The Curious Mind

by Quinn, John

• ISBN13: 9781847302007
• ISBN10: 1847302009
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Veritas Pubns

Summary

Quinn presents a comprehensive selection of entertaining, thought-provoking and insightful programs taken from 25 years of his RT Irish radio show. Writers, philosophers, entertainers, educationists, activists, politicians, business people - John has interviewed some of the most interesting personalities. Seamus Heaney, Spike Milligan, Maeve Binchy, and Bernadette Greevy are among those included, with a plethora of topics ranging from childhood, to education, to economics, to place and landscape.

Author Biography

Born in Ballivor, Co. Meath, John Quinn is a much-loved broadcaster and radio producer who has been the recipient of numerous prestigious radio awards during his twenty-five years with RTE. He is also a writer of fiction and non-fiction, including Sea of Love, Sea of Loss: Letters to Olive, an intimate and inspiring book written as a tribute to his late wife. A skilful and engaging storyteller, his children's novel, The Summer of Lily and Esme, was described as `an instant classic' and won the 1992 Bisto Children's Book of the Year. His most recent book is Goodnight Ballivor, I'll Sleep in Trim, now the subject of a TG4 documentary.