The Good Listener Podcast
An interview podcast
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 77 minutes
- Episodes
- 117
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
NICOLA TALLANT | CLASH OF THE DRUGS MOBS & PARAMILITARIES and THE RISE OF IRELAND'S COCAINE COWBOYS
Nicola Tallant is one of Ireland’s leading crime journalists and her newest book, “Cocaine Cowboys” presents a history of Ireland’s relationship with the drug as well as the gangland fi…
"THE TROUBLES" IN MY HOME PLACE | MARTIN DOYLE, author of "Dirty Linen: The Troubles In My Home Place"
Martin Doyle’s new book “Dirty Linen: The Troubles in my Homeplace” details the events of the troubles in his local area and the wide reaching effects that the conflict had on everyone’…
EX NEO-N@ZI GOES TO AUSCHWITZ | Former White Supremacist Tony McAleer tells his story
Tony McAleer is a reformed, ex- neo-n*zi/white supremacist who now works to help people disengage from violent hate-groups like the one's that Tony used to set-up and run.
Tony shares hi…
PLANTING B*MB AGED 16, LONG KESH & THE ROAD TO PEACE | Eddie Kinner, ex- UVF (Part 2)
We continue Eddie's story as he is 16 years old and about to plant a b*mb in a pub which would kill an innocent person and wound Eddie. Eddie describes his mindset at the time and his w…
JOINING THE UVF, SECTARIAN BELFAST, IRA B*MBS & RUC AGENTS | Eddie Kinner, ex-UVF (Part 1)
Eddie Kinner is a loyalist and ex-UVF member who grew up in Belfast in the 60/70's, a time and place where sectarian tensions simmered and would eventually explode into rioting and viol…
MIAMI SHOWBAND MASSACRE, LOYALIST/BRITISH SECURITY FORCE COLLUSION & SEARCHING FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE| Stephen Travers, Miami Showband Massacre Survivor
Stephen Travers was a young bass player, blissfully out-of-touch with the conflict erupting in Northern Ireland as he joined one of the country’s biggest showbands; The Miami.
Shortly af…
STAKEKNIFE, THE IRA's NUTTING SQUAD & How the BRITISH RAN THE INTERNAL SECURITY UNIT| Interview with ex-IRA member & author Richard O' Rawe
Richard O' Rawe's new book "Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War" offers the most comprehensive and in…
THE IRISH PRIEST WHO ARMED THE IRA, Patrick Ryan | Gaddafi, Martin McGuinness & more| Interview w/ author Jennifer O'Leary
Patrick Ryan is the infamous former priest who sourced money, weapons and materials for the IRA during the troubles and even personally met with Libyan dictator Mummar Gaddafi to buy gu…
THE GILLIGAN TAPES- Is Gilligan a psychopath?, Veronica Guerin M*RDER & Who is the REAL John Gilligan | Jason O' Toole, journalist & author
Jason O' Toole has sat down for 40 + hours of interviews with one of Ireland's most notorious criminals, drugs traffickerJohn Gilligan. The result was a gripping and facasinating book c…
THE GLENANNE GANG, LOYALIST/BRITISH COLLUSION & Hunting For The Truth | Anne Cadwallader, author of "Lethal Allies"
Anne Cadwallader is a former journalist who covered The Troubles during some of it’s worst years and wrote one of the leading books on the proven collusion that occurred during The Trou…
H-BLOCK TORTURE, CLEARING HIS BROTHER'S NAME & EXPOSING STEAKNIFE'S UNIT| Seamus Kearney's story Part 2/2
Seamus continues his story at the point where he is caught and arrested by the RUC for a job gone-wrong. He tells us about the physical and mental torture inflicted by the prison guards…
SECTARIAN MOBS, ANTI-CATHOLIC DISCRIMINATION & JOINING THE IRA | Seamus Kearney's story PART 1 of 2
Seamus Kearney is a former IRA volunteer who grew up in sectarian Belfast and came of age as the Troubles were building up.
He spoke to me about experiencing anti-catholic discrimination…
MEETING THE IRA BOMBER WHO K*LLED HER FATHER| Jo Berry's story
Jo Berry was 27 when she tragically lost her father, Anthony Berry, in 1984 after the IRA detonated a bomb a Brighton hotel targeting Margret Thatcher and her cabinet.
Despite the grief …
POLICING NORTHERN IRELAND DURING "THE TROUBLES"| Life in the RUC, Being shot at by IRA & Loyalists and Attending his own m*rder scene | COLIN BREEN
Colin Breen was an RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary, the police force in Northern Ireland up until late 90s) Officer during the period of extreme violence and murder known as "The Trouble…
MARTIAL ARTS EXPERT on JORDAN NEELY k*lling, ANDREW TATE'S take on street fighting & how to stay safe in the world | Matt Thornton, author of "The Gift of Violence"
Matt Thornton has been practicing and teaching martial arts around the USA and the world for decades and is the founder of the now world famous MMA gyms, Straight Blast Gym (SBG).
We dis…
EX- UNDERCOVER JIHADIST tells his story | EXTREMISM, TERRORISTS & DERADICALIZATION | MUBIN SHAIKH
Mubin Shaikh is a former extremist turned counterterrorism operative and expert, who, at the age of 18 encountered the Taliban in Pakistan after a life in Canada up until then. He spent…
IRELAND'S ORWELLIAN HATE SPEECH LAWS | Interview with Free Speech Ireland (Alexander Sheridan)
Ireland is currently in the process of passing into law the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022.
If passed Ireland will have some of the stric…
THE TROUBLES, IRA, SECRET PEACE TALKS & WHAT IS A TERRORIST ?? | Peter Taylor, author of “Operation Chiffon"
Peter Taylor has covered “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland since Bloody Sunday in 1972 and has written several books on the subject. His latest work is “Operation Chiffon” (link below)…
HOW THE I.R.A (VERY) NEARLY K*LLED MARGRET THATCHER| Rory Carroll, author of "There Will Be Fire"
This week I spoke with Rory Carroll, author of 'Killing Thatcher"/ "There Will Be Fire" which details the IRA's plot to assassinate Margret Thatcher and her cabinet using a bomb a Brigh…
IS KETAMINE THERAPY LEGIT?? | Leah O'Donnell LCSW | PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY and more
For this episode I spoke with Licensed Clinical Social Worker Leah O'Donnell. Leah works in the field of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy as well as more conventional methods of therapy.
Leah…