Episodios

  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 4

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 4
    Jan 19 2026
    As a teenager I would visit my girlfriend (later wife) where she lived in the docks area of Belfast. Her father, a noted traditional fiddler in Northern Ireland, worked for many years at Harland and Wolff, the firm who built the Titanic. He made her a doll’s house from scrap material there, and, of course, I worked this and myself into the bridge of the song. As I say, hubris not entirely expunged. More
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    16 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 3

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 3
    Jan 16 2026
    The Rocky Road to Dublin features a young man who leaves home to make his mark on the world, Let’s now follow him as he makes his way from Galway to Dublin and then to Liverpool.More
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    16 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 2

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 2
    Jan 15 2026
    Sydney Carter saw Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality... Coming and going by the dance, I see/That what I am not a part of me./ Dancing is all that I can ever trust,/ The dance is all I am, the rest is dust./I will believe my bones and live by what/ Will go on dancing when my bones are not.// More
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    17 m
  • Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 1

    Letters from Quotidia 2024 Episode 1
    Jan 14 2026
    The woman I love says to give it up now/Or else I’ll go to an early grave,/But I say no and keep resisting/For taking drink’s what prolongs your days./ Seamus HeaneyMore
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    17 m
  • Letters from Radio Quotidia NYE2023

    Letters from Radio Quotidia NYE2023
    Jan 13 2026
    Welcome to Letters from Radio Quotidia the NYE2023 program where, on New Year’s Eve, we look back at the things that, at times, we wish weren’t and forwards to what we wish might be. More
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    31 m
  • Letters from Radio Quotidia Lost and Found 5

    Letters from Radio Quotidia Lost and Found 5
    Jan 12 2026
    Cobb was preoccupied with the thought that the Dr Strangeloves of the world would miscalculate badly and reduce us all to glowing nuclear ash. His cartoon has two men cowering under a broken concrete shelter surrounded by rubble and skulls. One man says to the other, There’s a rumour goin’ round that we won. More
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    12 m
  • Letters from Radio Quotidia Lost and Found 4

    Letters from Radio Quotidia Lost and Found 4
    Jan 9 2026
    The overlay of mortal sadness, of one facing execution, has seeped into the melody of The Parting Glass. 24-year-old Chidiok Tichbourne's poem to his wife comes to mind- "My prime of youth is but a frost of cares."More
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    16 m
  • Letters from Radio Quotidia Lost and Found 3

    Letters from Radio Quotidia Lost and Found 3
    Jan 8 2026
    Most men and women who have been to outer space attest to the perspective distance gives and how fragile yet magnificent our blue earth appears from afar. Standing on the Moon, then, gives a wide perspective on life. More
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    16 m
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