A life changing phone call, a hug-fest, watching the Chernobyl disaster unfold from the Irish Embassy in Moscow and more........ with Peter Trant, Joe Hayes, Angela Keogh, Catherine Foley, Gerry Moran and Gerry Dawe

The agony and ecstasy of being a fan, from Arsenal to Bay City Rollers; a dinner fit for Shakespeare; and a poetry workshop with the late, much-missed Eavan Boland. With writers Frank Shouldice, Oliver Sears, Denise Blake, Margaret Hickey and Frank Kavanagh

The end of the Sarajevo lockdown, the 80th anniversary of the Belfast Blitz, and the enduring power of music and song, with Mark Brennock, Olivia O’Leary, Gerald Dawe, John Toal and Lucy Caldwell

Yuri Gagarin's extraordinary achievement... olfactory adventures in inter-railing... James Joyce’s own favourite, feathery Barnacle goose.... and birdwatching with Gerrit Van Gelderen: - with writers Michael O'Loughlin, Nuala O'Connor, Rory Gleeson, Denise Blake, Grace Wells and Brian Farrell

A baseball legend’s moment of history, a remarkable story from the War of Independence, a Traveller woman’s crowning glory, lunch with John McGahern, Tony O'Malley's Good Friday paintings, with Joseph Kearney, Clodagh O'Donoghue, AM Cousins, Tim Carey, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Lawrence and John MacKenna

Stories and storytelling from the Aran Islands to Istanbul… retracing the steps of O’Sullvan’s march… and the cookery book that united Italy with John MacKenna, Roslyn Dee, Jody Clarke, William Wall, Denise Blake and Alannah Robins

Set dancing, sweet things and an outrageous showman… seeking out a mother’s true identity… and a Hungarian visitor’s Irish fine dining experience: fish and chips on the Bray seafront. With Brian Daly, Joe Kearney, Catherine Foley, Bernadett Buda, Lemn Sissay and Rachael Hegarty

Horsewhips and hatpins, ill-fated statues, Gary Halpin's random act of kindness and Mary Wollstonecraft's pioneering feminism... with Conall Hamill, Lourdes Mackey, Michael O'Loughlin, Mae Leonard, John Toal and Catherine Foley

Highlights from past Sunday Miscellany Live in Ennis shows as part of Ennis Book Club Festival in Glór, Ennis. Rescue donkeys, interrailing incidents, the newspaper preferences of the people of Miltown Malbay and a fine mix of music and song with Maurice Crowe, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Noel Harrington, John Hurley and Dee Collins.

Curlews and sanderlings... bath time, dirty boulevards and old Beatles haunts... and the great friendship of Michael Davitt, Land League founder, and artist Sarah Purser with John MacKenna, Fionn Ó Marcaigh, Carla King, Jonathan White, Paula Shields and Gerald Smyth