WHAT in the name of all that's sensible is RTE doing, shifting The Arts Show, Radio I's arts magazine, from its 7 p.m. slot? It now runs at 4 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays when few people who have the luck to be holding down a job can hear it, and of highlights of these two programmes so we've also, in effect, lost a programme. It is one of the best things on radio and, well, the over good sources of arts coverage, and the sooner, it is restored to its place, the better.

The Black Box, Network 2's arts programme, has shifted from Monday to Tuesday, and to a later time of 10.50 p.m. (you have to stay alert to catch arts coverage on RTE these days). Good news for RTE 1's Irish language arts programme, Cursai Ealaine (Sundays, 11 p.m.), is that it is being subtitled in English from the next programme on, and so you won't have to sit writhing with frustration while Dr Declan Kiberd discusses "literary androgyny from Shakespeare to Boy George", for instance.