Podcasts by Bantercast
Banter is a series of public talks, interviews & conversations on a wide range of topics including music, literature, sport, society, politics, and entertainment.
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Bantercast 139: Drink in Irish Culture from 2017-10-09T00:00
This week, it’s all about the demon drink. On Easter Monday last, we took part in the nationwide Criunniu Na Casca event with a series of Banters in Dublin Castle. Here, we’re joined by Tara Flynn ...
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Bantercast 138: Fachtna O Ceallaigh from 2017-10-03T00:00
As part of the nationwide Criunniu Na Casca event, we spoke to the one and only Fachtna O Ceallaigh, one of the few no-nonsense, straight shooting managers left in the game who still has loads to s...
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Bantercast 137: Critics from 2017-09-12T00:00
Is there for a future for the critics? That was the topic for discussion at one of the Banters in Dublin Castle as part of the recent nationwide Criunniu Na Casca event. Cristín Leach (art critic, ...
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Bantercast 136: Future of Work from 2017-09-04T00:00
Over the summer, we’ve been doing a monthly residency at the Bullitt Hotel in Belfast and it produced a fascinating discussion on the future of work. We were joined on the night by Adrienne Hanna f...
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Bantercast 135: Olan O'Brien from 2017-08-28T00:00
This week, we’re delighted to say hello to Olan O’Brien from All City Records. Olan was a Banter guest in our very early days and he was great value for the interview, but we never recorded that on...
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Bantercast 134: Fake News from 2017-07-29T00:00
There was a full house at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin when we put on this discussion about media in an age of fake news as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin. We were joined...
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Bantercast 133: Neil Rankin from 2017-07-17T00:00
Seeing as we’ll be back at The Big Grill festival later this summer, here’s one from last year’s adventures with the meat eaters and BBQ fiends in Dublin 4. Neil Rankin is the chef, cookbook writer...
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Bantercast 132: Online Behaviour from 2017-07-11T00:00
The Journal’s Aoife Barry, writer and podcaster Ellen Tannam, DJ and writer Conor Behan and senior clinical psychologist Mark Smyth joined us at Banter recently for an enthralling conversation abou...
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Bantercast 131: Danny Wang from 2017-07-04T00:00
Here’s another one from our trip to The Beatyard in Dun Laoghaire last summer, a festival we’ll be revisiting in August. Prepare for Danny Wang talking life and music past, present and future in wh...
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Bantercast 130: Eddie Otchere from 2017-06-26T00:00
Seeing as we’ll be back at The Beatyard festival later this summer, here’s one from last year’s adventures by the sea in Dun Laoghaire. It’s always great to have photographers in the mix at Banter ...
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Bantercast 129: Alan Simms from 2017-06-19T00:00
It was a huge pleasure to welcome the mighty Alan Simms to Banter at the Shore Shots surf festival in The Model in Sligo the other month. Alan is the founder of Shine, the Belfast superclub which n...
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Bantercast 128: Foodcloud from 2017-06-12T00:00
For the last few years, we’ve been hugely impressed as the Foodcloud social enterprise has made great strides in helping supermarkets, producers and famers redistribute surplus food to charities. I...
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Bantercast 127: The Great GAA Novel from 2017-06-07T00:00
On Easter Monday last, we took part in the nationwide Cruinniú na Cásca event with a series of Banters in The Printworks in Dublin Castle, including this discussion on the great GAA novel. We’ve se...
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Bantercast 126: Dorothy Cross from 2017-05-22T00:00
There are some guests we’re prepared to wait around for and we’ve been trying to get Dorothy Cross to Banter for four and a half years. The dates and schedules and stars finally aligned and the bri...
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Bantercast 125: Stephen Donnelly from 2017-05-15T00:00
This week, we welcome one of the most interesting politicians around to Banter. Stephen Donnelly may have billed himself as the accidental politician back when he started out in politics in 2011, b...
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Bantercast 124: So You Want To Open Your Own Restaurant... from 2017-05-01T00:00
This was one of our favourite Banter panels of recent times because of the amount of good sense on show. It's a deep dive into the art, business, blood, sweat, tears and occasional cheers of runnin...
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Bantercast 123 Other Voices: Bringing It All Back Home from 2017-04-24T00:00
A lively gang joined us in Foxy John's in Dingle for our Bringing It All Back Home panel at Other Voices where Justin Burgess from Bean In Dingle, Shane Finn from WK Fitness and Cormac Begley from ...
