Join Willy Vlautin for a session on Saturday night. Willy will be playing songs from Richmond Fontaine, The Delines plus instrumentals featured on the new soundtrack from his new book ‘Don’t Skip Out on Me’. The songs will be interspersed throughout with banter between Willy and Dave Fanning on Willie’s new book. There’ll be a Q&A discussing his books, music and America, and the new movie of his novel ‘Lean on Pete’. Accompanied on pedal steel by David Murphy (who previously toured with Richmond Fontaine). Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 16th June 2018

Robert Fisk is the multi-award winning Middle East correspondent of The Independent, based in Beirut. He is just back from Syria. Bob has lived in the Arab world for more than 40 years, covering Lebanon, five Israeli invasions, the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Algerian civil war, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, the American invasion, occupation of Iraq and the 2011 Arab revolutions. Fisk’s best-selling books on the Middle East include Pity the Nation and The Great War for Civilisation. In conversation with Pat Kenny. Recorded at The Dalkey Book Festival 14th June 2018.