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11 – Sex Toys
July 26, 2022 07:05 - 114 MBDildos, vibrators, cock rings, pocket pussies, do you use them, do you like them? is there such a thing as too big or too good? What have we tried? Why do women use them more than men? Is the shame around sex toys irrational? And how do they affect our bodies. We also chat about […]
10 – Drugs
July 19, 2022 07:00 - 122 MBWe chat with special guest Ronan about the role drugs have in our sex life – endogenous hormones, prescription drugs, and of course the wicked world of narcotics. How can they alter our experience of love and sex? What are the risks of abuse? Does the pill change who girls are attracted to? Does taking […]
9 – Age Gaps
July 12, 2022 07:00 - 119 MBIn our most controversial conversation yet we address the thorny topic of age gaps. Are age gaps hot or just plain creepy, how much is too much, celebrity age gaps, what the research says, and of course we talk about our our own! Download: 9 – Age Gaps Find us on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, […]
8 – Bedroom Confessional
July 05, 2022 07:00 - 94.8 MBIn this very special episode of Everybody Wants To Love You, we come to you from our den of iniquity, our very (un)marital bed. We answer the questions we ask our guests – our funniest sexual encounters, our sexiest moments, and finally delve into our sexual ambitions. Download: 8 – Bedroom Confessional Find us on: […]
7 – Sex Education
June 28, 2022 06:00 - 84.9 MBListeners tell us their sex education horror stories, we compare our sex educations in the 90s and 2000s, on the playground and in the classrooms, our parents reactions to our first relationships. Download: 7 – Sex Education Find us on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Feedburner Meet us on: Instagram, Discord
6 – Squicks, Icks, Turn Ons and Turn Offs
June 21, 2022 06:00 - 162 MBWe discuss our own squicks and icks, sturn ons and turn offs, the things that gross us out in bed, and what ‘ick’ culture means for the world of sex and relationships. Download: 6 – Squicks, Icks, Turn Ons and Turn Offs Find us on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Feedburner Meet us on: Instagram, Discord
5 – Love & Lust on Screen
June 14, 2022 06:31 - 200 MBThis week talk movies – what are the hottest moments on screen, which films accurately portray love and heartbreak, and how real life is nothing like the movies. Feat: Before Sunrise, Penelope Cruz’s hot rage and why James Spader is Hot Actually. Download: EP5 – Love & Lust on Screen Find us on: Apple […]
Episode 4 – Stripping Tales & O Woes
June 07, 2022 04:30 - 223 MBWe chat with the fabulous ‘Petunia’ about bisexuality, cuck queening, disability, stripping, anorgasmia and sex work. Download: Episode 4 – Stripping Tales and O Woes Find us on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Feedburner Meet us on: Instagram, Discord
Love You – EP2 – The Good Old Gays
May 24, 2022 06:45 - 263 MBOur guest is artist and Berlin flaneur Constantin Montana. We discuss… The differences between gay life in Berlin and New York. How the internet changed hookup culture.Comparing our sexual educations.The effects of porn on kids.The death of subculturesDifferences between dating in gay and straight cultures‘The chat’The glorious sluttiness of actorsMeeting ‘the one’. Download: Episode 2 – […]
Everybody Wants to Love You
May 11, 2022 17:20 - 140 MBEverybody Wants to Love You is a new podcast about love, sex, and the things that get left unsaid. Hosted by former comedian Gareth Stack and one time actress Nicole O’Connor, the show features interviews, listener problems and intimate uncensored discussions of sexuality in the age of chaos. Download: Everybody Wants To Love You – […]
Why do people kill? Psychology in Mind Episode 6
October 21, 2018 19:02 - 102 MBDownload: Why do people kill? Psychology in Mind Episode 6 Subscribe: iTunes, RSS, SoundcloudRead: Show Notes A new series in which psychologist Dr Andrew P. Allen and writer and broadcaster Gareth Stack, turn to psychology for answers about our minds, brains and personalities. Todays Question: Why do people kill? We’ll be exploring the topic of […]
Are Psychedelics Good For Us? Psychology in Mind Episode 5
June 23, 2018 17:09 - 80.2 MBDownload: Are Psychedelics good for us? Psychology in Mind EP5 Subscribe: iTunes, RSS, Soundcloud Read: Show Notes A new series in which psychologist Dr Andrew P. Allen and writer and broadcaster Gareth Stack, turn to psychology for answers about our minds, brains and personalities. Todays Question: Are Psychedelics Good For You? Psychedelic drugs, are they the […]
Are People Irrational? – Psychology in Mind Episode 4
