RTE radio series of interesting interviews

[celticwarrior]

seasoned RTE reporter Andy O'Mahony has a wealth of taped interviews from his 'Off the Shelf' programme going back a number of years in which he and his  influential guests reviewed important books of the time; some of these works contained interesting revelations about the secret machinations of many of the key zionist figures of recent British history such as Robert Maxwell, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Anthony Crosland: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/offtheshelf/

Programme 2: Listen 06/12/2003
Gemma Hussey and James Downey discuss The Heat of the Kitchen by Bernard Donoughue, who has been a leading figure in British politics for three decades. This book talks frankly of his relationship with interesting contemporary figures such as Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Crosland - and in particular with Robert Maxwell. The second book Glimmers of Twilight: Harold Wilson in Decline, was written by Wilson's press secretary Joe Haines. Haines wrote an account of his time at No. 10, Downing Street, published in 1977, which caused a sensation at the time. This new book, written with the benefit of longer hindsight is no less sensational. It reveals that Wilson's doctor suggested that the solution to the Lady Falkender problem was murder.

George Orwell:
Programme 4: Listen 20/12/2003
Professor Tom Garvin and Catriona Crowe discuss two books coinciding with the centenary of the birth of Eric Blair, aka George Orwell: Orwell's Victory by Christopher Hitchens and Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor. Since the mid 20th century, Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four have sold over 40 million copies. The pair of novels brought him his first fame and almost his only remuneration as a writer. The adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and language. Orwell's Victory, by Christopher Hitchens recreates the contexts and situations that influenced Orwell's most well-known work: privileged Eton, imperial Burma, the kitchens of Paris and the terraced streets of Lancashire, war-torn Spain, and London in the Blitz

W B Yeats:
Programme 5: Listen 27/12/2003
This week, Terence Brown and Bruce Arnold on W.B. Yeats: a life: The Arch-poet, 1915-1939 by R.F. Foster. The book covers the second half of Yeats's life, taking in his controversial political involvements, continued supernatural experiments, his extraordinary marriage, a series of love affairs, and the writing of his greatest poetry.

of more general interest, but related to the power of the zionist media moguls to promote lowest common denominator programme content as 'entertainment'
The Reality TV Show phenomenon:
Programme 6: Listen 03/01/2004
Stephanie McBride, John Waters and Patricia Casey discuss Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV by Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohan. In the late 1990s reality game shows like Big Brother and Survivor won unprecedented audiences across Europe and the US. The shows subjected their contestants to protracted seclusion from the outside world, and offered up a novel combination of mundanity and extremity. Ireland too has had its share of reality TV shows, from TG4's S.O.S. to RTÉ's Cabin Fever and Celebrity Farm. Shooting People explores the emergence of the form, its relation to documentary and its significance in a globalized TV industry. Three people who have read the book are in studio with Andy O'Mahony: Psychiatrist Dr. Patricia Casey, journalist John Waters and media lecturer Stephanie McBride.

zionist sympathiser, hedonist and homosexual arts critic
Kenneth Tynan:
Programme 7: Listen 10/01/2004
Emer O'Kelly and Fintan O'Toole discuss Kenneth Tynan: A Life by Dominic Shellard. Kenneth Tynan (1927-1980) lived one of the most intriguing theatre lives of his century. He made a powerful contribution to post-war British theatre. A brilliant writer, critic and agent provocateur, he made friends or enemies of nearly every major actor, playwright, impresario and movie mogul of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. He wrote for The Evening Standard, The Observer, and The New Yorker, and spent his final years in Los Angeles

'Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite':
Programme 8: Listen 17/01/2004
Michael Laffan and Patricia Casey discuss Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite by Richard Overy. (repeat)
In the months after the German defeat in 1945, the Allies had a unique opportunity to talk to the politicians and soldiers who only a few weeks before had led the Third Reich. The interrogations were carefully recorded and transcribed and formed an important part of the prosecution case against the major war criminals arraigned at Nuremberg in November 1945. In this work, selected transcripts are published, with pictures and accompanying text. Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite by Richard Overy
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140284540

Programme 21: Listen 24/04/2004
John Waters and Ivana Bacik look at two books by John Gray, Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. Straw Dogs is a radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. John Gray argues that the humanist belief in human difference is an illusion and explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. In Al Qaeda and what it means to be modern, Gray argues that September 11 destroyed the idea of globalization as a single pathway to modernity. He also considers the rise and decline of the global free market, the pretensions of economics, the metamorphosis of war and the prospects of an American empire.
 
