281
Episodes
67
Transcribed
74
Ratings
Daily
Cadence
2022
First episode
374M
YouTube views

About Sunday Miscellany

Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.

Publisher
RTÉ Radio 1
Category
arts
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
19 Apr 2022
Latest episode
11 Oct 2026

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67 of 281 episodes have a transcript.

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    Bog Casket, by Claire Cotter

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    The Bog Bothy, by Emmett Scanlon

  3. 11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The Bog, by Anthony Baggott

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Bog Casket, by Claire Cotter

Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] All the things the bog has taken in its maw, squeezing out the life juices, draining away the colours. Things lost and given, and then found over the centuries by farmers, turf cutters, railway builders, archaeologists. a Pandora's box of things on show for us in the National Museum of Ireland. Shields of leather, huge wooden cartwheels, fish traps, sharp timber spikes set to break the flight of leaping deer, bronze cauldrons, leather water canteens, their ornate mouthpieces made for important mouths, great lumps of butter wrapped in leaves or wicker or spooned into wooden vessels and then buried in the cool, dark larder of the bog. […]

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YouTube views
373,663,812
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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.6 / 5
30 ratings
Spotify
4.6 / 5
44 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100

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78
Social presence
0
YouTube
93
Engagement
96

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