Posted 27 Nov 2021
Today my guest is Chris Ward, who describes himself as a “Technical Communicator” and we’ll discuss that later. He played in a band in the early 2000s, and he has also moved around the world a lot and worked in many areas, always finding interesting work to do.
He’s a podcaster, video maker, a games enthusiast, and a technical writer.
Chris talks about his life in the “Art Brut” band in the early 2000s and more recently his life in Australia and currently Berlin.
Posted 19 Nov 2021
Today my guest in Mustafa Keskin, who grew up in a small village in Turkey,
moved to Dubai for several years and then moved to Berlin.
He has recently written a book called Mundane Stories which in partially autobiographical.
This podcast follows his journey and the inspiration to write a book.
Posted 11 Nov 2021
Alex Cruickshank is a writer based in Berlin, who has an eclectic range of interests and has moved around the world from UK to New Zealand to Berlin, Germany. Alex discusses his life in New Zealand and in Berlin.
Posted 11 Nov 2021
Muna Wagner works in training and facilitation in the areas of inter cultural communication and team building in leadership. She also runs her own podcast: The Munalogues. Muna has lived all around the world and discusses her work and the places where she's lived.
Posted 21 Jun 2021
This podcast is an interview with Matthias Müller-Krey, a speechwriter who is currently based in Berlin. The discussion follows his journey from Dusseldorf to Frankfurt to Berlin and more recently to Barcelona (on a part-time basis). The challenges in working as speechwriter are explored, along with the new business venture of creating online speechwriting courses.
YouTube link : https://youtu.be/YwTjjItyET8
Here's a link to Matthias' website: https://www.mueller-krey.de
Information:
Music Licence: Epidemic Sound
Posted 20 Apr 2021
Ray Bonilla is an illustrator and painter from Buffalo, New York, who paints wonderful cityscapes, portraits and still life paintings. This interview follows the journey of Ray's art career to date, from illustration, to a brief encounter with animation to working as a fine art painter. This video version of this podcast includes more than thirty of Ray's paintings and a detailed discussion on the ideas, the process and methods used to paint some of them.
Video Version: https://youtu.be/1SGKWBq0mzQ
Information:
Music Licence - Epidemic Sound
Copyright Frank Daly 2021
Posted 31 Mar 2021
Maura Carta is a Californian painter whose portfolio includes beautiful houses, interiors, landscapes, portraits and still life. This interview covers both her earlier period studying and painting in Dresden, Germany, and her more recent work in California. Selections from her portfolio are discussed along with her approach to painting.
Video podcast version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iITufq7M5Pk
All the paintings discussed here are on www.MauraCarta.com
Information:
Frank Daly’s Website: www.fdaly.com
Email: fxdaly@gmail.com
50 minutes (audio - 60 MB)
Recorded and edited by Frank Daly.
This podcast was created on 31st March 2021.
All paintings are copyright Maura Carta (www.MauraCarta.com)
Wikimedia Commons images in video version are credited at the end.
Music licence: Epidemic Sound.
All other content is copyright © Frank Daly 2021.
Posted 26 Mar 2021
A lot happened in 1985 including Gorbachev becoming the new and last leader of the USSR, the sinking of Rainbow Warrior, nuclear disarmament talks between the Regan and Gorbachev, the continued spread of AIDS across the world, the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher’s decimation of the unions and the coal and steel industries in the UK, Bob Geldof’s Live Aid concerts for Africa, Madonna, George Michael and Tears for Fears topping the charts, Back to the Future film and so much more.
Video version of podcast: https://youtu.be/KXonbXuwgYo
Image: Bob Geldof organised the Live Aid concerts in 1985.
Information:
Frank Daly’s Website: www.fdaly.com
Email: fxdaly@gmail.com
7 minutes (10 MB. Audio).
Recorded and edited by Frank Daly.
This podcast was created on 26th March 2021.
Wikimedia Commons images in video version are credited at the end.
Music licence: Epidemic Sound.
All other content is copyright © Frank Daly 2021.
Posted 22 Mar 2021
Róisín Curé has drawn and painted hundreds if not thousands of urban sketches and has also created two books on the topic, with a new one due out later this year. This interview covers her life and work and her enthusiasm for sketching "life in front of her eyes" as she calls it. The video version of this episode includes more than fifty of her sketches as part of the interview.
Posted 18 Mar 2021
This podcast episode is an interview of me by Kieran Daly, discussing my work as an amateur artist and how my style has evolved from early days of hard-edge semi-abstracts, to a more fluid abstract style, to representational digital paintings, to ink and watercolour urban sketching in Blackrock. More than 70 paintings are displayed as part of the discussion on the video podcast version.
The Video podcast is available at:
Audio only listeners can view images mentioned on the following web pages:
Posted 11 Mar 2021
This episode is the first in a series of podcasts on this channel called: “What Happened In…”.
It’s, a look back at popular culture over the last 60 years featuring News, Politics, Music, Art, Science and Technology.
For each podcast in the series, I’ll be looking at what happened in each year starting from 1960 to the present day.
So this is what happened in 1960.
This is also available as a Video podcast (with lots of images from 1960):
Recorded and edited by Frank Daly.
This podcast was created on 11th March 2021.
Wikimedia Commons images in video version are credited at the end.
Music licence: Epidemic Sound.
All other content is copyright © Frank Daly 2021.
Wikimedia Commons image credits on this podcast webpage:
Elvis Presley - Ollie Atkins, chief White House photographer at the time. Public domain.
Posted 06 Mar 2021
This episode from the That Sounds Interesting podcast features an interview with Jason Durall about the history of Tabletop Role Playing Games and who plays them and how they are played.
A video version of this podcast is available at: https://youtu.be/3Tw5qK0QUbU .
I first met Jason Durall in Berlin several years ago at a Shut Up and Write meet-up which he hosted on several days a week in different cafes, and I found out he was in quite an unusual business : the development of Tabletop Role Playing Games, a subject of which I knew little about, but this interview changed that. Jason has worked for many years in this industry in both the USA and in Germany and shares some of his knowledge.
Posted 03 Mar 2021
What exactly is Cryptocurrency? Where did it come from? Why is it important? And why is Bitcoin suddenly so valuable?
Today’s guest is Majella Horan who lives in Berlin, and who has had a huge interest in cryptocurrency from its early days. She is not a financial professional but she can speak plainly about the topic as an enthusiast of digital currency.
Posted 22 Feb 2021
Today’s podcast is a short story, “Throwbacks” which is a story set in Berlin in the present day. A man finds out that he has an unusual genetic condition which sets him apart from humanity, and it changes his life…
Posted 16 Feb 2021
Podcast guest Peter Daly talks about stoicism
If I asked any random person on the street “what is Stoicism?”, I’m pretty sure many of them would be hard pressed to say more than a sentence or two about it, and I have to include myself in that group, so I had to do a quite a bit of research before talking with today’s guest, Peter Daly, my brother, who has been practising Stoicism for 15 years.
It’s a discussion on the ancient philosophy from Greek and Roman times, which has been in and out of favour over the centuries and now in the 21st century, it has undergone a big revival with modern Stoics applying it as a framework for living in today’s complex and demanding world.
This 30-minute podcast covers the history, the key aspects, the practice and resources for the modern Stoic.
