Episodes

  • Grief

    Grief
    May 10 2022
    Anna and Sinead are joined by fellow best selling Authors Edel Coffey and Alex Barclay to talk about grief - they share their personal stories of loss, bereavement, heartbreak and the less traditional versions of grieving.

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    43 mins
  • Religion

    Religion
    May 3 2022

    Anna and Sinad are joined by fellow authors Jan Carson and Cauvery Madhavan to talk about religion, how it has shaped Ireland and how it can contribute to our upbringings. Cauvery talks about being a lapsed hindu and Jan shares her Protestant evangelical background and they all discuss their views on faith and how it can differ from religion. 




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    44 mins
  • Irish Family

    Irish Family
    Apr 26 2022
    Anna and Sinead are joined by best selling Authors Ciara Geraghty and Sinead Crowley to talk about the Irish family and how it has changed over the last few decades, they remember Ireland when you "couldn't get a condom to put on your husbands penis", and discuss how the family is no longer only expected to be 'traditional' except perhaps during lockdown times of the pandemic and of course they debate the age old question, does it matter where you are placed amongst your siblings!!

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    44 mins
  • Sex

    Sex
    Apr 19 2022
    Anna and Sinead are this week joined by fellow best selling authors Louise O' Neill and Caroline Grace Cassidy to talk about sex - they cover their own sex education experiences, consent, porn, how much or little we share on our sex lives and just how long it can take to have really good sex! 

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    42 mins
  • Missing Women

    Missing Women
    Apr 12 2022
    Anna and Sinead are joined by Authors Catherine Ryan Howard and Niamh O'Connor to talk about the missing women of Ireland, they also discuss female safety, the Graham Dwyer and Larry Murphy cases and why so many Irish female Authors choose to write crime fiction. 

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    49 mins
  • Divorce

    Divorce
    Apr 5 2022
    Anna and Sinead are joined by fellow best selling Authors Vanessa O'Loughlin (Sam Blake) and Rachael English to talk about divorce, they recall each of the referendums and what Ireland was like at the time; the greyness, Miley's affair in glenroe and our obsession with land all get a mention!

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    44 mins
  • Dark Past

    Dark Past
    Mar 29 2022
    Anna and Sinead are joined by best-selling Authors Patricia Gibney and Christine Dwyer Hickey to talk about Ireland's dark past.They touch on the shame visited on Ireland by the Catholic Church, and also share their own experiences of grief and childhood trauma including Christine's experience of fainting in church on a Good Friday. 

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    42 mins
  • Menopause

    Menopause
    Mar 22 2022
    Anna and Sinead are joined by fellow best selling Authors Sheila O'Flanagan and Ann Griffin where they chat about hot flushes, battling anxiety and the urge to kill their husbands! 

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    46 mins