Words to That Effect

Words To That Effect is back! Season 3 kicks off next Monday, Jan 14th. In the meantime, have a listen to a preview of what's in store for the season. https://audioboom.com/posts/7139018-wtte-season-3-preview The music heard in this episode…

Words To That Effect #24: Live at Liberty Hall Words To That Effect is back! Episode 24 is a recording of a live show for this year's Dublin Podcast Festival. This episode is a story about a long-forgotten nervous disease. But it’s…

WTTE Ep23: Adaptation (How does a book become a film?) The book is always better than the film. Or so they say. But there are obviously quite a few problems with this, as there tends to be with any sweeping generalisation. For some, the…

The Rick O'Shea Bookclub is Ireland's largest book club. It has over 17,000 members and is growing fast. Book clubs have never been more popular. But where did they begin, and what role have they played in literary history? Quite a large…

Words To That Effect Episode 21: The Invention of Time Time, as we understand it today, was only really invented in the Victorian era. We take it for granted today that our phones and watches and other devices are accurate to the second.…

Why Are There So Many Crime Thrillers With 'Girl' in the Title? Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, Luckiest Girl Alive, Final Girls... There's no shortage of crime novels with 'girl' in the title since the huge success of Gillian Flynn's…

*This week's episode continues on from Ep18. So, if you haven't listened to that, head on over there first * “For me, utopianism is the creative attempt by a group of people to respond to the great challenges of any age and to do so in a…

WTTE Episode 18: What Is Utopia? This is a story of three journeys, by three people, in three very different times. But each of the journeys ends in the same area in the west of Ireland. And each journey is founded on a search for a more…

Words To That Effect #17 | The 10% Brain Myth (from Self-Help to Pulp Fiction to Hollywood) Do we use only 10% of our brain capacity? (Hint: No) “It is estimated that most human beings only use 10% of the brain’s capacity. Imagine if we…

This is an episode about who we are as humans. And, more importantly, where we are going. About a future in which technology and biology have merged in ways that are in equal part fascinating and terrifying. A future of unparalleled…