Diaspora yearnings, an alternative winter solstice, an audience with Samus Ennis and Christmas with the Count, with Jim Galvin, Christina Park, Tom McGurk, James Harpur, Lourdes Mackey and Mary Maher

Celebrating travel writer Dervla Murphy’s independent mind and adventurous spirit, from Lismore to Delhi, Ramallah to Kabul: affectionate tributes from Lelia Doolan, Clare O’Grady Walshe, Patrick Cockburn, Jo Murphy-Lawless, Kate Thompson and Raja Shehadeh

A Cavan copper king, a New York fashion queen, and Irish American connections from Washington to Montana… a Thanksgiving-infused Sunday Miscellany, with Brian O’Donovan, Mary Coleman, Dan Mulhall, Grace Wilentz, Deirdre McQuillan and Denise Blake

Affectionate tributes to the late Brendan Kennelly, midnight moonlighters, wild geese and more, with Brendan Kennelly, Tom Clonan, Breda Joyce, Barbara Scully, Gerald Dawe and Paddy Moran

Oscar Wilde in November, appreciating Dublin's Custom House, and a Leonard Cohen requiem, with Cathy Sweeney, Tim Carey, Louise Kennedy, Brian Farrell, John MacKenna and Catherine Foley

Marking the 70th Wexford Festival Opera: stories, music and song from Wexford, with Margaret Galvin, Joe Brennan, Tom Mooney, Jackie Morrissey, AM Cousins and Sinéad O’Reilly

Revisiting Brideshead revisited, running your first marathon, and the Hellfire Club and the “wrong sort of tourist”, with Joe Kearney, Karen J McDonnell, Tom Ryan, Denise Blake, Maura Gilligan and Kevin McDermott

Revisiting Brideshead revisited, running your first marathon, and the Hellfire Club and the “wrong sort of tourist”, with Joe Kearney, Karen J McDonnell, Tom Ryan, Denise Blake, Maura Gilligan and Kevin McDermott

Marking the 70th Wexford Festival Opera: stories, music and song from Wexford, with Margaret Galvin, Joe Brennan, Tom Mooney, Jackie Morrissey, AM Cousins and Sinéad O’Reilly

Beloved pets, a visit to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and remembering Tony McMahon, with Kevin McDermott, Ann Marie Durkan, Lani O’Hanlon, Grace Wilentz, Michael O’Connor, Declan Collinge and JM Dolan