249: Paddy O'Connell | Part 1
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Today we are thrilled to welcome an absolute legend of British broadcasting and journalism- Paddy O’Connell. He has fronted huge BBC shows such as Eurovision, Liquid News and Newscast and has brought the news to us live from some of the biggest events of our lifetime including 9/11. We talk about queerness and arrested development, grief after the death of his father and Paddy imparts some all-important wisdom on how to get your dinner party guests to leave and gay wedding etiquette! It’s a beautiful chat!
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| 0:42.0 | Listeners, I'm sitting in my garden. |
| 0:44.0 | It feels lovely and sunny. I feel like I'm on holiday, I'm honest. |
| 0:47.0 | Which is very apt because I've got some more holiday reading for you. |
| 0:52.0 | This episode of Homo sapiens is sponsored by Better Left Unsaid from Toothial Ahmed, |
| 0:57.0 | author of the acclaimed novel This Way Out. |
| 1:00.0 | Better Left Unsaid is about three siblings navigating life after their mother's death. |
| 1:04.0 | They're all living separate lives trying to live up to their last promises they each made to their mother. |
| 1:09.0 | Until a viral news piece throws an unwanted spotlight on the family and forces the siblings back into each other's lives. |
| 1:16.0 | Three siblings, three promises, three lifetimes of saying all the wrong things. |
| 1:20.0 | Gosh, it feels familiar. I'll leave it at that for now. It's a really good read. |
| 1:25.0 | The novel is available at Amazon.co.uk forward slash Homo sapiens. |
| 1:30.0 | I love it when they do a little URL for us. |
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