May 06, 2018 16:47 - 65.6 MBDownload: Psychology in Mind – Episode 4 Subscribe: iTunes, RSS, Soundcloud Read: Show Notes A new series in which psychologist Dr Andrew P. Allen and writer and broadcaster Gareth Stack, turn to psychology for answers about our minds, brains and personalities. Todays Question: Are People Irrational? In everyday life we have make many decisions. We can […]
Mic Drop (Radio Drama)
April 17, 2018 17:07 - 53.7 MBDownload: Mic Drop Mic Drop is a new one off drama, starring Adam Tyrell, based on the play that debuted to critical acclaim at the ‘Scene + Heard’ Festival in Summer 2017. This one-man show tells the story of Irish web entrepreneur Perry Pardo. Perry is the living embodiment of the new Ireland. A working […]
The Listening Stage
March 31, 2018 21:02 - 40.3 MBDownload: The Listening Stage Each year, legendary radio dramatist Roger Gregg teaches a unique intensive course in radio drama. The Listening Stage follows students of The Gaiety School of Acting’s radio drama course, as they pursue their hopes and dreams of fame. This fly on the wall doc embeds us in Roger’s annual weeklong workshop, […]
Is Psychology Unethical? – Psychology in Mind Episode 3
March 27, 2018 14:45 - 64.9 MBDownload: Psychology in Mind – Episode 3 Subscribe: iTunes, RSS, Soundcloud Read: Show Notes A new series in which psychologist Dr Andrew P. Allen and writer and broadcaster Gareth Stack, turn to psychology for answers about our minds, brains and personalities. Todays Question – Is Psychology Unethical? We take a dive into the history of ethical […]
My two final Radio Programmes – Coming Soon
March 15, 2018 22:20 - 5.8 MBProbably my final two radio productions (at least under the sound and vision scheme), were both completed last year. By coincidence they’re both coming to air really soon. Download: The Listening Stage and Mic Drop Trailer Each year, legendary radio dramatist Roger Gregg teaches a unique intensive course in radio drama. The Listening Stage follows […]
Psychology in Mind – Can We Trust Our Memories? (EP2)
February 25, 2018 22:39 - 60.6 MBDownload: Psychology in Mind – Episode 2 Subscribe: iTunes, RSS, Soundcloud. Read: Show Notes A new series in which psychologist Dr Andrew P. Allen and writer and broadcaster Gareth Stack, turn to psychology for answers about our minds, brains and personalities. Todays Question – Can we trust our memories? Our guest today, Dr Richard Roche, neuroscientist […]
Psychology in Mind – Episode 1
January 30, 2018 23:54 - 99.7 MBDownload: Psychology in Mind – Episode 1 – Creativity Subscribe: iTunes, RSS, Soundcloud. A new series in which psychologist Dr Andrew P. Allen and writer and broadcaster Gareth Stack, turn to psychology for answers about our minds, brains and personalities. In this episode we discuss creativity. What is creativity? Is it possible to become more […]
‘The Free School’ Documentary
November 12, 2017 10:05 - 697 BytesDownload: The Free School The Free School, Dead Medium Productions’ new documentary about Ireland’s first ‘Sudbury Valley School’, broadcast this morning on Newstalk. Wicklow Sudbury is an experiment in alternative education, bringing ‘free schooling’ and ‘unschooling’ to Ireland. You can stream the programme above, or download at our podcast link below. It will also be […]
The Free School – Upcoming Newstalk Documentary
October 24, 2017 18:54 - 697 BytesDownload: The Free School Trailer Think back, what were your least favourite parts of school? Maybe math, maybe physics, maybe you just hated gym. Now imagine a school where you didn’t have to do anything you didn’t want to. A school with no exams, no homework, no classes, not even any teachers. What if I […]
The Bee-Loud Cabaret on RTE Lyric
October 03, 2017 17:16 - 697 BytesDownload: The Bee Loud Glade – EP1 – Gerry Murphy To subscribe to this series and lots more from Roger Gregg, check out the brand new Crazy Dog Audio Podcast The Bee Loud Glade Cabaret is a series of twelve bite-size programmes bringing some of the best of the contemporary Irish spoken word scene to […]
The Art of Television
September 28, 2017 09:22 - 71.4 MBDownload: The Art of Television The A.R.T of Television is a historical comedy about censorship, set in the early years of Irish TV broadcasting. A time when government and church fought young broadcasters struggling to innovate on the nation’s fledgling television channel. American writer Claude Chabert lands a job on the early Irish soap opera ’Home […]
The Muse Unbidden
September 17, 2017 12:45 - 101 MBDownload: The Muse Unbidden The Muse Unbidden is an exciting one off drama from Roger Gregg, one of Ireland’s most influential radio dramatists. The play, a success on stage at the Collaborations festival in Smock Alley theatre in 2012, follows a group of would-be poets enrolled in a performance poetry workshop led by a charismatic […]
The ART of Television – All new comedy drama, coming soon!
