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Letters from Quotidia

For lovers of music, poetry, and the Crack-that most Irish of nouns. Quotidia is that space, that place, where ordinary people lead ordinary lives. But where, from time to time, they encounter the extraordinary.

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12:12

Letters from Radio Quotidia Last Things 3

Letters from Quotidia ·

2026/01/01

The golden record affixed to the spacecraft does not include details of human atrocities but instead images of the beauty and variety of life on earth as well as our cultural treasures. More

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13:36

Letters from Radio Quotidia Last Things 2

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/31

A. I.'s myriad nanobots will be introduced into the environment and infiltrate our bodies, and at a predetermined time, these little engines of death coursing through our bloodstream and brain will simply activate and cause every member of our species to…deactivate. More

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13:27

Letters from Radio Quotidia Last Things 1

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/30

A wall of unobtanium would be impervious to any agency- but the only place such walls may be forged are in the furnaces of the dogmatic mind. Is there anything in this universe more adamantine than the certitude of the religious bigot or political ideologue? More

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12:58

Letters from Radio Quotidia the Blues 5

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/29

Get six gamblers to be my pallbearersSix chorus girls to sing me a song Put a Jazz band behind my hearse wagon To raise hell as we roll along More

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17:18

Letters from Radio Quotidia the Blues 4

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/26

B.B. later said: He called his guitar 'Lucy,' and for a while he went around saying he was my brother. That bothered me until I got to know him and realized he was right; he wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in the blues. More

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13:42

Letters from Radio Quotidia the Blues 3

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/25

The Sumerian Code of Ur-Nammu was promulgated some four thousand years ago where, if you take someone’s life, you forfeit yours.More

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13:56

Letters from Radio Quotidia- the Blues 2

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/24

In 1970, I was in Belfast’s Smithfield Markets rummaging for cheap second-hand records when I heard Christine McVie’s haunting performance of I’d Rather Go Blind. And, of course, I had to buy it. More

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11:46

Letters from Radio Quotidia the Blues- 1

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/23

Highways are enticing you to go further and two of the most enticing are Route 66 and Highway 61.More

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26:38

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 20

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/22

I’ll also reprise the final words from my final podcast for the Summa Quotidia, in 2016, where the ancient Greek poet Archilochus fleeing battle, throws away his shield reasoning, But at least I got myself safely out!More

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18:44

Letters from Quotidia Weekend Supplement 12

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/20

People of my generation remember Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now, I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, where she uses clouds as a metaphor for change and life’s bittersweet nature. The Rolling Stones’ Get Off Of My Cloud, I wore done as a 45-rpm single where the line, Hey you get off of my cloud/ Don’t hang around cause two’s a crowd emphasised the 60s elevation of personal freedom as a guiding principle of life. More

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22:50

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 19

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/19

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; conspiring with him how to load and bless with fruit and vines...KeatsMore

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21:04

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 18

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/18

there swimmeth One/Who swam ere rivers were begun,/ Immense, of fishy form and mind,/Squamous, omnipotent, and kind;/And under that Almighty Fin/,The littlest fish may enter in. Rupert Brooke, FishMore

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25:38

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 17

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/17

The little man hissed as they left his quota now will be one lessThe gentle soul he missed today will count against him I would say Among the council of the damned others like that evil man (lyrics from Fete by Quentin Bega)More

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24:32

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 16

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/16

August 6. It should never be forgotten. Though, who will tell those psychotic clowns who are threating the use of these obscene devices in Ukraine, Korea and elsewhere? More

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24:24

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 15

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/15

Out where the world is in the making,/Where fewer hearts in despair are aching,/That’s where the West begins;/Where there’s more of singing and less of sighing,/Where there’s more of giving and less of buying,/And a man makes friends without half trying,/That’s where the West beginsMore

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23:56

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 14

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/12

So Nature deals with us, and takes away/ Our playthings one by one, and by the hand/Leads us to rest so gently, that we go/Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,/Being too full of sleep to understand/How far the unknown transcends the what we know William Wadsworth LongfellowMore

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21:50

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 13

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/11

, I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion/Has broken Nature’s social union,/An’ justifies that ill opinion,/Which makes thee startle,/At me, thy poor, earth-born/ companion,/An’ fellow-mortal!More

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25:14

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 12

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/10

it’s a pity Sandburg never had a son to pass it to. I wish I had passed it on to my first-born son, but-alas-I wasn’t to know that he wouldn’t live to see his sixteenth birthday. More

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24:16

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 11

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/09

Keane excavated music in a way few people did...He understood that there were particular tonalities associated with traditional music that set it apart and set him apart… Keane understood the emotional, spiritual, and lonely quality in Irish traditional music. More

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27:18

Letters from Quotidia 2023 Podcast 10

Letters from Quotidia ·

2025/12/08

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:/Its loveliness increases; it will never/Pass into nothingness; but still will keep/A bower quiet for us, and a sleep/Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. / from Endymion John KeatsMore

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