WGM - THE WGM

Series 3 of the WGM kicks off with a live Q&A with BFFs and fantastic young Irish authors Dave Rudden (Knights of the Borrowed Dark) and Sarah Maria Griffin (Spare and Found Parts). It's a fascinating chat with extraordinary insight from two fo the countries brightest new literary stars and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. www.theweeklygm.com

We're on break right now, but to keep the wolf from the door, here's a re-issue of one of our favourite episodes, Number 16's live chat with the wonderful Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Revenant & Ex Machina) www.theweeklygm.com

Ken Early (Second Captains) and Andrew Mangan (Arseblog) join us to talk podcasting, sport and DIY ethos, alongside performances from We Are Losers and Megan Nolan at the Dublin Conservatives Club

We're on season break right now, so here's a classic episode of the podcast, re-presented. Episode 9 features music from Anderson, comedy from Colm O'Regan, spoken word from Sarah Maria Griffin and a chat with Love/Hate star Peter Coonan. This week's podcast is sponsored by the Lingo spoken word festival (lingofestival.com) and Aiken Promotions who are presenting Rubberbandits live in Vicar St on October 28th 2016 (aikenpromotions.com). www.theweeklygm.com

We're still on our holidays, so in the meantime we're re-packaging and re-presenting some of our favourite episodes for you to enjoy. This week, it's a very special offering from Shane' comedy group Diet of Worms (The Walshes on BBC). The Strollinstown Radio Hour is a 2012 radio play performed in front of a live theatre audience. We hope you enjoy it. www.theweeklygm.com

We're on a series break at the moment, so here's one of our favourite classic episodes (with new intro), featuring a chat with General Hux himself Domhnall Gleeson, comedy from Jarlath Regan and music from the wonderful We Cut Corners. www.theweeklygm.com

It's the last episode of the current series and to mark it we go back to the venue of our London show last year, the 100 Club, to learn about its amazing history as one of (if not THE) oldest music venue in the world. Venue owner Jeff Horton takes Nial on a walk around the hallowed space and tells us why independent venues like the 100 Club are so important. www.theweeklygm.com

This week we're taking a week off to work on the series finale, so we're presenting a classic episode. Episode three features music from Leanne Harte, comedy from Gearoid Farrelly and a chat with James Vincent McMorrow. www.theweeklygm.com

Chris Gethard is a comedian, writer, actor and television host from New Jersey. Nial caught up with him last month in Dublin at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival to talk about Chris' improv background, his public access chat show and punk DIY approach to his work.

Episode 26 is a very special show and a break from our usual format. 4 Bothies is an art project by Luke Franklin. He and four collaborators created four different artistic spaces and hid them in secret locations around Ireland. This week Shane joins Luke, Mike Donnelly and Adam Ozmin as they go in search of one of the Bothies on Inishark - an abandoned island off the coast of Galway.