Pantisocracy returns for Season 5 Summer 2020

The award winning radio and podcast show, Pantisocracy hosted by Panti Bliss, goes into production for its fifth season this month with 8 new shows planned for 2020, with seven broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 across the Summer and a special commissioned for Christmas.

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January 22, 2020March 10, 2020

Podcasting Workshops — May & June 2020

Want to learn how to dream up and make your own audio podcast? Then join us on Sunday May 10th or Sunday June 21st for one of our podcasting skills workshops

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019

Athena Media’s Ireland-Iceland transmedia project ‘Mother’s Blood, Sister Songs’ launched

MOTHER’S BLOOD, SISTER SONGS

New arts & music documentary on RTÉ Lyric fm Dec 29th & Jan 5th.

How the genetics of Iceland reveals its female Irish roots in story and song.

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October 29, 2019

Podcasting Workshops – November 2019 & February 2020

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019

Athena Media gains sponsorship from Dublin Housing Observatory and start up company Happy Scribe for its latest podcast This is Where We Live

Across 2019 Athena Media is anchoring a new podcast sharing conversations and stories about how we shape and create great places to live. The podcast series This is Where we Live has been inspired by the continued housing and homelessness crisis in Irish cities, particularly Dublin, and began when Athena Media producer Helen Shaw visited Vienna last December for a Housing for All conference. (Read Helen’s blog essay on the visit and why Vienna is a public housing model for Europe).

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January 23, 2019January 23, 2019

New Podcast Project – This is Where We Live

A new podcast project exploring how we shape great places to live and why housing and homelessness is a crisis issue for cities

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December 14, 2018December 14, 2018

New Episode of The Family of Things: Episode 15 – Frank Berry

Helen Shaw’s guest in this episode of The Family of Things is film-maker Frank Berry whose work tells stories of social realism in often tough suburbs from the documentary film ‘Ballymun Lullaby’ at the time of the tearing down of the Ballymun Towers to dramas like ‘I Used to Live Here’, touching on youth mental health and suicide.

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October 22, 2018October 22, 2018