Podcast Corner: Tommy Tiernan in discussion with Richie Sadlier
Richie Sadlier on the Tommy Tiernan Show earlier this year
We’ve seen Second Captains branch out before, like with Mark Horgan’s critically acclaimed a couple of years ago.
The Player’s Chair, a strand of episodes behind the Second Captains’ World Service paywall, saw Richie Sadlier, the broadcaster, pundit, author, and psychotherapist, talking with footballers at various ends of their careers.
He’s been siloed off into his own podcast now, , available wherever you get your podcasts.
“Each week I’m going to be speaking to amazing people about significant episodes in their lives that they found intense, challenging, emotional, and particularly life-changing."
A 10-parter, the first interview is with Tommy Tiernan - Sadlier first met the comedian/podcaster when he was a guest on his TV show earlier in the year.
Tiernan tells him on that he was attracted to Sadlier’s “level of presenceness”.
From there, it evolves into a faux therapy session, Tiernan touching on subjects such as how he overtalks to avoid being too emotional, the impact of his mother dying by suicide, and his “joke about race”, as Sadlier puts it, that led to Emer O’Neill, a person of colour walking out on Tiernan’s show at Vicar Street in January.
“I think it was a joke that I got wrong,” he explains.
The Prince Official Podcast lights up annually to inform us that it’s telling the story of another Prince record.
It began in 2019 with a four-parter on 1999, since then covering Sign O’ the Times in eight parts as well as other parts of Prince’s, er, eclectic life.
Now it’s the turn of the “nasty, funky, greasy” 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls and the formation of the New Power Generation, to be told in four parts.
You know it’s going to be good when we hear in the intro, from host Andrea Swensson: “This was what Prince’s dad described as his yellow period, one where he requested that everything channel his two favourite movies at the time, Godfather III and Barbarella.”
The Spotify-exclusive album track-by-track analysis show has, in recent years of its 10-season run, looked at records by the likes of Childish Gambino, Kanye West, Mac Miller, and Tyler, The Creator.
It’s now turned its attention to Radiohead’s seminal 2007 album In Rainbows.
If you like the idea of a history of the number 15 in Radiohead songs and how ‘Nude’ was 10 years in the making, you’ll love this season of .
