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  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 177 with Sue Healy // Jan 6 2018

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 177 with Sue Healy // Jan 6 2018

    Well hello there! Aren’t you looking all relaxed after the winter break?! Enough of that! Thanks for dropping by and checking out the first episode of The London Ear for 2018.

    Interview with Sue Healy

    Irish Playwright - Sue Healy - The London Ear

    On this week’s show I am delighted to be joined by Irish in London playwright, Sue Healy. Sue was a guest previously on the show and has been working on a new play which is now ready to hit the stage.

    Imaginationship runs throughout January at the Finborough Theatre, which also happens to be celebrating its 150th anniversary.

    You can read all about her work on her website and you can follow Sue on Twitter.

    Imaginationship - Sue Healy

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 177, Jan 6 2018 // Playlist

    1. Rejjie Snow: Milk Honey
    2. JHus: ‘Bouff Daddy
    3. All the Luck in the World: Landmarks
    4. Five Grand Stereo: In Your Garage
    5. Glen Hansard: Set forth
    6. L.A.D. One mOre Night
    7. Tayne: Sacrifice
    8. Everything by Electricity: Last Day Of The Sun
    9. Swords: Battle
    10. Sue Healy interview
    11. Stellar: Drop In Drop Out
    12. Holy 57: Venice, CA
    13. Be Svendsen – Andromeda

    Listen On Demand to The London Ear

    Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

    Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

    Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

    Listen to the music on Spotify

    You can keep up to date with all the music I play on The London Ear in one handy Spotify playlist. Every track I’ve played and that is available on Spotify is in there. You can find it right here.

  • The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 130 with Abe Tarrush and Martin McNamara

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 130 with Abe Tarrush and Martin McNamara

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    On The London Ear this week I was delighted to be joined by with film maker and photographer Abe Tarrush and playwright Martin McNamara who chats about In The Shadow Or In The Shelter Festival.

    Abe Tarrush speaks about his short film ‘The Proposal’

    Nessy and Abe Tarrush - nessymon

    I’ve known Abe Tarrush a few years now and I was delighted to be able to catch up with him while he was in London. Abe was passing through following the screening of ‘The Proposal’ at the inaugural Exit 6 Film Festival in Basingstoke.

    We had a great chat and I enjoyed hearing Abe chat about the process of filmmaking and hearing about having his short screened at a festival.

    You can keep up with Abe on Twitter

    Martin McNamara speaks about ‘In The Shadow or In The Shelter Festival’

    Martin McNamara nessymon.comMartin McNamara is a journalist and radio producer who has worked on ‘The Parting Glass’, a documentary presented by Fintan O’Toole on the Celtic Tiger. Martin also produced and presented ‘From Inside: The Guildford Four’ a documentary about the Guildford Four.

    As a playwright, his first full length play, The Magic Hour, was produced at the Brockley Jack in 2013 and his first film script, The Shy Russian, is under option with Future Films USA.

    Martin joined me to chat about ‘In The Shadow or In The Shelter Festival’. It’s a series of six one hour plays which tell the story of Irish immigrants to the UK from 1916 until today. Martin’s play ‘Traitors, Cads & Cowards’ runs as part of the festival.

    In Shadow and In Shelter Festival - nessymonThe festival runs in the Lion and the Unicorn Theatre and then moves to River to Colour House Theatre from October 21st to 23rd.

    You can get tickets for the Lion and Unicorn Theatre here and River to Colour House Theatre Here

    You can keep up with the festival on Facebook and Twitter.

    The London Ear on RTE 2XM // Show 130 // October 08 2016

    1. Wallis Bird: Control
    2. Divine Comedy: How Can You Leave Me on My Own
    3. Chat with Abe Tarrush
    4. Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Kicking Roses
    5. The Twigs: These Words
    6. The Four of Us: Sugar Island
    7. Chat with Martin McNamara
    8. Placebo: Jesus’ Son
    9. Two Door Cinema Club: Gameshow
    10. The Japanese House: Face Like Thunder
    11. James Darkin: Chase

    Listen Again

    Thanks for listening, The London Ear broadcast on DAB radio, Saorview and outside Ireland you can listen online.You can listen to the show again on the RTE player. The show is broadcast every Saturday at 1300.

    Don’t forget to check out the RTE 2XM website. You can keep up with me here.

    Check out The London Ear on Facebook and Twitter

    Photo of Martin from his website

  • Culture Café // Episode 2 // David Gilna

    Culture Café // Episode 2 // David Gilna

    For Episode 2 of Culturé Cafe, I wanted to speak to someone on the rise, someone who is working their way up, getting their name out there, getting places. That person is David Gilna, a London based Irish playwright, actor, producer and now author, and someone whose positivity knows no bounds.

    David’s Story

    David was kind enough to tell us about his latest play ‘My Bedsit Window’, being hit by lighting and how it led him to write a play ‘The Gift of Lightning’ which is is now being turned into a full length feature film by Blue Pip Productions.

    David is such a positive person, and he has written an ebook ‘50 Lightning Tips About The Entertainment Business – Change Your Life Today‘ which you can get on Amazon. Reading this and speaking to David, it’s not hard to see why he sometimes runs motivational events for the entertainment industry.

    David also speaks about the three projects he is currently working on. A fantastic young artist with such a fantastic outlook.

    I might be biased but it’s well worth a listen!

    To find out more about David, you can visit his website DavidGilna.com

  • Play On, The Dublin Theatre Festival Playwriting Initiative

    This arrived in my inbox and I thought it was quite interesting, especially for all my writer friends.

    Here’s what you need to know:

    The Dublin Theatre Festival Playwriting Initiative, Play On was launched today. This new initiative aims to be a catalyst for the next generation of playwrights in Ireland, setting out to find playwrights with a distinctive voice, vision and style, seeking innovation in subject and form and encouraging the writing of original new plays.

    The Festival is now inviting applications from next-generation playwrights from Ireland or resident in Ireland. Applicants should send one contemporary stage play (produced or unproduced, short or full-length, or even just the first scene) as a sample of their work to the Dublin Theatre Festival (details below). (more…)