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Dead Medium

60 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -

All the best radio comedy, drama and documentaries from Ireland.

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Behind the Wall 2 – Ewan Hennelly – Berlin Military Base Story

April 01, 2016 19:51 - 697 Bytes

Download: Behind the Wall 2 – Ewan Hennelly – Berlin Military Base Story In episode 2 of ‘Behind the Wall’, I join Ewan Hennelly on the South Downs, to hear about his narrow escape from the forces of law and order exploring Berlin’s mysterious Teufelsberg. Teufelsberg is an abandoned cold war spy facility nested in […]

Behind The Wall – 1 – One Good Thing

March 31, 2016 14:29 - 697 Bytes

Download: Behind The Wall – Episode 1 – One Good Thing My next radio drama series hits Newstalk next month starting on Saturday the 16th of April. “The Wall in the Mind” looks at the impossibility of love and even friendship in a world where someone is always watching – the Stasi surveillance state of […]

The Wall in the Mind – New Drama Series Coming Early 2016

November 25, 2015 17:02 - 697 Bytes

The Wall in the Mind is an upcoming radio drama series on Newstalk, launching early 2016. Claire O’Hanlon, a young Irish woman, became caught up in the events sweeping East Berlin just prior to the fall of the Berlin wall. Arrested at a pro-democracy protest, Claire and her friends were imprisoned by the East German […]

Paraudolia Part 2 [Mechanical Blasphemy]

November 23, 2015 22:13 - 697 Bytes

A companion to Paraudiolia 1 (a piece composed as part of Bluebottle Collective’s ‘Hibernation Radio’ project), Paraudiolia Part 2 deals with degeneration in a cosmic context – the personal and collective dementia experienced as we flail beyond our capacities. This is a series of works employing musique concrete, anonymised interview and reflexive writing, to reflect […]

Stardust

November 22, 2015 13:51 - 2.29 MB

This piece was made during last years Hearsay Festival, and won a tiny award for best story in the In The Dark audio scavenger hunt! It features Pat Herbert of the Hurdy Gurdy Radio Museum, the sounds of the Hearsay Festival church heater, and György Ligeti’s ‘Requiem’. Download: Stardust

A Creature of Myth

November 19, 2015 12:33 - 677 Bytes

Where do we turn for love in the modern age? A variety of apps promise instant sex, momentary intimacy, group vouched safety. In this odd little story, one Irish man talks about his disenchantingly modern experience with a creature of myth. This is the first episode in Dead Medium Productions new podcast. This will be […]

The Killer Podcast

November 01, 2015 15:32 - 16.4 MB

Download: ‘The Killer Podcast’

‘Paraudiolia 1’ sound art at IMMA

June 04, 2015 11:26 - 15.5 MB

Excited to announce that a piece I created for Blue Bottle Collective’s Hibernation Radio project is being played at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, as part of the ‘More Than One Maker‘ exhibition. Massive congratulations to all the Blue Bottle Collective! You can listen to the piece, which explores Dublin’s rejection of it’s young […]

Memories of Hearsay 2014

November 25, 2014 19:38 - 19.5 MB

Download: Robot Jam I really had no idea what to expect. Where is Kilfinane? Why is it so far away? What has it got to do with radio? The Hearsay Festival turned out to be chock-full of talented folk obsessed with sound in all its forms. Rachel Ni Chuinn’s talk about her intricately wrought documentary […]

The World You Think You Live In

November 27, 2013 13:24 - 13.6 MB

Experimental short documentary piece I made a while back. The narration was adapted from an unpublished short story called ‘The Wedding Tree’. The story was later adapted into a radio drama for Newstalk. I talked about the ideas behind this story in an Ignite talk at Mindfields a couple of years back called ‘The Nuts […]

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