Documentaries – Near FM

Listening to the Land – The return of oysters in Dublin Bay

gabor May 11, 2026

Interview of David Lawlor at Dún Laoghaire Marina, focused on the Green Ocean Foundation’s oyster reef restoration project. The episode explores the ecological case for reintroducing native oysters in Dublin Bay. 1st broadcast on 08/04/2026

O’Donoghue’s: Birthplace of Dublin Pub Sessions – Part 2

Paul April 2, 2026

O’Donoghue’s Pub, Merrion Row, Dublin, is celebrated as the birthplace of The Dubliners and a home for spontaneous traditional and folk sessions—but behind the music lies a deeper story. In the 1950s and ’60s, as waves of young people arrived from rural…

O’Donoghue’s: Birthplace of Dublin Pub Sessions – Part 1

Paul April 2, 2026

O’Donoghue’s Pub, Merrion Row, Dublin, is celebrated as the birthplace of The Dubliners and a home for spontaneous traditional and folk sessions—but behind the music lies a deeper story. In the 1950s and ’60s, as waves of young people arrived from rural…

O’Donoghue’s: Birthplace of Dublin Pub Sessions

Paul March 30, 2026

O’Donoghue’s Pub, Merrion Row, Dublin, is celebrated as the birthplace of The Dubliners and a home for spontaneous traditional and folk sessions—but behind the music lies a deeper story. In the 1950s and ’60s, as waves of young people arrived from rural…

Rebel Parish: Rebel Bus

Paul December 17, 2025

Produced by Berni Dwan, with audio production by Declan McGlade, Rebel Parish: Rebel Bus, is a combination of nostalgia firmly backed up by history, capturing personal experiences about growing up in one Dublin’s most historic neighbourhoods, Rathfarnham, between the 1940s and the…

Charmers and Chancers, Chaucer’s Cheerleaders – Hawking your Wares

Paul July 21, 2025

Hawking Your Wares examines the realities of being an independent trader of goods or services, to the backdrop of, perhaps the most beloved of all Chaucer’s characters, Alison, the Good Wife of Bath; the first fully realised, multi-dimensional creation of a fictional…

Charmers and Chancers, Chaucer’s Cheerleaders – Plague and Pestilence

Paul July 14, 2025

Plague and Pestilence embarks on more of a whistlestop than a leisurely pilgrimage throughout the centuries, starting with I think, one of the most “well setup” of all Chaucer’s characters – The Doctor of Physick. Safe to say he had a finely…

Charmers and Chancers, Chaucer’s Cheerleaders – Laying Down the Law

Paul July 7, 2025

Laying Down the Law embarks on perhaps a quizzical look at our Serjeant at Law, who has risen to the heights of his profession, being, as there were in those days, only twenty of his rank, selected by special writ from…

Charmers and Chancers, Chaucer’s Cheerleaders – Cloistered Warriors

Paul June 30, 2025

Cloistered Warriors embarks on a religious journey throughout the centuries, starting with perhaps, one of the most irritating of all Chaucer’s characters, what with her life of luxury and entitlement, her childish acceptance of religious doctrine at its most basic level, and…

Charmers and Chancers, Chaucer’s Cheerleaders – Who’s Medieval Army

Paul June 24, 2025

Who’s Medieval Army? embarks on a journey that examines aspects of women’s involvement in military activities in more recent centuries, mainly in both world wars and in Ireland between 1916 and 1923, while always remembering the backdrop of the almost exclusively male…

A Wild Year on the Northside – Episode 4 – Winter

Paul June 23, 2025

A Wild Year on the Northside – Ep 4 – In our final episode we look at the winter. The shorter, colder days means the natural world goes into self preservation mode to survive until the brighter, warmer days of Spring. Our…

A Wild Year on the Northside – Episode 3 – Autumn

Paul June 17, 2025

A Wild Year on the Northside – Ep 3 – The Autumn is a wonderfully abundant time in nature, the time of harvest and preparation for the coming cold of the winter months. A lot of our birds undertake extraordinary migrations, our Spring…