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Bantercast 122: The Happy Pear from 2017-04-19T00:00
The talk which drew the biggest crowd to the Banter tent at Bloom in the Phoenix Park last year was probably this encounter with The Happy Pear's David and Stephen Flynn. It was the second time tha...
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Bantercast 121: Colin Harmon from 2017-04-10T00:00
It was a pleasure to welcome 3FE Coffee's Colin Harmon to the Banter tent at the Bloom Festival in Dublin's Phoenix Park last year. Colin is an experienced Banter hand at this state of the proceedi...
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Bantercast 120 Other Voices: Catherine Murphy TD from 2017-04-03T00:00
Everyone in Ireland has got an opinion good or bad on what our TDs do for a living, so what is it that gets these people into politics in the first place? We were joined by Kildare North TD and Soc...
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Bantercast 119 Other Voices: Aideen Barry from 2017-03-27T00:00
It's always great when a Banter conversation goes to places you never thought they'd go and we never imagined for a moment that talking to artist Aideen Barry would lead to stories about NASA and v...
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Bantercast 118 Other Voices: Paul Howard from 2017-03-20T00:00
Paul Howard is the writer who has brought us the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, but it was another dude who was on his mind when he joined us at Other Voices in Dingle. ...
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Bantercast 117 Other Voices: Aoife Kelleher from 2017-03-13T00:00
This week, we're joined by Aoife Kelleher, the film-maker behind such award winning documentaries as One Million Dubliners, Strange Occurrences In A Small Irish Village and Growing Up Gay. She join...
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Bantercast 116 Other Voices: Aoibheann McNamara from 2017-03-06T00:00
At Banter, we have always a welcome for someone with a great yarn and that certainly applies to Aoibheann McNamara. She’s the Donegal-born firebrand behind Galway restaurant Ard Bia and The Tweed P...
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Bantercast 115: Paul Kimmage from 2017-02-27T00:00
We keep a list of people we’d like to feature at Banter and Paul Kimmage has been on that list for ages so we were delighted to persuade him to join us at the Workman's Club in Dublin in January to...
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Bantercast 114 Other Voices: Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan from 2017-02-20T00:00
Recorded during our annual trip to Dingle, Co Kerry for the Other Voices festival, here’s Dublin born neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan telling some tales from the frontline of psychosomatic illnes...
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Bantercast 113: Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh from 2017-02-13T00:00
We were delighted and honoured to welcome legendary sports broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh to Banter for our 150th outing. Recorded in a packed house at The Yacht pub in the heart of Raytown i...
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Bantercast 112: Review of the Year 2016 from 2016-12-20T00:00
It’s time for the the annual Banter review of the year, the show where we look at the news stories of the past 12 months which have had the most traction. As you can imagine, there was lots of ment...
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Bantercast 111 Other Voices: Arts Review of the Year from 2016-12-12T00:00
It’s time for our review of the year in arts and culture and it’s also the first broadcast from our now annual trip to Other Voices in Dingle, Co. Kerry. Eithne Shortall, the Chief Arts Writer at T...
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Bantercast 110: Farming in 1916 from 2016-12-05T00:00
We’ve heard a lot about 1916 this year so it struck us as a good idea to find out what Irish farmers were up to 100 years ago, as things took an unexpected turn that Easter in Dublin. We were joine...
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Bantercast 109: Web Summit - Allison Wagner & Nikki Dryden from 2016-11-28T00:00
It's the first time we've had an Olympic medal winner at Banter and that was swimmer Allison Wagner who won a silver medal for the United States at the Atlanta 1996 games behind Irish swimmer Miche...
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Bantercast 108: Web Summit - Michael Shamberg from 2016-11-26T00:00
It was a pleasure to say hello to Michael Shamberg. The producer of Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction, Erin Brockovich, The Big Chill, Contagion, Gattaca, Get Shorty, Garden State and tons more – and ...
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Bantercast 107: Web Summit - Bruce Pavitt from 2016-11-25T00:00
Bruce Pavitt will always be associated with the Sub Pop label. He was one of the co-founders of the hugely influential Seattle grunge label in the 1980s and he joined us at Banter in Lisbon to talk...
