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  • 09-06-2012 2:39pm
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    real rocker
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    Brendan Balfe back on RTE Radio 1 with a series about the coming of television to Ireland. The first show was very impressive and a great foil to the Green Tea and 2nd. Republic inferiors.
    1.05 to 2PM for a few weeks.


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    EchoO
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    It was really good stuff, infinitley better than The Second Republic. I think they said at the end that it was going be on for 12 weeks.


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    Welsh Megaman
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    Great programme, always good to hear Mr. Balfe on the radio.


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    RadioRetro
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    Agree with all of the above, I was listening attentively. Mr.Balfe is a whizz at digging out archive clips. The next eleven Saturdays I will be looking forward to.


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    washiskin
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    Loved it. Great clips & his narration was perfect as ever.

    Would love to see that first showing of the National Anthem on RTE - sounded like a real hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck moment the way the man remembered it.
    Also, how incredibly charismatic did the late Eamonn Andrews sound?


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    Skid
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    Has anybody got a link to a podcast or a listen again stream of this show?

    I can't find anything on the RTE website.


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    EchoO
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    Skid wrote: »
    Has anybody got a link to a podcast or a listen again stream of this show?

    I can't find anything on the RTE website.

    http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A3312246%3A10908%3A09-06-2012%3A


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    Skid
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    EchoO wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=9%3A3312246%3A10908%3A09-06-2012%3A

    Nice one, thanks.


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    Skid
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    washiskin wrote: »
    Would love to see that first showing of the National Anthem on RTE - sounded like a real hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck moment the way the man remembered it.

    I think this is the original anthem, although possibly not from the first broadcast.



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    washiskin
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    Looks like the one the man was talking about, thanks Skid.

    Such a shame we never see the little film and anthem at the end of the night anymore. Surely money can be saved by just shutting down after midnight instead of regurgitation of mindless crap peppered with the occasional good film.:(


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    Welsh Megaman
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    Another great episode, especially the JFK stuff.


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    Skid
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    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    Another great episode, especially the JFK stuff.

    Cracking show. There is so much interesting material covered in each episode you would need to listen again to appreciate it all.


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    bob50
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    Excellent programme the John F Kennedy reporting on his irish visit in 1963 it was moving

    Great stuff Brendan Balfe


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    Skid
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    I didn't enjoy it as much today.

    Eamonn Andrews did almost all his Broadcasting in Britain, and this was the focus of the episode. His contribution to RTE was as chairman rather than on screen. It seemed slightly incongruous with the series thus far.

    It would have been a grand episode of a programme looking at Ireland's most successful broadcasters, but not so much in a series looking at the history of RTE TV.


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    real rocker
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    Skid wrote: »
    I didn't enjoy it as much today.

    Eamonn Andrews did almost all his Broadcasting in Britain, and this was the focus of the episode. His contribution to RTE was as chairman rather than on screen. It seemed slightly incongruous with the series thus far.

    It would have been a grand episode of a programme looking at Ireland's most successful broadcasters, but not so much in a series looking at the history of RTE TV.
    Have to agree with SKID.
    Eamonn was certainly a skilled broadcaster but on BBC rather than RTE. A show about him would be of interest.


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