I just got a mail from the lovely people in The Good Things Cafe in Durrus to tell me that the awesome Carmel was on the Foodtalk programme on Newstalk Radio.
Foodtalk is hosted by one of the best food bloggers anywhere, Caroline Hennessy from Bibliocook.
If you want to listen online and subscribe so that you get each broadcast, then there are a bunch of different ways of doing it.
On your PC, one of the best tools is MediaMonkey. Install it, tell it about Foodtalk, leave it running in the background and it’ll automatically download the new episodes so you can listen at your desk.
If you have a newer car stereo or (like us) one of the replacement Lidl/Aldi ones, then you can copy those audio files onto a memory card or USB stick and play them in the car when you like.
Lots of the newer phones with Wifi also have podcasting capabilities. The Nokia N95, N95-8GB, N96 etc come with the software built in. Owners of the E51, E63, E71 etc can download it from here. You have to manually tell the application to check for new episodes but it takes care of the download etc once you do that. You can listen directly on the phone or plug it into the line-in on your stereo or car-stereo.
If you have an iPod, I’m sure it’s all very similar.
Note that most of the radio stations, in particular RTE, have a ton of podcasts you can get like this. I recently listened to all of a year-old series about De Valera I grabbed from the RTE site on my N95-8GB.
January 7, 2009 at 2:48 pm
LOL, I just love your thinly veiled apathy for all things Apple, “If you have an iPod, I’m sure it’s all very similar.”!
As ever, so diplomatically done
Cool post, thanks for pointing out bibliocook, looks like a great blog.
January 7, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Damn, was it that obvious
January 8, 2009 at 10:56 am
Thanks for the compliment, Conor! And for the information about podcasting – Santa brought me the smallest little Creative MP3 player and I’m trying to figure out my way around the whole podcasting world at the moment, including my own shows!
January 8, 2009 at 11:01 am
I’ll be listening to the first few episodes on my way into Cork later!
Most MP3 players appears as removable disks when you connect them to your PC. So you can just copy the MP3 files over by hand. Media Monkey is good at automating all of this.
January 8, 2009 at 11:37 am
…and I notice that, right now, on the front page of newstalk.ie, foodtalk is top of the list of their top 5 podcasts. Great work by Caroline et al.
January 11, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I’ve just listened to the first two podcasts. Fantastic stuff Caroline. Totally engaging, informative and fun. Immediately jumps to the top of my favourite foodie podcasts to join The Restaurant Guys.
January 13, 2009 at 9:56 am
That’s great feedback, Conor – thank you! It was a lot of fun putting it together, travelling and eating my way around the country. And, in fairness, talking to people like Carmel and Arun, who are so passionate about what they are doing, makes it all very easy. Two more shows to go!
January 18, 2009 at 2:13 am
Thanks for the tip on these fantastic podcasts! I have downloaded the first three successfully on my APPLE
computer using itunes, but am unable to get 4 and 5. Are you able to download these or are they not available to download yet, or is it me?!
January 18, 2009 at 8:50 am
Hi Ellen,
Hope you didn’t have to pay any Steve-tax to download it
Just checked on my N95-8GB and it also only sees the first three. From what I can gather, the radio stations have to do all of this manually e.g. removing ads etc.
So it can range from 1 day to 1 month for a podcast to appear. For some strange reason the RTE Off The Shelf podcast isn’t even being released in sequential order and the mid December ones have only just started appearing.
By comparison, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo on BBC Radio Five Live broadcast on Friday at 3pm and the podcast is usually available on Saturday.