Sunday Miscellany
{{short description|Irish radio programme (1968–present)}}
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- prose
- poetry
- music
- Miscellany
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| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = Ireland
| language = English
| home_station = RTÉ Radio 1
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| record_location = RTÉ Radio Centre
| first_aired = {{Start date and age|1968}}{{Cite web |date=18 February 2019 |title=Behind the scenes of an essential part of weekend radio for 50 years |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30905051.html |website=Irish Examiner}}
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| opentheme = "Galliard Battaglia" by Samuel Scheidt
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| website = {{URL|https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany/}}
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Sunday Miscellany is an English-language Irish radio programme featuring new Irish writing of poetry and (mostly non-fiction) prose, broadcast on Sunday mornings on RTÉ Radio 1 since 1968. The programme does not have hosts, but contributions of writings, read by the writers are intercut with related music. Contributors are a mix of established authors and poets and novices who have submitted their written works for consideration.{{Cite web |last=Regan |first=Colin |date=11 October 2019 |title=A miscellany of a Sunday that will long live in the memory |url=https://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/kinlough/485376/a-miscellany-of-a-sunday-that-will-long-live-in-the-memory.html |website=Leitrim Observer}}{{Cite news |title='Sunday Miscellany' regular known for love of storytelling |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/sunday-miscellany-regular-known-for-love-of-storytelling-1.1892601 |newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{Cite web |last=McHugh |first=Michael |date=4 November 2023 |title=Gifted writer Olive Travers earthy tales reflect an amazing tapestry of life & living |url=https://www.donegallive.ie/news/features/1340310/gifted-writer-olive-travers-earthy-tales-reflect-an-amazing-tapestry-of-life-living.html |website=Donegal Live}}
The standard format is pre-recorded, but frequently, versions of the programme have been recorded in front of a live audience with a chamber or full orchestra and vocalists.{{Cite web |date=27 November 2023 |title=Festive storytelling and Christmas music as acclaimed RTÉ show comes to Wexford |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/wexford-district/festive-storytelling-and-christmas-music-as-acclaimed-rte-show-comes-to-wexford/a2093200585.html |website=Irish Independent}}{{Cite web |last=McLaughlin |first=Rachel |date=2019-09-23 |title=Popular RTE Radio 1 show to be recorded live in Donegal |url=https://www.donegaldaily.com/2019/09/23/popular-rte-radio-1-show-to-be-recorded-live-in-donegal/ |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=Donegal Daily |language=en-US}}
A selection of pieces from the show entitled Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2018 – 2023, won an Irish Book Award in 2023.{{Cite web |last=Fitzgerald |first=Cormac |date=22 November 2023 |title=Paul Murray's The Bee Sting wins Novel of the Year at An Post Irish Book Awards |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-book-awards-2-6230194-Nov2023/ |website=TheJournal.ie}}
The series had over 300,000 listeners in August 2024,{{Cite web |last=English |first=Eoin |date=15 August 2024 |title=RTÉ listenership on the rise despite controversies and departures |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41456641.html |website=Irish Examiner}} beating presenter-led shows such as Sunday with Miriam, and Liveline.{{Cite web |date=15 August 2024 |title=Latest JNLR RTÉ listenership figures released |url=https://about.rte.ie/2024/08/15/latest-jnlr-rte-listenership-figures-released/ |publisher=RTÉ}}
Notable contributors
Contributors to the programme have included:
- Rachel Burrows
- Eric CrossWalsh, Ronnie, ed. (1975) Sunday Miscellany. Dublin: Radio Telefís Éireann {{ISBN|0-7171-0774-4}}; pp. 11-12, 20-21, 32-33, 65-66, 87-88, 102-03, 113-14, 129-30, 156-57
- Rachael Hegarty{{Cite web |date=22 December 2024 |title=Couples at Christmas, by Rachael Hegarty |url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22472898/ |work=RTÉ Radio 1}}
