Juvenalia

Valerie Loftus of Stellar Magazine and The Glow Up joins Alan and Sarah to talk about the most successful girl group of all time and inventors of feminism, the Spice Girls. We talk about which Spice Girls Valerie and Sarah saw themselves as, Geri's betrayal, the solo careers, the reunion, and much more. 

Valerie is @valerieloftus on Twitter. Her book Thanks Penneys, with illustrations by Ciara Kenny is out now and it's very good and funny...

Welcome to 2019! We decided to kick off with just Alan and Sarah talking about something that was pretty important to both of them but especially to Sarah, The X-Files. We talked about how good the pilot is, the once in a lifetime chemistry of Mulder and Scully, The X-Files Companion, GameStop discounts, going to the cinema alone, TV show tie-in magazines, and lots more.

Alan is @alan_maguire, he does stand up sometimes
Sarah is @griffski...

Naomi O'Leary, journalist and co-host of The Irish Passport, joins us to talk about maybe the bleakest book in children's literature, Marita Conlon-McKenna's famine classic Under The Hawthorn Tree. We talked about the unrelenting horror of the book, the historical accuracy, and how maybe it should be on the British school curriculum as well as the Irish one...

Fair City actor Roxanna Nic Liam joins Alan and Sarah to talk about the greatest teen soap of them all, Home And Away. We talk about Roxanna's history with Home And Away, some of our favourite storylines, what it's like to work on a soap, and Roxanna's very unexpected professional encounter with her favourite character...

Your favourite fake DJ Michael Fry joins Alan and Sarah to talk about the obscure fantasy series Harry Potter.  Michael read the first Harry Potter book when he was seven and the last film came out when he was eighteen. (If your Juvenalia topic overlaps perfectly with the entirety of your childhood then it's called a Golden Topic.) 

You can find Michael's work at Joe.ie and he's @BigDirtyFry on Twitter.
Alan is @alan_maguire
Sarah is @griffski...

Peter Kavanagh of Motherfoclóir, Pop-Up Gaeltacht, and the Green Party, joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the hero who hasn't gotten pollution down to zero just yet but he's trying his best: Captain Planet! We try to stay positive about the future of the planet even though Captain Planet came out twenty nine years ago and the bad guys who like to loot and plunder are still doing it...

Kiva Reardon is the lead programmer for contemporary world cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival and the founding editor of cléo journal. She joined Alan and Ellen to talk about the career of Irish footballer Robbie Keane and what he means to her as an Irish-Canadian. Alan and Ellen are not sport people but now they love Robbie Keane FIERCELY. 

You can find Kiva on Twitter at @kiva_jane, and follow her work with TIFF and cléo journal...

Sarah Davis-Goff is an author and co-founder of Independent publisher Tramp Press (<3). 

She joined Sarah and Alan, live from The Lexicon, to talk about The Terminator and remind us that a dystopian tech-ruled future may not be lightyears away. Sarah’s debut novel Last Ones Left Alive is out now. 

Follow Sarah on Twitter @SarahDavisGoff and follow her work with Tramp Press @TrampPress. 

Alan is @alan_maguire...

So no-one told you life was gonna be this way?

It's hard to believe it has taken 74 episodes but it's finally here - The One With The Friends Fan. 

Writer and beauty editor Aisling Keenan joins us in our new home at Tall Tales studio to reveal what it is about the sitcom that gives her such joy. 

Follow Aisling on Twitter and Instagram @aislingmkeenan...