This week Fionn Davenport, Hugh Linehan and Laurence Mackin discuss the start of the festival season with Angela Dorgan and Eoin Butler. Also as as a new series of True Detective begins, Off Topic considers the dominance of the crime drama genre with Patrick Freyne. Plus the team take a closer look at the controversial New York Times article on the Berkeley tragedy.

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