{"id":166519,"date":"2025-11-29T20:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166519\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T20:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:15:07","slug":"rte-archives-arts-and-culture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166519\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Archives | Arts and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"leadin\">Liam \u00d3 Maonla\u00ed and Fiachna \u00d3 Braon\u00e1in are the Incomparable Benzini Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Liam \u00d3 Maonla\u00ed and Fiachna \u00d3 Braon\u00e1in began performing on the streets of Dublin under the name the Incomparable Benzini Brothers. They recently won the street entertainers competition in Dublin, organised by Bewley&#8217;s and Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n<p>The duo perform the song &#8216;Kansas City&#8217; written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Liam \u00d3 Maonla\u00ed and Fiachna \u00d3 Braon\u00e1in would go on to form <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/archives\/exhibitions\/2889-eurovision\/700339-hothouse-flowers-interval-act\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hothouse Flowers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This episode of &#8216;The Late Late Show&#8217; was broadcast on 29 November 1985. The presenter is Gay Byrne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam \u00d3 Maonla\u00ed and Fiachna \u00d3 Braon\u00e1in are the Incomparable Benzini Brothers. Liam \u00d3 Maonla\u00ed and Fiachna \u00d3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[92471,93,92472,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-166519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-benzini-brothers","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hothouse-flowers","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}