Keys to My Life - Season 1

Season 1

Seven Irish personalities reveal how the places they've lived in have shaped their lives in this unique and intimate celebrity biography show.

From childhood home to first rented flat and beyond, each property opens another chapter in the celebrity's' life story – it also sees them reunited with surprise faces from their past.

Celebrities featured include former newsreader Anne Doyle, footballer Frank Stapleton, Eurovision star Johnny Logan, Mrs Brown's Boys Star Rory Cowan, country singer Margo O'Donnell and World Champion Ballroom Dancer and ‘Dancing With The Stars' judge Loraine Barry.

Brendan Courtney begins each episode by handing one of these Irish ‘national treasures' a bunch of keys. These are the keys to some of the significant homes they've lived in. And so begins a journey to unlock the evolution of their personal and professional lives in memory-rich bricks and mortar.

Together Brendan and our celebrity revisit key houses they've lived in – and in one of these homeplaces they're reunited with a person or group of people from that period of their life.

This is a series that offers a fresh insight into the lives of well-known personalities as each home visited unlocks deeply evocative memories.

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Episodes7

DatesMar 29, 2020 - May 10, 2020

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Episodes

Season 1Episode 130 min

Anne Doyle

From the Grand Georgian splendour of her current Dublin home to the cramped and surprisingly unchanged bedsit she shared back in 1970's in Ranelagh (£80 a month then, 1600 euro now!) Brendan takes Anne Doyle back to visit the places that have formed her maverick personality. It builds into an insightful portrait of a public figure we all think we know… but do we really know her at all?

Mar 29, 2020

Season 1Episode 230 min

Johnny Logan

In the second episode of Keys To My Life Brendan Courtney meets Eurovision legend Johnny Logan and traces his life through the homes he's lived in in Copenhagan, Howth, Drogheda and London.

Apr 5, 2020

Season 1Episode 330 min

Loraine Barry

In the third episode of Keys to my Life presenter Brendan Courtney travels to Cabra, London and Italy with ballroom dancer and Dancing with the Stars judge Loraine Barry

Apr 12, 2020

Season 1Episode 430 min

Frank Stapleton

Brendan Courtney visits Republic of Ireland and Manchester United forward Frank Stapleton and takes him on a journey through the homes that have shaped each chapter of his life

Apr 19, 2020

Season 1Episode 530 min

Margo O'Donnell

Apr 26, 2020

Season 1Episode 630 min

Rory Cowan

For the first time in more than 50 years, presenter Brendan Courtney brings actor Rory Cowan back to the Ballyfermot two-bedroom house that shaped his happy early childhood

May 3, 2020

Season 1Episode 730 min

David Norris

Senator and civil rights activist David Norris visits places he has lived in that have shaped his life, with Brendan Courtney taking him back to his childhood home in Ballsbridge. They also revisit the first home David bought in Greystones and reflect on his bid to be president of Ireland

May 10, 2020

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