Spirit Radio Podcasts

In the early hours of Saturday, 3 October 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières’ trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was hit by a series of aerial bombing raids by the US Air Force. 22 people, including 12 MSF staff, lost their lives. Wendy talks to Jane-Ann McKenna, Director of MSF in Ireland, about the attack and calls for an independent inquiry.

Wendy chats with Wade Murphy, co-owner and head chef of restaurant 1826 Adare, about being awarded a ‘Bib Gourmand’ by the Michelin Guide and other insights into life in a busy kitchen.

In the aftermath of the second last-minute postponement of the execution Oklahoma death-row prisoner Richard Glossip, Spirit Radio’s Head of News Áine Carvill caught up with Sister Helen Préjean, who was due to attend the execution on Wednesday 30th September. Áine plays back the interview and discusses with Wendy ‘where to now for Richard Glossip and his defence team?’

Charlo joins Jackie on The Saturday Magazine to discuss wraps versus sandwiches, celebrity catering, a charity cookery demo in the Mermaid theatre and his next appearance on TV3

Professor Prabhu Guptara talks to Wendy Grace on the phone about his past and about having Faith in Business as well as about the conference he held on October 6th in Ballsbridge.

Best selling author and award winning journalist Martina Devlin joins Wendy Grace on The Morning Show to discuss her latest novel “About Sisterland.”

Once again the execution of (allegedly innocent) Richard Glossip was suspended just one hour before he was to receive the lethal injection that would end his life. Richard’s execution was suspended for thirty seven days. Wendy caught up with our Head of News, Aine Carvill the following morning, to find out the latest twist in the case.

The Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet with the Magnificent RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra will perform Romeo and Juliet 18/19 November and Swan Lake 20/21/22 November in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre. Producer of Ballet and Opera Ireland, Simon Walton, chats to Wendy about 20 years of bringing ballet productions to Ireland.

There has been a lot of very upsetting news about atrocities carried out by the terror group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. But recently there has been some news that throws a chink of light and hope in what seems such a bleak situation. A bishop in Nigeria has said that if an amnesty was offered to Boko Haram fighters, […]

Sister Helen Préjean (author of ‘Dead Man Walking’) was invited by Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip to attend his execution on 16th September 2015. Sister Helen talks to Spirit Radio’s Aine Carvill the day after Mr Glossip’s execution was dramatically postponed. First broadcast on 23rd September 2015