Curious Broadcast

Bitter Sweet tells the story of native Irish apples. How they have existed in Ireland for thousands of years. How they once flourished and then were destroyed and now through the work of a handful of…

A Taste of Two Cities is a foraging walk through Belfast and Dublin with two foragers, Miceál Murray and Dermot Hughes, to taste the edible wild food that grow there, and hear the myths and folklore …

“By the year 2050 there will be more tons of plastic in the ocean then there will be fish, it is really a horrifying statistic to think that we will be swimming in a sea of plastic…”

Patricia Baker jo…

“A City Feast” is a celebration of the bounty created from the waste of our city. This is a simple story about the gathering and sharing of food, harvested from wasteland around Dublin, land that has…

Another Way, tells the story of the unique community of 260 people living on Inis Oirr: a tiny rocky outcrop out in the Atlantic Ocean. 

This story began with a currach race, a race that never happene…

Ireland’s horology heritage is rich and diverse, but it is often unconsidered.  Keeping Time asks us to stop for a moment and consider Ireland’s unique way of dealing with time. One of the most preci…

Law Lines is the story of courtroom artists, who are the public’s eyes for some of the most important moments in history. Artists that for centuries have huddled on wooden benches, pencils and pens d…

Marching On is the story of the restoration of Richmond Barracks, a Dublin City Council Community Partnership project for the 1916 centenary. Marching On follows this project that commemorates the h…

This is the story of unmarked grave in Co Kilkenny rumoured to be that of a British solider who was killed during the War of Independence. Our Unquiet Dead recounts a journey to uncover that story wh…

On Easter Tuesday the 25th of April 1916 strange radio signals began to emanate from Dublin. The signals told the story of the declaration of the Irish Republic the day earlier. The unique thing abou…

From Ferris wheels to young scientists, the Royal Dublin Society is part of our collective memory.

This is a journey through the history of the RDS. Founded as The Dublin Society it was instrumental i…

The Frozen Zoo tells the fascinating story of the Frozen Ark, a project that aims to preserve the DNA of the world’s endangered species. This is the 21st Century Noah’s Ark.  The Frozen Zoo is a Curi…

Competing for Science radio documentary aired on 100-102 Today FM on St Patrick’s Day, March 17th at 10am.  Competing for Science is a Curious Broadcast production made with the support of the Broadc…

To Radio With Love is a radio documentary which consists of a series of audio letters, a love letter if you will, written and then read out over the air by a diverse group of individuals ranging from…

As an island nation we have a deep love for the seas around us, but do we think about what lies beneath these seas? There are over 17,000 shipwrecks recorded in Irish waters. ‘Sunken Treasures’ highl…