HeadStuff Podcasts

•

Channel • 37 Shows

Improv

Improv

Updated 23/10/2023
News

News

Updated 01/06/2018
Society & Culture

Society & Culture

Every two weeks
Arts

Arts

Updated 11/06/2019
Comedy

Comedy

Updated 28/10/2020
Film Interviews

Film Interviews

Every two weeks
Sexuality

Sexuality

Updated weekly

07/04/2019

Roxanna Nic Liam plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Support Personality Bingo and become a patron [at our Patreon here](https://www.patreon.com/personalitybingo?alert=2). If a contribution of a couple of Euro wouldn’t make a massive difference to your life, just know it makes a gigantic one in ours! As Blindboy says, “it’s a model based off soundness”, so if you CAN support, please do on behalf of someone who can’t! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Roxanna Nic Liam is an Irish actor who has worked in Ireland and the U.K. She has worked with many Irish theatre companies including at The Abbey Theatre; (The Passing, Perve, The Plough and The Stars), Druid (Be Infants In Evil), Brokentalkers (This Is Still Life, The Passion Project), THEATREclub (Rough, THEATREclub Stole Your Clock Radio) and AXIS Ballymun (Stór). In the U.K. she had worked at The National Theatre (Liolà, Broad Shadow), toured the UK with English Touring Theatre (Translations) and The Separation at Theatre 503. In film she has starred in Agnes Browne, Rat, Two Hearts and The Cherishing. For tv she starred in Love/Hate and is currently on Fair City. She is also a practising and trained drama facilitator. She writes and performs poetry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

07/04/2019

•

1h 17m
05/02/2018

Maria Guiver plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

05/02/2018

•

1h 7m
22/05/2020

Sam Blake talks to Carmel Harrington

International bestseller Carmel Harrington writes issue-driven popular fiction and is the author of Cold Feet The Lost Years, which accompanies the ITV series. Carmel's uplifting and inspiring books have all been regular chart-toppers, and have captured the hearts of readers worldwide - she is translated into eight languages to date, in eleven territories. Published by Harper Collins, her books have been described by the Daily Mail as ‘beautifully written, emotionally intelligent and moving in the extreme.’ My Pear-Shaped Life was published in Ireland, UK, Australia, New Zealand and US in April 2020, and is a joyful, uplifting book for those of us who sometimes wake up & feel we’re not good enough. Spoiler alert: we are! Sam Blake delves into Carmel's fascinating process, how she finds her characters and how she develops them, coming up with plots that will make you laugh and also make you cry, as well as getting her top tips for writing a bestseller. Behind the Bestseller is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network Theme Music by Tim Nerney

22/05/2020

•

39 min
01/06/2018

#10: It Is Done

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”- Nelson Mandela The final episode of the Eighth is a fly on the wall audio journey with Ciara from her hearing the exit poll results through to the final result in Dublin Castle. Featuring a range of voices throughout the day, with special thanks to my sister Evie, my Mam Róisín, Shane, Sharon, Morgan, and Ciara. Special thanks to Alan and the whole HeadStuff crew for their tireless support, encouragement and help in making this series. And the biggest thank you of all to my partner in Repeal, Paddy. We did it. It Is Done. **Credits**: Featuring news clips from Newstalk, RTE, ITV, Fox News, and BBC News, reproduced with thanks. Produced by Ciara O’Connor Walsh Executive Producer: Alan Bennett, HeadStuff Production assistance from Paddy Walsh and Brian from HeadStuff Artwork: Eimear Gavin **Music**: Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts I-IV, Ghosts I Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Storm

