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Saturday 9 December 2023 Dublin: 11°C

# sitdown sunday

This week
3rd December 2023 - 9th December 2023
Sitdown Sunday: Three men scale Nepal's Mount Jannu with two ropes and a sleeping bag
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Last week
26th November 2023 - 9th December 2023
Sitdown Sunday: The couple who fell in love in their care home
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Last month
November 2023
Sitdown Sunday: The leaked files that raise more questions about how Roman Abramovich funded Chelsea FC
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Sitdown Sunday: A diary of Gaza during war, as told by Palestine's minister of culture
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Sitdown Sunday: The unsolved case of two teenagers who left for a concert and never came home
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This year
2023
Sitdown Sunday: Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones' new album, aging and the death of Charlie Watts
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Sitdown Sunday: The ethics of true crime obsession, as told by a mother directly impacted by it
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Sitdown Sunday: 'Don't sell your pen' - how Mexican journalists are murdered for telling the truth
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Sitdown Sunday: 'She lost herself in Elvis' - Sofia Coppola on her Priscilla Presley biopic
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Sitdown Sunday: The office tracking down the last perpetrators of the Holocaust
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Sitdown Sunday: The Secret Service agent whose claims raise new questions about JFK's assassination
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Sitdown Sunday: Bringing down the biggest match-fixing ring in tennis history
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Sitdown Sunday: How one man managed to steal millions from billionaires while behind bars
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Sitdown Sunday: Elon Musk's 'brazen and expansive' influence on the US government
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Sitdown Sunday: How an ordinary nurse became the UK's latest serial killer
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Sitdown Sunday: A summer camp for grieving children
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Sitdown Sunday: A diver helps to solve cold case murders, until his own past resurfaces
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Sitdown Sunday: A small-town paper, a secretly recorded conversation and a big story
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Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to live knowing you might inherit dementia
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Sitdown Sunday: Why are actors joining writers on the picket lines in Hollywood?
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Sitdown Sunday: How numerous warnings about the Titan submersible went ignored by its owner
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Sitdown Sunday: 'The war separated me from many things' - a child's experience of the Ukraine war
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Sitdown Sunday: How a murder case in a sleepy town was finally solved after two decades
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Sitdown Sunday: 'People around me were being arrested' - how one Uyghur man fled China
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Sitdown Sunday: 'Praying is good, but penicillin is better' - Mel Brooks on life, Hollywood and happiness
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Sitdown Sunday: The director of Succession's series finale breaks down that final episode
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Sitdown Sunday: A classic interview with the late 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' Tina Turner
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Sitdown Sunday: Could AI really escape our control, and what can be done to prevent it?
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Sitdown Sunday: The tales of four women who have tried to flee Dubai's royal family
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Sitdown Sunday: 'I was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Vietnamese jungle'
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Sitdown Sunday: The 40-year mystery surrounding three children left at a train station
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Sitdown Sunday: Inside the real-life succession drama of Rupert Murdoch
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Sitdown Sunday: The murder of a young mother that took 26 years to solve
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Sitdown Sunday: What it's like to be a Premier League referee
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Sitdown Sunday: 'People are at the front line too long, and at a certain point, they crack'
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Sitdown Sunday: Inside the competitive, cutthroat world of Oscar campaigning
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Sitdown Sunday: How music's effect on the brain can unlock memories for people with dementia
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Sitdown Sunday: 'He sends a heart emoji every morning, to let her know he’s still alive'
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Sitdown Sunday: An Icelandic town's annual mission to rescue baby Puffins
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Sitdown Sunday: The science behind the syndrome that makes you feel like a fraud
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