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Bantercast 106: Web Summit - Marian Goodell from 2016-11-24T00:00
Marian Goodell is one of the founding board members of the Burning Man Project and is now the organisation's first CEO. She joined us on the Banter stage to talk about her long and winding road to ...
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Bantercast 105: Web Summit - Bill James from 2016-11-23T00:00
Bill James is probably best known as the influential American baseball writer, historian, and father of sabermetrics but there’s another side to him too and that’s his interest in our cultural obse...
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Bantercast 104: Web Summit - Paul Tighe from 2016-11-22T00:00
There's a first time for everything and this was Banter's first onstage encounter with a bishop. Paul Tighe is the Navan-born bishop who is part of the Vatican team who put the pope on Twitter and ...
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Bantercast 103: Web Summit - Bradley Tusk from 2016-11-21T00:00
We began our Portuguese debut with Bradley Tusk the morning after Donald Trump's shock victory in the US presidential election. The political consultant, who worked on Michael Bloomberg's successfu...
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Bantercast 102: Blindboy Boatclub from 2016-11-14T00:00
One of the biggest crowds we’ve had at Banter in ages was the one that showed up to hear Blindboy Boatclub from The Rubberbandits talk about this, that and the other during the Beatyard festival in...
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Bantercast 101: Mattress Mick from 2016-11-07T00:00
For Banter 101, we’ve another legend in the bag and it’s someone that anyone who has lived or worked in Dublin will need no introduction to: say hello to Mattress Mick. We brought the don of beddin...
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Bantercast 100: George Clinton from 2016-10-31T00:00
We promised you a legend for our one hundredth Bantercast and we think we’ve delivered. There is only one George Clinton and we’d the privilege to talk to the great man at the Beatyard festival thi...
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Bantercast 99: Yotam Ottolenghi from 2016-10-24T00:00
This is Bantercast number 99 and the first of four podcasts in a row featuring some colourful legends. We welcomed chef, writer and food business owner Yotam Ottolenghi to the Banter tent at the Ba...
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Bantercast 98: Bees from 2016-10-17T00:00
We kick off our autumn/winter series with a fascinating conversation about bees. Erin Tiedeken from the All Ireland Pollinator Plan joined us at Bloom to talk about how one third of Ireland’s bee s...
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Bantercast 97: Neneh Cherry from 2016-06-07T00:00
It’s always good to speak to a legend and they don’t come more legendary than Neneh Cherry. She was in Dublin a few weeks ago to speak to us at the National Gallery of Ireland as part of the MusicT...
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Bantercast 96: Sponsorship from 2016-05-31T00:00
When it comes to putting on events and festivals, the hardest issue most organisers will have to deal with has to do with funding. As part of EventBrite’s Free: Celebrating Free Events For All exhi...
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Bantercast 95: The News Agenda from 2016-05-23T00:00
One of the questions which comes up again and again at different Banter discussions has to do with who sets the news agenda. Be it the general election or Syria, people are curious about why certai...
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Bantercast 94: Birdwatching from 2016-05-16T00:00
One of the most fascinating Banter at Bloom discussions last summer involved lessons in looking and listening. We’re joined here by Niall Hatch from Birdwatch Ireland and Richard Collins from the R...
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Bantercast 93: The Business of Food from 2016-05-09T00:00
This week, we’re looking at the business of food and specifically what’s required to keep an Irish food business going in the long run. The Country Choice deli and café opened in Nenagh in 1982 and...
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Bantercast 92: Community Shops from 2016-05-02T00:00
With more and more villages throughout the country now without a local shop, a campaign is underway to change this and bring back a place to go for the messages. Recorded at Banter at Bloom, Declan...
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Bantercast 91: Charities from 2016-04-25T00:00
This week, it’s all about charities. Recorded at Banter at Bloom in the Phoenix Park in June 2015, we hear from Aidan Stacey (head of fundraising at GOAL), Joan Freeman (founder of Pieta House) and...
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Bantercast 90: Irish Farming from 2016-04-18T00:00
Ahead of our return to Dublin's Phoenix Park in June, we’ll be podcasting some of the highlights from last year’s Banter tent at Bloom in the Park over the next few weeks. Here, we’re joined by Dar...
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Bantercast 89: Fiann Ó Nualláin from 2016-04-11T00:00
Last year at the Bloom festival in the Phoenix Park, we spoke to award winning garden designer, author and broadcaster Fiann Ó Nualláin not once but twice. In the first half of this podcast, we hea...
