Barley sticks and bonbons, teenage anxieties, a mysterious hill, a haybarn and a poem for Strokestown, with Tim Carey, Leo Cullen, Lani O’Hanlon, Martine Madden, Vincent Woods, Mia Döring and Noelle Lynskey

Full-body tattoos, finding poems on the Dart, rainy day picnics, meeting the Hothouse Flowers and more, with Joe Kearney, John MacKenna, Catherine Foley, Jackie Lynam, Denise Blake and John Toal

Pot-bellied pet lambs, unopened Easter eggs, composer Maurice Ravel and a monastic retreat on Caldey Island, with John Toal, Jonathan Duignan, Mae Leonard, Margaret Galvin, John F Deane, Leo Cullen and Noelle Lynskey

Dreamy journeys by bus, a lost 1916 dispatch, and the opera houses of Tirana, Berlin and Odessa, with Michael O’Connor, Frank Shouldice, Lourdes Mackey, Frank Kavanagh, Eva Bourke and John F Deane

A fraught father-son relationship, a lost friend, and Milo O’Shea remembered, with Joe Dowling, Oliver Sears, Margaret Galvin, John MacKenna, AM Cousins, Rosyln Dee and Grace Wilentz

Soap bubbles and speech therapy, a couch collector, a Kurdish boy in Ballyshannon, and Mother’s Day labours of love, with Margaret Galvin, Dermot Bolger, Olive Travers, Denise Blake, Joe Whelan and Rachael Hegarty

The wearing of the green in Ireland and Pakistan, new words for wine and painter Seán Keating remembered, with Gerald Dawe, Rosheen Callender, Mary Dowey, Bernadett Buda and Carla King

Football, feminism and friendship; the island of Montserrat’s Irish links; and “the lads that will never be old,” with Joe Kearney, Yvonne Judge, John Toal, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Murphy, Conall Hamill and Catherine Foley.

Wild words as Gaeilge from the Dingle peninsula, snowdrops, chocolates and the city of Kyiv through the decades, with Manchán Magan, Peter Trant, Bernadett Buda, Catherine Foley, Grace Wells, Joe Hayes and Vincent Woods

Meeting John Wayne, a wanderer in Paris, the tenements of Edinburgh and more, with Paddy Murray, Maïa Dunphy, Margaret Galvin, Grace Wilentz, Bert Wright, Kathleen Murphy and Michael O’Loughlin