Off the Shelf, Saturday 4th May
William Reville, Paul O’Grady and David McConnell discuss ‘Religion in Human Evolution’ by Robert N Bellah (Harvard)
Saturday, 7pm.
William Reville, Paul O’Grady and David McConnell discuss ‘Religion in Human Evolution’ by Robert N Bellah (Harvard)
Conor Brady, Colum Kenny and Helen Shaw on ‘Eminent Elizabethans- Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher and Mick Jagger’ by Piers Brendon (Jonathan Cape)
Bride Rosney, Tom Garvin and Noel Dorr discuss on ‘Governing the World: The History of an Idea’ by Mark Mazower (Allen Lane)
John Hughes, Fiona Palmer and Kevin O’Connell discuss ‘Conducting Business- Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro’ by Leonard Slatkin (Amadeus)
Charles Lysaght, Alison O’Connor and Ronan Fanning discuss ‘Standing by the Republic: 50 Dáil Debates that shaped the nation’ by John Drennan (Gill and Macmillan)
Julia Carlson, Adrian Kenny and Michael O’Loughlin discuss ‘Silent House’ by Orhan Pamuk (Knopf)
Patsy McGarry, Enda McDonagh and Finola Kennedy discuss 'Quo Vadis- Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law' by Mary McAleese.
David McConnell, Ruth Byrne and Paul O’Grady discuss ‘Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything’ by Philip Ball(Bodley Head)
Colin Graham, Bill McCormack, Eve Patten discuss 'The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Vol 3, 1926-1927' edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden (Faber).
Dan O’Brien, Mary Corcoran and Patrick Paul Walsh discuss ‘Winner Takes All: China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for Us’ by Dambisa Moyo (Allen Lane).
Noel Dorr, Brigid Laffan and Francesco Cavatorta discuss 'Notes on a Century' by Bernard Lewis
Ronan Fanning and Martin Mansergh discuss 'Terror In Ireland 1916-1923' edited by David Fitzpatrick (Lilliput).
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Michael Cronin discuss ‘Rebel Act: Michael Hartnett’s Farewell to English’ by Pat Walsh. (Mercier Press) .
Andy O'Mahony with guests Shane O'Mara, Alison O'Connor and Terry Prone discuss 'The Political Brain' by Drew Weston.
Jill Kerby, John Waters and Marie Murray discuss ‘How Much is Enough- the Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life’ by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky (Allen Lane)
Julia Carlson and Derek Hand discuss John Banville’s novel ‘Ancient Light’ (Penguin).
Tom Garvin, David McConnell and Áine Hyland discuss What Are Universities For? by Stefan Collini (Allen Lane).
Stephanie McBride, Bob Quinn and Peter Sheridan discuss In Glorious Technicolor: A Century of Films and How It Has Shaped Us by Francine Stock (Chatto).
Diarmaid Ferriter, Ciarán Brady and Deirdre MacMathúna discuss The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England by David Cannadine, Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon. Diarmaid Ferriter, Ciarán Brady and Deirdre MacMathúna discuss The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England by David Cannadine, Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon.
Bill McCormack, Eve Patten and Colin Graham discuss P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, edited by Sophie Radcliffe. Bill McCormack, Eve Patten and Colin Graham discuss P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, edited by Sophie Radcliffe.
Andy O'Mahony meets Raymond Tallis, author of Aping Mankind.Producer: Bernadette Comerford.
Andy O'Mahony meets Raymond Tallis, author of Aping Mankind.Producer: Bernadette Comerford.
The Pursuit of Italy by David Gilmour (Allen Lane) discussed by Finbarr McAuley and Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin.
Gerry O’Flaherty, Terence Killeen and Anne Fogarty discuss Gordon Bowker’s biography of James Joyce. (First broadcast 7th January 2012).
The End: Hitler's Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw (Allen Lane) discussed by Stephan Malinowski and Denis Staunton.
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