RTÉ - Marian Finucane

Darren Wilson, the white police officer who fatally shot black teenager Michael Brown in a St Louis suburb resigned from the Police Force yesterday…..just days after the announcement he would not face criminal charges. Jack Healy, Western Correspondent of the New York Times was in Ferguson this week.

The fiftieth anniversary of Brendan Behan’s death is to be marked tomorrow with the airing of a new documentary entitled ‘Brendan Behan – The Roaring Boy’ on RTÉ 1. The film is something of a labour of love for actor and director Adrian Dunbar who chronicles the tale of a creative genius who’s most convincing character was himself.

Treating gunshot wounds was the ‘bread and butter’ of Cork man Dr John Barrett when he headed the Trauma Unit in Chicago’s Cook County Hospital – the hospital that inspired the setting for the TV series ER. He was awarded an Alumni Achievement Award by his former college UCC last night and joins Marian to discuss his career

Clark Rockefeller came across as charming, gallant and said he was part of the famous oil family, a freelance international banker, with a private chef and married to a high profile banker. However, as author Walter Kirn was to find out, Clark Rockefeller was none of the above. He was a confidence trickster, and a murderer.

A listener is interested in finding out ore about her family history as she really only knows her parents and their siblings. John Grenham is a genealogist and writer on the topic and he joins Marian in studio

Now on this last weekend in November Darina Allen gives ideas for edible gifts and what can go in your freezer right now, to help cut out stress and panic, once the Christmas season is upon us.

Last Thursday, President Obama invoked special executive powers to allow up to 5 million illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. by protecting them from deportation for three years. In theory it looks hopeful for the 50,000 or so undocumented Irish living Stateside and Marian talks to two of them about their life in the US

Today's panel to discuss the Sunday newspapers are: Joe Higgins, Socialist Party TD for Dublin West; Michael Clifford, journalist and columnist, The Irish Examiner ;John S Byrne, social care worker and lecturer in Waterford Institute of Technology; Kate O’Connell, FG Councillor for Rathgar/Rathmines ; Sarah Nic Lochlainn, entrepreneur

John Carlin's book about Oscar Pistorius was published this week. He discusses the court case and a recent interview with June Steenkamp

Deaglan de Bréadún, Political Editor, The Irish Sun, and Michael Clifford of the Irish Examiner discuss some of the most famous political u-turns of the last 30 years

Anne Elisabeth Moutet, a Paris-based journalist and political commentator, discusses the memoir of Valerie Trierweiler, the former partner of French President Francois Hollande which is just published

Ivan Yates is in studio to talk politics, bankruptcy and more

The Jenkinsons stayed in the Broadway Hotel in Blackpool recently and gave it a very bad review on Tripadvisor. The hotel then fined them £100 for the review and said it was their policy.

Donna Hartnett's letter to the Irish Independent about her money struggles went viral straight away. Her struggles and experience as a working parent with two children in childcare stuck a chord with thousands in this country. She spoke to Marian from the Cork studio.

In our segment 'Ask The Specialist' which you the listener can suggest the chosen topic in which we deal, our guest today was Ian Whyte of Whyte's Auctioneers