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Look out posts from the Second World War were not designed as recording studios.

They're basically concrete boxes.

While this might be stating the obvious on a bizarre way to start a podcast it does go

some way to explain the acoustics in the introduction. Don't worry most of the

show is recorded here in my home and not in that concrete box so it's only a couple of minutes at the beginning that really does help set the scene for the show.

Recording the Irish History Podcast has taken me to a lot of unusual places, but I don't think there's

many that rival my office for today. So I'm recording this in a Second World War lookout post perched on a cliff top

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