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Elizabeth Strout Lucy By The Sea Book Club
Jon Ronson The Psychopath Test Book Club
Anne Enright The Wren, The Wren Book Club
Rock and roll eloquence, public service and social justice.
Bob Geldof and Rory Stewart: Rebels with a Cause
The Future is in the Fields. Hannah Quinn Mulligan, Lisa Fingleton and Paddy Woodworth talk ‘Creative Conservation on the Farm’ - about policies and practices which can keep Irish farmers happily on the land, while meeting increasingly urgent climate and biodiversity targets.
Hannah Quinn Mulligan & Lisa Fingleton with Paddy Woodworth.
Lord David Puttnam and Roisin Kiberd: Digital Democracy and the Resurrection of Trust. Lord David Puttnam talks to Roisin Kiberd about the threats posed by misinformation and how the distinctions between real life and the nebulous realities of the internet have corroded public trust and threatened democracy.
David Puttnam and Roisin Kiberd: Digital Democracy and the Resurrection of Trust
The inaugural Borris Book Club with Colm Toibin talking about Long Island, the sequel to Brooklyn.
Colm Tóibín Brooklyn Book Club
The Borris Broadcasts Live Stream
Director John Boorman (Deliverance,  Excalibur, Zardoz) talks to Geoff Dyer (Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Zona, But Beautiful) about his groundbreaking 1967 crime thriller Point Blank. Geoff is obviously a superfan of the movie and they talk about Hollywood in the 60's, Angie Dickinson and John's relationship with Lee Marvin with whom he subsequently made Hell in the Pacific. They also talk about John Boorman's Nature Diary (Lilliput Press), a journal written during Lockdown.

Get tickets for this year's Festival of Writing and Ideas (Borris House, County Carlow) at

https://festivalofwritingandideas.com/tickets/
John Boorman and Geoff Dyer: Point Blank
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