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HighFidelityJJ Episode 25 Broadcast on Rte Lyric Fm on the 31st October at 7pm Generation Mp3 Music goes digital, the birth of Mp3, iTunes and music downloads changes sound recording and the music industry. Jack and Julie explores how digital and the Internet as a platform has revolutionised music and looks at how bands like Radiohead and artists like Moby have met the challenge. Hand in hand with digital downloads is the resurgence of live performance
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HighFidelityJJ Episode 14 will be broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm on 15th August at 7pm Folk to Pop From the 1950s onwards sound recording make it easier to capture and preserve folk music, musicians, songs and singers like the blind Hungarian fiddler Zerkula or Irish sean nós singer Labhrás ó Cadhla. It’s a folk legacy which flows into modern music and composition/performance inspiring the folk music revival led by people like Pete Seeger, Ewan McColl and in Ireland Dominic Behan and Luke Kelly. This episodes features Simon & Garfunkel, Peggy Seeger, Roberta Flack, Christy Moore, Moving Hearts, Paul Brady and Karan Casey. We Hear Julie singing ‘The Reaper’ a traditional song she learnt from June Tabor and we get the story behind the folk song Scarborough Fair.
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play0:00 / 12:50It wasn’t too long ago when you could buy a blanket, scarf or jumper that was made from wool off an Irish sheep. Not any more. Today, ne... -
play0:00 / 5:34Laura Slattery from the Irish Times talks about what’s changing for TV. #rtemediashow #athenamediaathenamediaie likes this.
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play0:00 / 0:28On the media show this week Irish television - with Irish TV celebrating its 50th birthday how healthy is Irish TV? Paula Cunniffe goes f...TheMediaShow likes this.
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HighFidelityJJ Episode 21 broadcast on 3rd October on RTÉ lyric fm Stadium Sounds. Stadium Sounds resonates with the sounds from the 70s to today when gig venues got bigger and bigger and the songs became crown anthems from Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run, Police’s Roxanne to Queen, Freddie Mercury and Bohemian Rhapsody. Jack and Julie trace sound from the Sony Walkman in 1979 to the birth of the CD in 1982 and the songs, bands, albums and gigs which made history. The show features the epic Live Aid gig in 1985 starring an emerging female artist called Madonna and with Irishman, Bob Geldof, of the Boomtown Rats behind it.
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athenamediaie Episode 2 broadcast on 10th October 2011 on the Today with Pat Kenny Show, presented by Ella McSweeney Hide and Sow: Leather-working in Ireland It’s no surprise that Ireland used to export vast quantities of leather hide across Europe. Shoes, saddles, sofas - our leather was in demand. But today, there are no tanneries left in the country and only a handful of people are working with leather. Ella meets Willie Power, who spent decades working in Portlaw Tannery in Waterford; she also talks to Paul Ronan who ran the last tannery in Ireland. George Tutty is one man who uses leather every day - for 60 years his family has handmade shoes in Kildare. Ella meets him to find out more.
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