Fionn is away tonight but before he left he put together a great show so you didn’t miss him too much.

Tonight on Culture Shock Fionn talks to Shane Hegarty, author of The Irish and Other Foreigners(a recommended read), DJ Sinead Ni Mhorda and musician and commentator Paddy Cullivan about The Upside to Being Irish.

Fionn chats about the rediscovered Shakespeare play Double Falsehood, storytelling telling at the popular Chaos Thaoighre quiz and storytelling night, Joanna Trollope joins Fionn to talk about her new novel The Other Family and Matthieu Ricard, the French translator for the Dalai Lama who isknown as the Happiest Man in the World talks the scientifically proven benefits of meditation.