Archive for June 10th, 2007
That’s Pirate Radio Part 5 – Radio 2 Cominatcha!
In May 1979 RTE launched a new legal pop station, Radio 2, hiring A.R.D. founder Declan Meehan to front the breakfast show. On his first show, Meehan famously told listeners that ‘it’s eighteen after eight’, and was carpeted by a producer who insisted that on RTE it was not ‘eighteen after eight’ but ‘eighteen minutes past eight o’clock’. >>> (more…)
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John Waters & God v. Hitchens & Reason
Well, it’s Book Club Day again for fans of the Bible, who gather every week to hear more of the adventures of their favourite characters. But next Sunday in the Gate Theatre they can hear a real debate, between Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great - the Case against Religion and John Waters, author of Lapsed Agnostic and They Can’t Stop the Spring. >>> (more…)
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