Grandma's Been There

About Grandma's Been There

Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.

Publisher

Siobhan Barry

Category

comedy · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2025

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

95 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Cold Brew And A Croissant

   How’d you like to visit your childhood home only to find out your old address no longer exists?

2. 

   9 Oct 2026

   What Are We Having For Supper?

   Lots of things have changed since I was a kid, but there’s one question American kids have been asking every day since the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. “What are we having for supper?”

3. 

   2 Oct 2026

   A Few Of My Favorite Things

   I became a podcaster because I love podcasts. They’re entertaining, educational and sometimes even inspirational. This week, I’d like to tell you about a handful of my favorites in case you’re looking for something new to listen to.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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