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Death of an Empire is five part radio series produced by Athena Media, exploring twenty years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union presented by Seamus Martin, former Moscow correspondent of The Irish Times, and exploring what made the Soviet Union, what led to its collapse and what it’s like inside modern Russia today.
The series began on RTÉ Radio 1 on January 7th 2012 at 7.30pm and will run on Saturdays until 11th February. Episode 3 will be broadcast on 28th January.
Each programme explores the historical events which shaped modern Russia from the leadership of Gorbachev to the coup d’etat in August 1991 which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the era of Boris Yeltsin and the birth of modern Russia under Vladimir Putin.
To view the press release please click
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To listen to episode 1 of the series please click here
You can also find the podcasts on podcasting Ireland. Go to podcastingireland.ie to subscribe or find the Athena Podcasts RSS feed here.
Death of an Empire is an Athena Media production for RTÉ Radio 1. Episode 3 will air on Saturday 28th January at 7.30pm and explores the August 1991 Coup attempt and the final months of the Soviet Union.
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Athena Media is running two Social Media workshops in January and March 2012. Our very popular Social Media workshops will take place on 27th January and 2nd March. . We are also running a half day Twitter for Business workshop on the 3rd of February. Each workshop will take place in Adelaide Chambers, Peter Street, Dublin 8.
Both the social media workshops and the Twitter for business workshops are a great way to revive or update you’re social media skills and will teach you how to think strategically about your company’s business online, using social media and online content led by business and communications leader, Athena Media MD Helen Shaw.
For more information on our Social Media full day workshop please click here
For more information on our Twitter for business morning workshop please click here
To book a place please contact Lisa on 01 4883350
What our clients say:
“I would and I have already recommended our Company to use this course when it next comes around. I found the course good value for money.” Deborah Maguire – Commission for Aviation Regulation
“I found the course well structured, responsive and informative. It was very useful for thinking through an approach to using social media and to identifying the most useful tools to use.” Niall Crowley – Claiming our Future
High Fidelity is a 26 part radio series presented by Jack L and Julie Feeney which featured on RTÉ lyric fm weekly between May and November 2011. It is a sound map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X-Factor. The series will end on the 7th of November but we have now started to create each episode as podcast download. The first six podcasts are now available to download.
To begin with episode one click here
You can also find the podcasts on podcasting Ireland. Go to podcastingireland.ie to subscribe or find the High Fidelity Podcasts RSS feed here.
High Fidelity: A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is an Athena Media production for RTÉ Lyric fm and was made with the support of the BAI’s Sound and Vision Funding Scheme. The producer is Helen Shaw. Music researcher Naomi Macleod. Sound supervision was by Lochlainn Harte. Also many thanks to our presenters Jack L and Julie Feeney.
You can also listen to the promos for each of the episodes here
To read the press release please click here
Athena Media are running two Social Media workshops in November. Our very popular Social Media workshop will take place on 4th November and our new Twitter Business half day workshop will take place on 11th November . Both workshops will take place in Adelaide Chambers, Peter Street, Dublin 8.
Both workshops are a great way to revive or update you’re social media skills. The workshops are led by leading communications and digital media expert, Helen Shaw, CEO of Athena Media.
For more information on our Social Media full day workshop please click here
and for more information on our half day Twitter Business workshop please click here
To book a place please contact Lisa on 01 4883350
What our clients say:
“I would and I have already recommended our Company to use this course when it next comes around. I found the course good value for money.” Deborah Maguire – Commission for Aviation Regulation
“The course really brought home to me the importance of social media and the need to master them.” Carol Coulter – The Irish Times
