I attended an event today to mark World Press Freedom day, as a result of which I’m posing the audio below. The first speech is by Kevin Bakhurst, RTÉ Deputy Director-General and Managing Director of News & Current Affairs, on the particular challenges facing broadcasting. It is followed by a speech by John Horgan, Press… Continue reading When are bloggers media?
Category: Sound
Radio, podcast, and other earfuls
Interview with Declan Ralph/Near FM about Guth magazine
“A teacher and columnist…”
“Breda O’Brien is a teacher and a columnist with the Irish Times”, according to the clip below. But unlike Joan Collins and Ciara Conway, her political affiliation is not mentioned during this introduction, on a Late Debate programme to discuss the death of Savita Halappanavar, and the abortion debate it sparked. Breda is a patron… Continue reading “A teacher and columnist…”
Gabriel Byrne and the Gathering
https://faduda.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/gabrielbyrne.mp3
Solar weather and planet Earth
An interview with Dr Lyndsay Fletcher, Glasgow University, about solar weather, recorded for Scibernia in June 2011. https://faduda.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/scisolar.mp3
Irish Science Teachers Association
An interview with Yvonne Higgins, chairperson of the Irish Science Teachers Association, for Scibernia, recorded in April 2011. https://faduda.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sciberniateachers.mp3
Dunsink Observatory and Dublin Mean Time
I recently visited Dunsink observatory to do a piece for Scibernia. You can listen to the piece below, or visit the Scibernia website to hear the entire show, including insect-eating and the science behind invisibility cloaks. Click here to listen: https://faduda.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Scibernia28GC.mp3
Scibernia: The SFI Think-In
I’m an occasional contributor to Scibernia, the Science podcast also broadcast on Near fm. Too occasional, unfortunately. While I’ve done a few reports for the project, scheduling problems mean I rarely get a chance to sit in on the studio recordings. I do however manage the occasional piece, such as when I travelled to the… Continue reading Scibernia: The SFI Think-In
Get the feeling we didn’t hear enough about the referendums?
From Marian Finucane on RTE Radio One last Saturday, Fergal Keane: Maybe referendums just aren’t that much fun. https://faduda.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/marianfun.mp3
Krak-Krak
For the longest time, I thought they were crickets. I wasn’t too sure what a cricket was, but the sound was vaguely similar. In every western I ever saw as a child, there was a scene where the cowboys sat around a campfire, and the exposition took place as one of the characters explained some… Continue reading Krak-Krak