My Roots Are Showing with Nadine O'Regan

Nadine O'Regan
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My Roots Are Showing with Nadine O'Regan

My Roots Are Showing is the new podcast from Irish arts journalist and broadcaster Nadine O'Regan, in which well known people in the world of culture and beyond reveal their stories and inspirations. Recent guests include the actor Domhnall Gleeson, director Lenny Abrahamson, Shirley Manson from the band Garbage and broadcaster and author Graham Norton.

  1. Simon Le Bon joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    12/13/2021

    Simon Le Bon joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    Simon Le Bon, the iconic British singer and frontman of Duran Duran, joins Nadine O'Regan to talk about a life in music, his early days in the band, his quest to make glamour the "new punk-rock", and what he thinks now of Elton John, young musicians' use of AutoTune and John Taylor's decisions around some of their songwriting, plus their new album Future Past.

    28 min
  2. David Gray joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    03/01/2021

    David Gray joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    David Gray, the acclaimed British singer-songwriter, joins Nadine O'Regan to talk about his influences and inspirations, as well as his new album Skellig, his early days in music, his move into electronica with his record-breaking fourth album White Ladder, the bestselling record in Irish chart history, and how Covid-19 has impacted the live music industry.

    1 hr
  3. Luke O'Neill joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    11/22/2020

    Luke O'Neill joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    Luke O'Neill, the immunologist, Trinity professor, Inflazome co-founder and author, joins Nadine O'Regan to talk about his life and background, and his views on everything from the global pandemic through to millennials, depression and the future beyond Covid-19.

    1h 7m
  4. Patrick Freyne joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    10/26/2020

    Patrick Freyne joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    Patrick Freyne, the award-winning critic and debut author, joins Nadine O'Regan on My Roots are Showing to talk about his new book OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea, a collection of essays which tracks back through his life as a writer, musician and human being in Ireland, examining topics including mental health, the arts, writing and progressiveness in Ireland.

    1h 1m
  5. Andrea Corr joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    06/19/2020

    Andrea Corr joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    Andrea Corr, lead singer of The Corrs, joins Nadine O'Regan to discuss her multi-faceted career. As frontwoman of The Corrs, the Dundalk-raised Irish singer has, along with her three siblings, sold over 40 million albums. She has also carved out a successful acting career on the stage and published a recent memoir Barefoot Pilgrimage, which is out in paperback in July. In this wide-ranging interview, Andrea talks candidly about her background, taking in not just her globe-trotting career, but also her life as a daughter, sister, wife and mother.

    56 min
  6. Nancy Harris joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    03/17/2020

    Nancy Harris joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    Irish playwright Nancy Harris joins Nadine O'Regan to talk about her life and work, including her plays The Beacon and Our New Girl, and her background, growing up as the child of two well-known journalists, Anne and Eoghan Harris, and her early move to Birmingham and then London to pursue her career. Motherhood, parenting and feminism are also discussed in the podcast -- as well as the question of whether being an artist can be incompatible with being a mother.

    40 min
  7. Richie Sadlier joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    01/09/2020

    Richie Sadlier joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    Former professional footballer turned sports pundit, Richie Sadlier joins Nadine O'Regan to talk about his new memoir Recovering and his life growing up in Dublin, joining Millwall, and having to deal with a turbulent aftermath when his career was cut short by injury in his 20s. Now a psychotherapist, Sadlier has fought off his own demons -- he has struggled with depression and addiction over the years, and has faced down other tough realities from his past. He talks about his experiences as well as reflecting on his recent successes -- his memoir Recovering, written with Dion Fanning, took the top sports book award at the Irish Book Awards in late 2019.

    1h 1m
  8. Samantha Power joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    12/28/2019

    Samantha Power joins Nadine O'Regan for My Roots Are Showing

    Irish-American diplomat Samantha Power joins Nadine O'Regan to talk about her celebrated career and her new memoir The Education of an Idealist, which tracks back over her time serving as US ambassador to the UN, as well as her childhood years in Dublin, her move to the States at the age of nine, her work on behalf of former US President Barack Obama, her thoughts on motherhood and feminism, her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, and her life in a Donald Trump-led United States.

    39 min
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My Roots Are Showing is the new podcast from Irish arts journalist and broadcaster Nadine O'Regan, in which well known people in the world of culture and beyond reveal their stories and inspirations. Recent guests include the actor Domhnall Gleeson, director Lenny Abrahamson, Shirley Manson from the band Garbage and broadcaster and author Graham Norton.

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