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Bantercast 88: Bloom's Gary Graham from 2016-04-04T00:00
There’s a grand stretch in the evening and that means we’re looking forward to summer and especially Banter at various summer festivals. Last year, we were in situ at the Phoenix Park in Dublin for...
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Bantercast 87: Willie Thorne from 2016-03-28T00:00
Every year, we host a Banter event as part of the First Fortnight mental health arts festival and this year, we were joined at Dublin’s Sugar Club by snooker legend Willie Thorne. The man known as ...
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Bantercast 86: Syria from 2016-03-21T00:00
It’s five years since civil war broke out in Syria. In those five years, hundreds of thousands of Syrian people have been killed and millions more have been displaced in the brutal conflict between...
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Bantercast 85: Howya from 2016-03-14T00:00
This week, it’s all about the Dublin accent. This Banter saw Story Bud film-maker Jenny Keogh, Dublin Hun illustrator and artist Aoife Dooley and writer and film-maker Derek O’Connor join us at MVP...
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Bantercast 84: David Lebovitz from 2016-03-07T00:00
Banter is heading back to the Ballymaloe LitFest in May and here’s a taste of what we did at the premier food festival in the country last year. We were joined by food writer, author and former Che...
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Bantercast 83: Traders from 2016-03-02T00:00
This week’s podcast was recorded during the Audi Dublin International Film Festival and features a conversation with Peter Murphy and Rachael Moriarty, the directors of new Irish film Traders. Star...
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Bantercast 82: General Election 2016 from 2016-02-25T00:00
As the country prepares to go to the polls to vote in the 2016 general election – the first 2016 general election anyway – The Journal’s Sinead O’Carroll, The Irish Times’ Hugh Linehan and DCU’s J...
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Bantercast 81 Other Voices: Conor Horgan & Katie Holly from 2016-02-22T00:00
Our final podcast from our December 2015 trip to Dingle for Other Voices is with Conor Horgan and Katie Holly, the team behind The Queen of Ireland. This documentary film focuses on Rory O’Neill, b...
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Bantercast 80: Brand New Retro from 2016-02-16T00:00
If you’re interested in Irish pop culture - and Banter certainly is - you will have already come across Brand New Retro, the site which has curated and digitised thousands of images, articles and a...
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Bantercast 79: Vincent Hogan from 2016-02-08T00:00
Aside from being one of the best sportswriters in the country, Vincent Hogan is also a ghostwriter who has worked with such legendary sportsmen as Paul McGrath and Henry Shefflin. Vincent is the ma...
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Bantercast 78 Other Voices: Jean Curran from 2016-02-02T00:00
One of our favourite conversations at last month’s Banter weekend at Other Voices in Dingle, Co Kerry was the one with Jean Curran, the Waterford-born photographic artist and photojournalist joinin...
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Bantercast 77 Other Voices: Eoin O Broin from 2016-01-25T00:00
We think that Eoin O Broin is a name you’ll be hearing a lot about in 2016. Currently a Sinn Féin councillor on South Dublin County Council, Eoin is also a key party strategist and a candidate for ...
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Bantercast 76 Other Voices: Dónal Lunny from 2016-01-18T00:00
We’re joined this week by a bona-fide musical legend. Since the late 1960s, Dónal Lunny has played a pivotal role in the development and evolution of Irish music with Planxty, The Bothy Band, Movin...
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Bantercast 75 Other Voices: Una Mullally from 2016-01-12T00:00
We’re live from Dingle this week at another Banter recorded during Other Voices last month. Una Mullally joined us by the fire in Foxy John's for a lengthy conversation about her work as a journali...
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Bantercast 74: Review of the Year 2015 from 2015-12-22T00:00
It’s the end of the year as we know it... Recorded at MVP in Dublin earlier this month, we were joined for our annual review of the year by Kathy Sheridan from The Irish Times, Grainne Healy from t...
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Bantercast 73 Other Voices: Arts Review of the Year from 2015-12-15T00:00
Here’s our first broadcast from 2015’s visit to Other Voices and Dingle, Co Kerry. We were joined by the fire in Foxy John’s by Nadine O’Regan from the Sunday Business Post and TXFM to review the y...
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Bantercast 72: Neil Strauss from 2015-12-08T00:00
It’s time to check back in again with Neil Strauss. A decade on from his bestselling book The Game, Strauss has returned to the writing-about-the-other-sex business, but much has changed in the mea...
