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Join Golden Globe winner Chris Colfer (Kurt on Glee), director Brian Dannelly and their cast for a discussion of their new coming-of-age comedy, Struck by Lightning. Starring and produced by Colfer, this film tells the story of Carson Phillips (Colfer) who (after being struck and killed by lightning) explains how he blackmailed his classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
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Take yourself back in time...back to high school. The ups and downs, the loves the losses, the struggles the triumphs, being together with your friends...feeling every emotion of it. Is 23 more than just a number to you? Do you respond to people by saying I don't wanna be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately? Do you expect to have life-changing moments while caught in the confetti or the rain? Are you One Tree Hill obsessed?...it's OK...we're here for you. You can sit with ...
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Work in Progress with Sophia Bush features frank, funny, personal, professional, and sometimes even political conversations with people who inspire Sophia about how they’ve gotten to where they are, and where they think they’re still going. These discussions stem from her "aha" moment of realizing you are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.
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Join filmmaker Frédéric Jardin for a discussion of his film Sleepless Night. It’s the story of a botched drug heist with dangerous implications, as one of the drug carriers escapes after stabbing the robbers and seeing their faces. The robbers, who are two policemen, are left in possession of the drugs, which belong to a mob boss who will do anything to retrieve his property.
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Welcome to the world of imagination, fun and creativity. Friends here not only talk and share their favorite books, topics but also bring their imagination & thoughts to share with us spreading love and laughter.Image copyright: Ramya Mohandas.
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ILFDublin Podcast

International Literature Festival Dublin

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The International Literature Festival Dublin, founded in 1998, is Ireland’s premier literary event and gathers the finest writers in the world to debate, provoke, delight and enthral.
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We’ve been heading to primary schools across the UK to investigate interesting stories and the people who write them and we’ll be joined by the authors themselves to answer your questions! You can hear Story Explorers first at 18:15 every week day in The Club with Bex on Fun Kids, the UK's children's radio station. Story Explorers is a Pixiu production for Fun Kids.
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Sophia, Joy and Rob discuss the therapeutic rewards of rewatching the show… as well as a few painful reminders. Find out why Rob battled with portraying Clay, the trauma that encompassed the infamous beach scene, and why a specific moment between Nathan and Jamie helped them all to better understand the different layers of forgiveness. See omnystud…
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In this episode, Harry Colfer, Jack Roney, and thriller author Andy Edwards continue their chat from episode one and dissect more key elements that make up a banger thriller novel. They discuss the importance of field research, how to create relatable and flawed characters, a hero’s dark mirror, authentic dialogue and realistic human responses, tra…
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Actor Amit Rahav has been making waves in Hollywood with high-profile projects, including a World War II drama close to his heart. The actor joins Sophia to chat about his journey to becoming an actor, the pressure he felt playing the first LGBTQ+ character to come out on a TV show in Israel, finding success in Netflix's critically praised miniseri…
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Israeli actor Amit Rahav has been making waves in Hollywood with high-profile projects, including a World War II drama close to his heart. The actor joins Sophia to chat about his journey to becoming an actor, the pressure he felt playing the first LGBTQ+ character to come out on a TV show in Israel, finding success in Netflix's critically praised …
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Andy Edwards (A.C. Edwards) is a former policeman, paratrooper and Special Forces officer. He served in the Australian Army with operational deployments in South East Asia and retired at the rank of Major. Andy has also worked as a security adviser across SE Asia, as a bodyguard and as a security contractor in the Middle East and Afghanistan. He en…
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Graham Bartlett returns for episode 3 of his chat with Jack Roney and Harry Colfer to discuss how his 30+ years policing experience influenced his fiction writing. The guys chat about common mistakes writers make when it comes to referencing police and paramedic procedures in crime fiction. Graham, Jack and Harry all offer services to writers to he…
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Power couple Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne are talented multi-hyphenates who can do it all! Comedy, acting, writing, producing, and now directing! The duo joins Sophia to chat about co-directing their first feature film, "Am I OK?" starring Dakota Johnson. The film follows the journey of a woman who doesn't realize until her 30s that she is gay,…
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Power couple Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne are talented multi-hyphenates who can do it all! Comedy, acting, writing, producing, and now directing! The duo joins Sophia to chat about co-directing their first feature film, "Am I OK?" starring Dakota Johnson. The film follows the journey of a woman who doesn't realize until her 30s that she is gay,…
