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Pauline O’Reilly, Green Party Seanad Leader

Norma Foley, Minister for Education

Jen Hogan, parenting columnist

Political journalist Daniel McConnell, Barry Cowen, Fianna Fail TD for Offaly and Pearse Doherty, Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson

Barry Lenihan reports

How does a computer represent letters? Today Julie and Phil look into the different codes used to translate binary into letters. And Julie goes undercover to become a spy!

Emer Flannery told Oliver about picking up a needle and thread, when she was having difficulty sleeping during the pandemic, and making herself a weighted blanket, and how this has blossomed into her very first business venture.

Novelist and journalist Matt Haig joined Oliver on the line to talk about his new best-seller 'The Midnight Library' which tells the story of wishing for a better life and realising that what you had in the first place might not have been so bad after all.

The stories and headlines of the day that grabbed Oliver's attention.

Zoe Holohan's husband was killed four days after their wedding in the Greek Wildfires in 2018. She was also badly burned and almost died. Her book is called 'As the Smoke Clears'