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Bantercast 71: The History of Dublin gay clubland from 2015-11-30T00:00
To coincide with a recent screening of the Paris Is Burning documentary at Dublin’s Sugar Club, we talked to Tonie Walsh, Will St Leger, Conor Behan and Mimi Rouge about the changing nature of Dubl...
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Bantercast 70: Podcasts from 2015-11-23T00:00
This may well be the most meta Bantercast ever – a podcast about podcasts. We talk to Ken Early (Second Captains), Lisa Farrelly (Abbey Talks), Andrew Mangan (Castaway Media) and Roisin Ingle (The ...
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Bantercast 69: Oliver Dunne from 2015-11-17T00:00
This week, we’re talking hospital food. For the last year or so, chef and owner of Dublin restaurants Bon Appetit and Cleaver East, Oliver Dunne has been engaged in a campaign to improve the food a...
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Bantercast 68 Web Summit: Jonathan Hunt from 2015-11-05T00:00
Jonathan Hunt is the Global Vice President of Marketing and Partnerships at Vox Media, a man with his finger very much on the pulse of where the engagement between brands and media is going. He tal...
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Bantercast 67 Web Summit: Chris Kaskie from 2015-11-05T00:00
Chris Kaskie is the president of Pitchfork, the go-to site for millions of music fans worldwide. He joined us at Banter to talk about the growth of the site, the recent deal with Conde Nast, pitchf...
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Bantercast 66 Web Summit: Daire Hickey from 2015-11-04T00:00
Daire Hickey is one of the co-founders of Web Summit so, as you can imagine, he has a lot to say about the avalanche of issues and news stories around this year’s event. He joined us at Banter to t...
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Bantercast 65 Web Summit: Brian Message from 2015-11-04T00:00
Brian Message has been on the Banter interview wishlist for ages and it was a pleasure to welcome him to our studio at Web Summit. He manages such acts as Radiohead, PJ Harvey and Nick Cave and is ...
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Bantercast 64 Web Summit: Peter Nelson from 2015-11-04T00:00
Peter Nelson is the boxing fan who hit pay dirt. Now the vice president of programming at HBO Sports, he started his career as a journalist with Vanity Fair and Sports Illustrated before joining th...
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Bantercast 63 Web Summit: Joe Canning from 2015-11-03T00:00
Joe Canning first togged out for a senior hurling team when he was just 15 years of age. Since then, the Portumna man has blazed trail for club and county. He joined us at Banter to talk about his...
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Bantercast 62 Web Summit: Jonathan Reichenthal from 2015-11-03T00:00
Jonathan Reichenthal is the Dublin-born Chief Information Officer of the city of Palo Alto, California. But as we discover in this wide-ranging interview, Jonathan had a rich and varied life before...
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Bantercast 61 Web Summit: Jamie Heaslip from 2015-11-03T00:00
For the first in our special series of Banter podcasts from Web Summit 2015, we talk to Leinster and Ireland rugby player, tech investor and bar and restaurant co-owner Jamie Heaslip. As befits a m...
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Bantercast 60: Neven Maguire from 2015-11-02T00:00
Does Neven Maguire require an introduction at this stage of the game? We caught up with the nicest man in the Irish restaurant and food business during Banter’s residency at Bloom in the Phoenix Pa...
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Bantercast 59: Rural Ireland from 2015-10-26T00:00
One of the best experiences we've had with Banter this year was at Bloom in the Phoenix Park where we took over a tent in the Food Village for three days of talking and interviews. We started off o...
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Bantercast 58: Supermarkets from 2015-10-19T00:00
Recorded at our very last Banter event at the Twisted Pepper in Middle Abbey Street before the venue closed, a huge crowd turned out to hear us talk about the future of food shopping and supermarke...
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Bantercast 57: Music & Food from 2015-10-12T00:00
During The Big Grill BBQ festival in Dublin’s Herbert Park, we hosted a number of Banter sessions and one of them saw us talking music and food. We were joined by the legendary Levi Roots, the equa...
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Bantercast 56: Brendan Canty from 2015-10-05T00:00
It’s very rare that we get to feature a MTV Video Music Award nominee at Banter but Brendan Canty ticks all those boxes. The Cork video director and film-maker was nominated for his work on Hozier’...
