The 2 Best Life Changing Podcast Episodes
1) A nun, a priest and their vows
Catherine Butler-Burns decided to become a nun aged 17. It was a shock to her parents, they weren’t especially religious by Irish standards of the time and until then Catherine had been having a livel...Show More
2) I stole €1.75 million from work to feed my gambling habit.
Jane Garvey talks to Tony O’Reilly about the time he was forced to confront his spiralling addiction. Tony O’Reilly is from County Carlow in the Republic of Ireland. He placed his first bet at the ag...Show More
3) Introducing Half-Life from The History Podcast
Reading his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne discovers a disturbing confession
4) The Vicar of Bray's Daughter
In her early twenties Carol Cairns, the daughter of a priest in Ireland, had a passionate affair with a young bohemian poet called Benedict Ryan. In the Dublin of the 1960s, their improbable partnersh...Show More
5) The Singing Bus Driver
Phillip Browne was born into a large and loving Windrush generation family in Birmingham. Church and singing were an important part of his upbringing, and when he struggled at school it was singing th...Show More
6) The Yachtsman Survivor
Robin Elsey Webb is a young and already very successful yachtsman with a dream of tackling the famous Vendee Globe, the single-handed round the world yacht race. But his plans were shattered during a ...Show More
7) The Great Escape
As a bright adventurous 16 year-old, Angela Tilley was thrilled to get a job in a busy London office. But after a year's unwanted attention from one of her co-workers, attention that today we would ca...Show More
8) The Reluctant Hero
Husband and father, Larry O’Brien, loved the freedom his job as a long-distance lorry driver gave him. But on March 6th 1987, that freedom was almost lost in the horror of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster...Show More
9) The Girl Gambler
When 18-year-old Stacey Goodwin got a job at a bookies, she put a pound coin into a slot machine and won enough money for a night out with her pals. It was the trigger for a destructive gambling addic...Show More
10) The Piano Tuner's Tale
In 1977, Ed Stewart was a happy-go-lucky teenager with his whole life ahead of him. With a new engineering job, a girlfriend and a motorbike, life was good. But when he dropped in on a friend’s party,...Show More