Brendan O'Connor

Stimulating mix of news, interviews, reports and discussion.

Psychotherapist on marital affairs: "47 is our most unhappy year"

Psychotherapist Richard Hogan talks about why people have affairs, who is impacted, and how relationships can survive an affair.

Highlights • 10 Oct 23

Doppelganger: Naomi Klein on Brendan O'Connor

Author and activist Naomi Klein talks to Brendan about being mistaken for feminist turned conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf, her new book Doppelganger and why conspiracy culture is spreading.

Highlights • 02 Oct 23

Richard Osman's new book on Brendan O'Connor

Richard Osman talks about his new novel The Last Devil to Die, the latest in The Thursday Murder Club series.

Highlights • 11 Oct 23

"A lot of the time with phobias, it's the fear of the fear as much as the thing itself" Dr J F Leader on Brendan O'Connor

Psychologist on phobias: "It's the fear of the fear"

Psychologist Dr John Francis Leader talks to Brendan O'Connor about dealing with phobias; while Gabrielle Cummins and Polly Barrett share their personal experience of living with a phobia.

Highlights • 15 Sep 23

Writer John Connolly on Brendan O'Connor

Writer John Connolly talks to Brendan O'Connor about his latest book The Land of Lost Things, the music that means a lot to him and his passion for nostalgia.

Highlights • 30 Aug 23

Body Image: "It's like a tap dripping in the back of my head"

Dr Katriona O'Sullivan, lecturer in psychology in Maynooth University talks candidly with Brendan about her body image issues and the latest solution on offer to people with similar issues - the gastric sleeve.

Highlights • 23 Aug 23