August 11, 2017 15:59 - 697 BytesDownload: ART Trailer Dead Medium Productions Presents ‘The A.R.T of Television’! It’s winter 1968, the long hangover after the Summer of Love. A.R.T is Ireland’s finest, and indeed only television station. But the nations flagship soap ‘Home Farm’ is failing as viewers frog march towards the satanic protestant seduction of the BBC. American ad man […]
Migrant Fictions
July 11, 2017 14:19 - 51.6 MBDownload: Migrant Fictions (54 Megs) Migrant Fictions is an ambitious new drama project, bringing together the talents of a diverse group of immigrant writers to capture their experience as émigrés to Ireland. German-Polish writer / director Dominik Turkowski developed five short drama scripts through workshops with writers from the immigrant community. Their stories capture the […]
Lets Write a Film – EP2 – Badgers
December 14, 2016 18:41 - 228 BytesA new podcast in which two writers attempt to develop a film in real time, with no preparation. Featuring Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal. Download: Let’s write a film – Episode 2. Previous episodes.
Lets Write a Film
November 24, 2016 20:14 - 228 BytesA new podcast in which two writers attempt to develop a film in real time, with no preparation. Featuring Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal. Download: Let’s Write A Film.
Getting Into The Game
October 31, 2016 16:47 - 697 BytesDownload: Getting into the Game Documentary Broadcasting Bank Holiday Monday 31st October, 11AM on Newstalk. Getting into the game is a new documentary aimed at kids who play games. Video games. Kids who play videogames and wonder maybe, possibly, perhapsily, if they’d like to make them. Growing up I remember getting those magazines full of strange […]
The Wedding Tree
August 13, 2016 12:59 - 697 BytesDownload: The Wedding Tree Subscribe: iTunes, RSS, Soundcloud. The Wedding Tree is an audacious new radio drama, set in the aftermath of an accident at an Irish nuclear power plant. In the wake of the disaster, fire officer Cian Mitchell is confined to hospital. Tormented by his injuries, Cian finds unlikely comfort in the company […]
Culture File – Ideopreneurial Entrephonics
May 03, 2016 12:41 - 5.88 MBDownload: Ideopreneurial Entrephonics. My latest report for Culture File looks at the recent Ideopreneurial Entrephonics II festival of avant garde music and modular analogue synthesis, held in the mysterious confines of Dublin’s Freemasons Lodge.
The Wall in the Mind – 6 – Die Mauer Im Kopf
May 02, 2016 17:32 - 697 BytesDownload: The Wall in the Mind – 6 – Die Mauer Im Kopf Claire meets an old friend at the abandoned CIA listening post at Teufelsberg (Devils Mountain). As a storm begins, Claire learns the truth about what happened to Emil. Violence, death, and horrible secrets from the past finally exhumed, in the final episode of […]
The Wall in the Mind – 5 – Who is Emil Reichman?
April 30, 2016 11:38 - 697 BytesDownload: The Wall in the Mind – 5 – Who is Emil Reichman? Claire is pushed to extremes in her quest to discover what happened to Emil. Her actions have consequences, both for her and the people she loves. Claire receives another mysterious tape, recorded after her release from jail in 1989, revealing a terrible secret […]
The Wall in the Mind – 4 – Secrets & Lies
April 25, 2016 11:58 - 697 BytesDownload: The Wall in the Mind – 4 – Secrets and Lies In Episode 4 of ‘The Wall in the Mind’ we learn more about the relationship between Claire and Emil, and Claire’s friendship with Matthaus back in 1989. Claire confesses to Matthaus why she came to Germany. In the present, Matthaus tries to convince Claire […]
The Wall in the Mind – 3 – No Friends Like Old Friends
April 24, 2016 08:22 - 697 BytesDownload: The Wall in the Mind – 3 – No Friends Like Old Friends Update: Soundcloud is currently broken (I’m substituting local links, apologies if this screws with your podcast feed). Shortly after her release from prison in 1989, Claire believes she can see Emil in videotaped footage of the fall of the wall. In 2014, […]
The Wall in the Mind – 2 – The People’s Republic of Friedrichshain
April 16, 2016 21:31 - 697 BytesDownload: The Wall in the Mind – 2 – The People’s Republic of Friedrichshain We slip between past and future – Claire’s memories of her incarceration and her search for answers in the present. Claire finds the city, and her old friends much changed. Claire searches for Emil amongst the last of the Berlin squats, and […]
The Wall in the Mind – 1 – The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere
April 16, 2016 09:17 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 1 – The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere Update: Soundcloud is currently broken (I’m substituting local links, apologies if this screws with your podcast feed). Claire O’Hanlon, a respected lecturer, is tormented by nightmares of her arrest and imprisonment in 1989. In the present day – a mysterious cassette tape arrives […]
Behind the Wall – 15 – The Card in the Rubble
