All Episodes

The Secret Lives of Writers: The Ticket @ Electric Picnic

The Business End of the Irish Music Industry

A Census of the Heart

The Egoless Art Form of Comedy Improvisation

The North On Screen: Bobby Sands: 66 Days, Born and Reared

Stranger Things / Is Pokemon Go nostalgic? / Marina Joyce

What is fun, and how do we have more of it?

The rise of the LA sound / Waiting for Godot / Galway named European Capital of Culture 2020

The three ages of Bey: Destiny’s Child / Solo / Lemonade and the future

What Brexit means for the Irish culture industries / Rupert Murdoch's Wireless Group takeover

Good news for a change? Impact Journalism Day

When Moby met Una

"An alternative community center" - The role of the gay bar

Stanford, and how we (don't) deal with rape

The value of Irish: Rosita Boland and Harry McGee debate

Dublin Destroyed

Roger Casement: The Movie / Assassin's Creed / Bits, Bytes and Books

Patrick Freyne at the Eurovision / Donald Clarke at Cannes

Irish slaves, Django & the mind of Gerry Adams

Patrick Freyne at The Late Late / 'Atlantic' documentary

Prince remembered / Shakespeare's legacy

Technology's role in live music / Retreads remakes and films that refuse to die

Enda Walsh / Brutal Dublin

Virtual Reality arrives, TXFM departs

Sing an Irish song, Sing a Rebel song

Sound Special: Jim Carroll's SxSW, Chris Watson's dream job

Sing Street & The Importance of Pop Music

How Realistic is House of Cards? / Coronation Street

Oliver Callan's Election / Donald Clarke's Oscars

The New Wave of Irish Cinema: Discussion w/ Ed Guiney, Paddy Breathnach, Rebecca Daly & James Hickey

TV3 Debate / Inner City Voters / Zomba Prison Project

Lynn Ruane on Consent / Viceland & RTÉ

What kind of city do Dubliners want?

Does your life story belong to you?

Lenny Abrahamson

David Bowie

Rebellion / Making a Murderer

Dwyer, Rising, Darkweb, Van Morrison - Best Of, Part 2

Emoji, Shaming, Mad Men, War Story - Best Of, Part 1

A year to learn a skill / End of year lists

The Future of Whiteness, STEAM, Serial Returns

Christmas Movies, Star Wars, Louise Bruton

Fast Food Revolution, Ferriter/Coogan Controversy, Brand New Retro

Bataclan, Adele, Mercury Prize

Rental Crisis, Waking the Feminists in the Abbey

Karlin's Web Summit Review / City Soundscapes

Bond Bore, 1916, A Wild Weekend in Florida

Pantigreat + Dublin Delight?

Playboy, Porn and the Dark Net

Hipster Food + Philosophy and Irish Life

Matt Damon, Triggering, Microaggressions

Brian Friel

Volkswagen's Vile Lies + Dublin Theatre Festival

Rugby Revolution and the re-death of Rock

The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly

Skywalker on Skellig, Electric Picnic, Netflix Movies, Photo Dilemmas

VAN MORRISON

Edinburgh's "Narcissist Olympics", The Great Wall and "So"

RTÉ's autumn line-up and the future of TV; The argument for envy

Sexist Filmmaking and Horrible Ads, Jon Stewart and Esther Phillips

Feile + Online Arguments

Ashley Madison and Summer Hits

Monto Magic, the Queen of kora and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

Do androids dream of Dominic West?

Surveying Sex

Podcasting, Galway Film Fleadh

Crime Drama, Music Festivals, NYT and Berkeley

Yeats, Tourism and travel writing responsibilities

Caitlyn Jenner + Irish Trans Rights, The End of Design

Gambling in Ireland, Lions in Dublin

Bye Bye Mad Men, iffy IFTAs

Eurovision Extravaganza

I'm Right, You're Wrong

Cannes Film Festival, Flâneuring and Le Grand Reporter in 1920s Ireland

Why books still matter

Graham Dwyer Sentence

Mad Men style, Brand New Retro

War story + the absence of female literary critics

Easter Rising Anxiety

Public shaming: I bet you're sorry you did that now

Boycotts, Sarah Webb + Ryan Reynolds

Restaurants, Barry Lyndon

Emoji - Kissing Cat Face with Closed Eyes

Laurel and Hardy, Music Streaming, House of Cards, Andrew Scott

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Love and Pubs