Gender and radio – Wireless Flirt

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021

Programme #55 (October 2021)

In the October 2021 edition of Wireless on Flirt FM, we mark World College Radio Day with its founder Rob Quicke. From our archives we look back at positive mental health station Walk in my Shoes Radio and discuss the …

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Programme #49 (February 2021)

In programme #49 of Wireless on Flirt FM (February 2021), we speak to Linda Coogan-Byrne about her latest research on gender disparity in music played on Irish radio. We also discuss the work of the new Future of Media Commission…

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

Programme #44 (July 2020)

The late Pat Herbert with radio producer Helen Shaw at the Hurdy Gurdy Museum (photo courtesy of Joe Guilfoyle).

We heard the sad news recently that Pat Herbert, curator of the Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio in Howth, had …

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Wireless Flirt is a blog from Ireland by a self-confessed radio addict. My day job is in academia but radio is one of my hobbies. Sometimes the hobby meets the day job. Wireless is also the name of a monthly series about radio which I present on Flirt FM on 101.3 FM in Galway and online.

Wireless covers all aspects of radio: analogue and digital broadcasting, community, regional and national broadcasters, niche broadcasting, pirate and alternative radio, podcasting, questions of ownership and diversity and aspects of radio’s past, present and future. The programme is broadcast from 3-4pm on the first Monday of every month.

John Walsh