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Bantercast 55: Kevin Barry from 2015-09-28T00:00
This week, we say hello to Kevin Barry, the author of one of our favourite novels of recent years, 'City Of Bohane'. We caught up with the Limerickman at the Shannon Rowing Club in the heart of his...
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Bantercast 54: David Sax from 2015-06-08T00:00
We returned to the Cúirt Literary Festival in Galway a few weeks ago for a chat about food trends with David Sax. David is the Canadian author of "The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes, But...
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Bantercast 53: Nuala O'Connor from 2015-05-25T00:00
Meet the reluctant Banter guest. Nuala O’Connor is the Dingle-based writer and producer behind some of the most compelling Irish documentary films in recent years. She worked as a producer and writ...
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Bantercast 52: Matthew E. White from 2015-05-18T00:00
We were chuffed to bits to welcome Matthew E White to Banter earlier this month. It was the last engagement in his current European tour and he joined us in Dublin’s Twisted Pepper for an evening o...
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Bantercast 50: Irish Surfing from 2015-05-05T00:00
Welcome to the 50th Banter podcast! Thanks a million to everyone who has tuned in to date and for spreading the word about this series.
This one comes from the recent Shore Shots surfing f...
Bantercast 49: Generation Z from 2015-04-29T00:00
This week, we meet Generation Z, the young men and women who were born since the mid-1990s and who are going to be running the world before very long. We brought four of them together recently at D...
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Bantercast 48 Other Voices: Bill Malone from 2015-04-16T00:00
Bill Malone is Mister RTÉ2, the man tasked with ensuring that the TV channel kicks ass, broadcasts shows with bite and appeal and continues to keep Irish 15-24 year olds tuning in. The channel cont...
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Bantercast 47: Gavin Dunne from 2015-04-06T00:00
Say hello to Gavin Dunne, the Cork musician behind online music project Miracle Of Sound. Gavin joined us at the Vision Centre on Cork’s North Main Street a few weeks ago during the Quarter Block P...
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Bantercast 46 Other Voices: Paul Galvin from 2015-03-30T00:00
Paul Galvin joined us by the fire in the back of Foxy John’s in Dingle last December for an in-depth interview during the annual Other Voices’ festival. A Kerry footballing legend, the Lixnaw man w...
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Bantercast 45: Marriage Equality from 2015-03-25T00:00
Una Mullally is no stranger to Banter audiences, as both a regular panelist and occasional host. In December, Una’s oral history of the campaign for marriage equality in Ireland, "In The Name Of Lo...
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Bantercast 44 Other Voices: Joe Caslin from 2015-03-16T00:00
Last December, for the third December in a row, we set up shop by the fire in Foxy John’s in downtown Dingle during the annual Other Voices’ festival for two days of talking. Our first out-take fro...
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Bantercast 42: The Editors from 2015-03-02T00:00
A few weeks ago, we marked 100 Banter events with a very special night at Dublin's Twisted Pepper. One of the panels on the night was the editors panel, featuring Kevin O’Sullivan, editor of the Ir...
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Bantercast 41: Iarla O Lionaird from 2015-02-23T00:00
This week, we’re in St Multose’s Church in Kinsale for a conversation with Iarla O Lionaird. Recorded during last year’s Kinsale Arts Festival, this freewheeling chat with the Cork sean-nós maestro...
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Bantercast 40: Jamie Byng from 2014-12-22T00:00
From Banter's most recent visit to Derry for the CultureTECH festival, here's an indepth conversation with Canongate publisher Jamie Byng. Recorded at the historic St Augustine's in the heart of th...
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Bantercast 39: Review of the Year from 2014-12-16T00:00
This is our penultimate podcast for the year and it’s a good one because it's our now traditional Review of the Year podcast. Recorded the other week at the Twisted Pepper in Dublin, it features Ro...
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Bantercast 38: Dublin's new café society from 2014-12-09T00:00
Banter's ongoing 'Living for the City' series on living, working and playing in the capital continues to produce some great discussions, including this look at the growth in the city’s new-school c...
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Bantercast 37 Other Voices: Lloyd Bradley from 2014-12-01T00:00
All back to Derry where we’d the great pleasure to welcome Lloyd Bradley to Other Voices a few months ago. He’s the highly-regarded British writer on black music from funk to reggae, the author of ...
