In Transporters, producer Caoilin Rafferty celebrates the life and livelihoods of those who travel every day, transporting people to and from various destinations around Ireland.

In the programme, we take a trip through music, voice and sound, accompanying transporters from all over Ireland on the journeys they take. We follow drivers, pilots, skippers, cyclists and jarveys on journeys in trains, hot air balloons, sea ferries, sea planes, horse and carriages, remote taxis and city rickshaws. We will listen to their tales from the road, sea and sky and hear about old traditions and a daily way of life.

Transporters features a train driver for Irish rail, a hot air balloon pilot from Trim, a sea ferry captain in Mayo, a pilot and former RAF officer from Limerick, a bus taxi driver from the Gaeltacht, a jarvey in Killarney, a rickshaw cyclist in Dublin, a bus driver in Donegal and a truck driver from Roscommon.

‘Transporters’ will be broadcast on Newstalk 106-108fm this weekend, Saturday 27th September at 7am, and Repeated at 10am on Sunday 28th September.

‘Transporters’ can also be listened to online at: www.newstalk.ie

Podcast available at: www.newstalk.ie/documentaryonnewstalk after the broadcast.

‘Transporters’ was Produced, Recorded and Edited by Caoilin Rafferty

The project was supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, as part of the Sound And Vision Scheme.