Brendan O'Connor

Christina Finn, Political Correspondent, Journal.ie; Gary Murphy, Professor of Politics, DCU; Prof Alan Barrett, Economist and CEO Of the ESRI and Louise Bayliss, Campaign Co-ordinator, Focus Ireland and Spokesperson for SPARK. Fromer Editor of The Guardian Michael White discusses the Tory leadership contest.

Horror Academic and Consultant Dr Sarah Cleary talks all things Horror in the run up to Halloween.

Zara Hedderman, Freelance Music Journalist and Rory Cashin, Entertainment Editor, Joe.ie, discuss this weeks new releases.

Author John Banville spoke to Brendan about his new novel 'The Singularities' which was six years in the writing, why he would erase the words 'good' and 'evil' in the dictionary and his hatred of holidays.

Rory O'Neill, AKA Panti Bliss, and Tara Flynn talk about accidental activism, reactionary pushback, and their new double bill of one-person shows - Haunted and If These Wigs Could Talk - coming to the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in November.

Food writer Lilly Higgins gives us easy-to-do, midweek pasta recipes and how to make the best tomato-based sauce.

Misha Glenny, Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, tells Brendan about the biggest global power struggle that no-one is talking about and the subject of his new podcast: 'The Scramble for Rare Earths'.

Laura Dowling - AKA The Fabulous Pharmacist on Instagram - tells us how best to support our immune system in terms of lifestyle choices and supplements as we face into winter.

We get the latest from the Tory leadership contest in the UK with Lisa Fisher, Political Commentator with Times Radio and Enda Brady, London Journalist.

Ex-rugby player and coach Ian McKinley on his new autobiography Second Sight which charts his story from losing his eye on the pitch to making a comeback on the international rugby scene.