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Bantercast 36: Has Dublin lost its creative edge? from 2014-11-24T00:00
There was a full house at the Twisted Pepper a few weeks ago for our action-packed discussion on the question of Dublin's creative edge. Prompted by an Irish Times column by Una Mullally which clai...
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Bantercast 35: Rory O'Connell from 2014-11-17T00:00
Rory O'Connell is the man from Ballymaloe Cookery School, the director of the now annual Literary Festival and the author of the acclaimed and prize-winning book Master It: How To Cook Today. He jo...
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Bantercast 34: Privacy from 2014-11-07T00:00
We'd a very lively and informative discussion around the issue of privacy in our always-on world as part our regular run of shows at the Twisted Pepper in Dublin a few weeks ago. Our panel of Irish...
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Bantercast 33 Other Voices: Michael Hann from 2014-10-29T00:00
Recorded at Other Voices in Derry, it's an interview about interviews. Michael Hann, the music editor of The Guardian, joined us to talk about what it takes to get a great interview out of someone....
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Bantercast 32 Other Voices: David Caffrey from 2014-10-22T00:00
If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of Irish TV viewers currently glued to 'Love/Hate' every Sunday night, you’ll want to hear this one. Director David Caffrey is the man behind the camera a...
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Bantercast 31: Brian Kerr from 2014-10-16T00:00
Brian Kerr has appeared on a Banter stage before and we were delighted to have him back for a weekend of sports talks and interviews which happened earlier this year in the Twisted Pepper in Dublin...
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Bantercast 30 Other Voices: David Arnold from 2014-10-09T00:00
Today’s broadcast is a special one, even if we say so ourselves. It was recorded in Dingle last December during Other Voices and it features a rare interview with David Arnold ahead of a very rare ...
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Bantercast 29: Music Book Club from 2014-10-02T00:00
This week’s broadcast comes from earlier this year during Banter’s first visit to the Cuirt International Festival of Literature in Galway. Musicians Adrian Crowley, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Nial Co...
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Bantercast 27 Other Voices: A Banter about Festivals from 2014-09-15T00:00
Recorded at the Other Voices' tent deep in the woods at the Electric Picnic in Stradbally, this is a Banter about festivals with Electric Picnic and Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn and Other Voi...
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Bantercast 26: Covering the City from 2014-07-03T00:00
We had a huge turnout at the Twisted Pepper last month for 'Covering the City', our look at media coverage in the capital, as part of the ongoing 'Living for the City' series. Our panel for the nig...
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Bantercast 25: Alternative Spaces from 2014-06-23T00:00
Part of Banter's ongoing 'Living for the City' series about living, working and playing in Dublin in the 21st century, this Bantercast looks at the huge growth in new venues and creative spaces in ...
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Bantercast 24 Other Voices: Gerard Barrett/Jack Reynor from 2014-06-09T00:00
A Banter two for the price of one film special. Recorded at Other Voices in Foxy John's in Dingle, we talk to Gerard Barrett, the Kerry-born director of the fantastic Pilgrim Hill, and to Jack Reyn...
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Bantercast 23 Other Voices: John Mulholland from 2014-06-02T00:00
What exactly does a newspaper editor do? John Mulholland is the Dublin-born editor of The Observer newspaper and he joined us at Other Voices in Dingle to give us the view from the editor’s office....
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Bantercast 22 Other Voices: Karl Ove Knausgaard from 2014-05-26T00:00
Shortlisted for this year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Karl Ove Knausgaard was one of our guests at Banter's series of talks and interviews at Other Voices in London. Karl Ove is the acclaimed No...
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Bantercast 21: Dawn O'Porter from 2014-05-19T00:00
Say hello to the great Dawn O'Porter. The writer and TV presenter paid a visit to Banter at the Twisted Pepper in Dublin recently to talk about her new book 'Goose', her love for vintage clothes an...
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Bantercast 19: Frank from 2014-05-06T00:00
This Bantercast follows on from last week's episode with Jon Ronson who talked at great length about Frank Sidebottom and the true story which inspired the forthcoming 'Frank' film.
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Bantercast 18: Jon Ronson from 2014-04-28T00:00
Last month's Banter with journalist, documentary maker, humorist and author Jon Ronson was packed to the rafters. Between books like 'Them: Adventures With Extremists' and 'The Men Who Stare At Goa...
