Radio Myles: the Flann O'Brien Podcast
Episodes
13. Joseph LaBine: Flann O'Brien and Radio
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A special edition of the Radio Myles podcast dedicated to Tobias W. Harris and Joseph LaBine's special edition of the Journal of Flann O'Brien studies...
12. Elliott Mills: Brian, Myles and the Civil Service
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of Radio Myles, the podcast poised somewhere between the pub and the peer review which aims to intrigue, e...
11. Katherine Ebury: Flann O’Brien, death and the law
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine and Toby dissect death in 'Two in One' before exploring Irish executions, reading Achille Mbembe's necropolitics and turning to Flann, the e...
10. The Society in Strabane
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this guest edition of Radio Myles, Maebh Murphy presents a compilation of voices and atmospheres, scholarly ideas and craic agus ceol from the 8th ...
9. Oisín Ó Nualláin: Eccentric state builders
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Radio Myles Toby welcomes Oisín, the nephew of the celebrated Irish writer Brian Ó Nualláin, also known as Flann O'Brien and Myl...
8. Paul Fagan: Under the skin of Flann O'Brien
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul and Toby explore human and nonhuman worlds in An Béal Bocht, the politics of Flann O'Brien's comedy, the history of the International Flann O'Br...
7. Frank McNally: Myles and the Irish Times
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Toby interviews Frank McNally, writer of An Irish Diary for the Irish Times, about Brian O’Nolan as a journalistic influence, and as a man. This is ...
6. Julieta Abella: When Jorge Luis Borges encountered Flann O'Brien
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Toby speaks to Julieta Abella, an Argentinian scholar working on Irish modernism who can explain the seemingly strange transatlantic c...
5. Maebh Long, part 2: Technology and the voice of Flann O'Brien
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of this interview, Maebh and Toby talk about beginnings, originality, hustle and technology in Brian O'Nolan's life and work. Sensationally,...
4. Maebh Long, part 1: Flann O’Brien, the anti-institutional institution
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned O’Nolan scholar Maebh Long shares an unpublished draft of the famous manifesto in At Swim-Two-Birds, delves into the nature of his collabor...
3. Einat Adar: Flann O’Brien on mind, matter and everything
22 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we understand The Third Policeman’s atomic theory? Toby and Einat find out via Descartes, the anti-materialism of Leibniz & Berkeley and ...
2. Vincent Francone: Why writers should read Flann O'Brien
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Toby and a Chicago writer discuss how Flann inspires him. They explore the soft lunacy of books, the uses of bureaucratic jargon and the life of moonl...
1. Joseph Brooker: Introducing Brian, Flann and Myles
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Toby asks a leading expert: who was Flann O’Brien? The answer involves pseudonyms, rarely heard first-hand accounts and a legendary editor of the Ir...