Radio reviews
RTÉ broadcaster John Creedon. Photo: Don MacMonagle
A hundred years ago on January 1, the Irish Free State broadcasting service started under the title 2RN – an anniversary marked by Bowman: Sunday: 8.30 (RTÉ 1, Sundays), on which the host used material from a programme that he himself had made on this subject, 50 years ago.
It must be the broadcasting equivalent of an out-of-body experience to find yourself in the archives from half a century ago — but Bowman merely dropped it discreetly into the background as he described the even stranger beginnings of what they called “wireless broadcasting” in Ireland.