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Newstalk: 'Talking History'

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  • 15-03-2015 9:52pm
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    conorh91
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    Anyone else a fan of this show?

    It's on 7pm-9pm on Sunday evenings.

    It's consistently one of my radio highlights of the week. Tonight's show featured the Armenian genocide, and the Berlin blockade. It usually has a good mix of Irish and world history.

    Patrick Geohegan has a great radio style: he usually just lets guests tell their story, and tends not to intervene with unnecessary questions. He lectures in history at Trinity College Dublin.

    Sorry this sounds like such a shill post. Nobody paid me to write it :pac::pac:


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    ThisRegard
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    Yeah, it's quite good. I'll often miss the start or end of a piece and intend on catching the podcast during the week but never get around to it.


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    neris
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    They were previous shows those two topics were disussed on. I heard the Berlin blockade one on the podcast. the shows gotten better lately it was at a stage where the contributors were all a bit to intellectual and turning the discussions into boring debates. He seems to be getting guests in now who have an interest in a topic and dont over complicate it. There was a good one on the battle of el alamein where he had a guy in whos father was a tank driver. Its a lot better then the one on rte which seems to discuss more doom and gloom irish history


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    Horse84
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    I listen to the podcasts all the time. I'm a big fan of the show. Agree with the poster above, it was getting a bit too intellectual and the show probably had too many contributors on at times, to the point where you lost track as to who was who. Very informative and interesting nonetheless.


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    honeybear
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    i really enjoy this show. I love the topics discussed and agree that the presenter is very good. He doesn't come across as show offy as Myles (on the RTE 1 History Show)


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    mrsdewinter
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    I really enjoy the show too, tho I don't catch it as often as I'd like. What's the best format for podcasting the show? I hate the Newstalk app...


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    Technocentral
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    mrsdewinter wrote:
    I really enjoy the show too, tho I don't catch it as often as I'd like. What's the best format for podcasting the show? I hate the Newstalk app...


    I use Podcast Addict on Android, excellent app.


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    Technocentral
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    Hadn't heard of this show, just added it to my podcast app and downloaded the Berlin Blockade one.


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    andyman
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    Used to wait until around 7 o clock to drive back to college in Dublin just for this show. Something a little different yet interesting at the same time.


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    BaZmO*
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    Love this show. I've only started to listen to it over the last few months but I really enjoy it.


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    CountyHurler
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    The very first time I heard the show a few years back I heard them saying that Hiroshima had been bombed by a B-52 and not one person in the studio was able to correct a very obvious error... (until somebody texted in)... I have heard a few episodes about Stalingrad and the fall of the Third Reich which were interesting, but in general I find that in the main they dont cover of history that I have an interest in....


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