‘We thought we mightn’t be let back to Cork’: The couple behind the West Cork podcast

Everybody is talking about ‘West Cork’, the podcast delving into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Marjorie Brennan spoke to the couple behind it, and the backlash they had feared as they return to the area this summer for the literary festival.

There has been an explosion of interest in podcasts in recent years, with the audio format joining boxset binging as the competitive leisure pursuit du jour. After the breakthrough success of the US podcast Serial, the true crime genre has become an increasingly crowded one.