Roast Chestnuts

Daily Edge writer Fionnuala Jones joins Alan and Jeanne to analyse 2010's Christmas Cupid, the heartwarming tale of a heartless career woman who gets visited by the ghost of her dead client and the ghosts of boyfriends past, present, and…

DJ Claire Beck joins Jeanne and Alan to discuss 2017's Christmas Festival Of Ice, the heartwarming tale of an aspiring lawyer who loves to sculpt ice on the side. When her town's ice sculpting festival loses its funding she decides to raise…

With Love, Christmas is the heartwarming tale of an advertising person who gets her crush in her office Secret Santa but also has to work with him on the big account AND they're up for the same promotion. Will there be a misunderstanding…

The Mistletoe Inn is the heartwarming tale of a jilted writer who goes to a writer's retreat to see if she has what it takes and finds love, acclaim, and herself along the way. It stars Alicia Witt and David Alpay and we liked it a whole…

We're back! Esther O'Moore Donohoe of The 80% Podcast returns to help Alan and Jeanne figure out their feelings towards the 2017 Hallmark Hall Of Fame classic The Christmas Train, the heartwarming tale of a lonely journalist who bumps into…

Welcome back to Season Two of Roast Chestnuts! Jeanne Sutton and Alan Maguire have got ten more Made-For-TV Christmas movies to dissect between now and Christmas with special guests like Esther O'Moore Donohoe, Erin McGathy, Claire Beck,…

Journalist and podcaster Ellen Tannam joins Alan and Jeanne for the last episode of this series of Roast Chestnuts. The gang talk about 2017's The Perfect Christmas Present, the heartwarming tale of a man who can find the perfect present…

Happy St. Stephen's Day! Patrick Freyne of the Irish Times joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about 2003's Undercover Christmas, the heartwarming tale of a cocktail waitress who agrees to give evidence against her fraudster boyfriend and ends up…

2FM DJ Conor Behan joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about 2012's A Bride For Christmas, the heartwarming tale of a man who makes a sociopathic bet that he can get engaged in less than four weeks and a woman who's left three men at the altar…

Eithne Shortall, Sunday Times chief arts writer and author of Love In Row 27, joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about 2013's Fir Crazy. Fir Crazy is the heartwarming tale of a woman who takes over her family's Christmas tree lot for one fateful…