Geraldine Smith

It’s not that I know where every cup and saucer comes from but when I reach into the press for a small blue ceramic cup I can’t help thinking of how it ended up there. Sixteen years ago the cup came back with me from a trip to Romania..." Frank Shouldice, next @RTE_Culture @rte

"People thought we were a bunch of weirdos. With my long hair, denim jacket with a Che Guevara patch on one arm and a CND patch on the other, a cloud of smoke wafting in my wake, I fitted the stereotype of a Newpark student..." @tim_carey1, next, on Newpark Comprehensive at 50

"Pen in hand, a monk sat, bored – This translation had him floored. There on the desk beside him sat Silky and white, Pangur, his cat...." To close, Pangur Bán and Audrey, a poem by Gordon Snell -- in honour of Maeve Binchy's favourite poem and @echoesdalkey @RTERadio1

"We waited with excitement as the floor manager signalled the beginning of the programme and the familiar Eurovision theme music began..." Mary Wall remembers the thrill of being a teenage member of the Irish Eurovision jury, the first year Johnny Logan won #1980 @RTE_Culture

"The car’s been stolen. With everything in it. Suitcases, laptops, iPads, 10kg bags of dogfood and our passports. We’re shocked into complete silence..." @TomClonan is next -- and this script was named a recent finalist in Best Writing and Narration at @NYFestivals! @rte