April 15, 2016 10:05 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 15 – The Card in the Rubble In the final behind the scenes episode of ‘The Wall in the Mind’ I talk about the mysterious find that inspired the mystery at the heart of the series. At a town outside Berlin called Blankenburg. There lie the ruins of a barracks of […]
Behind the Wall – 14 – Mia Gallagher Interview
April 14, 2016 09:54 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind The Wall – 14 – Mia Gallagher Interview Mia Gallagher is an actress and author who plays one half of the lead role of Claire in the Wall in the Mind. We talk about playing a complex tormented character, collaboration between actor and writer and the physicality of performance. Mia’s latest novel ‘Beautiful pictures of […]
Behind the Wall – 13 – James O’Connor Interview
April 13, 2016 09:59 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 13 – James O’Connor Interview In today’s episode of ‘Behind The Wall’ I speak to writer / director and one of the stars of ‘The Wall in the Mind’, James O’Connor. James plays the character of Emil Reichmann, a squatter and activist fighting against the corrupt communist regime of the DDR. […]
Behind the Wall – 12 – Sven Moritz Interview
April 12, 2016 11:38 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 10 – Sven Moritz Interview In today’s episode of ‘Behind the Wall’ we speak to Sven Mortiz, who plays the character of Matthäus Kassmayer in the present day in ‘The Wall in the Mind’. Sven talks about living through the reunification of Germany, and a childhood lived in the communist state […]
Behind The Wall – 11 – Cast Interview – Jasmin Gleeson
April 11, 2016 10:23 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 10 – Jasmin Gleeson Interview An interview with Irish actress Jasmin Gleeson, who plays one half of the character of Claire in ‘The Wall in the Mind’. We talk about the unique challenges of sharing a role, as well as how the experience of on location radio drama recording differs from […]
Behind the Wall – 10 – Janine Dürkop Interview
April 10, 2016 13:39 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 10 – Janine Dürkop Interview Janine Dürkop is a German born actress who plays the part of ‘Nicole’ in the Wall in the Mind. In today’s episode of ‘Behind the Wall’ Janine talks about taking on the role, and moving to Ireland to pursue acting outside the constraints of the German […]
Behind the Wall – 9 – Half Way Point
April 09, 2016 11:00 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 9 – Halfway Point In today’s episode of ‘Behind the Wall’, recorded half way through production, I reflect on the process of location recording. The program is starting to take shape, the actors are producing incredible performances and the script is coming to life. Behind the Wall Behind The Wall is a […]
Behind the Wall – 8 – This is Berlin
April 08, 2016 16:21 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 8 – This is Berlin In today’s episode of ‘Behind the Wall’, a trip around the Soundscapes of Berlin. Behind the Wall Behind The Wall is a series of special feature podcasts accompanying ‘The Wall in the Mind‘, an ambitious new on-location drama series, coming to Newstalk and podcast starting on […]
Behind the Wall – 7 – Money Freakout
April 07, 2016 16:18 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 7 – Money Freakout In todays episode I take a look back at the worst moment of every project. When the money runs out. Right before we started production on ‘The Wall in the Mind’, I’d run out of money. Though the project was funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s […]
Behind the Wall – 6 – Rehearsal
April 06, 2016 15:02 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 6 – Rehearsals A look behind the curtain at the rehearsal process, in todays episode of ‘Behind the Wall’. Behind the Wall Behind The Wall is a series of special feature podcasts accompanying ‘The Wall in the Mind‘, an ambitious new on-location drama series, coming to Newstalk and podcast starting on […]
Behind the Wall – 5 – Shryan Gosling
April 05, 2016 13:08 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 5 – Shryan Gosling In today’s Episode of ‘Behind the Wall’ we return to the audition process. We take a look a the demands recording an ‘off book’ script places on actors. James O’Connor describes the intricate psychological manipulations involved in the casting process. I’m joined in this episode by actor […]
Behind the Wall – 4 – Location Scouting
April 04, 2016 09:56 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall – 4 – Location Scouting In episode 4 of our making-of series ‘Behind the Wall‘, we travel down to Martinstown House in the Curragh of County Kildare, to location scout for the drama series, in the company of Andrew Booth. Why would you record a radio series on location? How do different places […]
Behind the Wall – 3 – The Auditions
April 03, 2016 10:49 - 697 BytesDownload: Behind the Wall 3 – Auditions with James O’Connor Episode 2 of ‘Behind the Wall’, visits the audition process as myself and Dublin based James O’Connor struggle with the task of finding the perfect cast for ‘The Wall in the Mind’. Whats This? Behind The Wall is a series of special feature podcasts accompanying […]