Dave Fanning

Anton drops in to update Dave on all the latest weird and wonderful news of the week, including not putting frozen chips up your bum, the world record breaking number of balls a retriever can hold in its mouth and librarians finding a 50-year old half eaten biscuit!

On Tuesday last, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara became the recipients of this year’s Pritzker Prize, the award that’s known internationally as architecture’s highest honour. Dave caught up with Yvonne to chat all about it

Journalist with The Irish Independent, Paul Whittington give us his thoughts on new films, Onward, Military Wives, True History of The Kelly Gang and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

The Nobody Zone is a brand new original podcast series for RTÉ, which has just launched online. It deals with the world of homelessness, violence and alcoholism on the streets of London in the 1970s and ‘80s. Rob Mulhern is a freelance journalist and documentary maker behind The Nobody Zone and he joins Dave to discuss the series

Gender balance in festival lineups has become a major talking point over the last few years. Well, now, festivals hoping to achieve gender balance on their line-ups have been given a major helping hand - in the form of a massive database. Vick Bain joins Dave to talk about something called The F List

Oliver has the uncanny ability to become some of the most recognisable people in the country. Callan’s Kicks on RTE Radio1 is Oliver’s weekly skewering of Irish politics and current affairs, and now he’s taken the massively popular show on the road, with dates all across the country. Oliver joins Dave to tell him all about it

Reports in the media suggest that the former movie producer, Harvey Weinstein has enlisted a “prison consultant” to help him transition to life behind bars. Steve Dagworthy is the founder of Prison Consultants, the UK’s first jail time advice service, and he joins Dave to discuss what prison consultation actually involves

Trump's doctor hiding vegetables in his food, surfers punching sharks and if you drive an expensive car you're probably a jerk! It's Anton's stories of the week!

Annie chats to Dave about her new book, "Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking", which is all about the creative process behind her work for the likes of Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel and Todd Philip's Joker!

Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer, comedian and researcher behind the BBC show, QI and co-host of the huge spinoff podcast, "No Such Thing As A Fish"! He has just released his debut novel, "The Last Day" and is on the line to tell Dave all about it