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Filmmaker Tyler Perry has just announced the halt of a planned $800million expansion of his traditional film studio citing the rise of Artificial Intelligence as the reason. Elaine Burke, Host of the For Tech's Sake podcast, explains why she thinks children's content and soap operas could be the first fully-AI-made shows of the future.

Singer, rapper and actor Denise Chaila joins Brendan and selects five pieces of music that have been important to her at different times in her life.

Entertainment Journalist Sarina Bellisimo and Host of ‘Here and Back Again’ Podcast and Dave O’Callaghan share their recommendations for what to watch this week.

Today's panel includes Alison O’Connor, Columnist The Sunday Times, Professor Alan Barrett, Director of the ESRI, Louise Bayliss, founder of SPARK and Campaign Coordinator Focus Ireland and Oisin Coghlan, Chief Executive Friends of the Earth Ireland.

Several EU countries have banned energy drinks for people under-18s and now British politicians are considering something similar. They’re not banned here in Ireland, so registered dietician, Sarah Keogh, from Eatwell came in to give Brendan a deep-dive on energy drinks and health.

Ronan Greaney from Dough Bros in Galway – recently ranked fifteenth best pizza in the world - tells us how to make amazing pizzas at home, without any specialist equipment.

Hilary Neville has been a Palliative Night Nurse with the Irish Cancer Society for 26 years and reflects on her career of caring for the dying by night.

Psychotherapist Richard Hogan is telling us why we should try to reconnect with a loved one from our past and how to go about it.

Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr talks to Brendan about 46 years of the band and their upcoming Irish tour dates.

Culture journalist Zara Hederman and film correspondent at The Irish Times Donald Clarke go through the big and small screen releases of the week

Pop culture journalist Jenn Gannon on the joys of a bygone artform, the mixtape

Louise Burne, political correspondent, The Irish Mirror; John O’Brennan, Professor of European Integration; Fintan Drury, CEO Platinum 1 and chair Sport Against Racism and Drogheda-based journalist Alison Comyn discuss today’s newspapers