Adrian Smyth

Adrian Smyth

Adrian Smyth

Adrian Smyth
Dublin
Email: adriansmyth@eircom.net

Portfolio site: www.adriansmyth.wordpress.com

Type of Programming

Features and documentaries

Overview

National Radio

Documentaries produced for RTE Radio 1 include:

  • “Thank You Mr. Hitler” – the tale of a wartime child evacuee returning to the Devon village of his childhood. Recorded on location in London and Devon.
  • “Irija” – the story of a Latvian mother and her Irish-born son who had returned to reclaim family land in post-communist Latvia. Recorded on location in Latvia.
    Listen to the programme here.
  • “Strawboys” – a radio portrait of the Strawboys custom in the west of Ireland.
    Listen to the programme here.
  • “Glen and Me” – the story of an Irish woman who corresponds with a prisoner on Death Row in Ohio.
    Listen to the programme here.
  • “Tree 64″ – a radio portrait of environmental protesters who occupied woods in the Glen of the Downs, Co. Wicklow in the late 1990s. Recorded on location.

    • Listen to the programme here.

  • “Irony” – an exploration of the concept of irony in popular culture.
  • “I Love, You Love” – a documentary about a lonely hearts club in Dublin. This programme was broadcast around St. Valentine’s Day 1997 and also includes recordings of a visit to Whitefriar Street church in Dublin to view the shrine to St. Valentine and a dramatised sequence based on the story of St. Valentine.
    Listen to the programme here.

Other productions for the national broadcaster include numerous short features for Tim Lehane’s “Another Time, Another Space” series of programmes, a one-off experimental feature on the music of Joni Mitchell and serial contributions to Sunday Miscellany.

Independent Radio

Current affairs and music programming broadcaster with Midlands 103fm.

Teaching

Currently teaching FETAC modules in radio programme production, radio documentary production, digital audio production and news and current affairs for radio with Dun Laoghaire VEC.

Research

PhD research: Media Literacy and the Older Person in Ireland.
Other research: The history of independent commercial radio in Ireland.