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Listen to the series from 2004.

Programme 1: 26th September 2004
What If Paul McStay had not been injured playing for Scotland in 1987 would there have been a Celtic Tiger.
Guests: Ronan Furlong , Eoghan Corry

Programme 2: 3rd October 2004
What If Jim Duffy hadn't released his tape in 1990
Guests: Tom Garvin and Ivana Bacik

Programme 3: 10th October 2004
What If Eamon Casey's secret had not been discovered
Guests: Catriona Crowe , Sr. Margaret Mac Curtain,

Programme 4: 17th October 2004
What If Des O'Malley had not left FF in 1985 and formed the PDs
Guests: Stephen O'Byrne , Mark O'Connell

Programme 5: 24th October 2004
What If there had been no Magill magazine
Guests: John Waters, Fintan O'Toole

Programme 6: 31st October 2004
What If the Blueshirts March on Dublin in 1934 had succeeded.
Guests: Brian Hanley , Maurice Manning.

Programme 7: 7th November 2004
What If free education had not been introduced in 1968.
Joe O'Toole and Mary O'Rourke

Programme 8: 14th November 2004
What If Joyce and Beckett had not emigrated
Guests: Terry Dolan, Eilis Ní Dhuibhne

Programme 9: 21st November 2004
What If there had been no GAA ban.
Guests: Martin Breheny, Liz Howard

Programme 10: 28th November 2004
What If the Labour /FF Coalition had continued
Guests: Barry Desmond, Pat Leahy

Programme 11: 5th December 2004
What If Dev had resigned in 1948 instead of 1959
 Guests: Pauric Travers, David McCullagh

Programme 12: 12th December 2004
What If Frank Duff had not founded the Legion of Mary
Guests: Finola Kennedy, Sr. Margaret McCurtain

Programme 13: 19th December 2004
What if Kevin O'Higgin had not been shot?
Guests: John Regan,  Sinead McCoole

Programme 14: 26th December 2004
What If the members of U2 had gone to different schools
Guests: Barry Devlin and Dave Fanning

Programme 15: 2nd January 2005
What If the Irish press had continued to publish.
Guests: Michael Foley and Mark O'Brien

Programme 16: 9th January 2005
What if the Irish language had been restored.
Guests: Alan Titley, Caolfhionn Nic Phaidin

Programme 17: 16th January 2005
What If the Border Commission's Report had been implemented
Guests: John Coakley UCD, Liam O'Dowd QUB

Programme 18: 23rd January 2005
What If the 1959 Constitutional Referendum had succeeded.
Guests: Richard Sinnott, Frank Flannery

Programme 19: 30th January 2005
What if there had been no Gregory deal
Guests: Brian Trench , David Andrews

Programme 20: 6th February 2005
What If Noel Brown had remained in England
Guests: Ruth Barrington, David Neligan

Programme 21: 13th February 2005
If the 1937 Constitution had been defeated.
Guests: Ivana Bacik, Sinead McCoole

Programme 22: 20th February 2005
What If Ken Whittaker had not worked for the Dept of Finance
Guests: John Fitzgerald, Tom Garvin

Programme 23: 27th February 2005
If Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh didn't drink
Guests: Fr. Tom Stack, Val Mulkerns

Programme 24: 6th March 2005
What If the divorce Referendum had failed.
Guests: Finola Kennedy and Mags O'Brien

Programme 25: 13th March 2005
If the Pioneers had not been founded.
Guests: Bernard McGuckian, Micheál McGreil

Programme 26: 20th March 2005

Programme 27: 27th March 2005

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