{"id":37078,"date":"2020-07-29T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=37078"},"modified":"2020-07-29T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:06:16","slug":"the-arts-show-karen-meenan-interview-with-author-of-leonard-and-hungry-paul-ronan-hession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=37078","title":{"rendered":"The Arts Show: Karen Meenan Interview with author of &#8216;Leonard and Hungry Paul&#8217; &#8211; Ronan Hession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arts Show: Karen Meenan Interviews the author of &#8216;Leonard and Hungry Paul&#8217; &#8211; Ronan Hession   <\/p>\n<p>Leonard and Hungry Paul is a debut novel by local writer R\u00f3n\u00e1n Hession which has already been nominated for seven book awards and is about to be published in the USA.  This gentle book celebrates the lives of Leonard and Hungry Paul who meet every Sunday night to play board games.  Beautifully written with carefully drawn characters, Hession celebrates the lives of introverts, quietly and without much fuss.  A delight for everyone who just wants to live a normal life.  He is working on his second novel which should be in book shops by summer 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcast on Near FM &#8216;Arts Show&#8217; Tuesday 28th July 2020 with John Connell<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5750\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5750','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=37078-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 20:02 &#8212; 27.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arts Show: Karen Meenan Interviews the author of &#8216;Leonard and Hungry Paul&#8217; &#8211; Ronan Hession Leonard and Hungry Paul is a debut novel by local writer R\u00f3n\u00e1n Hession which has already been nominated for seven book awards and is about to be published in the USA. This gentle book celebrates the lives of Leonard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5751\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5751','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=37078-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ronan-Hession-28-07-20.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 20:02 &#8212; 27.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8451,18220,18219],"class_list":["post-37078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-2","tag-karen-meenan","tag-leonard-and-hungry-paul","tag-ronan-hession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37080,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37078\/revisions\/37080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}