Exploring Charlotte Brontë’s Irish roots
Fact and fiction combine in Martina Devlin’s new novel based on the life, afterlife and strong Irish ties of acclaimed Victorian writer Charlotte Brontë. Jenny Lee chats to the Tyrone author
Musical maestro Tim Rice to tour Ireland
Ulster Hall event will include live performances of some of his Tim Rice's most popular songs
Tyrone novelist Emma Hetherington on living with incurable blood cancer and pouring her heart into her new book
In March Co Tyrone novelist Emma Heatherington was given the devastating news she was living with multiple myeloma – a type of bone marrow cancer. She tells Jenny Lee how’s she keeping positive amidst an incurable diagnosis and talks about her new festive love story set in London, Donegal and Tyrone
Alfie Boe and Michael Ball lead cast as Les Misérables arena tour kicks off in Belfast
Alfie Boe and Michael Ball talk to Jenny Lee as they prepare to lead the Les Misérables cast on the musical's world tour, which opens in Belfast this month
Vallely captures All-Ireland win on canvas
Jenny Lee chats to Armagh artist Lorcan Vallely about capturing the county's historic All-Ireland win on canvas, working alongside his renowned father John B Vallely, and bringing the sights and sounds of Irish music to the Scottish Isles with his latest exhibition
Knife crime and racial tension come under spotlight in third series of ITV drama The Tower
Emmett J Scanlan heads up covert police operation
A tale of two Charlies in youth production of Roald Dahl classic
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory comes to Belfast’s MAC
‘What if a murder witness is more dangerous than the killer?’ - Steve Cavanagh on Witness 8, his new Eddie Flynn thriller
Eddie Flynn returns in Witness 8, another pulsating thriller from Lisburn author Steve Cavanagh in which a twisted young witness to a murder plays her own deadly game. Jenny Lee chats corruption, Christmas and mixing vulnerability with murder...
Sip your way around Kathryn Callaghan’s new coastline-inspired Northern Ireland Art Trail this summer
This summer, day trippers and holiday makers are invited to explore the beauty of the Northern Ireland coastline through Kathryn Callaghan’s Northern Ireland Art Trail. Jenny Lee finds out more from the Co Down artist
Poet Eamon Cunningham capturing Co Down’s past with his new collection Halfway House
Eamon Cunningham celebrates the people and places of the Mournes in a new collection of poetry
Hymn-writing couple Keith and Kristyn Getty announce second Irish Christmas show
Jenny Lee chats to Grammy-nominated recording artists Keith and Kristyn Getty who have revolutionised the hymn genre with songs such as In Christ Alone, about bringing their popular Christmas show back home to Ireland
Ireland celebrates arts and crafts throughout August
Artisans from across Ireland and further afield will take part in next month's annual celebration of craft. Jenny Lee finds out more and speaks to Co Down artist Ruth Osborne who uses nature to inspire and produce her work
The drama of crafting the Holy Grail of whiskey
Jenny Lee talks acting, gaming, whiskey and taking risks with Fermanagh actor, writer and former solicitor Joyce Greenaway whose one-woman play combines tragedy, treachery and the search for the perfect single malt
Armagh musician Gareth Williams is capturing the soundtrack of Irish literature - and tackling long Covid
From the melancholy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes to the crescendo of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy at the close of Joyce’s Ulysses, Armagh musician and composer Gareth Williams’s Songs from the Last Page finds new musical beginnings from the ending of stories. He chats to Jenny Lee about finding musical inspiration from literature and how he’s helping people living with long Covid
Getting to know yer man, Jarlath Regan
Ahead of his gig at Bangor’s Open House Festival, comedian and creator of the Irishman Abroad podcast, Jarlath Regan, chats to Jenny Lee about US politics, running, Christmas cards and why he has his sights on Jamie Dornan