Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan
Hosted by Patrick Geoghegan · Newstalk
4.7from 95 ratings
- 257
- Episodes
- 21
- Transcribed
- 95
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan
This unique and lively history show delves into some of the world's most important political, social and cultural events and the intriguing personalities behind them. Presented by Dr Patrick Geoghegan of Trinity College Dublin, Talking History unravels the gritty, sometimes uncomfortable, side of our past, and what we can learn from it.CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainmentListen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive (http://newstalk.com/listenlive) | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk
- Publisher
- Newstalk
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Mar 2021
- Latest episode
- 20 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
21 of 257 episodes have a transcript.
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tudor Special: Henry VIII
6 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The History of Bookselling
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Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
Published 20 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But it has huge implications, not just for how you structure a novel, but actually what you can do with a novel and what you can do with characterisation in a novel. If you're writing a novel as a series of letters between a certain number of characters told from their point of view, that gives a very, very, it's a very different dynamic than something which is written in the third person. And especially for a writer like Austen, who is so very deft at working with narrators and introducing alternative perspectives at the moment that our events are unfolding within the course of the novel. So one of the things people often observe when they read Sense and Sensibility is that it seems to be written largely from the perspective of Eleanor Dashwood. […]
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- Gillian Dow
- Jennie Batchelor
- Muireann O'Cinneide
- Mary O’Connell
- Lucy Worsley
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 54 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 41 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan?
Patrick Geoghegan host the show. Published by Newstalk.
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