The Arts Show on KCLR

Naoise Nunn, impresario, political commentator, future thinker and family member of KCLR royalty, whose involvement in Cat Laughs, Kilkenomics, the intelligent bits of Electric Picnic, and Bram Stoker (with his brilliant wife Maria) makes him one of Ireland’s leading makers of festivals. We will discuss the shape of things in a post- plague world and the boom in spoken word.

Billy Fenton is our artist in profile, a Carrick based poet just reaching retirement and therefore - like so many retirees - about to embark on another big career… as a novelist.

And we were in studio with David Keenan, musician, poet, wordsmith - a young man with an old man’s wisdom, soft spoken and mellifluous but full day of fire - whose new album Crude is an exhilarating departure from what went before…

Show Notes

Naoise Nunn, impresario, political commentator, future thinker and family member of KCLR royalty, whose involvement in Cat Laughs, Kilkenomics, the intelligent bits of Electric Picnic, and Bram Stoker (with his brilliant wife Maria) makes him one of Ireland’s leading makers of festivals. We will discuss the shape of things in a post- plague world and the boom in spoken word.


Billy Fenton is our artist in profile, a Carrick based poet just reaching retirement and therefore - like so many retirees - about to embark on another big career… as a novelist.


And we were in studio with David Keenan, musician, poet, wordsmith - a young man with an old man’s wisdom, soft spoken and mellifluous but full day of fire - whose new album Crude is an exhilarating departure from what went before…

What is The Arts Show on KCLR?

Join Una Ni Mhaoldhomhnaigh on Wednesday evenings from 7pm on KCLR for The Arts Show. Festival season is heating up locally across the world of music, theatre, literature and more, and we are out and about, right across the summer months, to take it all in for this brand new season.

With out-and-about features, the return of the book club, interviews with key players on the local arts scene and more, there's something for everyone, all on The Arts Show with Una, Wednesday evenings from 7 here on KCLR.