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Mystery Train with John Kelly is an award-winning, multi-genre music show. It travels far and wide through the many wonders of recorded music, from its vintage glories to the very latest sound and each Sunday, John hands over the controls and asks a guest to pick the tunes. Listen Sunday to Thursday, 7-9pm on RTÉ Lyric FM.
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Poet Jessica Traynor picks the tunes from 2021-04-06T04:22:00.891154
Acclaimed poet Jessica Traynor joins John Kelly to chat poetry & plays on our Sunday Service, and she picks tunes by everybody from Vivaldi and Leonard Cohen, to Throwing Muses and Le Tigre.
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Author Eimear McBride picks the tunes and talks literary success and sexism in the industry from 2021-04-06T04:22:00.888266
In another memorable edition of the Mystery Train Sunday Service, John Kelly chats to Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing and Strange Hotel, about loss, the long road to literar...
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Actress Derbhle Crotty joins the Sunday Service from 2021-04-06T04:22:00.887493
Every Sunday night, John Kelly presents a special Mystery Train Sunday Service where a guest picks the tunes. Tonight actress Derbhle Crotty climbs aboard and picks music by Abba, Sly and The Famil...
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Paul Cleary of The Blades join John and picks the tunes from 2021-03-06T05:14:51.563973
On tonight's Mystery Train's Sunday Service, John is joined by The Blades frontman Paul Cleary. As you might expect, his choices include The Sex Pistols, XTC and The Jam - but there's also Dionne W...
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Paul Noonan joins the Sunday Service from 2020-08-30T14:00
On this week's Mystery Train Sunday Service, Paul Noonan of Bell X1 joins John Kelly in studio and picks the tunes. (Repeat)
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Jim Crace joins the Mystery Train Sunday Service from 2020-08-23T14:00
John Kelly is joined by novelist and wordsmith Jim Crace. The author of Harvest and The Gift of Stones picks the music and puts the world to rights.
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Novelist Sara Baume picks the tunes and chats about writing and ar from 2020-08-16T14:00
Novelist Sara Baume climbs aboard the Mystery Train on RTÉ lyric fm for a Sunday Service special. She talks about writing and art, her new book Handiwork and picks music by Rory Gallagher, Cyclefly...
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'The Dark Fields' author Alan Glynn chats to John and picks the tunes from 2020-07-26T14:00
Author Alan Glynn joined John Kelly on Mystery Train. His novel The Dark Fields became the film Limitless starring Bradley Cooper and he spoke to John about the slow road to success and not having ...
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Harpist and composer Una Monaghan joins John and picks the tunes from 2020-07-19T14:00
Harpist and composer Una Monaghan climbs on board our Mystery Train Sunday Service, and talks Astro-Physics at Oxford, Brian Wilson and everything in between.
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Ian Lynch of Lankum talks epenthetic vowels and picks the tunes from 2020-07-12T14:00
On tonight's Sunday Service, John is joined by Ian Lynch of Lankum. The musician, folk song collector and folklore lecturer explains the epenthetic vowel and a mondegreen, and picks music by Shanno...
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Derry Girls' Siobhan McSweeney joins John and picks the tunes from 2020-06-28T14:00
Actor Siobhan McSweeney joins John and picks the tunes for our Sunday Service. Best known as the formidable Sr. Michael in Derry Girls, Siobhan works in theatre in Ireland and London and picks musi...
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Novelist Danny Denton chats to John and picks the music from 2020-06-21T14:00
Danny Denton, author of The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, is John's guest on Mystery Train, and he picks all the tunes.
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Lisa McInerney picks the tunes on Sunday Service from 2020-06-14T14:00
On Mystery Train's Sunday Service John invites a guest to choose the music, and this week is joined by author Lisa McInerney.
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Loah picks music by Kamasi Washington, Oumou Sangare and Charles Mingus from 2020-05-31T14:00
John is joined tonight by Loah (AKA Sallay Matu Garnett), a singer songwriter of Sierra Leonean/Irish origin. Loah chats about her life and music and also picks the tunes, from Kamasi Washington, O...
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Artist Catherine Owens picks the tunes from 2020-05-24T14:00
Tonight John's guest is artist Catherine Owens, and she'll be picking the tunes on another Sunday Service.
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Composer, producer and musician Seán Mac Erlaine picks the tunes from 2020-05-17T14:00
Tonight John is joined for a Sunday Service by composer, producer and woodwind instrumentalist Seán Mac Erlaine, who also picks the tunes.
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