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Ruth Gilligan chats to Seán about her fifth novel 'The Butchers', Daragh Downes on why William Wordsworth is so important and disaster movies, a genre that began 50 years ago with Airport. Cara O'Doherty and Simon Maher discuss this and the movies that followed since.

Take a Mindful Moment with RTÉjr radio. This week, our focus is on kindness and today, we share kindness with those in our home.

Ruth Gilligan is the best selling author of 'Nine Folds Makes a Paper Swan'. Her latest novel, 'The Butchers', is set in the Irish borderlands during the BSE crisis of the mid-1990s. Published by Atlantic.

Shane Lowry is the current Open Champion. In this edition of Des' Island Discs, Shane chats about the Open win, his Irish Open success, growing up in Clara and his love of Christy Moore's Honda 50!

Marie Crowe and Donncha O'Callaghan are joined by Brian Hulrey, Andy Lee and Niamh McEvoy.

The Kerry musician talks to Seán about her new album, the crisis facing arts workers and being unable to tour during the pandemic.

Colm Ó Mongáin talks to RTÉ Health Correspondent Fergal Bowers on the upward creep of numbers in intensive care units; Social Affairs Correspondent Ailbhe Conneely on Traveller concerns and Europe Editor Tony Connelly on the EU's 'coronabond' stand-off. 

Amanda Brunker, Columnist with The Herald, Irish Times Consumer Affairs correspondent with the Irish Times, discuss tension that is growing between joggers and walkers during the pandemic.

Second leg of Culture File's walk Among The Trees with curator and writer, Ralph Rugoff. Rugoff's latest (now shuttered) show at London's Hayward Gallery looks at artists looking at trees, exploring how what the curator calls "tree culture" intersects with our own. (Part 2)