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Adam Clayton is U2’s bass player. Acknowledged as one of the best live acts in the world, U2 have toured the globe countless times and released 14 studio albums with sales in excess of 157 million. Adam has written about contemporary art for
Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum and irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole take on the rise of populism, it's morphing with the religious right and it's subjugation of "Old School Conservatism" in a journey that takes us through Poland, Russ
Discussing the critical issue of climate justice are two distinguished guests: Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Lord David Puttnam, renowned filmmaker and advocate for sustain
Welcome to this performance of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, featuring Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack. In this event, we witness a stunning interpretation of Eliot's groundbreaking poem, which explores the themes of post-World War I disillusionm
Booker Prize winning novelist (and lifelong Chelsea fan) Roddy Doyle sits down with former Chelsea footballer, analyst, music aficionado and now author of "The Accidental Footballer" Pat Nevin for a dive into writing, creativity, Roy Keane, Joh
Join John Ilsley and Fiachna O'Bráonain as they delve into the legendary bassist's life in music. From his days in Dire Straits to his solo projects, John shares stories and insights about his musical journey and the impact it has had on his li
EATING FOR THE PLANET: Dan Saladino (Eating to Extinction) talks to Isabel Hilton about the world’s most endangered foods - from a red coloured rice in China and a mucus- dripping maize plant in Mexico. Can food diversity help us save the plane
The multi-talented Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters) & director Lenny Abrahamson (Ordinary People) talk to author Patrick Freyne about the ins and outs of television production in the age of streaming. https://festivalofwritingandideas.com/
Actor Ruth Wilson talks to director Lenny Abrahamson about her quasi-autobiographical BBC drama Mrs Wilson about her Grandparents. Bizarre, emotional and weirdly meta, her tale reads more like a John le Carré novel than a standard family drama.
Jon Ronson: author, journalist, filmmaker and podcaster; talks to author (and self confessed Ronson superfan) Patrick Freyne about his various works and how his attitude to his subjects has changed over time. Insightful and often hilarious, thi
Agony Aunt, journalist, author and now TV writer Dolly Alderton talks to Róisín Ingle about her book (and now TV series) Everything I Know About Love and does her best to solve the audience's relationship problems. On YouTube: https://www.you
These two Oscar winning titans of the movie industry discuss their collaboration on The Mission and their lives in cinema and beyond. https://festivalofwritingandideas.com/ On Earth as it is in Heaven clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMB0e
MOMENTS OF CLARITY: Nicole Flattery (Show Them a Good Time) discusses her acclaimed debut collection and the short story form, with Booker-nominee Donal Ryan.
"HORROR UPON HORROR'S HEAD ACCUMULATES": War correspondents and sufferers from PTSD Ben Anderson and Ed Vulliamy talk about the enduring nightmare of shell shock and post-traumatic stress disorder with neuroscientist Shane O'Mara.
"IMMOBILITY IS GASOLINE FOR THE IMAGINATION": Sinead Gleeson talks about her remarkable memoir of resilience, Constellations, with Anne Enright.
FIDELITY AND REPRESENTATION IN STORY-TELLING: Hisham Matar (Anatomy of a Disappearance, The Return) and Christina Lamb (I am Malala, The Girl from Aleppo) talk with BBC journalist Kirsty Lang about constructing narratives from real-life events.
SEX, LIES AND THE GENERATION GAP: Agony-aunt Philippa Perry considers how searching for love, and staying sane, have changed with the advent of social media and shifting values.
Historian and passionate cultural commentator Simon Schama luxuriates in what he calls 'the performing tumble of language' with fellow writer William Dalrymple.
Welcome Prize winner Mark O'Connell talks about his extraordinary book Notes from an Apocalypse where he documents the strange word of 'preppers' and Doomsdayers, with journalist and curiosity-shop Misha Glenny
Sonali Deraniyagala - whose book Wave tells of experiencing her family being carried away to their deaths by the 2004 Tsunami which she survived - and Mary Cregan, whose graceful memoir The Scar chronicles a descent into depression - talk to ne
US scholar and author James Shapiro and Irish Times journalist Fintan O'Toole discuss the subversion of laughter - and everything else - in Shakespeare.
THE VULVA REVOLUTION: Lynn Enright (Vagina: A Re-education) and Naomi Wolf (Outrages: Sex, Cesnorship and the Criminalisation of Love) discusses sexual taboos, repression and the power of knowledge with BBC broadcaster Kirsty Lang.
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