Pat Shortt's Music From D'Telly

Programme 1 looks back and re-visits a wide selection of some of the most memorable and best loved songs to emerge from Dublin city as Pat gazes back to the Gaiety Theatre in 1980 where Luke Kelly and the Dubliners delivered the definitive and spine tingling version of Brendan Behan’s ‘Auld Triangle. Imelda May’s spectacular ’One Night Only’ appearance, Paul Cleary and Blades ‘pop promo’ version of ‘Downmarket’, documentary footage of U2’s magnificent Croke Park homecoming gig back in 1985 alongside offerings from Sinead O’Connor and Philip Lynott should also delight. The programme also features the travails of a disgruntled 1960’s Dublin barfly on the arrival of female drinkers- and live music, no less!- into his favourite watering hole.

Featuring archive performances from Amy Winehouse and Robbie Williams, plus a rarely seen 1982 interview with Rory Gallagher and the story of a government-appointed song collector.

Featuring archive performances by John Martyn, Paddy Reilly, Emmylou Harris, Eleanor McEvoy and Mary Black, plus a 1960s report on the perils of underage dancing in Limerick.

Pat Shortt's musical retrospective includes Cook and Greenaway, Planxty and Joe Dolan, Big Tom and Twink and US song writing legend, John Prine.

Pat Shortt provides a chance to see a 'shocking' 1987 report on Dublin's underground nightclub scene, before music from Mary Black and Hal Ketchum, Brendan O'Dowda, Don McLean and The Mavericks.

Pat Shortt and his musical time machine present music from Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash, Take That singing 'Shine', and a Michael Ryan report on the 1969 Fleadh Ceol. Paul Weller and Sting too perform memorable classics. Pat also takes a nostalgic look at the origins of the Castlebar Song Contest

One of David Gray’s earliest television performances features on tonight’s episode of Music from D’Telly. Back in 1982 Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke, best remembered as the proto synth duo Yazoo, talked and performed on what was their very first television appearance courtesy of RTE’s ‘Anything Goes’. Ace reporter Nick Coffee braved the wilds of the west of Ireland for his 1976 ‘Next Stop’ report on aspiring super-group Tarzan and The Monkees while an early ‘80’s ‘Evening Extra’ profile of Rod Stewart featured RTE presenter Carolyn Fisher in hot pursuit of the former Faces superstar.

The final programme in the current series features some sparkling singing as both Ed Sheeran and Michael Bublé dazzle and delight on their respective ‘Late Late Show’ debuts. Singer-songwriter Sinéad Lohan displays her considerable interpretive skill as she excels on Bob Dylan’s ‘To Ramona’. RTÉ reporter Pat Butler and singer Jimmy Crowley check out the delights of an ‘early house’ pub on the River Lee for a 1983 edition of ‘Evening Extra’, and the late and much missed Bill O’Herlihy can be seen exploring the wonders of Cork fiddlers from his 1966 report for the magazine programme ‘Newsbeat’.