The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne

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On RTÉ's The Meaning of Life, Gay Byrne has spoken with public figures about these questions and many others.</p Few of them are religious expertsand Gay Byrne certainly wouldn't claim to be but all of them have, at times, had cause to think about life and its meaning.Here, for the first time, Gay recollects the most insightful discussions on the big themes: childhood, love, faith, disbelief, morality, grief the universal themes that bind us all and reveals the meaning the interviews have had for him.Gay suggests that the show's success is less to do with the profile of its guests and more about the fact that viewers can imagine themselves in the hot-seat. "How would I answer that one? What do I think?". Now, readers can re-experience the interviews at leisure and ponder their own beliefs from the written word.

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Gay Byrne is a veteran presenter of radio and television. Described by the Irish Times as "unquestionably the most influential radio and television man in the history of the Irish State", he continues in his "retirement" to be a much loved Irish broadcaster. His most notable role was as the first host of RTÉ's The Late Late Show over a 37-year period, from1962 until 1999. He has presented the television series The Meaning of Life since 2009 and also continues to present a regular radio show on Sunday afternoons, on Lyric FM.

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