NEW: The Wine Geese

A new 4 part radio documentary series for RTE Lyric FM

Starting on Saturday, 11th July (5.30pm) Soundsdoable's new series, The Wine Geese, will be starting on RTE Lyric FM. Presented by Tomas Clancy, the show looks at the crucial role of Ireland in the global wine trade.

In the first episode, Tomas travels to Fountainstown, Co Cork, to meet wine historian and collector, Ted Murphy, and on to the vineyards of Leoville-Barton, to meet Lillian Barton, descendant of the great wine business genius, Thomas Barton, whose family still run the company that bears their name.


The Wine Geese is supported by the BCI's Sound and Vision scheme.

Foodtalk Podcasts

Now, there is no way that anybody missed any of the episodes of Foodtalk on Newstalk 106-108. But say, maybe, you just wanted to hear them again. Well, the relevant podcast link is:

http://newstalk.ie/newstalk/podcasts/35/foodtalk-on-newstalk.xml

Foodtalk is a new six-part SoundsDoable series starting on Newstalk on Christmas Day.

And like it says on the jar, it's a show all about food, and the people who produce, harvest, rear, cook and eat it.

Each week the show will eavesdrop on chef, Kevin Thornton and food blogger, Caroline Hennesy as they meet in Thornton's Restaurant to talk about everything from their food philosopies, to their latest finds at the Famers' Market.

Special super close up food recordings for the program were made by Chris Watson, with Kevin playing a variety of instruments, from the fish knife to the carcas of venison.

Each week, the conversation will flow around one class of food, from livestock to dairy to food that grows wild around the country

+ Program 1: "Livestock" (Christmas Day)
Kevin Thornton and Caroline Hennessey hunt down some fine meats and
Kevin's project to rear Irish Kobe beef. With guests Jacque Barry from Jacques, Cork and Fingal Ferguson of the Gubbeen Smokehouse, Schull, West Cork


+ Program 2: "Seafood" (New Year's Day)
Kevin Thornton and Caroline Hennessy share their pleasure in eating seafood. With guests Tony Daly from The Lime Tree, Kenmare, and Paul Kelly, Mussel farmer and goldsmith, from Kilmacillogue

+ Programme 3: "Spices" (11th Jan)
Kevin Thornton and Caroline Hennessy marvel at the power of spices. With guests Carmel Somers from Good Things Café, Durrus, Co Cork and Arun Kapil of Green Saffron, Midleton, East Cork


+ Program 4: "Wild Food" (18th Jan)
Kevin Thornton and Caroline Hennessey gather up an armload of free, wild food. With guests Áine Maguire from Kueppersbusch and Seamus Moran of LoTide Gourmet Sea Vegetables, Westport, Co Mayo.

+ Program 5: "Dairy" (25th Jan)
Kevin Thornton and Caroline Hennessey explore all things creamy. With guests Aoibheann McNamara, Ard Bia, Galway and Kieran Murphy from Murphy's Ice Cream, Dingle


+ Programme 6: "Garden" (1st Feb)
Kevin Thornton and Caroline Hennessey marvel at the good things a garden has to offer, and wonders how many more of us will now start to grow our own. With guests Henry Stone from Sha-Roe Bistro, Clonegal, Co. Carlow and Ultan Walshe of Nohoval in Cork, who grows the veg for (among others) Denis Cotter of Café Paradiso.

By The Book:Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking

Luke with Jordi Artal, Cinc Sentits, Barecelona (Photo: Frank Plant)

Scientist and gourmet Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking is credited with inspiring a generation of creative chefs including Heston Blumenthal and tonight’s guest, Barcelona ‘creative cuisine’ star, Jordhi Artal. McGee’s book was revolutionary in examining everything that happened in the kitchen from a rigorously scientific viewpoint, discovering the truth about the physics and chemistry of cuisine, and on the way kickstarting the movement that became known as “molecular gastronomy”.



By The Book is written, produced and presented by Luke Clancy
By The Book is a SoundsDoable production for RTELyricFM
Original music for the series is by Kevin Brew.

SEE:
http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/sundaysequence/

By The Book: Robert Lloyd Praeger’s The Way That I Went

(RTE Lyric FM, Sunday, Nov 4, 10pm)

Even on our small island, there are very few who could claim to have trodden every inch of the land – and fewer still who could do so with reason. In this program, round-Ireland seakayaker, Eileen Murphy, shares her passion for Robert Lloyd Praeger’s delightfully exhaustive chronicle of the Irish countryside and a life spent walking it.



By The Book is written, produced and presented by Luke Clancy
By The Book is a SoundsDoable production for RTELyricFM
Original music for the series is by Kevin Brew.


SEE:
http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/sundaysequence/

By The Book: Robert Parker’s Wine of the Rhone Valley

(RTE Lyric FM, Sunday, October 28th, 10pm)

In this week's program, we'll have the company of wine négociant, Simon Tyrell, as we tread the grapes of Robert Parker's Wines of the Rhone Valley. Robert Parker is known the world over for the power his wine reviews exert over the wine market. A high score can mean a wine suddenly soars in value or becomes impossible to have – at any price. But first and foremost, before being a vinous kingmaker, Parker was an explorer, and his guide to the wines of the Rhone inspired an explosive rebirth in a once-unfashionable wine producing region.

By The Book is written, produced and presented by Luke Clancy
By The Book is a SoundsDoable production for RTELyricFM
Original music for the series is by Kevin Brew


SEE:
http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/sundaysequence/

By The Book: Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations

(RTE Lyric FM, Sunday, Oct 21, 10pm)

Journalist, PJ O’Rourke offers his hilarious whistle-stop tour of one of the Eighteenth century's most influential works. Championed in the era of Thatcherism and Reganomics as the philosopher of the free-market and the prophet of ‘trickle down’ Adam Smith’s work continues to gather disciples. Although, as tonight’s guest, “Republican party Animal” PJ O’Rourke suggests, few of these acolytes read completely, or completely understand, this massive work.

By The Book is written, produced and presented by Luke Clancy
By The Book is a SoundsDoable production for RTELyricFM
Original music for the series is by Kevin Brew


SEE:
http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/sundaysequence/