The Meaning of Life

Season 4

6 episodes · Mar 6, 2011

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  • Michael Parkinson
    S4E1

    Michael Parkinson

    Mar 6, 201127m

    In the chair is Gay’s long-time friend and former colleague, Sir Michael Parkinson. The two of them worked together in the early days of Granada TV, including the night The Beatles made their television debut. Paul McCartney asked Parky for his autograph… for his Mum. The band also asked the young Gay Byrne to manage them. He said ‘No’!

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  • Brendan O'Carroll
    S4E2

    Brendan O'Carroll

    Mar 13, 201128m

    Brendan O’Carroll tells Gay Byrne, the man who discovered him, how much his TV character Mrs Brown owes to his Mum, an ex-nun, pioneering Labour T.D. and widowed mother of eleven.

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  • Abbot Mark Patrick Henderman
    S4E3

    Abbot Mark Patrick Henderman

    Mar 20, 201127m

    The Abbot of Glenstal is a paradox: a priest who never wanted to be a priest, who freely describes the Church to which he has given his life as "a dinosaur". Expect the unexpected, as Gay asks him life's big questions.

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  • Brian Cody
    S4E4

    Brian Cody

    Mar 27, 201127m

    Kilkenny GAA legend, Brian Cody tells Gay Byrne why he's never been tempted to leave the faith - or for that matter, the county - of his upbringing.

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  • Martin Sheen
    S4E5

    Martin Sheen

    Apr 3, 201139m

    On a day when his son, Charlie, appeared to be committing career suicide, Martin Sheen spoke to Gay Byrne with remarkable openness about his family, his faith and his film career - three strands which come together in his latest movie, The Way.

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  • Ben Dunne
    S4E6

    Ben Dunne

    Apr 10, 201127m

    Even before the Moriarty tribunal had branded his behaviour "profoundly corrupt", Ben Dunne admitted to Gay Byrne he'd been "a complete eejit" in his past dealings with politicians. His colourful life has included several brushes with death, an IRA kidnapping and a chequered relationship with Charlie Haughey. He reveals how it was the infamous events in a Florida hotel room that put him on the road to redemption.

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