RTÉ lyric fm

Talk to you next week, and we will finish with this.

Steve Wright is 90 today, and courtesy of JK on Lyric, here is the Orb sampling the great composer.

[cock crowing]

Over the past few years, to the traditional sounds of an English summer, the drone of lawnmowers, the smack of leather on willow, has been added a new noise.

Yeah.

We have a thing called the comfort zone for Lyric FM-

Yes

... where someone picks a piece-

Great show.

So I just want to mention as well, RTE Lyric.

Now, this is Glore, so Ennis, but Glore is always worth a visit.

And on Sunday, the 3rd of October, I don't know whether it's sold out yet or not, RTE Lyric FM's Vespertine with Ellen Kranich.

So they're celebrating 40 years of Music Network.

So Vespertine is a very popular programme on Lyric and that would really be nice.

I think that would be lovely.

I should go to that.

It was so funny.

Alexa, they asked you Lyric FM and this was.

Yeah, but we had like over 100,000 views on the page after that.

Nice.

Oh, yeah.

You and I have something in common because I made my debut on Lyric FM on Christmas Day in 2003.

Yeah.

I did an hour, pre-recorded an hour for them in the afternoon between two and three.

You know, I just, I, I get that, you know, it's like...

I, I mean, I don't want to be flippant about it, but I mean, you know, if, if you don't like classical music, the chances are you won't be listening to Lyric FM.

Yeah.

You know?

It's like Antiques Roadshow here.

So, and if you want the recipe, obviously, it's Marty in the Morning, RTE Lyric FM, Marty in the Morning.

Our breakfast in America.

Let's make it easy.

Venom and Respiri.

You're listening to DJ Chewy on the Lyric FM, getting you set for the weekend every Friday night.

I need your love I need your love Don't make me wait too long I need your touch Don't make me wait for you And I see you There's a place I could not be A time to come true And I wanna stay with you Baby, I don't want you more And I Make me break free

Neither one of us wants to be the first to say goodbye Wondering that same thing too

Let's talk now to another Whelan, because the Lyric FM presenter Marty Whelan has been one of the most familiar voices in Irish broadcasting for, well, a long time now.

And today he was announced as one of the newest inductees into the IMRO, that's the Irish Music Rights Organization, Hall of Fame.

The citation reads, "Marty represents warmth, longevity, and the rare ability to become part of listeners' daily lives." Marty, congratulations.

I did ask them, like, the Grinch, was there not a cash prize, but apparently there isn't.

But I was so, I was just so enamored of the idea, uh, when they, when they, when they gave it to me.

And I think I'm very lucky in, uh, in Lyric FM because we have, uh, Sinead Wilde at the top, and I'm working with Ian and Michael, my two good friends and colleagues.

And we are a little team.

We're a tiny team.