Behind These Doors
Behind These Doors details the lives of 26 notable Dublin residents from the last two hundred years. It was originally broadcast on 103.2 Dublin City FM in 2009. From mathematicians to philosophers; comedians to sportspeople, scientists to artists, over the course of 13 twenty-eight minute episodes Behind These Doors offers an aural picture of Dublin through the lives and achievements of some of its most notable and in some cases less well known residents.
Episode 1 – Matt Talbot and Barry Fitzgerald
Episode 2 – Alfie Byrne and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Episode 3 – Dave Allen and Ernest Walton
Episode 4 – Freddie Bartholomew and Margaret Burke Sheridan
Episode 5 – George Berkeley and Stanley Woods
Episode 6 – Herbert Brenon and Zozimus
Episode 7 – George William Russell and Patrick O’Connell
Episode 8 – Edwin Maxwell and Jonathan Swift
Episode 9 – Rex Ingram and Leo Rowsome
Episode 10 – Lafcadio Hearn and Luke Kelly
Episode 11 – William Rowan Hamilton and Elizabeth O’Farrell
Episode 12 – John Thomas Romney Robinson and Francis Bacon
Episode 13 – Dublin Street Characters and Patrick Sheahan
Presented by Anthony Fortune. Produced by Paul McDermott.
Contributors to the series include: Cathal Loftus (Irish Philosophical Society), physicist Professor Vincent McBrierty, Dr Gwenda Young (Department of Film and Screen Media in UCC), biographer Anne Chambers, Dr Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch (Curator of Irish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland), author Phil Ball, broadcaster Peter Browne
and Dr Robert McCarthy (Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral).