Curious Broadcast

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Curious Broadcast

Welcome to Curious Broadcast. I am privileged that my work as a documentary maker provides a space for me to be creative, to craft audio stories. Each story I tell has been gifted from another. The people I have met through my documentaries have shared with me their passions, knowledge, insights and intellect. Each time I have made a documentary, I have also been given another story, a small nugget that has got me curious. The older I get, the more I believe, that staying curious is the best things we can do for our minds, so thank you for all those that have allowed me to stay curious.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. From Potatoes to Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland

    05/06/2024

    From Potatoes to Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland

    Episode Four: Scott Holder, the founder of Los Chicanos Taquería, tells us about how he brought L.A.-inspired street tacos to Dublin through his travels to the United States and Mexico and his inspiration from Chicano food culture. His adventure in truck transportation and the challenges of making tacos in the rain are all part of the journey. From Potatoes to Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland. Through four episodes, this podcast takes us on a journey through the multicultural history of food in Ireland, with a special focus on the emerging Mexican food scene in Dublin and beyond. We journey from Dublin Castle in the 16th and 17th centuries, to Cal-Mex and Tex-Mex food in the United States, to the emergence of Mexican food in Dublin twenty years ago, to the current popularity of Mexican and Mexican-American street food. Your hosts Dr Catherine Leen, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Melissa Hidalgo, Lecturer in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach, meet historians, food critics and food producers in this podcast generously funded by the Fulbright Commission in Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    14 min
  2. From Potatoes To Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland

    05/06/2024

    From Potatoes To Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland

    Episode Three: Lily Ramírez-Foran, the madrina of Mexican food in Ireland, shares her journey from Monterrey to Dublin and how her food pantry Picado draws on her family’s rich tradition of making tortillas. From adapting recipes to a rainy climate to sharing her love of Mexican food with Ireland, Lily explains the power of food to bring people together and enhance our lives. From Potatoes to Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland. Through four episodes, this podcast takes us on a journey through the multicultural history of food in Ireland, with a special focus on the emerging Mexican food scene in Dublin and beyond. We journey from Dublin Castle in the 16th and 17th centuries, to Cal-Mex and Tex-Mex food in the United States, to the emergence of Mexican food in Dublin twenty years ago, to the current popularity of Mexican and Mexican-American street food. Your hosts Dr Catherine Leen, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Melissa Hidalgo, Lecturer in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach, meet historians, food critics and food producers in this podcast generously funded by the Fulbright Commission in Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    20 min

  3. 05/06/2024

    From Potatoes To Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland

    Episode Two: We meet Daniel Hernández, the food critic of the Los Angeles Times. From Cal-Mex to Tex-Mex through Taco Bell and Baja fish tacos, Daniel tells us how Mexican food provides a window into Mexico’s multicultural past and dynamic present. He suggests how we can be open to transnational culinary experiments in Mexican cuisine while honoring the past. From Potatoes to Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland. Through four episodes, this podcast takes us on a journey through the multicultural history of food in Ireland, with a special focus on the emerging Mexican food scene in Dublin and beyond. We journey from Dublin Castle in the 16th and 17th centuries, to Cal-Mex and Tex-Mex food in the United States, to the emergence of Mexican food in Dublin twenty years ago, to the current popularity of Mexican and Mexican-American street food. Your hosts Dr Catherine Leen, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Melissa Hidalgo, Lecturer in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach, meet historians, food critics and food producers in this podcast generously funded by the Fulbright Commission in Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    20 min
  4. From Potatoes To Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland

    05/06/2024

    From Potatoes To Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland

    Episode One: We speak to Dr Susan Flavin, Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin. Susan takes us back in time to the 16th and 17th centuries in Ireland to reveal an unexpectedly diverse and multicultural food history, including turkeys, fancy vegetables but surprisingly little fish. From Potatoes to Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland. Through four episodes, this podcast takes us on a journey through the multicultural history of food in Ireland, with a special focus on the emerging Mexican food scene in Dublin and beyond. We journey from Dublin Castle in the 16th and 17th centuries, to Cal-Mex and Tex-Mex food in the United States, to the emergence of Mexican food in Dublin twenty years ago, to the current popularity of Mexican and Mexican-American street food. Your hosts Dr Catherine Leen, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Melissa Hidalgo, Lecturer in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach, meet historians, food critics and food producers in this podcast generously funded by the Fulbright Commission in Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    12 min

  5. 03/05/2024

    Dead White Men

    Dead White Men is a walk past the many famous and infamous statues and monuments in Dublin. A walk were we consider who and how we commemorate and to ask questions about the monuments that we have chosen to destroy and those we have kept. This is a walk through the monuments controversy past and present, to question and reflect on our past and future commemorations. Dead White Men is a Curious Broadcast production funded by Coimisiún na Meán with the Television Licence Fee. Broadcast on Newstalk FM. Featured image is that of the toppled Statue of Lord Carlisle in Phoenix Park curtesy of Irish Photo Archive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    44 min
  6. Ground Breakers: Dervilla Donnelly

