The South Wind Blows produced podcast is back with even more discussions and ideas from the edge

Ireland's Edge - The Podcast Series 2

After another tumultuous year, Ireland's Edge is back with a new series of mind-opening discussions about the altered state of the world, which continues to consider culture, power and representation

This eight-episode series, produced by Ireland’s Edge under parent production company South Wind Blows, will cover everything from the climate crisis to data privacy, and psychedelic drugs to NFTS, with guests including Guardian US editor John Mulholland, writer Séamas O’Reilly, Dr Roberta Murphy and global energy expert Dr Michael Dorsey.

Hosted by academic and historian Christopher Kissane, the series is based on recordings adapted from conversations, debates and spoken word performances at the annual Ireland's Edge event last December and was filmed during Other Voices Fiche Bliain Ag Fás.

Episode 1. LIVING ROOM

The new season kicks off with Episode 1. Living Room, which considers the country’s chronic housing crisis in the company of three of Ireland’s most prominent voices on the issue, all of whom have “taken up arms” to tackle the crisis and bring about change. Rory Hearne, Assistant Professor of Social Policy at Maynooth University; Orla Hegarty, Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin; and architect Rob Curley consider how our housing system became so broken, and what we can do to fix it.

Listen to Episode 1. now

Coming up later this series

Later in the series we'll hear from Séamas O’Reilly | Writer and Journalist // John Mulholland | Editor, Guardian US // Áine Kerr | COO and Co-Founder, Kinzen  // Orla Hegarty | University College Dublin  // Rob Curley | Architect, and Planning and Housing Commentator  // Roberta Murphy | Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research  // David Kenny | Associate Professor of Law, Trinity College Dublin // Brian MacCraith | Chair of the Covid-19 Vaccination Task Force and Future of Media Commission  // Rory Hearne | Maynooth University // GAIKA | Multidisciplinary Artist // Dr Michael Dorsey | Sustainable Energy Investor and Member, Club of Rome

Listen every Tuesday on Acast, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more

Ireland's Edge - The Podcast is brought to you with generous support from Intel Ireland and Jones Engineering

Catch up with series 1

PS. If you missed series 1 you can explore mindtingling discussions of transhumanism, the Irish language, space exploration, economics, the hidden history of the banjo, Taylor Swift and chaos theory - and almost everything in between below or check them out in video form here on YouTube.