It's the sixth week of Off Topic. This week the team discuss the effectiveness of cultural boycotts with Elaine Bradley who is a founding member of Academics for Palestine - a group of Irish academics promoting boycott of Israell. Hugh Linehan interviews Sarah Webb about the changing world of children's literature, Fionn Davenport analyses the implications of the Marvin Gaye judgement and Laurence celebrates his love of Ryan Reynolds.

Off Topic is a weekly culture and ideas podcast. It is researched by Declan Conlon and produced by Sinead O'Shea