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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Paul Noonan joins the Sunday Service

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.

Jim Crace joins the Mystery Train Sunday Service

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 and Joanna Newsom.

Novelist Sara Baume picks the tunes and chats about writing and ar

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 Family Stone and Millie Jackson. (First Broadcast March 2020)

Actress Derbhle Crotty joins the Sunday Service

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 literary success, training as an actor, sexism in the book industry and being a 'method novelist'.

Author Eimear McBride picks the tunes and talks literary success and sexism in the industry

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 a plan B. His very fine music choices include Coleman Hawkins, Nicholas Britell and Ennio Morricone.

'The Dark Fields' author Alan Glynn chats to John and picks the tunes

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.

Harpist and composer Una Monaghan joins John and picks the tunes

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 Shannon and the Clams, Portishead and Iron Maiden.

Ian Lynch of Lankum talks epenthetic vowels and picks the tunes

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.

Poet Jessica Traynor picks the tunes

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 music from The Slits, Molly Drake and The Sultans of Ping, of course.

Derry Girls' Siobhan McSweeney joins John and picks the tunes

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.

Novelist Danny Denton chats to John and picks the music

On Mystery Train's Sunday Service John invites a guest to choose the music, and this week is joined by author Lisa McInerney.

Lisa McInerney picks the tunes on Sunday Service

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 Warwick and the best introduction to Paul Brady's Arthur McBride. He talks about the Dublin band scene of the 1970s and performing again.

Paul Cleary of The Blades join John and picks the tunes

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, Oumou Sangare and Charles Mingus.

Loah picks music by Kamasi Washington, Oumou Sangare and Charles Mingus

Tonight John's guest is artist Catherine Owens, and she'll be picking the tunes on another Sunday Service.

Artist Catherine Owens picks the tunes

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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