01/06/2018

•

41 min
14/02/2020

Sam Blake talks to Ruth Long

Romance is the biggest selling genre worldwide and award winning author Ruth Long, in all her various incarnations as RF Long, Ruth Francis Long and Jessica Thorne, writes romance combined with fantasy - from parallel worlds to sci-fi space opera, for both young adults and adults. Discussing what romance is and why it's so popular, Sam Blake explores how Ruth develops character, the secrets of world building and what makes a successful book in this huge genre. Ruth outlines how important community is and how organisations like the Romantic Novelists’ Association can be of huge help in assisting authors build their career. Ruth Frances Long writes young adult fantasy such as The Treachery of Beautiful Things (Dial, 2012) and The Dubh Linn trilogy set in the world of demons, angels and fairies that exists alongside our own in modern day Dublin (A Crack in Everything (O’Brien, 2014) , A Hollow in the Hills (O’Brien, 2015) and A Darkness at the End (O’Brien, 2016) . In 2015 she was the winner of The European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award For Best Author of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy for A Crack in Everything. As Jessica Thorne she writes fantasy and space opera romance – The Queen’s Wing (Bookouture, 2018) and The Stone’s Heart (Bookouture, 2019), and the forthcoming Mageborn (2020), the first of a new series called The Hollow King. As R. F. Long she writes fantasy & paranormal romance such as The Scroll Thief, Soul Fire and the Holtlands stories (The Wolf’s Sister, the Wolf’s Mate and Songs of the Wolf) which were originally published with Samhain publishing and which she recently re-released along with the full-length, final part of the series The Wolf’s Destiny. She lives in Ireland and works in a library of rare, unusual & occasionally crazy books. But they don’t talk to her that often. Find @RFLong on Twitter Behind the Bestseller is part of the HeadStuff Podcast Network Theme music by Tim Nerney

14/02/2020

•

41 min
13/03/2020

Sam Blake talks to Sinéad Moriarty

From piling up the rejection slips Sinéad Moriarty joined a writers group and wrote the book that was closest to her heart. Drawing on her personal experience The Baby Trail immediately hit the bestseller list and kickstarted a career that is still growing. Sam Blake discusses how Sinéadgot her first break with that book, and how it spawned a series. Sinéad's books are issue driven, and research is vital to that process. Sam Blake discusses how much research is too much and how vital it is to Sinéad that her characters are real. Discussing how Sinéad plots and plans and how important writing is to her, Sam Blake gets her tips for writing a bestseller. Sinéad Moriarty was born and raised in Dublin where she grew up surrounded by books. Her mother is an author of children’s books, and this instilled her childhood dream that would one day become a reality, that she too write her own novel. After university, she went on to live in Paris, followed by London. It was at the age of thirty, while working as a journalist in London that she began to write creatively in her spare time – after work, at lunch times … and, truth be told, during work hours. After a couple of years brainstorming different ideas, Sinéad joined a creative writing group and began to write her debut novel 'The Baby Trail'. Having been translated into 25 languages, Sinéad has went on to write 14 bestselling novels, including 'The Good Mother' and 'Ours Secrets and Lies'. Sinéad's latest novel '7 Letters' has been described ‘gorgeous and devastating’ and is available now.

13/03/2020

•

32 min
15/11/2017

Dubland 89

89 Dubland has Paddy Boxes, Pidge the Pigeon and Dear David tweeting about ghosts. PJ is incredulous but Suzanne literally screams on the pod. There are two types of people in the world. There are PJs and there are Suzannes, which one are you? There’s outrage about the lack of Stephen Cluxton in the All […] La entrada 89 Dubland se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15/11/2017

•

50 min
20/02/2020

#115 | Kevin Bacon Dreams with Sarah Devereux

This week's free wheeling episode sees the wonderful Sarah Devereux grace Hannah and Ed with her bag of precious things. What's in there? All will be revealed. But before that, there's a review of Kevin Bacon's many appearances in Sarah's night terrors, scratch cards are scratched with knives, Haribo is Harihad by all in a throwback to the old days of the podcast and Hannah struggles to remember if she is being seen or heard.

20/02/2020

•

33 min
09/03/2016

Dubland 20

This week PJ discovers if dogs can suck, he’s delighted about the bus drivers radios and not so thrilled about the Gardai! He also explains to Suzanne about buying a footballer with lotto winnings and his million dollar idea, Plop! Suzanne’s excited to be invited to the St.Patricks Day parade and she doesn’t get UFC! La entrada DUBLAND EPISODE 20 se publicó primero en Headstuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

09/03/2016

•

57 min
20/05/2019

#53 | Air Rods

Today on Sexy Beasts we take to the skies and get real high! No not talking about marijuana we are talking about Air Rods! Mysterious ethereal beings that flit in and out of our existence. Alien? Man made? Bit of mayo on a camera lens? Crack open the podcast and devour the gooey knowledge inside Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20/05/2019

•

43 min

HeadStuff Podcasts is an Irish collective of independent podcasts and a platform to share great ideas with the world. Are you looking for improv comedy or laugh-out-loud chat shows? In-depth interviews or highly-produced documentaries? We’ve got you covered! From fiction, film and food, to pop culture, politics, history and more, HeadStuff Podcasts is a hub for the creative and the curious. Find out more at HeadStuffPodcasts.com, where you can become a member of HeadStuff+ and support the shows you love.