Ever wonder what would happen if you mixed comedy and economics? Well that’s exactly what’s happening in Kilkenny over the next few days. We talk to Peter Antonioni, one of the speakers at the Kilkenomics festival about the event and the troubles facing Europe at the moment.

If you’re hoping to get in touch with Michael D Higgins your best bet maybe to write him a letter. We talk to author of ‘Ten Letters’ and Washington Post Correspondent Eli Saslow about how Obama personally responds to letters written to him on a daily basis. I wonder what he says…

This week in 1996 Slash announced he was leaving Guns N Roses and said that he had only spoken to Axl Rose twice in the past year. We look back at that tempestuous relationship and what happened to the band.

Our Man in the Red Velvet Chair Steven Benedict looks at The Innocents in his halloween special.

All our music this week is from 1996.

And Dr Katherine Hertlein returns to All About Sex. No judgement, just sound advice.

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