That Sounds Interesting

Art Lives - Ray Bonilla Frank Daly 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 tha...

Art Lives - Maura Carta Frank Daly 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 p...

What happened in 1985 Frank Daly 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...

Art Lives - Roisin Cure Frank Daly 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...

Art Lives - Frank Daly Frank Daly 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 th...

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...

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 day...

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…

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...