PODCASTS — LISTEN AT YOUR LEISURE

The Stand With Eamon Dunphy www.thestandwitheamondunphy.com For the week that’s in it, there can be no hotter podcast than The

Stand with Eamon Dunphy. This weekly show is as wide-ranging as the man himself, covering news, sports and current affairs, and mixing one-on-one interviews with analysis by Dunphy and his regular contributors, John Giles, Liam Brady and Didi Hamann.

Now up to episode 168, subjects tackled include how Rory McIlroy lost the Masters, the impact of Brexit, the housing crisis, the life and times of Christy Dignam, various Champions League specials, and of course — the one we’ve all been waiting for —

that interview with John Waters, otherwise known as episode 167a, and coming in at slightly less than 15 minutes, as opposed to a more usual half-hour-ish.

The interview — in which Waters was invited to discuss the referendum on the Eighth Amendment — began well, with Dunphy welcoming a man he described as a friend, but fairly quickly descended into some fraught exchanges.

It ended, of course, with Waters calling Dunphy “a fucking b **** cks” and suggesting he “talk to Una Mullally” and “f**k off”. And thus a catch-phrase is born. Death In Ice Valley www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h For lovers of Serial, and any of the other excellent true crime podcasts out there, here is something new within the genre. This is a BBC World Service and NRK original podcast, investigating the whats, hows, whys of a mystery unsolved for almost half a century. In November 1970 in the foothills of the Isdalen Valley in Norway, a woman’s body was found. That she had died a violent death was obvious, but nothing else. This is an attempt to figure out who she was, and why no one has ever claimed her. Gripping.