Dave Fanning

Dave chats to Daniel Pink, author of ‘The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward’. He tells Dave how regrets can be used to make smarter decisions, perform better at work and even deepen our sense of meaning and purpose.

Professor and Historian David Hendy has written the book ‘The BBC: A People’s History’. He talks to Dave about the role of the BBC from its beginnings, through to war and the many cultural changes that have occurred over the past 100 years.

Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance wreck was found last week, 100 years to the day since he was buried. Joe Varley of the National Maritime Museum, Dun Laoghaire, tells Dave all about the discovery and other shipwrecks that lie in Irish waters.

Jerry Fish and Cathy Davey talk to Dave about the new Electric Picnic documentary. A Piece of the Picnic, will premiere on RTÉ 2FM’s YouTube channel this evening, telling the story of the past two years when Electric Picnic didn’t happen, and how a community of festival makers and musicians came together to capture a piece of the Picnic

Journalist Orlaith Condon chats to Dave about The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried as fraudster Elizabeth Holmes. Orlaith also gives Dave a rundown of what’s been happening with the cancellation of well-known Australian soap Neighbours

For the next couple of weeks on Sunday afternoons, Dave will be taking a look back at some archive interviews. This week it’s the turn on Australian singer-songwriter, Nick Cave

TV and movies can have huge cultural impact, and sometimes it even lodges words and phrases into our day-to-day lexicon. Brian Llyod from Entertainment.ie chats to Dave about the phrases that you might not know came from the screen

Irish Producer Jacknife Lee has worked with Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and U2 to name a few. Dave chats to him about his work and his music duo with Cathal Coughlan called Telifis who just released their debut album A’hAon

Oblivious winner dodging lottery's phone calls, Mulletfest makes a glorious return and a mother raising awareness after son is diagnosed with uncombable hair syndrome... It’s Aifric’s stories of the week!

The cassette is back! Sales of the retro recording device have increased dramatically over the past couple of years. Is this surge pandemic related or is it our ears longing for a change after years of listening to digital music? Dave chats to Steve Stepp whose company is the largest manufacturer of cassette tapes in the world