Dave Fanning

Music journalist Simon Maher joined Dave (along with a guest appearance from Eoin Sweeney) to discuss some of the best song intros of all time, including Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, Arctic Monkeys, The Who and so many more!

Californian teenagers stealing their parent's car so that they can go "swimming with dolphins", an invisible sculpture selling for £13,000 and baby squid being launched to the International Space Station by NASA. It's Anton's stories of the week!

Journalist and 2FM broadcaster Conor Behan joined Dave to guide us through the music stars that have made it big in the movie industry down through the years, and also those who failed to make the jump from music to the big screen (or vice versa).

There's been a lot of talk about press conferences in sport this week as tennis champion Naomi Osaka cited mental health concerns for not participating in the ones at the French Open. Sometimes, press conferences in sport yield some truly memorable moments and Andrew O’Connor of RTE Sport joined Dave to take a look at a few of them today.

Most of us will be holidaying in Ireland again this summer, so we were joined on the show today by historian Linda King who brought us through a history of Irish people's holiday habits and how we have loved to spend staycations in Ireland down through the years.

Film journalist with The Independent, Paul Whitington, chats to Dave about new films to go and see when cinemas reopen next week, including 'A Quiet Place: Part II' and 'Land'. He also discussed 'The Outpost' which is out now on Amazon Prime Video.

NASA is planning two missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 so that they can understand why our nearest neighbour became an inferno-like world despite having similar characteristics to our own world. Irish award-winning STEM communicator, scientist, engineer, writer and performer, Niamh Shaw joined Dave to tell us exactly what this means!

Dave chats to Singer-Songwriter, Sinead O Connor about her difficult childhood, tearing up that photo of the pope, being booed off stage at Madison Square Garden and other stories from her new memoir, 'Rememberings'!

This week, former Special Adviser to Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings gave evidence to a select committee on the UK's pandemic response. It made for intriguing television so Graham Finlay of the UCD School of Politics chats to Dave about some of the most explosive political moments caught onscreen!

Americans asked not to kiss chickens amid outbreak, North Korea bans skinny jeans as symbol of 'capitalistic lifestyle' and 'tree farts' produce significant greenhouse gas emissions! It's Anton's stories of the week!