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Director David Freyne joined Dave on the phone to chat about his second feature film ‘Dating Amber ‘ a story about two friends Eddie and Amber who are both gay but decide to go out with each other in order to deflect any questions of their sexuality.

As always, Anton Savage was on hand to chat about the wild and the wonderful stories from around the world including the Spanish porn star who was involved in a situation with a poisonout toad and the opening of drive through botox clinics in Florida.

Author Sasha Geffen was on the phone to talk to Dave about her new book ‘Glitter Up The Dark – How Pop Music Broke The Binary’ a book that takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.

Chairperson of The Irish Deaf Society was on Zoom with her interpreter Tracy Daly to talk with Dave about what it’s like to be a deaf person in Ireland today and the challenges the deaf community face with the covid 19 pandemic.

Susan Hegarty is a geographer and a member of the School of History and Geography in DCU. Her research focuses on the evolution of the Irish landscape and our use of that landscape. She joined Dave on the phone to tell us all she knows about sinkholes in Ireland.

In an attempt to keep our sanity during lockdown, there has been a huge increase in the popularity of quizzes. Quiz Master Paddy Duffy joined Dave on the line to tell him what it takes to hold a great quiz and to offer some advice on how to keep it fun and interesting for all involved.

Minding Creative Minds is the first dedicated wellbeing support programme for the Irish music sector, with the aim of assisting the creative community through the challenges of the Covid-19 crisis. David Reid and Louize Carroll joined Dave to discuss the challenges that musicians are facing in the current climate.

The current climate has put a stop to Carlow Arts Festival taking place in it’s traditional way this weekend. How and ever, the show must go on and so Jo Mangan and Tom Swift joined Dave on the line to chat about how they have overcome these restrictions in order to make this year’s festival happen.

Our movie expert Paul Whittington was on the phone to talk about the TV shows and Movies that are grabbing people’s attention during lockdown including Dating Amber and A Rainy Day in New York.

A new floral design series in the style of "The Great British Bake Off" but with flowers instead of flour was recently launched on Netflix. A pair of Irish landscape architects, Declan Cooney and Eoghan Riordan Fernandez competed in the show and they're on the line to tell us about their flower fighting experience!