Arena
A look at what's happening in the world of arts, culture and entertainment presented by Rick O'Shea.
Episodes
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times chats to Rick about Faber confirming it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK.
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Donald Clarke and Sarina Bellissimo review survival thriller Whalefall and documentaries NAZA and Forever Is Now.
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Actor Luke Grimes chats to Rick about the latest season of Taylor Sheridan's American neo-Western Marshals.
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Ahead of the release of his new album, Belly of the Beast, Whozyerman? chats to Rick and performs live in studio.
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Playwright and director Enda Walsh and actors Séamus McLean Ross and Aoise Meaney discuss the major new production at The Everyman marking three decades of the play.
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Singer-songwriter Maya Libbey performs live in the studio.
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Ashley Keating of The Frank and Walters chats to Rick about Cork's most iconic music venues.
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Limerick artist Strange Boy performs live in studio and chats to Rick about his recently released second album, Say Nothing.
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Poets Vona Groarke and Martina Evans discuss this year’s Circling the Square Literary Festival.
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Paul Whittington discusses Marathon Man at 50.
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Jenn Gannon and Chris Wasser review Mike Flanagan’s reboot of Stephen King’s Carrie and Channel 4's comedy series It Gets Worse, and discuss why The Celebrity Traitors is so compelling.
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Graham Smyth and John Meagher review new releases from Troye Sivan, Morgana and Pet Shop Boys.
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A look back into the RTÉ Archives to mark Anne Carson winning the Nobel prize in Literature, 2026. The Canadian poet joined Vincent Woods in studio in March 2011, on a visit to Dublin as a guest of the Poetry Now festival in Dún Laoghaire. In the interview, she discusses her work translating from the Greek classics, and her own poetry and criticism, including her books The Autobiography of Red, Eros the Bittersweet, and Nox –...
John Maguire and Cara O'Doherty review Aaron Sorkin’s new Facebook film The Social Reckoning, Andrew Garfield in The Uprising and new Irish documentary Lesbian Lines.
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Sue Rainsford discusses her new novel From Out My Heart.
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Jenny Vila, founder and Creative Producer of La Mecànica chats to Rick about A Teen Odyssey an immersive and highly original production at this year's Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.
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Choreographer Akram Khan discusses his work Kaash, which will be part of a landmark triple bill of internationally acclaimed contemporary dance works coming to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre as part of NŌS by Luail.
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Acclaimed theatre and opera director Ben Barnes chats to Rick about Side Stage, a collection of his writing about theatre.
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Dr Barry Houlihan chats to Rick about a new exhibition marking 20 years since the death of John McGahern, which has opened at the University of Galway.
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German composer Heiner Goebbels and internationally acclaimed violinist Claire Duff of the Irish Baroque Orchestra discuss the Irish premiere of Goebbels' landmark music-theatre work, Songs of Wars I Have Seen, at the National Concert Hall.
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