Chat with the actor who had great success in tv, film and stage for years before suddenly quitting acting after crippling stage fright. He used this experience to return to the stage with his play ‘What Are You Afraid Of?’, produced by Rough Magic for the Kilkenny Arts Festival Full details: https://www.kilkennyarts.ie/

The experience of being forced to flee Kurdistan as refugees, being relocated to Ireland, playing inter-county hurling for Leitrim, settling in Tallaght and returning to his homeland for the documentary ‘Home: The Story of Zak Moradi’ (which will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh) Details: https://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/

An interview with wife of the late Robert Fisk, the award-winning journalist and long-time Dalkey resident, who covered the Middle East for more than four decades before his death in 2020. His final book was ‘Night of Power’, in which he considers the events, people and thinking that have shaped the Middle East (published by Fourth Estate)

From the 2010 archives, a Miriam interview with Mícheál just before he retired about how he prepared for match day and his attitude to life

Chat and live music from the Dublin pop singer who has a new EP out this week called ‘Daisy Chains’ Website: https://aimeemusicofficial.com/ (for copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this interview cannot be made available in the podcast)

Billy Keane explains what the iconic sports commentator (and fellow Kerry native) meant to him

Chat and live music from Susan O'Neill, who is preparing to tour the country in the next few months. She chats about finding musical inspiration, life on the road and her love of Co Clare Official website: https://susanoneill.ie/ (for copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this interview cannot be made available in the podcast)

Chat with Lisa Hogan, from her home on Diddly Squat farm (which she shares with her partner Jeremy Clarkson). She talks about her own background in modelling and acting, her first marriage, her 3 children and life in the glare of the tv series ‘Clarkson’s Farm’

Chat with the Australian journalist (and former Sydney Rose of Tralee) about her Irish parentage and why health issues, the cost of living in Dublin and a new job offer means she is moving back to Sydney (with her Irish boyfriend)

Chat and live music with Robbie Cunnigham, Ross McNerney and Oisín McCaffrey of Irish folk trio Amble, who've given up the day jobs as they play sell-out gigs around the country Website: https://www.ambleofficial.com/ (for copyright reasons the full tracks performed during this interview cannot be made available in the podcast)