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Oct 10, 2026
Gareth DalyCORRESPONDENT
Madeleine Madden and Christopher Eccleston star in Chasing Millions.
Gareth DalyCORRESPONDENT
We have a documentary as well directed by Cara Holmes called Lesbian Lines which is set in a silenced Ireland.
Gareth DalyCORRESPONDENT
A community of lesbians build an underground network of helplines offering connection, survival, defiance through the simple act of answering the phone.
Gareth DalyCORRESPONDENT
Yeah, that's
Ciaran CudahyHOST
Go on
Nuala WardGUEST
... um, Cara Holmes and Evan, Evan, the honorary lesbian, [laughs] they were absolutely incredible.
Nuala WardGUEST
I mean, I met Cara when I got a message, and of course I made some phone calls because lots of times people would want to talk to you about stuff, and you would, and sometimes things are taken out of context or portrayed in such a way that somebody was involved in doing something when they weren't, or people are left out, and I don't like when people are left out because-
Ciaran CudahyHOST
Yeah
Rick O'SheaHOST
In The Uprising, which is where we start, Andrew Garfield and Paul Greengrass bring us their take on the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, a pivotal moment in late medieval history.
Rick O'SheaHOST
Lesbian Lions is a powerful new documentary from filmmaker Cara Holmes, which explores the roles played by helplines for a marginalised and isolated community in conservative Catholic Ireland.
Rick O'SheaHOST
But first this evening, more than a decade after his first bite at Facebook, the inventor of walking and talking, Aaron Sorkin, has another go at the tech giants, this time with the social reckoning, with Jeremy Strong taking over the role of Ireland's newest stately homeowner, Mark Zuckerberg.
Rick O'SheaHOST
John Maguire and Cara O'Doherty join me now.
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John MaguireGUEST
So two stars for me.
Rick O'SheaHOST
OK, you can hear our interview from earlier this week with Andrew Garfield on RTEL.
Rick O'SheaHOST
Listen, our final film this evening is Lesbian Lines, a documentary from Cara Holmes, which uncovers the story of the underground helplines that became a lifeline for Irish lesbians.
Rick O'SheaHOST
You might have heard some of the moving recollections on Lifeline a little bit earlier today about how important those lines were.
David O'CallaghanHOST
The conversations, preserved in handwritten notes, offer a remarkable record of a pivotal period in Ireland's social history when women were fighting for equality in a deeply restrictive and conservative society.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Blending documentary with dramatic performance, Cara Holmes, who previously made the award-winning documentary Notes From Sheepland, brings this little-known history vividly to life through an ensemble of former helpline volunteers and actors.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Having won both the Audience Award and Best Feature Award at this year's Gays festival, that's Lesbian Lines, which is now in cinemas.
David O'CallaghanHOST
And there you go.