Mary Black talks about her disillusion with the Church, her struggles with depression, and her mystical experiences.

Mary Black

Gay Byrne

Roger Childs

Earl Charles Spencer

Barry McGuigan

Cecelia Ahern talks to Gay Byrne about growing up with Bertie.

Cecelia Ahern

Comedian, actor, writer, presenter and all round renaissance man Stephen Fry discusses his views on faith.

Stephen Fry

Former boxer Barry McGuigan talks to Gay about his strong Catholic faith.

Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer and brother of Princess Diana, talks with remarkable openness and candour about his sister’s tragic death, his controversial oration at her funeral, their difficult childhood together and the challenge of guarding his own privacy, as the brother of the world’s most famous woman.

The former Archbishop of Canterbury and now Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Dr Rowan Williams joins Gay to discuss faith.

Archbishop Rowan Williams

The Meaning of Life is an Irish television programme, the first series of which was broadcast on RTÉ One in 2009. It is presented by the veteran broadcaster Gay Byrne. Each episode involves Byrne interviewing a well-known public figure. The series is broadcast each Sunday night at 22:20.

In 2010 The Meaning of Life returned for both a second and, later, a third series. Interviews with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and actors Gabriel Byrne and Brenda Fricker during the second series attracted media attention when they spoke of their religious habits and child sexual abuse respectively.

Gay Byrne appeared on The Late Late Show on 18 December 2009 to discuss the programme.

A fourth series soon followed. Then a fifth series from January 2012. And a sixth in October 2012. And a seventh in January 2013.

Mary Black

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