Dave Fanning

We can't head to the cinema but we can see some new movies from the comfort of our own home. Paul Whitington of The Independent is on the line to review some new small screen films released this week including 'Take Me Somewhere Nice', 'Edge of Extinction' and Women Make Films'!

Could socially distanced gigs work? Journalist, Aoife Barry and Dave Allen from Whelan's Dublin discuss the questions that are being asked about the feasibility of socially distanced gigs, festivals and what the future of that looks like in Ireland and across the world!

Would you like to escape to a desert island and create your own paradise? Well thanks to the best-selling game of the pandemic, 'Animal Crossing' now you can! Broadcaster and host of the 'Meet Your Maker' podcast, Liam Geraghty tells Dave why 11 million people have bought in to the latest video game craze!

Danish singer-songwriter, Mads Langer had to cancel the rest of his European tour due to the pandemic but he didn't let that deter him from organising a drive-in concert on the outskirts of Aarhus, Denmark where he performed to a field of cars!

Having worked on the likes of 'The Deer Hunter', 'The Goonies' and even 'Friends', Nick McClean is one of cinema and televison's most prolific cinematographers. Irish author, Wayne Byrne has just written a book about him and they're both on the line to chat with Dave!

Nathan Nugent is a film and TV editor whose credits include Room, What Richard Did, Frank and most recently, the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel, 'Normal People'. He chats to Dave about his career and what it's like to have a bona fide pandemic blockbuster under his belt!

Indian and Chinese troops engage in stone throwing at a border post, French serial-killer expert murders his imaginary wife and a restaurant filling empty seats with inflatable dolls to make social distancing "less weird"! It's Anton's stories of the week!

Photographer, Ian Berry is on the line to tell Dave how a photo he took at a nightclub in London in 1964 has ended up on the cover of Dylan's forthcoming LP, 'Rough And Rowdy Ways'!

We can't head to the cinema but we can see some new movies from the comfort of our own home. Paul Whitington is on the line to review some new small screen films released this week including 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always', 'Corpus Christi' and 'The Wretched'!

The weather has gone uncanny and old postwar alliances are crumbling. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a dark future and what is anybody doing about it? In his new book, Dublin-based writer Mark O Connell crosses the globe in pursuit of answers!