...and the banjo playing cork woman who took London by storm in the 1950s in the entertaining company of Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght.

Everything from blue movie controversies in eighties Galway, Richard Harris digging himself into a hole in 1972, the man who moved back in with mammy in 1992 because he said she was lonely and bored without him!

Everything from tongue tied GAA commentators, shyness in the 1980s - to 1970s presidential phone ins that don't go to plan!

Will Hanafin and his panel ring in the new year by looking at 80 years of festive coverage in RTE's archives.

Will Hanafin and his panel celebrate Christmas by looking at 80 years of festive coverage in RTE's archives...

Will Hanafin trawls through eight decades of the RTE archives in the entertaining company of panellists Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght

Will Hanafin trawls through eight decades of the RTE archives in the entertaining company of panellists Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght

Will Hanafin presents a new series trawling through 80 years of RTE's archives taking in everything from the cut-throat world of sixties competitive fish cooking to a bolshy Bono thrashing his own tapes! With panellists Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght.

Will Hanafin presents a new series trawling through 80 years of RTE's archives taking in everything from the cut-throat world of sixties competitive fish cooking to a bolshy Bono thrashing his own tapes! With panellists Pauline McLynn, Jules Coll and Emer McLysaght.

Will Hanafin and his panel ring in the new year by looking at 80 years of festive coverage in RTE's archives...