    03/18/2023

    Ground Breakers: Dervilla Donnelly

    Ground Breaker Dervilla Donnelly is Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at University College Dublin, founder member of WITS (Women in Technology and Science), and was the first female president of the Royal Dublin Society. She was awarded the Royal Irish academy's hides honour, the Cunningham Medal, in recognition for her outstanding contribution to scholarship, the first woman to receive this award. Driven by an insatiable curiosity and love of science she has mentored generations of academics and business leaders, creating international contacts and supports structures for the future generations of Irish scientists; mean and women. Ground Breaker, Dervilla Donnelly, is  a Curious Broadcast Production funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee.  Produced, edited and narrated by Patricia Baker. Final mix Domhnaill Corrigan, Contact Studio.  Original music score by Gerry Horan. First broadcast on Newstalk 106 - 108 FM   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    45 min
  7. Ground Breakers: Catherine McGuinness

    03/18/2023

    Ground Breakers: Catherine McGuinness

    Ground Breakers: Catherine McGuinness explores the life and work of Catherine McGuinness. A voce for women's issues and children's rights in Ireland, over the years Catherine has served as a Senator, a barrister, and a judge of the Circuit Court, High Court, Appeal, and Supreme Court. she has also chaired the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation the foundation stone of the Northern Ireland Peace Process and is a member of the Council of State. Ground Breakers is a Curious Broadcast production funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee.  Produced and narrated by Patricia Baker. Final mix Domhnaill Corrigan. Choral music courtesy of the Culwick Choral Society. Original music score by Gerry Horan.   First broadcast on Newstalk 106 - 108 FM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    44 min
  8. Ground Breakers: Margaret MacCurtain, The Troublesome Nun

    10/03/2021

    Ground Breakers: Margaret MacCurtain, The Troublesome Nun

    The Troublesome Nun is a new radio documentary on the life and times of Margaret Mac Curtain, a Dominican Sister whose lifelong determination to write women into mainstream Irish history changed the narrative of Irish history forever. Margaret was a historian, a feminist, a teacher, a human rights activist, and a nun. Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History, School of History, University College Dublin said of Margaret. “She had established not only the need for women’s history to be studied but also the sheer range and complexity of what could be covered. She had to try and convince a sceptical male historical establishment that this needed to be done. She had to navigate not just as a teacher and someone who wanted to promote women’s history, but also as someone who was determined to challenge excepted wisdom and authorities at that time… She did not shy away from those debates that were going on not just in Irish society but within the church as well.” Cork born Margaret MacCurtain began her remarkable career in UCC, where she graduated in the 1950s with BA & HDip. She then went on to join the Dominican Order. She achieved her PhD from UCD where she lectured until her retirement in 1994. Within this outline sketch of her career, there is a life of an activist and a feminist whose legacy has impacted generations of women and men. She thought a generation to question more deeply, to remember more ethically; she worked all of her life to effect change in Irish society and to write women into Irish history. ‘This documentary is an important way to capture the impact that Margaret had which was quite a wide impact.’ said Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland. ‘It was as an historian, as a feminist, long before people were calling themselves a feminist, as an educator, as a Dominican nun, and as a women with such warmth and kindness and humour, that she made everyone, male and female, love her for herself and what she gave of herself. ‘She actually had a great influence both on me and my whole generation. She was a very active feminist even before the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement which started in Ireland in 1970.” ‘We all need to know that there are active minds in the universe and hers was one of them,’ said Theo Dorgan, Poet, Writer and Broadcaster of Margaret. ‘The joy of running into Margaret was to run into her boundless curiosity you would have no idea what she would come out with and she was fascinated by the variety of things.’ The Troublesome Nun is part of a forthcoming series of three documentaries, each one charting the life and work of one extraordinary woman who broke the ground for the next generation of women. These older women did not just witness a changing Ireland; they were the change makers themselves. --- The Troublesome Nun is a Curious Broadcast production funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee, produced and narrated by Patricia Baker. Final mix Gerry Horan Contact Studio. Original Music score Gerry Horan. First Broadcast: Sunday October 3rd at 8am, on NEWSTALK 106-108FM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    46 min
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About

Welcome to Curious Broadcast. I am privileged that my work as a documentary maker provides a space for me to be creative, to craft audio stories. Each story I tell has been gifted from another. The people I have met through my documentaries have shared with me their passions, knowledge, insights and intellect. Each time I have made a documentary, I have also been given another story, a small nugget that has got me curious. The older I get, the more I believe, that staying curious is the best things we can do for our minds, so thank you for all those that have allowed me to stay curious.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Patricia Baker
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    32
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Patricia Baker
  • Show Website
    Curious Broadcast

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