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"What could be more vista-rich for a six year old boy, than to be seated in cinema darkness at his first film with his young mother, his first sweetheart?"  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On two pets’ walk-on part in the Hollywood film   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the visual triumph of An Cailín Ciúin  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lazy cows and angry bees on a cowboy movie set  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On sharing a favourite film with the younger generation  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On regional stereotypes from Italy to Ireland  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stumbling upon a film set in Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Tá an geimhreadh ag druidim isteach, Na laethanta ag éirí níos fuaire, Duilleoga á scuabadh chun siúil..." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On embracing the soft dark abyss of memory See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

300 years ago the Dean wrote a book with serious potential for trouble; would Gulliver's Travels find a publisher? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On tending to the perfect apple glade in East Mayo See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marking the 30th anniversary of the establishment of TG4, and the early pioneers pursuing their vision for the Irish language See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A decade on, one old friend remembers another - the incomparable Leonard Cohen  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Remembering the old Harcourt Street Railway Line, and mourning its rapid disappearance from the landscape See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How Eileen Gray created her modernist villa in 1920s France, and a visit to the crumbling house many decades later See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.