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Culture Club - Saoirse McHugh
This week's Culture Club inductee is Saoirse McHugh, the Green Party candidate for the Midlands-North West constituency in the European Parliament elections this year.
She impressed many when she challenged Peter Casey in a TV debate in the final days of the campaign, and came close to taking a seat.
Saoirse joined us to talk about her favourite TV shows, movies, books, plays, music and podcasts.
Favourite TV Show: Doctor Who, Embarassing Bodies
Favourite Movies: Pride, I, Daniel Blake, Muriel's Wedding
Favourite Play: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
First Single: 'There's A Whole Lot Of Loving' by Six
Favourite Albums: Lungs by Florence and the Machine, Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen
Best Gigs: Metallica, Rodrigo y Gabriela
Favourite Podcast: Weekly Economics by the New Economics Foundation
Favourite Authors: John McGahern, John Steinbeck
Listen to the interview in full by pressing the play button on this page.