Very few people won't be interested in trying to glean what it is that makes people successful - especially when success means money. So tune into Shane Kenny's new 10part series The Money Makers (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m., Tuesday) which profiles Ireland's high achievers in the world of business. Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair Holdings, is featured in the first of the one-to-one interviews.
Tuesday sees the start of another new series, Other Ways (RTE Radio 1, 7.35 p.m.) about being foreign in Ireland today. Each week Orla Bourke listens to different stories - a mixed bag of warm welcomes, racial abuse and seedy living conditions.
Brian Keenan talks about his life and love of literature in With Great Pleasure (BBC Radio 4, 11.30 a.m.). He introduces his favourite pieces of writing, read by his own readers, both friends - Stephen Rea and Frances Tomelty. Keenan remembers the birth of his son with Morning Glory by Sylvia Plath and his wife Audrey in Love Sonnet by Pablo Neruda.
E Radio 1, 2.45 p.m., Monday to Friday). Joanna Lumley reads Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat on Monday, with readings by Tom Hollander, Geoffrey Palmer, William Hootkins and Patricia Routledge during the rest of the week.
FRANK McCOURT picks up where Angela's Ashes finished, literally with the word 'tis, in five readings, read by the author, 'Tis (BBC Radio 4, 9.45 a.m., Monday to Friday). It's 1949 and he has arrived back in New York.
PHILIP KING, musician and film-maker, talks about the influence that the legendary musician Rory Gallagher had on his life in A Giant At My Shoulder (RTE Radio 1, 9.30 p.m., Monday). Another legend, George Best, star of the great Manchester United team of the 1960s talks frankly to Colm Keane in A Cut Above the Rest (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m., Friday).
THE RTE entry in the Priz Europa Awards for Radio Documentaries 1999, To the Stonebreaker's Yard, (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m.) - a documentary about Kilmainham Gaol by Lorelei Harris - is broadcast on Wednesday.
PAULINE BUTLER has spent her life in an Irish lighthouse - first as the daughter of a lightkeeper, then as a wife of a keeper and finally as a lighthouse keeper herself. Tom MacSweeney listens to her experiences and unique philosophy of life in Seascapes (RTE Radio 1, 9.30 p.m., Thursday).