Brendan Cauldwell and Anne-Marie Horan join poet Gerry McDonnell to read excerpts from his work Mud Island Elegy in The Quiet Corner (Lyric fm, 10.30 a.m., Monday to Friday). The poems recall the forgotten characters and unique history of Mud Island in the Fairview/Ballybough area where Jews, unable to purchase land within the city, were forced to lease land outside the municipal boundary for a graveyard.
THE Book on One (RTE Radio 1, 2.45 p.m., Monday to Friday) celebrates the 70th birthday of the Cork raconteur, comedian and actor Niall Toibin with readings by the author from his memoir Smile and be a Villian.
IN BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week John Walsh recalls his whole life as a grand commute between two cultures: Irish parents, London home; Irish relations, English . . . These culture clashes - mainly comic - are caught in his newly-published memoir The Falling Angels, which will be broadcast across the week at 9.45 a.m.
THERE'S more comedy in the After- noon Play: Dead Meat (BBC Radio 4, 2.15 p.m., Thursday) - a quirky creation from Sean Hughes and Owen O'Neill.
PETER Fallon, who established The Gallery Press, talks about cult figure Wendell Berry - Kentucky farmer of tobacco, sheep and vegetables and cultivator of literature inspired by the land and peoples around him - in A Giant at my Shoulder (RTE Radio 1, 9.30 p.m., Monday).
THIS year, for the first time, the Risr experience came to Britain, with five concerts at London's Wigmore Hall immediately following the festival in Norway - all five can be heard this week on Morning Performance (BBC Radio 3, 11.30 a.m., Monday to Friday).
IN Wednesday's documentary, Confidentiality Expected and Assured (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m.), John MacKenna interviews people who use telephone chat-lines - "the contributors are ordinary people in search of ordinary things . . . I think they'll change people's perceptions of phone chat-lines".