Curious Broadcast

In this documentary, producer Patricia Baker of Curious Broadcast explores how food connects cultures, communities, and generations in  Melting Pot . Melting Pot  is a story about food, recipes passed down through generations, dishes that remind us of home and family. From Ukraine and Moldova to Nigeria, Lebanon, the Liberties of Dublin, and Zimbabwe, these are foods that carry memory. T...

Ground Breaker Anita Hayes  Ground Breakers Series Two: Producer Patricia Baker looks at the life and work of three older women who did not just live through a changing Ireland but were the change makers. In this episode;  Ground Breaker Anita Hayes , Patricia explores the lives work of Anita Hayes who established Irish Seed savers, Anita dedicated her life’s work to safeg...

Ground Breaker Jane Grimson  Ground Breakers Series Two: Producer Patricia Baker looks at the life and work of three older women who did not just live through a changing Ireland but were the change makers. In this episode  Ground Breaker Jane Grimson , Patricia explores the lives work of Jane Grimson, the first female to graduate from engineering in Trinity College Dublin. Prof...

Ground Breakers Series Two:  Producer Patricia Baker looks at the life and work of three older women who did not just live through a changing Ireland but were the change makers.   In this episode  Ground Breaker Mary Crilly , Patricia explores the life’s work of Mary Crilly Founding member and Director of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork. When Mary began her work...

Episode Four:  Scott Holder, the founder of Los Chicanos Taquería, tells us about how he brought L.A.-inspired street tacos to Dublin through his travels to the United States and Mexico and his inspiration from Chicano food culture. His adventure in truck transportation and the challenges of making tacos in the rain are all part of the journey. From Potatoes to Tacos: How Mexican Food is Maki...

Episode Three:  Lily Ramírez-Foran, the  madrina  of Mexican food in Ireland, shares her journey from Monterrey to Dublin and how her food pantry Picado draws on her family’s rich tradition of making tortillas. From adapting recipes to a rainy climate to sharing her love of Mexican food with Ireland, Lily explains the power of food to bring people together and enhance our lives. Fro...

Episode Two:  We meet Daniel Hernández, the food critic of the Los Angeles Times. From Cal-Mex to Tex-Mex through Taco Bell and Baja fish tacos, Daniel tells us how Mexican food provides a window into Mexico’s multicultural past and dynamic present. He suggests how we can be open to transnational culinary experiments in Mexican cuisine while honoring the past. From Potatoes to Tacos: How Mexi...

  Episode One:  We speak to Dr Susan Flavin, Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin. Susan takes us back in time to the 16th and 17th centuries in Ireland to reveal an unexpectedly diverse and multicultural food history, including turkeys, fancy vegetables but surprisingly little fish. From Potatoes to Tacos: How Mexican Food is Making Waves in Ireland. Through fou...

Dead White Men is a walk past the many famous and infamous statues and monuments in Dublin. A walk were we consider who and how we commemorate and to ask questions about the monuments that we have chosen to destroy and those we have kept. This is a walk through the monuments controversy past and present, to question and reflect on our past and future commemorations. Dead White Men is a Curious Bro...

Ground Breaker Dervilla Donnelly is Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at University College Dublin, founder member of WITS (Women in Technology and Science), and was the first female president of the Royal Dublin Society. She was awarded the Royal Irish academy's hides honour, the Cunningham Medal, in recognition for her outstanding contribution to scholarship, the first woman to receive thi...

Ground Breakers: Catherine McGuinness explores the life and work of Catherine McGuinness. A voce for women's issues and children's rights in Ireland, over the years Catherine has served as a Senator, a barrister, and a judge of the Circuit Court, High Court, Appeal, and Supreme Court. she has also chaired the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation the foundation stone of the Northern Ireland Peace Pro...

The Troublesome Nun is a new radio documentary on the life and times of Margaret Mac Curtain, a Dominican Sister whose lifelong determination to write women into mainstream Irish history changed the narrative of Irish history forever. Margaret was a historian, a feminist, a teacher, a human rights activist, and a nun. Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History, School of History, Univers...

