Arena

Arena

Irish podcast exploring what's happening in the world of arts, culture and entertainment. Listen live every weeknight on RTÉ Radio 1 from 7-8pm. Listen to individual clips at rte.ie/arena.

Episodes

October 22, 2025 30 mins
Kevin Rowland - Madama Butterfly
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Lazarus - The Mastermind - Rebel Without a Causeat 70
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Haunted Dancehall - Wexford Opera Festival review - RTÉ Short Story Competition
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October 17, 2025 46 mins
TV reviews - Album reviews
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Film reviews - Alex Lawther - RTÉ Short Story Competition
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My English Persian Kitchen - Picasso: From the Studio - Swan Lake
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Gratefully & Affectionately: Mary Lavin & The New Yorker - Waiting for Godot on Broadway - Obituary Series 2.
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Mark Ronson - Mr. Scorsese - RTÉ Short Story Competition
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October 10, 2025 46 mins
TV reviews - Album reviews
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October 9, 2025 52 mins
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.
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Steve Pyke - Victoria Beckham - Cressida Leyshon
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Rebecca Ferguson in A House of Dynamite - Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon - Pianist and composer Jamie Duffy
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October 6, 2025 49 mins
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.
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October 3, 2025 47 mins
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.
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October 2, 2025 50 mins
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.
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October 1, 2025 50 mins
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.
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Denouement - Gore Vidal - How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
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Oliver Cole - Deaf Republic - Beckett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan
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September 26, 2025 46 mins
TV Reviews - Album Reviews
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Everything We Do is Music - The Swallow - A R C H I P E L A G O : Through an Irish lens
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