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Danish singer-songwriter, Mads Langer had to cancel the rest of his European tour due to the pandemic but he didn't let that deter him from organising a drive-in concert on the outskirts of Aarhus, Denmark where he performed to a field of cars!

This week's podcast looks at Arms Dealers in Weatherfield, Sex Buddies in the Netherlands, and Lonely Dining in Austria! No, it's not Black Market Travel podcast, It's Chris and Ciara's Podcast!

Today's panel included Colette Browne, Irish Independent Columnist, Sam McConkey, College of Surgeons, Conor Skehan, Lecturer in planning with Technological University Dublin and Niamh Hourigan, Sociologist at the UL. Tomás Hickey, Principal of Skerries Educate Together National School also spoke on the programme.

Former President Mary Robinson on a better world after coranavirus, new revelations on arms crisis in 1970 with journalist & historian Michael Heney. Singer-songwriter Mick Flannery & reflections from Leitrim with Michael Harding.

In this week's programme: Confessions of a devoted Johnny Logan fan, A father's war memories; Sifting through the motherlode of keepsakes; Farewell, again, to Bewleys; In grief and lockdown, a chink of light: with Roslyn Dee, Sinéad Ingoldsby, Maggie Armstrong, Enda Wyley and Conor Horgan

The pandemic has given a very unique chance for theatre to find new audiences. With a huge number of new virtual spaces opening, Philly McMahon of THISISPOPBABY, has the best places to get your first taste of online theatrics!

This week, poet Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill reads An Crann

Dr Cillian De Gascun, Chair of the HSE’s Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group. Prof Gerry Killeen, AXA Research Chair in Applied Pathogen Ecology. Peter Burke, Fine Gael TD for Longford and Westmeath. David Cullinane, Sinn Fein TD for Waterford. Roisin Shorthall, Social Democrats TD. Orla O’Connor, Director of the National Womens Council of Ireland.

The weather has gone uncanny and old postwar alliances are crumbling. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a dark future and what is anybody doing about it? In his new book, Dublin-based writer Mark O Connell crosses the globe in pursuit of answers!

Garret Daly has casting news for Russell Crowe and Dakota Johnson, while Netflix brings us a new big series based on Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Snowpiercer'.