Podcast Corner: Episode With Richie Sadlier is my show of the year 

The eight installments of Episode have offered some of the best listening in 2024, particularly the episode with Stephen Bradley

Richie Sadlier. Picture: Moya Nolan

There are no bells and whistles with the first season of Richie Sadlier’s podcast. It’s simply titled Episode, each, er, episode beginning with a general introduction by Sadlier alongside producer Killian Down before they head into their guests’ house for a chat. Afterwards, they reconvene for a quick reflection on how it went. There’s a theme tune that segues between those parts, and that’s it.

But the ‘chat’ is all you need. There are eight episodes in the season, which wrapped last week; each has moments that will stop you in your tracks as Sadlier speaks to well-known and not-so-well-known names about significant episodes in their lives that they’ve found intense, emotional, or life-changing. Sadlier is a former professional footballer turned psychotherapist and author, known to various strands of society as either a soccer pundit on RTÉ (or indeed Second Captains) or the Let’s Talk About Sex presenter. In the past, he has talked about his alcoholism and surviving sexual abuse.