Making a connection: The power of the podcast

Eimear Ryan on the power of the podcast – and the eight you have to hear this summer. 

When I think back to the autumn of 2014, an indelible part of the soundscape is Sarah Koenig’s voice.

I had just moved to Cork and would go for long walks in the evenings to get my bearings in the city, the latest episode of Serial in my ears.