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Programme 12: 20th November 2006
Dave Walter on the Sir George Gore, the minor Irish baronet who created a major fuss in the American west.

Programme 11: 13th November 2006
Dr. Rosemary Cullen Owens of UCD on the masculinist policies of Kevin O'Higgins.

Programme 10: 6th November 2006
Ruth Dudley Edwards on the less than admirable qualities of Countess Markievicz.

Programme 9: 30th October 2006
Senator Martin Mansergh talks about Sir Edward Carson and the 'last ditch stand of the Ascendancy'.

Programme 8: 23rd October 2006
Dr. Peter Hart on an unpopular (in Ireland) Conservative Party politician, Walter Long.

Programme 7: 16th October 2006
Dr. Margaret O'Callaghan of Queens University on the man who earned the nickname 'Bloody', by Tory Prome Minister Arthur Balfour.

Programme 6: 9th October 2006
Professor Paul Bew of Queens University challenges the credentials of British Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone.

Programme 5: 2nd October 2006
Professor Tom Bartlett of UCD on the 1798 informer Leonard McNally.

Programme 4: 25th September 2006
Senator David Norris takes aim at one time Nobel Peace Prize winner, Séan McBride.

Programme 3: 18th September 2006
Professor Terry Dolan on the infamous medieval Irish Archbishop Richard Fitzralph, native of Dundalk.

Programme 2: 11th September 2006
Dr. Pat Wallace, Director of the National Museum, talks about one of his predecessors, Ireland's No. 1 Nazi, Adolf Mahr.

Programme 1: 4th September 2006
Dave Walter, the man who originated the 'speaking ill' concept talks about some jerks in Montana history.