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Regular Features

10.20 Everyday – The Numbers Game

Your chance to win stuff! And experience unadulterated happiness! Every answer is a number – simple as that. Or is it? Yes, it is. High levels of competitiveness are always welcome. Like to participate? Email us.

10.30 Everyday – The Coffee Break

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Sit down and relax with Tom every morning with a coffee break. Just after half ten, he will be slurping his way through whatever mug of fancy beverage he forced some poor hapless researcher to run out and buy for him. He may discuss biscuits. He may whine about something thats bothering him. He might just sit there staring blankly into the microphone. It’s a coffee break, that’s what people do on their coffee break. (Or tea, we have nothing against tea drinkers). Have a suggestion for how Tom could spend his coffee break? Email tom@newstalk.ie.

Coffee Break Songs
As the Coffee Break ends we play the ‘coffee break song’. Listeners have been pleading with us to put up a list of these songs so at the end of each week we’re going to put up that weeks Five Coffee Break Songs.

Week Beginning 17/08/09
Mon - The Beach Boys ’The Trader’
Tues - Bob Dylan ’4th Time Around’
Wed - Delgados  ’Mr. Blue’
Thur - Phil Lynott ’Old Town?’
Fri - Eddie Vedder ’Hard Sun’

9.50 Everyday – The Daily Sport

Each morning Tom will bring you all the latest sports news, with expert analysis from the Newstalk sports desk. It’ll be like having a chat at the bar with a guy about sport, only the guy will actually know his stuff and won’t have gained his knowledge from his last pint.

10.00 Monday – The Nutrition Slot

Susan Jane Murray is quite simply the most fascinating person we’ve ever heard talk about food. She’s a qualified nutritionist and each week she’ll be answering your food related queries as well at looking at different aspect of food and nutrition.

11.20 Monday – John’s Movies

Every Monday John Fardy from the show takes a light-hearted look at some aspect of the movies; The Best Losers in Movies, The Most Miscast Actors, The Best On-Screen Kisses’.

11.00 Tuesday – Sexpert

Join Tom and sex & relationships expert Pam Spurr every Tuesday on the show, where your concerns, worries, fears, problems and maybe even fantasies, concerning matters of intimacy will be addressed and discussed. Any sex question you’ve wondered about but were afraid to ask will be resolved by Pam, who has advised millions of people through her work as an agony aunt and a therapist. She vows to leave no dilemma unsolved!

She has written numerous books including Fabulous Foreplay: The Sex Doctor’s Guide To Teasing and Pleasing Your Lover, and 365 Erotic Secrets for Sensational Sex: The Ultimate Guide to Sexual Ecstasy’.

Got a problem? Have a question to ask Pam? Email now in confidence: tom@newstalk.ie

11.30 Friday – The Big Quiz

A look back at the events of the week through the medium of a funny quiz. Join Tom and two unfortunate personalities as they battle to win the Mystery Prize of Wonderment. (N.B.: Prize may not be that wonderful nor mysterious.) It’s the best, and most quizzical, way to finish the week!

Live Music Session

Each week, Tom has a live musical guest in having a chat and playing a song. After that we ferry them away to another studio and they record a track especially for us. They record a song, it can be one of their own or a song that means a lot to them musically and personally. There have been real gems so far and we’re giving you the chance to listen back her on the site.

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Your Comments

I really have to comment. Sinead is voicing common sense and decency. I'm 45, male and find myself crying here as I listen.......I can't believe how angry this makes me feel and I have no 'history' myself having had a normal childhood. I can't begin to imagine the trauma some people are going through..... I will have to turn my anger/sadness/shock into action. I have children - and come from a religiously conservative family. If we ever needed it, we have it clearly now - The Catholic Church is self protecting organisation that has NOTHING to do with GOD's message on earth. I will ensure my children understand how they can believe in God without being 'doormats' for a power hungry anti-Christian church. Isn't that ironic!! Thanks newstalk for airing views that resulted in my 1st ever comment to a radio station..... Oh boy I need to get some air ......
Munsterk | 2010-03-10 13:28:15

"What would Jesus do?" must have been what Sinead was asking herself when I said hello as she walked past me in The Glade in Glastonbury in 2008. Well apparently Jesus would completely ignore you and the friend following would give you daggers as they walked by. I suppose I shouldn't have expected nothing else at a pagan festival.
waynecarroll8 | 2010-03-03 19:13:08

BETTYE LAVETTE,CANDI STATION,ETTA JAMES
northlands | 2010-02-10 00:47:55

Hi, I heard you having an interwiew with a guest a week or more ago about a book in relation to The World War. I remember you saying you thought it was good and you could talk about the World War all day but I cannot remember the name of the book. I would be gratefull if you could e-mail me the name of the book you were talking about. Thanks so much. Conor
conor.o.leary | 2010-02-03 23:49:32

Neil should write down in his diary every time he walks his dog and the time. If he is in any doubt later on as to whether he walked the dog or not, he just checks his diary. Kev
kevdodd | 2010-02-02 16:34:38