Show Notes
Since the start of April we have been hosting our weekly Coronavirus podcast from West Cork.
We kicked off with an interview with Skibbereen woman Emer Downing, a primary school teacher who spoke to us from her home in Bergamo in Italy, which back then was the epicentre of the pandemic.
In the following nine months our news editor Siobhan Cronin, and her colleagues Emma Connolly and Niall O’Driscoll, interviewed everyone from Oscar-winning film producer David Puttnam, to RTÉ’s US Correspondent Brian O’Donovan, author Louise O'Neill and even actress Carol Drinkwater.
This week's podcast features some of the highlights from the series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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