TTS Podcast - Liam Clancy R.I.P.
Alan Gilsenan, director of, "The Yellow Bittern," talks to Ryan about Liam's life.
TTS Podcast - Cool by Association
How do you revamp your flailing music career? It's simple... hang around with someone cooler than you! Edel Coffee takes a look at those who have tried to be cool again!
TTS Podcast - The GAA: A People's History
Ryan speaks with the authors of a new book that focuses on what happens outside the white lines of a pitch!
TTS Podcast - Literary Hoaxes
Jennifer Ryan and Neil Doherty have delved into the bookshelves, digging out the bad, the ugly and the downright offensive literary hoaxes.
TTS Podcast - Working with Sigourney
We chat to the Irish star of James Cameron's new movie Avatar.
TTS Podcast - Puppy Love
Our panel recall the pining and the pain of their puppy love years!
TTS Podcast- Mourning the War Dead
Enda Brady reports from the town of Wootton Bassett where informal public mourning takes place to honour the war dead on their journey home from Afghanistan.
TTS Podcast - Baptism Parties
Have baptisms become just another excuse to have a party?
30th of November 2009
Delightful Irish actress Fionuala Flanagan joins Ryan in studio to tell us about her career, her love of Ireland and her love in life.
TTS Podcast - Ghost Estates
Ryan talks to three women living in housing estates that are virtually unoccupied.
TTS Podcast - Unlikely Recording Artists
From Pope Benedict to Scarlett Johannson, it seems everybody's recording an album at the moment! Eoin Sweeney joins Ryan in studio to chart the unlikeliest of recording artists.
TTS Podcast - Longterm Care for a Child
Three mothers, Maria, Petra and Bridget, talk about trying to keep home-life as normal as possible while also caring for a sick child in hospital.
TTS Podcast - Top Ten Toys Ever!
Barbie, Monopoly, they’re all there! But which toy is the top toy EVER? Listen back to find out!
TTS Podcast - Photographer Extraordinaire
How many people can say they've photgraphed the Beatles? Terry O'Neill can!
TTS Podcast - Don't Mention the Wars
Tony Connelly's journey through European stereotypes.
TTS Podcast - The twins have peaked! It's a Jed End!
Listen back to hear which caption won our Jedward headline competition!
TTS Podcast - Hoarding
Are you a hoarder? When was the last time you could see the floor under the piles of old newspapers? Avril Murphy Allen and Audrey Downey talk about the phenomenon that is hoarding!
TTS Podcast - Author Chris Cleave
Chris Cleave, author of this month's book club "The Other Hand", discusses this book and his other work.
TTS Podcast - Tweeting Thierry!
The anger and despair of Irish fans captured on Twitter last night after Thierry Henry's ‘hand of god’!
TTS Podcast - Women and War
Behind every revolutionary movement, there are women... and lots of them! A lively panel chart the role of women in war.
TTS Podcast - What the Dickens!
As Disney’s “A Christmas Carol” hits the big screen, we talk to Charles Dickens’s great great great grand-daughter Lucinda!
Zowie Bowie: Not just famous for being David's son!
Zowie Bowie (real name Duncan Jones) joins Ryan on the line to talk about his directorial debut, "Moon."
Sarah Palin - "Going Rogue"
Nick Johnson, an Alaskan and journalist Niall Stanage discuss Sarah Palin with Ryan.
Brian Kerr: Away with the Faroes
Brian joins us in studio to talk about - amongst other things - puffins, Faroese, Stephen Ireland and the new documentary about his career.
Jayne Torvill
Ice Skating Olympic Champion Jayne Torvill joined Ryan this morning in studio for a chat about her wonderful career.
Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom came to international prominence with Tuesdays with Morrie. He’s also a radio host, a musician and a sports journalist. His new book Have a Little Faith (Sphere)again deals with an older man, a Rabbi called Albert Lewis with an unusual request.
Jenny O'Connell
Ryan chats to Jenny O'Connell from Glasthule, Co.Dublin who has been blind since the age of 11.
Baby Boom
Ireland is in the midst of a baby boom, the likes of which hasn't been seen in over a century. Ryan talks to expectant mother Taragh Loughrey Grant, Sociologist Niamh Hourigan and father of four Trevor O'Clochartaigh.
Male Grooming
Waxing, tweezing, moisturising. Are you worth it? Ryan asks journalists Joe O'Shea and Liam Horan.
Obama and the Media
Niall Stanage and Richard Delevan speak to Ryan about about President Obama's use of the media, whether or not it has been a success, and how the media have used him.