This episode is a radio(hagio)graphy about Brigid: Saint of Kildare and Irish pagan goddess. We have devoted this episode to Brigid for two reasons: because of her timely status as the goddess of spring and all the rebirth it entails; and because Brigid is said, in Irish mythology, to have started the traditional Gaelic/Celtic lament, Keening (the singing of tears) – which is still practiced at funerals today – when her son Ruadán was killed in the second battle of Moytura. We recently lost a young lad who was very dear to us, and so this show is also dedicated to the memory of Harper… we’ll be keening for you.

Laura Lair - Breo Eyelif Mullen-White, Apartment House - Solfege Sextet Kitty Gallagher - Keening Song Justin Bieber - U Smile (Slowed Down 800%) Seosamh Ó Héanaí - Joe Heaney Talks About Keening Líadan - Amhrán Mhuínse Current 93, Clodagh Simonds - Idumea Séamus Ennis - Uirchill an Chreagáin Sheila Chandra - Lament of McCrimmon/Song of the Banshee Brìghde Chaimbeul, Colin Stetson - Crònan (i) Peg Clancy, Bobby Clancy - Willie Crotty Margaret Barry - She Moved Through The Fair Shirley Collins, Davy Graham - Hares On The Mountain Shovel Dance Collective - I: The Bold Fisherman John Francis-Flynn - Kitty Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin - Caoineadh Cine Enya - Deireadh an Tuath Orla Sweeney - Together Harry Górski-Brown - Mo bhò dhubh mhór Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh - Its All About The Rhythm Of Her Toes Roy Budd - The Far Off Place Lankum - Go Dig My Grave Cormac Begley - TO War Seosamh Ó Héanaí - Óró, Sé do Bheatha Abhaile One Leg One Eye - Glistening She Emerges Sinéad O'Connor - Danny Boy (Live on The Late Show) Dead Can Dance - The Wind That Shakes The Barley Tree Meulebroek - Uillean Pipe Drones (10min practice backing track) Princess Tinymeat - Sloblands Roger Doyle, Operating Theatre - Spring Is Coming with A Strawberry in the Mouth For Those I love - I Have A Love Harry Górski-Brown - Bha mise raoir air an àirigh / I want to fight your father The Pogues - Summer in Siam