Radio Drama – Near FM

Awakenings

Paul April 5, 2024

Awakenings is a five-act play about tolerance, making the effort to understand other points of views when recognised in context, and strengthening rather than weakening ties when differences have been acknowledged. In Awakenings, the conflicting views around religion, popular culture, and traditional culture are…

Curtain Up Christmas Special

Declan McGlade December 21, 2023

Declan Cahill and the members of the Near Drama Company present an hour of poetry, music and drama. Declan is joined by Mary McNamara, Fran Keogh, Niamh Murphy, Peter Prior, Tom Blake, and Ian Shipley The programme is engineered by George…

Brave

Paul November 16, 2023

Mairead (50s) is thinking of applying for promotion whenever her manager Helen retires. She asks for Helen’s opinion on the matter, confiding in her boss that she’s autistic. Mairead is taken aback when Helen calls her ‘brave’ and ponders why disclosing her…

Heartburn

admin October 30, 2023

Near FM presents new audio drama ‘Heartburn’, written by Caitlin Magnall-Kearns; directed by Anna Nugent. Heartburn is a modern take on the rom-com that looks at fatness and friendship. Set over one night in Belfast it follows Chris, a writer, and Lou,…

A Fishy Tail of Sound and Fury

Paul September 28, 2023

Want your Shakespeare battered or filleted? Listen to A Fishy Tail of Sound and Fury, a new radio drama written and produced by Berni Dwan, and directed by Brendan Laird. What’s on the menu? Food snobbery and copy culture served up with…

High Spirits

admin June 8, 2023

New audio drama High Spirits by Méabh de Brún – 6pm June 8th 2023 Three siblings and one in-law gather after a patriarch’s burial to honour a very unusual letter of wishes. Their late father wants to be contacted in the afterlife,…

The Whale and the Swan

admin June 1, 2023

New audio drama broadcasting at 6pm on Thursday the 1st June 2023. The Whale and the Swan by Fiona Browne Marie is pregnant at a young age and finds herself in the care of the nuns. Her daily reality is stark and…

Jumping for Joy

admin May 4, 2023

Jumping for Joy by Rachel Walshe A young woman decides to end her life on high point by jumping off a building before her happiness can turn sour. However just as she is about to jump, she is stopped by a man…

Blind Date

admin February 23, 2023

Sophie and Karl are persuaded to go on a blind date by mutual friends. What have they to lose? A compelling and intense audio drama about looking for love. Content Warning: Sexually explicit material and references to sexual voilence. Sophie and Karl…

Jammie Dodgers

admin December 8, 2022

Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, the U.S.) who are determined to do as little work as possible, outsmart their manipulative boss, delay…

Audio Drama – What’s Your State of Mind

admin November 11, 2022

It was a beautiful sunny morning when Nuala opened up the office of Dr Lay’s Psychology practice. He was in an excellent mood, but after the arrival of some of the institution’s weirder patients, things were about to get very strange and…

Rivitin’ History episode 9

Paul June 17, 2022

Audio Dramedy series “Rivitin’ History” by Pat Meehan returns to Near FM. Henri DuFornicate has disappeared, and TCP Crawley’ s new theatre venture keeps him occupied. With the Incredible String Bandits unavailable and DuDornicate missing, Marion Monroe has to act alone in…

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