Radio Previews

Monday

Monday

The Book on One (RTE Radio 1, 2.45 p.m.) Garret Keogh begins reading from Flann O'Brien's first novel At Swim Two Birds - a work operating on several levels of invention.

Book of the Week: Florence Nightingale in Egypt (BBC Radio 4, 9.45 a.m.) Four years before Florence Nightingale became famous her family sent her to Egypt for a rest - on the trip she found her vocation. Anthony Sattin, who re-discovered the diaries, introduces the first of five extracts.

Tuesday

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In My Life (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m.) Inez McCormick talks to Olivia O'Leary about the changes she has seen - from her early days in the Civil Rights Movement to feminism and her hopes for the future.

Play of the Week (RTE Radio 1, 9 p.m.) In Anthony Frew's humorous The Pirate Radio Show, a radio DJ is kidnapped and an entire radio studio is hijacked by a bunch of unemployed actors who cause mayhem when they take over the airwaves.

Afternoon Play (BBC Radio 4, 2.15 p.m.) A Shout in the Distance by Maurice Leitch. It's the 1970s during the Troubles and a young Antrim man is packed off to London for obscure reasons.

Wednesday

The Documentary on One (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m.) The Chowder Club tells the story of three movie buffs whose passion has compelled them to build cinemas in their own homes - Fiona Kelly visited them in Comber, Ballinasloe and Cork. Thursday

The Greenroom (Lyric fm, 7 p.m.) Aedin Gormley with music from movies and musicals featuring Jaws, Star Wars and Schindler's List.

Friday

The Friday Play (BBC Radio 4, 9 p.m.) Dear Master details the friendship between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert which has been adapted by Peter Eyre from their gossipy and philosophical correspondence and diaries.