High Spirits

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,…

Jumping for Joy

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

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

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…

Rivitin’ History episode 9

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…

Angry Bird

Rounding off our second series of new audio drama from women writers is ‘Angry Bird’ by Tamsin Larby. Eileen Nolan is a 75-year old ‘force of nature’ who has had enough and because she has nothing to lose, that makes her ferocious! …

Alarm Bells

Alarm Bells is a radio play written and produced by the Green Ember Arts collective. It portrays the escalating housing crisis through an anthology of short scenes in which a small fraction of those most affected by homelessness are represented. Alarm Bells…

Black Cherry – Part 2

Black Cherry is written by Krystal Sweedman and directed by Anna Nugent. The play is the latest in Near FM’s New Drama Hour series of plays by women playwrights. In Black Cherry a catalytic event ripples through the generations. There’s Paul, who was accused of…