Best West Cork FM Podcasts (2024)

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14. He Sees Sophie Everywhere 52:59

3+ y ago52:59

52:59

New Feature Episode: An Englishman is on trial in a French court for a murder committed in Ireland. With no defendant present. And no defence. This story is about Sophie. It is a very special episode to us, and we hope you like it. Go to www.westcorkpodcast.com to be first to know about new episodes and the new shows we are working on. Hosted on Ac…

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1: Blow-ins 27:52

3+ y ago27:52

27:52

West Cork, Ireland is an outpost at the edge of Europe, the jumping-off point for America. Rugged windswept and coastal, it was a place of farmers and fisherman until the 1960’s, when it was discovered by the ‘blow-in’s.’ People who drove until the road ran out, artists and urban runaways – a haven for those ready to turn their backs on their old l…

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2: The Back of Beyond 27:22

3+ y ago27:22

27:22

A body is found at the end of a path leading to three houses. In West Cork, the police, known in Ireland as ‘the guards,’ have little experience with serious crime, and the victim—a French woman with a holiday home in the area—is a mysterious figure in West Cork. That night, as news of the murder snakes through the community, everyone begins to que…

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3: Sophie Bouniol 34:10

3+ y ago34:10

34:10

Sophie Buoniol, commonly referred to by her married name, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, was 39 years old when she was murdered, a well-connected French film producer. In a place where there had been no murder that anyone can remember, locals speculated that the murderer must have come from out of town. But West Cork grapples with which version of Soph…

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4: Killer Among Us 35:48

3+ y ago35:48

35:48

In the weeks following the murder, Schull, the jewel-box vacation town closest to Sophie’s home, becomes a very different kind of place to live. With no answers, and the police focusing on locals, the townspeople start watching their neighbors more closely. And the guards begin receiving anonymous calls about a ‘strange man’ in town. Hosted on Acas…

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5: A Good Suspect 33:10

3+ y ago33:10

33:10

The guards have a suspect—one who has spent the last 20 years trying to convince Ireland that he is not a murderer. We begin on the first day of the investigation, tracing the suspects’ behavior over the six weeks following the murder, up until the day of his arrest. What was he up to, and how did he become the central figure in one of Ireland’s mo…

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6: The Englishman 39:12

3+ y ago39:12

39:12

A blow-in from Manchester, England, the suspect has been grating on locals ever since he first arrived in West Cork. He has been accused of inserting himself into the investigation and delighting in his notoriety, at the expense of figuring out what really happened to Sophie. Though he is often perceived as arrogant and tactless, his history and pe…

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7: The Arrest 37:52

3+ y ago37:52

37:52

On February 10th, 1997, the guards make an arrest in a well-orchestrated plan to snare their chief suspect. There’s an interrogation, a question of coercion, and an alibi that doesn’t quite hold up—but no confession. The charge doesn’t stick, for now, but someone close to the suspect appears to waffle on his guilt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr…

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8: The Game Is On 37:58

3+ y ago37:58

37:58

After the guards fail to get a confession, a game of cat and mouse ensues; the guards need more evidence, but worry that they are being outsmarted. In this episode, secret recordings of the guards give an insight into the lengths they were willing to go to ensnare their suspect—planting spies, using wires—to little success. Hosted on Acast. See aca…

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9: The Moonshine Effect 36:00

3+ y ago36:00

36:00

After the arrest is made public in West Cork, the town is terrified, convinced there is a murderer next-door. And yet, the suspect remains. It seems everyone has a theory, a story about the suspects’ strangeness, from the plausible to the absurd: that he is a sexual predator, he wanders the countryside alone, howling, driven to madness by the full …

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10: Shanghaied 42:52

3+ y ago42:52

42:52

Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder is big news in Ireland—so big that the suspect takes the newspapers to court for defamation, intending to clear his name with the public. But it backfires spectacularly when the newspapers round up angry locals to testify, air secret diaries, and reveal the suspects’ long history as a domestic abuser. Hosted on Ac…

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11: Enemy #1 34:25

3+ y ago34:25

34:25

After the defamation trial, no one understands why the suspect is still a free man. But the case against him is quickly unraveling; there’s a new, seasoned lawyer, trouble with a key witnesses’ story, and questions about the legitimacy of the guards’ investigation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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12: Loose Ends 42:31

3+ y ago42:31

42:31

So if the guards’ chief suspect didn’t kill Sophie, who did? Theories abound: a ‘French Connection,’ a murderous horse, a misidentified man in a long black coat. There are promising leads that seem to have gone unpursued by the police, and the distinct impression that the case wasn’t nearly as strong as it originally seemed to be. Hosted on Acast. …

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13: An Intimate Conviction 46:50

3+ y ago46:50

46:50

While the case has reached a stalemate in Ireland, a parallel investigation in France--pushed along by Sophie’s family--is moving forward. The suspect finds himself confronted with new charges, the community grapples with the case, and Sophie’s son, just 15 when his mother was murdered, shares a pint in his mother’s favourite pub in West Cork with …

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Darkness Into Light Interview with Barry O'Donovan 13:25

5+ y ago13:25

13:25

Barry O'Donovan from the organising committee of the Bandon Darkness Into Light speaks to Brian Collins about the event and the growth of DIL into a worldwide movement. This years walk starts at Bandon GAA Pavilion on Saturday the 11th of May at 04:15am.

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14. He Sees Sophie Everywhere 52:59

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1: Blow-ins 27:52

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2: The Back of Beyond 27:22

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3: Sophie Bouniol 34:10

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4: Killer Among Us 35:48

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5: A Good Suspect 33:10

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6: The Englishman 39:12

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7: The Arrest 37:52

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8: The Game Is On 37:58

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9: The Moonshine Effect 36:00

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10: Shanghaied 42:52

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11: Enemy #1 34:25

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12: Loose Ends 42:31

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13: An Intimate Conviction 46:50

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Darkness Into Light Interview with Barry O'Donovan 13:25

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