We don't agree with CMAT, even though we love her. We think Larkin would have been her biggest fan.

Not yet discussed on the podcast, we share Aubade one of Larkin's masterpieces.

We then talk about that ability of turning the mundane into art a lot on today's show. We also talk about men, and the value of the stories of men. We also talk about the almost zero value in male advice without a story.

Leon reads out a piece from Ernest Hemingway that hammers home the violence and devastating manipulation of man, before we take a look at the many different stories of the people who are claiming welfare with the help of playwright Graham Donlon.

A beauty of a track from Eve wraps up this week's show. 

Hope you enjoy it! Stay away from men who advise!

Poems from the show

Craig Doyle - The Last Smoke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf3ZMtOKF5w

Philip Larkin - Aubade

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6e2f07

Ernest Hemingway - Hills Like White Elephants

https://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Hemingway/hemingway-hills

Graham Donlon - A plastic floor tile one point five metres from the post office counter

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Music by Eve - June Moon

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Original music by Matthew Keating
Artwork by Paddy Downey
Introduction and co-produced by Lisa Downey