The Anton Savage Show

Author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Sir Alexander McCall Smith joins The Anton Savage Show to talk about writing, storytelling, and the enduring charm of his beloved characters.His new book, The Lost Language of Oysters, is due to be released in June, but you’ll get all discussion on his career and latest works here.

John Relihan, Ireland’s master of fire cooking and co-founder of Pitt Bros BBQ, joins The Anton Savage Show with his top tips for grilling this summer — from charcoal choices to cooking low and slow.Listen here.

Five teenage girls won big at the VEX Robotics World Championships in Dallas Texas. The all-female team from Sacred Heart Secondary School in Tullamore are the first all-female robotics team to win the prestigious judges award at the World Championships.The team’s STEM coordinator, Sindy Meleady joins Anton to discuss the huge victory for the team.Listen here.

Professor Tony Holohan, director of the WHO collaborating centre on one health at University College Dublin sits down with Anton to reflect on the career and character of his friend Dr Mike Ryan, as the leading Irish WHO official was removed from his role in the past week.Listen here.

Psychotherapist and author Richard Hogan joins Anton to discuss a statement from the UK’s Education Secretary on how children need to start building resilience and emotional strength as key to preparing them for life’s challenges.Listen here.

The Camogie skort scandal that has seen so many protests across games over the past month continues.Most recently, AIB has come out in support of players, whereas other sponsors have stayed quiet.Anton is joined by Waterford Senior player Niamh Rockett to go through the latest.Listen here.

Paul Hayes, CEO of Beachhut PR, and journalist Lise Hand join The Anton Savage Show for this week’s panel, discussing everything from politics and pop culture and all the headlines on today's paper.Listen here.

John Boyne's quartet of interlinked novels, titled "The Elements", consists of 'Water', 'Earth', 'Fire', and 'Air'. The quartet explores the themes of trauma, responsibility, and guilt through four individual stories, each with a different narrator and connected by the elements. John joins Anton to chat about the latest, and final installment, 'Air'.

When it comes to life and the amount of it we actually have to spend on Earth, it can be hard to figure out how best to utilise the time we have and to make it our own. Oliver Burkeman is an expert in this field whose books include ‘Meditations for Mortals’ and 'Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals'. He joins Anton to discuss.

Over the next 9 months, the Oireachtas Committee on Drugs Use, chaired by Gary Gannon, will meet as it finishes its final report into the Citizens’ Assembly on drug use. Some of the recommendations included within that final report were a whole government approach to drug use in Ireland, the need to involve drug users in shaping drug policy, and a recommendation that possession of drugs for personal use be decriminalised. Gary Gannon, Social Democrats TD for Dublin Central joins Anton to discuss.