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    Saturday, 7pm.

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    Saturday 4th May

    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 27th April

    Off the Shelf, Saturday April 27th 2013

    Conor Brady, Colum Kenny and Helen Shaw on ‘Eminent Elizabethans- Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher and Mick Jagger’ by Piers Brendon (Jonathan Cape)

    Saturday 20th April

    Off the Shelf, Saturday 20th April

    Bride Rosney, Tom Garvin and Noel Dorr discuss on ‘Governing the World: The History of an Idea’ by Mark Mazower (Allen Lane)

    Saturday 13th April

    Off the Shelf, Saturday April 13th

    John Hughes, Fiona Palmer and Kevin O’Connell discuss ‘Conducting Business- Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro’ by Leonard Slatkin (Amadeus)

    Saturday 6th April

    Off the Shelf, Saturday April 6th

    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)

    Saturday 30th March

    Off the Shelf, Saturday March 30th

    Julia Carlson, Adrian Kenny and Michael O’Loughlin discuss ‘Silent House’ by Orhan Pamuk (Knopf)

    Saturday 23rd March

    Off the Shelf, Saturday 23rd March 2013

    Patsy McGarry, Enda McDonagh and Finola Kennedy discuss 'Quo Vadis- Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law' by Mary McAleese.

    Saturday 16th March

    Off the Shelf, Saturday 16th March 2013

    David McConnell, Ruth Byrne and Paul O’Grady discuss ‘Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything’ by Philip Ball(Bodley Head)

    Saturday 9th March

    Off the Shelf, Saturday March 9th 2013

    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).

    Saturday 2nd March

    Off the Shelf- 2nd March

    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).

    Saturday 23rd February

    Off the Shelf- Bernard Lewis

    Noel Dorr, Brigid Laffan and Francesco Cavatorta discuss 'Notes on a Century' by Bernard Lewis

    Saturday 16th February

    Off the Shelf

    Ronan Fanning and Martin Mansergh discuss 'Terror In Ireland 1916-1923' edited by David Fitzpatrick (Lilliput).

    Saturday 9th February

    Off the Shelf, February 9th

    Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Michael Cronin discuss ‘Rebel Act: Michael Hartnett’s Farewell to English’ by Pat Walsh. (Mercier Press) .

    Saturday 26th January

    Off The Shelf podcast 26 Jan 2013

    Andy O'Mahony with guests Shane O'Mara, Alison O'Connor and Terry Prone discuss 'The Political Brain' by Drew Weston.

    Tuesday 8th January

    Off The Shelf, 5th January 2013 'How Much is Enough'

    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)

    Off The Shelf December 22nd

    Julia Carlson and Derek Hand discuss John Banville’s novel ‘Ancient Light’ (Penguin).

    Tuesday 18th December

    Off The Shelf December 15th 2012

    Tom Garvin, David McConnell and Áine Hyland discuss What Are Universities For? by Stefan Collini (Allen Lane).

    Off The Shelf December 8th 2012

    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).

    Friday 30th November

    The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England

    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.

    P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

    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.

    Thursday 6th September

    Programme 3: Saturday 1st September 2012

    Andy O'Mahony meets Raymond Tallis, author of Aping Mankind.Producer: Bernadette Comerford.

    Programme 3: Saturday 1st September 2012

    Andy O'Mahony meets Raymond Tallis, author of Aping Mankind.Producer: Bernadette Comerford.

    Monday 25th June

    Off The Shelf 23rd June 2012. Presenter: Andy O'Mahony. Producer: Bernadette Comerford.

    The Pursuit of Italy by David Gilmour (Allen Lane) discussed by Finbarr McAuley and Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin.

    Off The Shelf 16th June2012. Presenter: Andy O'Mahony. Producer: Bernadette Comerford.

    Gerry O’Flaherty, Terence Killeen and Anne Fogarty discuss Gordon Bowker’s biography of James Joyce. (First broadcast 7th January 2012).

    Monday 30th April

    Off The Shelf 28th April 2012. Presenter: Andy O'Mahony. Producer: Bernadette Comerford.

    The End: Hitler's Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw (Allen Lane) discussed by Stephan Malinowski and Denis Staunton.

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