The Anton Savage Show
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Anton Savage presents a bright, lively and engaging current affairs magazine show to kickstart your weekend.
The programme features all the latest news, features and opinion along with conversations about the conversations you are having on a Saturday morning from 9-11am.
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The programme features all the latest news, features and opinion along with conversations about the conversations you are having on a Saturday morning from 9-11am.
Listen and subscribe to The Anton Savage Show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.
You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'
Episodes
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Mar 18, 2023 • 5min
Kickstart Your Weekend with Shay Brady, Waste Management Services Coordinator at DCC
Joining Anton to help kickstart your weekend is Shay Brady, Waste Management Services Coordinator at Dublin City Council.
Mar 18, 2023 • 10min
St Patrick's Day in the White House: Sean Defoe in Washington DC
Of course, it’s St Patrick’s weekend and over in the States last night President Joe Biden met with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for the traditional shamrock ceremony at the White House.
Newstalk’s political correspondent Sean Defoe has been following the action and he joins Anton live from Washington DC to give us the latest.
Mar 15, 2023 • 11min
The future funding model of RTÉ
A forensic accountant was appointed this week to look into RTÉ’s finances. It comes as RTÉ’s Director General told the Public Accounts Committee that the non-disclosure of payments has created “one of the most shameful and damaging episodes in the organisation's history”.
Joining Tommy Bowe to discuss what RTÉ’s future funding model might look like is Garrett Harte, Strategic Communications at Harte Media PR and former Newstalk Editor-in-Chief.
Mar 14, 2023 • 9min
Ask The Expert: Pete The Vet
Joining Anton for this week's installment of Ask The Expert is Pete The Vet!
Mar 11, 2023 • 8min
The rise of deepfakes with Adrian Weckler
You may have seen earlier in the week, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan managed to make a call to his Mum using deep-fake audio. And while on the surface this is all quite novel and funny, it belies a much more troubling problem, one that we’ll need to face up to in the months to come.
Adrian Weckler, Tech Editor of the Irish and Sunday Independent joins Anton to discuss.
Mar 11, 2023 • 19min
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The do's and don'ts of making an apology
Making an apology can be tough enough at the best of times but how can we make sure we're making a good one?
Joining Anton to discuss this as well as some of the worst apologies ever recorded is Marjorie Ingall, journalist, and co-author of ‘Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies’.
Mar 11, 2023 • 10min
Covid Lockdown: 3 Years On
It's been three years since the Irish government took the unprecedented step of shutting down the country to control the spread of Covid.
Joining Anton to reflect on the last three years and where we are now is Dr Margaret Harris, Spokesperson for the World Health Organisation & Professor Cliona O’Farrelly, Chair in Comparative Immunology at Trinity College Dublin.
Mar 11, 2023 • 6min
Henry McKean hits the Hollywood Walk of Fame
This awards season has been a historic one for the Irish, with 14 Academy Award nominations, including 25% of acting nominations going to Irish actors.
To celebrate we sent Henry McKean to LA where he stopped off at the Hollywood Walk of Fame and sent us this report.
Mar 11, 2023 • 15min
What's Going On with Eoin O’Malley & Stefanie Preissner
Joining Anton to go through some of the biggest stories hitting the headlines this morning is author and broadcaster, Stefanie Preissner & Eoin O’Malley, Associate Professor in political science at DCU.
Mar 11, 2023 • 4min
Kickstart Your Weekend with Gráinne Mullins
Joining Anton to help Kickstart your weekend is Gráinne Mullins, Pastry Chef & Founder of Grá Chocolates.
