Our fabulous Air France competition continued apace today, with the wonderful prize of flights to Dubai! Today was the turn of Eugene O'Carroll in Dublin and Patrick Ray in Galway.

Dublin author Louise Phillips joined Ryan in studio to reminisce about family, and to discuss the inspiration for her new book, "The Hiding Game," which was a court case in living memory that most people will keenly remember.

The stories and headlines of the day that grabbed Ryan's attention.

Our fabulous Air France competition began today, with the wonderful prize of flights to Beijing! Today was the turn of Maura Bennett and Paula Fynes.

Former, "Great British Bake-Off," champion John Whaite came on air to chat with Ryan about the pitfalls of fame and success, his new recipe book, "A Flash in the Pan," and how the simple life is the one for him.

The stories and headlines of the day that grabbed Ryan's attention.

Governor Eddie Mullins of Mountjoy jail spoke to Ryan about the prison system in Ireland, how people fall into it, and how -with the help of a novel initiative - they're hoping that people will fall out of it, permanently.

The stories and headlines of the day that grabbed Ryan's attention.

After Ryan mentioning that he'd trying to hunt down a vinyl copy of, "Stage Heroes," by Colm Wilkinson, listener Peter Grogan rang in with an extremely kind offer! So Ryan and he had a chat about their mutual admiration of the famous Irish singer.

This week Ryan spoke to Catherine Ryan-Howard about new book, "Rewind," Nigel Monaghan about the Dead Zoo, gymnast Rachael Denhollander about her experience as a victim of Larry Nassar, former Ireland international Keith Treacy about coming back from the brink, and Gavin Lambe-Murphy about being an, "It," boy.