Dave Fanning

Mise Freshin started as a one-off radio show but has evolved into a live gig next Saturday in the Peppercannister Church, Dublin. The man responsible for Mise Freshin is Ray Cuddihy, better known to many as Muinteoir Ray from RTE’s lockdown homeschooling programme Home School Hub. Ray chats to Dave about how folk music and hip hop are very similar

Dave chats to Irish singer-songwriter Orla Gartland about her album ‘Woman on The Internet’, YouTube and touring

An app that uses eye tracking to make sure you don’t skip ads, a James Blunt song deployed on protesters in New Zealand and the Queen is branching into condiments... It’s Aifric’s stories of the week!

This week saw the launch of Ireland’s first ever frictionless shopping store. Frictionless shopping allows shoppers to buy their items without ever waiting in a queue or stopping to scan or pay. Conor Pope, consumer journalist with the Irish Times, tells Dave all about it

With Game of Thrones opening their studio tour recently and Cahir Castle winning an award for being one of the best filming locations in Europe, TV and movie tourism in Ireland has never been greater. Dave chats to Irish Independent Travel Editor Pól O’Conghaile about some of the best studio tours and film locations to visit across the world

Dave chats to set decorator for film and TV Christina Tonkin, who has worked on productions such as Meet The Parents, Sex and the City and Gossip Girl. In more recent times she’s worked on the Showtime series Billions, where she’s had to create homes and offices that look credibly like the world of a billionaire

Over the next while Dave is going to take a look back at some of his best interviews from the archives. This week it’s the turn of singer, songwriter Neil Young

A British band have recorded a 1,000-track album. It’s a protest album, made to highlight the low royalties paid by Spotify to artists. The Pocket Gods are the band and the album is titled simply ‘1000 ×30 – Nobody Makes Money Anymore’. Mark Christopher Lee is the front man of the band and he chats to Dave and explains what this is all about

The nominations for this year’s Academy Awards were announced this week and there were plenty of surprises! But this is not the first time the nominations have left the film industry elite and fans disgruntled. TV and Film Director Brian Reddin joined Dave to talk about some of the most prolific missteps in Oscar history

Dave chats to Broadcaster Cian Ó’Cíobháin about the film Sail We Must – a story of a chance meeting between British DJ Andrew Weatherall and an Irish fisherman, from whom he first heard the phrase “Fail We May, Sail We Must”. It was a phrase which would become synonymous with Weatherall and inspire his philosophy and approach to creativity