Podcast Episodes

The Liverpool Parade and why white nationalism is on the prowl

Episode 234

In a recent survey, supporters of Nigel Farage ranked ‘being English’ ahead of ‘being a parent’ as a signifier of who they are.

How has it come to this? Even as the dissatisfaction with Brexit grows, …

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

The Persecution of Kneecap: A legal perspective with Joe Brolly, barrister-at-law

Episode 233

When Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh was charged with terror offences, it made global headlines. The world reported the charge that the man had allegedly displaying a flag in support of proscribed organisation He…

Published on 7 months ago

How the Northern Bank robbery changed Ireland with Glenn Patterson

Episode 232

On the 20th December, 2004, £26.5 million was stolen in plain sight from the Northern Bank in Belfast. This wasn't a victimless crime, but some saw it as a caper. Most believed only one organisation …

Published on 7 months ago

The Assassination of Gary Lineker by the coward BBC

Episode 231

Gary Lineker will leave the BBC this weekend but why has it come to this?

On Free State, Joe and Dion look at how Lineker had a target on his back for years but when he spoke out about Gaza, the clock…

Published on 7 months ago

Gary Lineker, the Mayo footballers and the mechanics of change

Episode 230

When Keir Starmer said Britain risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’, in whose interests was he speaking?

When Gary Lineker left the BBC, was it because he unwittingly shared an antisemitic post - …

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Who by Fire - Living and dying on the border with the great Eoin McNamee

Episode 230

Eoin McNamee received a message when his new novel The Bureau was published telling him it was the book he was ‘born to write’.

This is not a trite phrase. This is a book about living and dying in the…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Go on home British soldier, go on home - The IRA & me, with Captain Jonathan Trigg of the Royal Anglian Regiment

Episode 229

When Jon Trigg was sent to Northern Ireland as a young officer, he was going to war. It wasn’t the Troubles or a conflict but a war.

Trigg served his tour of duty in 1993 and moved on, but, unusually …

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Cocaine Nights on the Kyiv Express (feat Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and the German guy)

Episode 228

When is a cocaine spoon not a cocaine spoon? When is a tissue a wrap of an illegal substance?

On Free State today look at how a story spreads online as it did over the weekend when Emmanuel Macron, Ke…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Where The Wildelings Are. Writer Lisa Harding on surviving Trinity College, anxiety and the Male Gaze

Episode 227

Lisa Harding’s stunning new book The Wildelings is set in a fictional university in Dublin. 

On Free State today, Lisa talks to us about her own time at Trinity in the 90s, when students would be rate…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Skorts, Skirts and Shorts. What will the new pope say?

Episode 226

Since we launched the podcast, we have never been afraid to ask the big questions. This has sometimes come at a cost but that is the way it has to be. Today we ask one of the questions that will defi…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago