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Ellen Keane on why she's swapping swimming for running, gardener Marie Staunton on how we can make the most of the sunshine & Fair City actress Una Crawford O' Brien joins Ray DarcySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this sunny Monday edition of PBD: Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow – ranking the Eurovision favourites; Dancing in the Light – Day Fever comes to Dublin; And that they may face the rising son – a new cemetery near Wolfe Tone’s burial place...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this not particularly good Friday edition of PBD: The dinner chat of others – dining on your own without your phone; Relighting fires – the reunion tours coming our way this year; And daylight robbery – be careful parking in the Phoenix Park ...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this reciprocal Thursday edition of PBD: Micko leaves the field – Marty Morrissey pays tribute to the late Mick O’Dwyer; Schrodinger’s Policy – how one woman was both insured and not insured; And method or not? Peter Smith convinces as Philip Lynott...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this tariff-free edition of PBD: Award-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr on investigating Facebook; What will we talk about? One Cork restaurant hosts a phone-free night; And ouch! – one woman’s unhappiness with an ad for shaving products...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this new month, same foolishness edition of PBD: There's no need to run away to join the circus if you’re born into it; Overpaid, overhyped and overworked? Football congestion is becoming a problem; And never called, never wrote – how cuckoos come here every year to mate and then we never see them again...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this last day of the month edition of PBD: Not enough headspace – an actor’s experience of stage fright; The conversations of others – why all trains need quiet carriages; And Peter Sheridan on casting his play, Philo...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this TFIF edition of PBD: Stopped at the EU’s border – an Irish couple and their baby daughter; Why Disney can’t stop remaking films originally made by Disney; And can you top Live Aid? The most memorable gigs of our lives...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this almost-Friday edition of PBD: Oliver Callan’s essential guide to the end of the world How to avoid going to court over your hairpiece And have we unfairly neglected the Liberator himself, Daniel O’Connell...?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this random Wednesday edition of PBD: Irish words hoovered up by the English dictionary-industrial complex; Man wets dog – the hazards faced by postal delivery workers; And WFH FTW – how Covid has changed our lives 5 years later...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.