Trafficking of human beings, referred to as modern-day slavery, is one of our largest humanitarian crises, with over 40 million adults and children enslaved worldwide. Half of these people are sold into the sex trade, the majority of whom are women and children. Ireland is not immune to this global catastrophe. The annual Trafficking in Persons Report, published recently by the US Department of St...

Art/Rage is an audio journey through the streets of Dublin with artist and activist Will St. Leger and documentary maker Patricia Baker who explore the evolution of street art in Ireland. The programme is also a conversation with Ireland’s renowned artist on how they have utilised the city’s canvas to voice their loves and outrages. Street art in Dublin has evolved over the last few years, and the...

Egg Money is the story of a generation of women who worked to improve life in rural Ireland; countrywomen often stereotyped and overlooked in their roles as mothers, homemakers and farmer’s wives; women who were not initially considered part of the women’s movement. These women, now aged between 70 and 90, tell their stories, and when woven together, highlight a very different story than the one e...

Enquiring Minds is the philosophical enquiry undertaken by a class of ten year olds from 4th class at the Central Model School, Gardiner Street in Dublin’s Inner City. The children are participating in an Art and Philosophy in the Classroom Programme. Enquiring Minds is the voice of children exploring and questioning and enquiring combined with the reflection of philosophers and artists, to bring...

A Hidden Fanfare is the story of St. James’s Brass and Reed Band, a band that has been playing music in Ireland for over two centuries. They have been present at key points in Ireland’s history but their own story has lain hidden, until now. St. James’s Brass and Reed Band is the oldest band in Ireland and they still play. The secret of the band’s unbroken tradition and survival is entirely due to...

Steamboat Ladies is the story of 700 female students from colleges in Oxford and Cambridge who travelled to Trinity College Dublin by Steamboat between 1904 -1907 to collect their degrees. They did this because their own universities refused to confer degrees upon women. In 1904 Trinity College Dublin opened its doors for the first time to women students. This was a ground breaking move but it had...

Charred Remains tells the story of the destruction in 1922 of Ireland’s Public Records Office. This office, located at Dublin’s Four Courts, was a treasure trove of legal proceedings, ecclesiastical records, censuses, genealogical records, wills, and parish registers, which were destroyed during Ireland’s Civil War in 1922. Forward-thinking archivists collected and stored the charred remains of th...

This is the story of a man many would consider the father of computing in Ireland, Professor John Byrne, “The Professor” explores the life and influence of a shy but brilliant Trinity College Dublin scholar with extraordinary vision, who was directly responsible for the success of the Irish Software sector. First Broadcast: 9th September 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

‘Returning Home’ tells the story of the lives of six extraordinary women. These women have spent most of their lives working overseas and have now returned home. They are all in their 70s and they are all Missionary Sisters. Their stories go from living in shacks in Chile, to working in orphanages in India and prisons in Sao Paulo. These Missionary Sisters left Ireland in the 1950s and 60s with th...

Bitter Sweet tells the story of native Irish apples. How they have existed in Ireland for thousands of years. How they once flourished and then were destroyed and now through the work of a handful of individuals have begun to flourish again. First Broadcast: 7th May 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Taste of Two Cities is a foraging walk through Belfast and Dublin with two foragers, Miceál Murray and Dermot Hughes, to taste the edible wild food that grow there, and hear the myths and folklore surrounding these wild plants. First Broadcast: 22nd April 2018 See reviews  here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“By the year 2050 there will be more tons of plastic in the ocean then there will be fish, it is really a horrifying statistic to think that we will be swimming in a sea of plastic…” Patricia Baker joins a group of an Irish fisherman who, along with their daily catch, are also working to clean up our oceans in our radio documentary “Fishing For Litter”. “Fishing for Litter,” tells the story of a s...

“A City Feast” is a celebration of the bounty created from the waste of our city. This is a simple story about the gathering and sharing of food, harvested from wasteland around Dublin, land that has been transformed into community gardens. “A City Feast” is about a group of creative people who grow food in an inner-city setting repurposing wasteland and unused ground between city buildings to gro...