The RTE History Show on 26 October included an interview recorded at this year's Festival. History Show host Myles Dungan talked to Professor Sara Lodge about her book The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective. It's a fascinating discussion of real women working for police forces and private detective agencies in late 19th century Britain, Ireland and the USA, as well as female detectives in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction. Sara's book has recently been shortlisted for the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. The discussion can be heard via the RTE History Show site, beginning at 34:14.

Also on RTE Radio - on the Sunday Miscellany earlier in the autumn - was a fascinating two-parter Writing the Bog looking at the history, literature and folklore of bogs in the past, present and future.

Lots of press coverage of the forthcoming release of the 1926 census. On 18 April next year, the National Archives will make the entire 1926 census, made up of over 700,000 individual household returns, freely available and freely searchable online. Perhaps a topic for next year's Festival ?

And finally, as we've just had Halloween, here's a (serious, historically-based) discussion about vampires featuring Professor John Blair, author of Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World, recorded by the UK HistFest.