- William Keohane{{Cite episode |title=3 May 2020 |url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/21762894/ |series=Sunday Miscellany |last=Keohane |first=William |author-link=William Keohane |date=3 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309100049/https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/21762894/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2023-03-09}}
- Benedict Kiely{{Cite magazine |last=Tracy |first=Robert |title=Tyrone Power! |magazine=Irish Literary Supplement |pages=30–31 |volume=27 |issue=1 Fall2007 |issn=0733-3390 |id={{EBSCOhost|26503321}}}}
- Melosina Lenox-Conyngham
- Brian Leyden{{Cite web |date=2023-10-15 |title=Creative Blooming by Brian Leyden |url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22309060/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |work=RTÉ Radio 1}}{{Cite web |last=Leyden |first=Brian |author-link=Brian Leyden |date=2021-01-10 |title=The Great Inventor |url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/21892143/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |work=RTÉ Radio 1}}
- Bill Long{{Cite news |date=12 June 2010 |title=Author and broadcaster, well known for 'Change of Heart' |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2010/0612/1224272355300.html |access-date=12 June 2010 |newspaper=The Irish Times}}
- John MacKenna
- Stella G. Mew{{Cite episode |title=The Yeats Centenary, 1965 |url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/21989316/ |series=Sunday Miscellany |last=Mew |first=Stella |author-link=Stella G. Mew |station=RTÉ Radio 1 |date=1 August 2021}}
- Éilís Ní Dhuibhne{{Cite journal |last=Giovanna |first=Tallone |title="Stories Like the Light of Stars": Folklore and Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne |journal=Estudios Irlandeses |volume=12 |issue=2 - 2017 Special Issue |page=155}}
- Billy O'Callaghan{{Cite episode |title=24 November 2013 |url=https://www.rte.ie/radio1/sunday-miscellany/programmes/2013/1124/488514-sunday-miscellany-24-november-2013/ |series=Sunday Miscellany |date=24 November 2013 |work=RTÉ Radio 1}}
- Madeleine O'Rourke{{Cite encyclopedia |title=O'Rourke, Madeleine C. |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Irish Biography |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |date=2013 |editor-last=McGuire |editor-first=James |last1=Lunney |first1=Linde |editor2-last=Quinn |editor2-first=James}}
- John Ryan
- Jessica Traynor
- Phil Young{{Cite web |title=LibertiesPress.com: Patricia Lynch, Storyteller: Phil Young: Books: 0 |url=http://www.libertiespress.com/cartage.html?main_page=product_book_info&cPath=13&products_id=19&zenid=pqdbv4khe9dj8hgssr4bbutgl5 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713204121/http://www.libertiespress.com/cartage.html?main_page=product_book_info&cPath=13&products_id=19&zenid=pqdbv4khe9dj8hgssr4bbutgl5 |archive-date=13 July 2011 |access-date=2009-06-24}}
- Seán J. White
Bibliography
Selections of pieces performed on the show have been published.
- {{Cite book |title=Sunday Miscellany:A Selection from 1995-2000 |publisher=Town House |year=2000 |isbn=9781860591341 |editor-last=Heaney |editor-first=Marie |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |title=Sunday Miscellany:A Selection from 2003 and 2004 |publisher=Town House |year=2004 |isbn=9781860592300 |editor-last=Heaney |editor-first=Marie |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |title=Sunday Miscellany:A Selection from 2004-2006 |publisher=New Island Books |year=2006 |isbn=9781905494132 |editor-last=Ní Anluain |editor-first=Clíodhna |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |title=A Treasury of Sunday Miscellany |publisher=New Island Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-1848400504 |editor-last=Heaney |editor-first=Marie |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |title=September Sundays:As Heard on Sunday Miscellany |publisher=New Island Books |year=2013 |isbn=9781848402782 |editor-last=Ní Anluain |editor-first=Clíodhna |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |title=Miscellany 50:Fifty Years of Sunday Miscellany |publisher=New Island Books |year=2019 |isbn=9781848407473 |editor-last=Ní Anluain |editor-first=Clíodhna |ref=none}}
- {{Cite book |title=Sunday Miscellany:A Selection, 2018-2023 |publisher=New Island Books |year=2023 |isbn=9781848409040 |editor-last=Binchy |editor-first=Sarah |ref=none}}
References
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External links
- {{official website}}
{{RTÉ Radio 1}}
Category:1968 radio programme debuts
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