develop a film in real time, with no preparation. Featuring Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal. Download:  Let’s Write A Film.

Download: Getting into the Game Documentary Broadcasting Bank Holiday Monday 31st October, 11AM on Newstalk. Getting into the game is a new documentary aimed at kids who play games. Video games. Kids who play videogames and wonder maybe, possibly, perhapsily, if they’d like to make them. Growing up I remember getting those magazines full of strange … Continue reading Getting Into The Game →

Download: The Wedding Tree Subscribe: iTunes, RSS, Soundcloud. The Wedding Tree is an audacious new radio drama, set in the aftermath of an accident at an Irish nuclear power plant. In the wake of the disaster, fire officer Cian Mitchell is confined to hospital. Tormented by his injuries, Cian finds unlikely comfort in the company … Continue reading The Wedding Tree →

Download: Ideopreneurial Entrephonics. My latest report for Culture File looks at the recent Ideopreneurial Entrephonics II festival of avant garde music and modular analogue synthesis, held in the mysterious confines of Dublin’s Freemasons Lodge.

Download: The Wall in the Mind – 6 – Die Mauer Im Kopf Claire meets an old friend at the abandoned CIA listening post at Teufelsberg (Devils Mountain). As a storm begins, Claire learns the truth about what happened to Emil. Violence, death, and horrible secrets from the past finally exhumed, in the final episode of … Continue reading The Wall in the Mind – 6 – Die Mauer Im Kopf →

Download: The Wall in the Mind – 5 – Who is Emil Reichman? Claire is pushed to extremes in her quest to discover what happened to Emil. Her actions have consequences, both for her and the people she loves. Claire receives another mysterious tape, recorded after her release from jail in 1989, revealing a terrible secret … Continue reading The Wall in the Mind – 5 – Who is Emil Reichman? →

Download: The Wall in the Mind – 4 – Secrets and Lies In Episode 4 of ‘The Wall in the Mind’ we learn more about the relationship between Claire and Emil, and Claire’s friendship with Matthaus back in 1989. Claire confesses to Matthaus why she came to Germany. In the present, Matthaus tries to convince Claire … Continue reading The Wall in the Mind – 4 – Secrets & Lies →

Download: The Wall in the Mind – 3 – No Friends Like Old Friends Update: Soundcloud is currently broken (I’m substituting local links, apologies if this screws with your podcast feed). Shortly after her release from prison in 1989, Claire believes she can see Emil in videotaped footage of the fall of the wall. In 2014, … Continue reading The Wall in the Mind – 3 – No Friends Like Old Friends →

Download: The Wall in the Mind – 2 – The People’s Republic of Friedrichshain We slip between past and future – Claire’s memories of her incarceration and her search for answers in the present. Claire finds the city, and her old friends much changed. Claire searches for Emil amongst the last of the Berlin squats, and … Continue reading The Wall in the Mind – 2 – The People’s Republic of Friedrichshain →

Download: Behind the Wall – 1 – The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere Update: Soundcloud is currently broken (I’m substituting local links, apologies if this screws with your podcast feed). Claire O’Hanlon, a respected lecturer, is tormented by nightmares of her arrest and imprisonment in 1989. In the present day – a mysterious cassette tape arrives … Continue reading The Wall in the Mind – 1 – The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere →

Download: Behind the Wall – 15 – The Card in the Rubble In the final behind the scenes episode of ‘The Wall in the Mind’ I talk about the mysterious find that inspired the mystery at the heart of the series. At a town outside Berlin called Blankenburg. There lie the ruins of a barracks of … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 15 – The Card in the Rubble →

Download: Behind The Wall – 14 – Mia Gallagher Interview Mia Gallagher is an actress and author who plays one half of the lead role of Claire in the Wall in the Mind. We talk about playing a complex tormented character, collaboration between actor and writer and the physicality of performance. Mia’s latest novel ‘Beautiful pictures of … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 14 – Mia Gallagher Interview →

Download: Behind the Wall – 13 – James O’Connor Interview In today’s episode of ‘Behind The Wall’ I speak to writer / director and one of the stars of ‘The Wall in the Mind’, James O’Connor. James plays the character of Emil Reichmann, a squatter and activist fighting against the corrupt communist regime of the DDR. … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 13 – James O’Connor Interview →