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Comedian Alex Edelman is having a moment in the spotlight. Yet, he admits his 8-year-old self would never believe he works in an industry that requires talking in front of so many people. The writer, producer, and comic joins Sophia to talk about how he got his start in comedy and the journey from open mic nights to Broadway with his highly acclaim…
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Comedian Alex Edelman is having a moment in the spotlight. Yet, he admits his 8-year-old self would never believe he works in an industry that requires talking in front of so many people. The writer, producer, and comic joins Sophia to talk about how he got his start in comedy and the journey from open mic nights to Broadway with his highly acclaim…
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It may have been a season finale, but this episode had the feel of a series finale. There’s so much to unpack and emotions run high as the girls delve into Whitey and Dan, the long term real-life effect of Victoria’s apology and the weight of Hilarie and Chad’s last performances. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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This is the first of three episodes featuring UK crime author Graham Bartlett. Graham is a former detective and now a crime fiction and police advisor to authors and TV writers as well as a Sunday Times best selling crime writer. He delivers programs to help writers create authentic plots, police characters, procedures and scenes, sharing his 30+ y…
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He lit up the small screen as Kurt Hummel in the mega-hit show "Glee," and now he's lighting up the literary world with his diverse young adult novels! Actor, singer, and best-selling author Chris Colfer joins Sophia to talk about the grueling and challenging process of being on Glee, what terrified him about playing Kurt, and his struggles with pe…
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He lit up the small screen as Kurt Hummel in the mega-hit show "Glee," and now he's lighting up the literary world with his diverse young adult novels! Actor, singer, and best-selling author Chris Colfer joins Sophia to talk about the grueling and challenging process of being on Glee, what terrified him about playing Kurt, and his struggles with pe…
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In episode 2 of the interview with award winning author Michael Bracken, he explains the many options for getting your short stories published and ways in which you can graft out a career in writing short stories. He discusses how to find markets, turning sales into multiple sales, maintaining career momentum, moving from the slush pile to an edito…
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It's Q&A time! Sophia is back, answering listener questions, including how she deals with stress, the women in her life who inspire her, the show she had the most fun on (you might be surprised), life lessons she learned from some of her jobs, and why she's happier than she's ever been! Plus, we learn Sophia's biggest pet peeve of all time, preferr…
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It's Q&A time! Sophia is back, answering listener questions, including how she deals with stress, the women in her life who inspire her, the show she had the most fun on (you might be surprised), life lessons she learned from some of her jobs, and why she's happier than she's ever been! Plus, we learn Sophia's biggest pet peeve of all time, preferr…
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For over three decades, Grammy and Oscar-winning rockstar Melissa Etheridge has dazzled audiences across the globe. Now, she is lighting up the Broadway stage with her one-woman act. The rock icon joins Sophia to talk about her journey from a kid in the midwest with a guitar to a globe-trotting hitmaker, how her critically acclaimed stage show came…
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For over three decades, Grammy and Oscar-winning rockstar Melissa Etheridge has dazzled audiences across the globe. Now, she is lighting up the Broadway stage with her one-woman act. The rock icon joins Sophia to talk about her journey from a kid in the midwest with a guitar to a globe-trotting hitmaker, how her critically acclaimed stage show came…
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When her country called, she answered. Mae Krier is a real-life Rosie the Riveter who, at just 17, left home to work in a factory and help her country during World War II. The trailblazer and Congressional Gold Medal recipient shares her journey with Sophia, which spans the Great Depression, living through 17 American Presidents and contributing to…
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Junk is here! Cullen Moss joins Sophia and Hilarie as they reminisce on some sweet moments working together. Together they relive some real life Wilmington stories that could have easily been a plot for the show or its own movie! Plus, the Cullen factor: similarities between One Tree Hill and Outer Banks! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf…
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In this episode, Jack Roney and Harry Colfer continue their chat with author T.M.CLARKE about how her African upbringing influenced her writing as well as the research she did to raise the authenticity of her writing to another level. Tina also candidly discusses her decision to move away from traditional publishing to publishing under her own impr…
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson went from being a shy kid to being a successful actor on Broadway and the big and small screen . . . and now he's a successful podcast host too! Is there anything he can't do? The actor joins Sophia to chat about his journey to becoming an actor, which started at the tender age of eight, how he feels now looking back on his "Mo…
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