Let Me Explain with Seán Defoe

For our milestone 250th EPISODE, we look back 65 years to the death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. He died in a plane crash in the Congo while on a mission to negotiate a ceasefire. Was it an accident, or was...

Star Trek helped shape the way we imagine the future should sound. From the Enterprise and its strange electronic noises to the sounds that became staples of science fiction, its influence is still everywhere. We look...

This week we take a deep dive into the Lindsay Clancy murder case. A woman found guilty of murdering her three children, but could responsibility lie elsewhere, or how can we really understand cruel acts like this...

This week we go inside the story of a woman who posed for years as a 9/11 survivor, gained the trust of hundreds who thought she'd been in the Twin Towers that day - but who wasn't everything she seemed

In August 1973 a man walks into a Swedish bank, demands three million kroner and takes four hostages. The six day standoff that followed would become the origin story for Stockholm Syndrome. Let Me Explain.

You might never have heard of Mona Lisa if she hadn't been stolen from the Lourve 115 years ago. The two year manhunt and the resulting news coverage made her the most famous painting in history. Let Me Explain.

Immerse yourself in the 18th of August 1940 when the Luftwaffe tried to use overwhelming force to crush British resistance in the air. Follow the newly promoted RAF captain facing his hardest day yet - and the German...

This week we explore the sad case of Goody Glover who was denounced a witch in Boston just before the Salem witch trials kicked off in earnest

Lughnasadh : you’ve heard the name, but what exactly is it — and how does a Celtic harvest festival connect to Ireland’s very own “Superman”? Sean Defoe dives into the myth behind the 1st of August, from the Tuatha Dé...

As we mark 30 years since the birth of Dolly the sheep - where is cloning technology now? And could humans or dinosaurs be next?

Are politicians worse than they used to be, or are we all wearing rose-tinted glasses? Sean Defoe takes on the big question as a new poll suggests Fine Gael has edged back into first place, with Sinn Féin stalling and...

This week a deep dive on the likely soon-to-be Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Who the hell is he? And what does he stand for?

This week, to make the rest of us feel better, we're looking at the worst dads in history (and one of the best) to mark Father's Day

This week we analyse the fallout of the two by-elections and what it means for the major political parties

Jamie O'Hara fills in this week to answer that age old question, would I be happier if I just had...whatever it is your heart desires