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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.

In Episode 25 we break from our tradition of featuring Irish artists to chat to current SNL cast member Sasheer Zamata. Níal caught up with Sasheer while she was performing at the Vodafone Comedy Festival in Dublin last month. www.theweeklygm.com

Episode 24 is all about emotions and how they feed into artists' work. This week, Shane chats to spoken word performer Vickey Curtis about how the death of her mother and then of her housemate led to the writing of her new show. Shane also talks to musician Kieran McGuinness (Delorentos) about songwriting and there's a performance from Elm. Hosted by Níal Conlan & Shane Langan. Produced by Ailish Bracken. Mixed by Michelle McCormack. Sponsored by Aiken Promotions. www.theweeklygm.com

We're taking a week off to work on new shows, so to fill the void, we're reissuing one of our favourite episodes of the podcast - the first one ever, in fact. Featuring an exclusive live performance from Hozier, a live Q&A with Fr. Ted creator Arthur Mathews and some pulsating spoken word from Kalle Ryan (Brownbread Mixtape). Enjoy and we'll chat to you next week. www.theweeklygm.com

In our 23rd episode, Nial chats to actor Peter McDonald, star of Moone Boy, The Stag, I Went Down and many other acclaimed TV, Film and theatre titles. Recorded live in London's 100 Club. www.theweeklygm.com

This week's episode 'IRL' is about life online and features comedy from Keith Farnan, an essay from WGM regular Megan Nolan, music from Video Blue and performance from Stefanie Preissner. Hosted by Shane Langan & Níal Conlan. www.theweeklygm.com

Daniel Anderson was the frontman of The Rags. But since the band's demise, he has re-invented himself as a self-publishing solo artist. Daniel speaks to Nial about the challenges of going it alone in the music industry. There's also three tracks from Anderson himself. www.theweeklygm.com

Our twentieth episode is a themed show, all about our relationships with ours and other people's bodies. Comedian Edwin Sammon talks about his experience with drugs. Megan Nolan reads an incredible essay about sexual assault. Jennifer Evans performs three live tracks for us. And author Sarah Maria Griffin gives us a preview of her upcoming novel Lost and Found Parts.

In this latest epsiode of the WGM podcast, Níal chats to Villagers frontman and Ivor Novello Award winning songwriter Conor O'Brien in his Dublin kitchen. www.theweeklygm.com

Episode 18 of the podcast features live performances and chat under the theme of 'Lost and Found'. There's spoken word from Christian Foley, comedy from Alison Spittle, an interview with Dylan Haskins and poetry from Alvy Carragher. www.theweeklygm.com Hosted by Níal Conlan & Shane Langan Produced by Ailish Bracken Sound Engineered and Mixed by Emma Butt Sponsored by the Vodafone Comedy Festival '16 (vodafonecomedy.com/)

In our first episode of series two of the podcast, Níal sits down with legendary comedy writer Graham Linehan. Recorded in front of an audience in London's 100 Club, Graham talks about his approach to writing and his work to date.