Friedrich Nietzsche:
Programme 23: Listen 08/05/2004
Dermot Moran and Joe Dunne discuss Curtis Cate's biography Friedrich Nietzsche. The son of a Lutheran clergyman, whom he adored, Nietzsche became a fearless agnostic who proclaimed, in Thus Spake Zarathustra that 'God is dead!' Of modest bourgeois origins, he detested middle-class conformity, and turned to an uncompromising cult of 'aristocratic radicalism'. Nietzsche was the first major philosopher to place psychology, rather than mathematics, logic, physics, or history, at the very centre of his thinking

Soviet Gulag camps:
Programme 25: Listen 22/05/2004
Judith Devlin and Ron Hill discuss Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum. The book draws together the mass of memoirs published in Russia, to explore the vast network of labour camps which were once scattered across the country. It argues that the camps remained the State's ultimate weapon throughout the 70 years of the Soviet Union.

Programme 26: Listen 29/05/2004
Dr. Muiris Houston, Medical Correspondent of the Irish Times, and Dr. Darina O'Flanagan, Director of the National Disease Surveillance Centre discuss Doctors, Diseases and Decisions in Modern Medicine by Richard Horton. Richard Horton, for many years editor of The Lancet, examines the history of the relationship between doctor and patient, from ancient times to present day. The essays cover subjects including: the impact of modern warfare on health services; the debate over euthanasia; controversies over HIV and Aids; the human genome project; and the debate over the gay gene. Horton's introduction explores the significance of the Hippocratic oath, with particular reference to the Harold Shipman murders

FDR:
Programme 29: Listen 26/06/2004
Maryann Valiulis and Jim Downey discuss Conrad Black's biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The only US president elected for four terms, Roosevelt was struck down in the early 1920s with polio. He recovered to lead the United States out of the Depression. His 'New Deal' alone would have put him among the most revered of American presidents, but then came World War II. He and Churchill became close friends as well as allies and he represented the US at the great Peace Conferences at Yalta and Teheran.

Programme 30: Listen 03/07/2004
The Jesuits: Missions, Myths and Histories by Jonathan Wright. In studio with Andy O'Mahony are Louise Fuller (author of The Irish Catholic Church Since 1950) and Fergus O'Donoghue S.J., Editor of Studies. Over the course of five centuries members of the Society of Jesus have travelled as missionaries to every corner of the globe. They have been accused of killing kings and presidents. As well as the predictable roll call of Saints and Martyrs, the Society can also lay claim to the 35 craters on the moon named for Jesuit scientists. Jesuits have been pilloried and idolised on a scale unknown to members of any other religious order. Whether loved or loathed, the Society of Jesus's dramatic and wide-ranging impact could never be ignored.
James Joyce is by far the most famous person ever to receive an Irish Jesuit education. So pervasive was the Jesuit influence in his upbringing that nearly all of his studies, at primary, secondary and third level, were in institutions directed by the Society of Jesus. Though facing fresh crises and controversies, today's Jesuits are still active in the worlds of science and politics, education and devotion

Vladimir Putin:
Programme 32: Listen 17/07/2004
This week Judith Devlin and Ron Hill, both experts on Russian affairs, look at Putin's Progress, a biography of the Russian President by Peter Truscott and Inside Russia, by Andrew Jack. Peter Truscott's incisive biography sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic of modern leaders. Inside Putin's Russia, by Andrew Jack, the Financial Times's correspondent in Moscow, traces Putin's rise to power and assesses how he has performed in office, and the changing nature of the Russia he rules.

Programme 33: Listen 24/07/2004
Justine McCarthy and Robert O'Byrne discussed two
diaries:
1. The Diaries of Victor Klemperer: Lesser Evil, 1945-
1959
The third and final volume of the diaries of Victor
Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war and
whose diaries have been hailed as one of the 20th
century's most important chronicles.

2. Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries by
Cecil Beaton, edited by Hugo Vickers. The swinging sixties uncensored - as viewed by celebrated photographer and diarist Cecil Beaton.

Andy O'Mahony continued his interesting series of interviews in a new series entitled 'Dialogue':  http://www.rte.ie/radio1/dialogue/
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_dialogue.xml

his latest interview was broadcast this evening and covered the relationship between society and the medical establishment's over-reliance on pharmacueticals in treating mental health disorders [get the podcast tomorrow]