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The Assassination of Gary Lineker by the coward BBC
Episode 231
Gary Lineker will leave the BBC this weekend but why has it come to this?
On Free State, Joe and Dion look at how Lineker had a target on his back for…
1 year ago
Gary Lineker, the Mayo footballers and the mechanics of change
Episode 230
When Keir Starmer said Britain risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’, in whose interests was he speaking?
When Gary Lineker left the BBC, was it be…
1 year ago
Who by Fire - Living and dying on the border with the great Eoin McNamee
Episode 230
Eoin McNamee received a message when his new novel The Bureau was published telling him it was the book he was ‘born to write’.
This is not a trite ph…
1 year ago
Go on home British soldier, go on home - The IRA & me, with Captain Jonathan Trigg of the Royal Anglian Regiment
Episode 229
When Jon Trigg was sent to Northern Ireland as a young officer, he was going to war. It wasn’t the Troubles or a conflict but a war.
Trigg served his …
1 year ago
Cocaine Nights on the Kyiv Express (feat Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and the German guy)
Episode 228
When is a cocaine spoon not a cocaine spoon? When is a tissue a wrap of an illegal substance?
On Free State today look at how a story spreads online a…
1 year ago
Where The Wildelings Are. Writer Lisa Harding on surviving Trinity College, anxiety and the Male Gaze
Episode 227
Lisa Harding’s stunning new book The Wildelings is set in a fictional university in Dublin.
On Free State today, Lisa talks to us about her own time …
1 year ago
Skorts, Skirts and Shorts. What will the new pope say?
Episode 226
Since we launched the podcast, we have never been afraid to ask the big questions. This has sometimes come at a cost but that is the way it has to be…
1 year, 1 month ago
Omar El Akkad author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This on how the west failed Gaza
Episode 225
"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone wi…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Revolutionary Road. Women’s Liberation Movement Founder Rosita Sweetman on divorcing her family and why Kneecap were right
Episode 224
Rosita Sweetman wanted to change the world. Like many of her generation, she was inspired by the civil rights movement in the US. She became a founde…
1 year, 1 month ago
Whatever You Say, Say Nothing - Kneecap and Britain's Periodical Fits of Morality
Episode 223
"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality,” a man once said,
When it has come to the pursui…
1 year, 1 month ago