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  WALKING WITH POETS Walking With Poets at Benmore Botanic Garden is now well underway with resident Poet throughout June Sue Butler. This has come about from a collaboration between the Scottish Poetry Library and Scotland’s Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh . Her workshops which she has started are proving most popular and there are other events […]

SWAMP SOCCER RETURNS TO COWAL To Celebrate the return of Swamp Soccer to Cowal  on Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th June to be held at  Blairmore (next to Dunoon), which is 35 miles (56 km) from Glasgow Airport, and about 1 hour’s drive in a car we have some exciting news. DCR97.4FM are to run […]

SUSANNAH RICE -SPECIAL GUEST WITH  FERRY UPDATE Susannah Rice Chair  of the DGFAG called in to update the listeners with all the latest Ferry news.  

NEIL ALEXANDER – each Monday Neil brings you up to date with the latest topics in and around our community which to say the least has been a very eventful week for more than one reason and checking out the headlines from the local newspaper and what they say of recent events. Of course he […]

     Kevin Cameron’s feature-length portrait of the renowned Scottish polymath Alasdair Gray to be shown in the Burgh Hall this as part of the very first Dunoon Film Festival is as entertaining and multi-faceted as the man himself. It offers a colourful mosaic of fresh interviews, rare archive footage and opportunities to view Gray […]

 Wounded Knee: Drifters Pioneering Scots filmmaker John Grierson was the founding father of the British documentary movement and Drifters is a landmark in his career. Grierson and his camera follow the crew of a trawler fishing for herring in the North Sea, creating a poetic portrait of their everyday lives, the hypnotic rhythms of the […]

UNRAVEL  DIRECT FILMMAKING WORKSHOP With this mornings DCR97.4 fm sponsored Film Festival workshop “Unravel Direct Filmmaking Workshop” hailed a success DJ Sammy invited the team responsible Jo Byrne and Maria Anastassiou to join him in the studio to talk to the listeners

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen Today Saturday 15th June at the  Dunoon Community Radio DCR are proud to sponsor a FREE drop-in direct filmmaking workshop upstairs in the big at the Big  Hall – come along any time between 11am and 2pm to draw, scratch or paint straight onto 16mm film. Unravel, the longest […]