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Episodes
All The Way To Mars and Back
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All The Way to Mars and Back by Eddie Naughton Directed by Anna Nugent ALL THE WAY TO MARS AND BACK is about day in the life of a community wh...
Still We Sing
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Still We Sing by Martina Collender Directed by Anna Nugent Ghent, 1956, autumn. The play opens to find a small group of actors in rehearsals for R...
To The Bone
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To The Bone by David Donavan Directed by Anna Nugent To The Bone is a rural drama exploring the relationship between generations and changing atti...
Class of 2025
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Class of 2025 by Diandra Xavier Directed by Anna Nugent Anisa Kapoor is on the brink of adulthood, juggling school pressure, family expectatio...
Tenterhooks
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tenterhooks by John Morton Directed by Sarah Baxter Tenterhooks is a darkly comic drama about two strangers, adrift in their lives who keep me...
Home
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Home by Carol RooneyDirected by Anna Nugent ‘Home’ is a monologue play following three generations of a Dublin family during the first half of 202...
Dead Platoon
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Young men, think twice before whipping out your spray paints after dark, hoping to have some fun at the expense of the defenseless dead in that old lo...
The Moth Hour
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Written and produced by Berni Dwan and directed by Cian O’Náraigh, The Moth Hour is a dramatic case of female personality, resilience, strength of ...
Growing Up in the Big Smoke, Unrhymed and Acapella
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Growing Up in the Big Smoke, Unrhymed and Acapella is a memoir of growing up in Dublin as a child of the nineteen-sixties, a teenager of the nineteen...
Jammie Dodgers Episode 3
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Aus...
Jammie Dodgers Episode 2
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Aus...
Don’t B 2 Keen Mr. Matchmaker
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t B 2 Keen Mr. Matchmaker by Conrad JB Ethan, a young Dublin gay man, disillusioned with his prospects of ever owning a house in the capital, se...
Konstantin
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Konstantin by Ultan Pringle [powerpress] Konstantin follows the entwined lives of lifelong partners Nina and Allie. Beginning when they’re 18 and ...
Fingers Crossed
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new audio drama by Colette Cullen. Two very different couples meet in the waiting room of a fertility clinic – Adam and Sera for their fifth IVF c...
Togetherness
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘Togetherness’ tells the story of the narcissistic Dervla who on her agony aunt style podcast ‘Wagon Wheel’ with her long suffering co-host Fi...
Awakenings
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Awakenings is a five-act play about tolerance, making the effort to understand other points of views when recognised in context, and strengthenin...
Brave
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mairead (50s) is thinking of applying for promotion whenever her manager Helen retires. She asks for Helen’s opinion on the matter, confiding in he...
Heartburn
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Near FM presents new audio drama ‘Heartburn’, written by Caitlin Magnall-Kearns; directed by Anna Nugent. Heartburn is a modern take on t...
A Fishy Tail of Sound and Fury
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
High Spirits
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ve...
The Whale and the Swan
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Jumping for Joy
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Blind Date
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Jammie Dodgers Episode 1
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jammie Dodgers by Ciara Gillan is a workplace comedy set in Berlin about a group of office temps from various countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Aus...
Breathing Space
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Breathing Space, a comedy drama about an accidental astronaut being ghosted by a space agency on her journey to Mars. Bridget Jones meets Gravity whil...
Angry Bird
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Alarm Bells
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Black Cherry – Part 2
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Black Cherry – Part 1
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Paddy Goes to Petra – Part 2
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paddy Goes to Petra is written by Aine Ryan and directed by Anna Nugent. The play is the latest in Near FM’s New Drama Hour series of plays by wome...
Paddy Goes to Petra – Part 1
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paddy Goes to Petra is written by Aine Ryan and directed by Anna Nugent. The play is the latest in Near FM’s New Drama Hour series of plays by women...
Allie Down the Boghole
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Near FM presents another in our New Drama Hour series, audio dramas exclusively by women writers. “Allie Down the Boghole” by Megan McDonnell. T...
Kipper
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Near FM presents Kipper by Gemma Doorly. Kipper – Tormented by an unjust past and reeling from past experiences Kerry seduces drunken Sam at a wedd...
All Honey
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
All Honey by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth *Listener advisory – this audio drama contains strong language All honey is a dark, modern day farce about a ...
Benched
08 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Near FM launch a new season of the New Drama Hour. A series of darkly funny, challenging and innovative audio dramas from up and coming women writers...
We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Concluding Near FM’s series of new audio drama written exclusively by women, we present ‘We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House’ by Ciara Elizabet...
The Tea Lady
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing Near FM’s series of audio drama written exclusively by women, we present ‘The Tea Lady’ by Tara Maria Lovett. The Tea Lady is a blac...
Double Dealing
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing Near FM’s season of audio drama written exclusively by women, we present Double Dealing by Rose Byrne. Arthur Muldoon is an Irish hypnot...
Plain Speak
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
New audio drama from Dorothy Cotter. It’s a Saturday night in Soho and Siobhán and Danny are on a doomed first date. Tinder virgin Danny has a ser...
The Love of Small Appliances
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An audio drama set in an apartment of the near future, owned by Sive Chand, a futurist working in Galway. Sive is in a relationship with Jahzara Dunn...
Buckle
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Presented as part of our season of new audio drama from women writers, Buckle by Christine Madden. Lily Albright’s teenage son is dead. The man who...
Petals
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Winner of Best Radio Drama at the Celtic Media Awards 2020. Petals is the story of one girl and her journey towards the night of a lifetime along wit...
These Lights
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The first in a monthly anthology of new radio drama, is These Lights, written and performed by Jessie Doyle. Broadcasting on International Women’s...