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Bantercast 17 Other Voices: Pat Leahy from 2014-04-22T00:00
It's time to head to west Kerry, with a Bantercast from our visit to Other Voices in Dingle last December. This time joining us fireside is Pat Leahy – the Sunday Business Post’s deputy editor and ...
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Bantercast 16 Other Voices: Maeve O'Rourke from 2014-04-14T00:00
One of the most enjoyable Banters we've conducted during our trips here, there and everywhere with Other Voices was this conversation with campaigner and activist Maeve O'Rourke. Recorded in London...
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Bantercast 15: Fr Peter McVerry from 2014-04-07T00:00
Taken from the fourth installment in our Living for the City series, Banter was delighted to welcome Fr Peter McVerry for an indepth conversation on his life and work last January. The latest freem...
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Bantercast 14 Other Voices: Paul Morley from 2014-03-31T00:00
It was a total honour to welcome cultural commentator, curator and all-round smart lad Paul Morley to Banter. Recorded at Other Voices in London in April 2013, Paul talked to us about David Bowie, ...
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Bantercast 13: Mark Yarm from 2014-03-24T00:00
A music-related Bantercast this week with author Mark Yarm, who joined us during the Kilkenny Arts Festival last summer to talk about his book 'Everybody Loves Our Town'. When it comes to the story...
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Bantercast 12 Other Voices: Michael Moynihan from 2014-03-18T00:00
We revisit the Banter Salon at Other Voices from last December where Michael Moynihan joined us at the fireside of Foxy John's pub in Dingle Co. Kerry. The Irish Examiner sports journalist is the a...
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Bantercast 11 Other Voices: Eimear McBride from 2014-03-11T00:00
An interview with Irish-born author Eimear McBride taken from our trip to Kerry last December for the Banter Salon at Other Voices. Eimear is the author of the fantastic debut novel "A Girl Is A Ha...
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Bantercast 10 Other Voices: Paul Muldoon from 2014-03-03T00:00
This Bantercast is taken from our very first trip to Kerry for the Banter Salon at Other Voices in December 2012. Poet Paul Muldoon joined us fireside for a chat about his life and his work, and re...
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Bantercast 09 Other Voices: John Grant from 2014-02-25T00:00
We came away from our trip to Dingle last December for Other Voices were a stack of great interviews and this may well be the pick of the crop. After a busy day of rehearsals and interviews, the mi...
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Bantercast 08 Other Voices: Ed Vulliamy & Mary Fitzgerald from 2014-02-17T00:00
This Bantercast is taken from our very first trip to Derry for the Banter Salon at Other Voices in February 2013. Foreign correspondents Ed Vulliamy from The Observer and Mary Fitzgerald from The I...
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Bantercast 07 Other Voices: David Gray from 2014-02-10T00:00
A bit of an exclusive, this Bantercast. It's taken from our trip to Kerry last December for the Banter Salon at Other Voices. Ahead of his performance at the Church of St James in Dingle, singer-s...
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Bantercast 06 Other Voices: Diarmaid Ferriter from 2014-02-03T00:00
This Bantercast is taken from our very first trip to Kerry for the Banter Salon at Other Voices in December 2012. Historian and author Diarmaid Ferriter joined us for a conversation on the decade o...
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Bantercast 05 Other Voices: Donal Ryan from 2014-01-25T00:00
As regular Banter fans will know, we work with the amazing Other Voices TV show and music festival and have hosted sessions with them in Dingle, Derry and London. This is the first of many Banterca...
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Bantercast 04: Neil Hannon from 2014-01-13T00:00
This Bantercast is from our trip to the Kilkenny Arts Festival last August and is an interview with Neil Hannon about his beginnings, the story behind The Divine Comedy, “My Lovely Horse”, the Duck...
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Bantercast 03: Housing in Dublin from 2014-01-06T00:00
This Bantercast is from our current 'Living in the City' Series which looks at living, working and playing in the Irish capital. This episode, recorded in October 2013, looks at the Dublin property...
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Bantercast 02: Review of the Year from 2013-12-24T00:00
The best Banters of any year often turn out to be the last Banters of the year when we rewind on the previous 12 months. The 2013 Review of the Year features views on the news stories, newsmakers h...
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Bantercast 01: Alan McGee from 2013-12-13T00:00
Our very first Bantercast is an interview with the legendary Alan McGee. He recently dropped into Banter in Dublin's Twisted Pepper for a chat about Creation Stories, his ace new autobiography. He ...
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