The Number One Fear - Speaking in Public

That's right - it ranks even before death and is the thing that most people fear, even speaking before a small group.

Welcome to The Talk Show for Talkers

The Talk Show for Talkers is a Podcast covering everything to do with public speaking, confidence and leadership. It is published in every Saturday as a podcast on Anchor, iTunes and other podcasting platforms as well as on this website.

The show is hosted by experienced Toastmasters, Paul O'Mahony, James Finnegan and Moira O'Brien. First broadcast in November 2014, the Talk Show is now in its 9th season with over 360 shows (as of January 2023) and is listened to in at least 80 countries with Podcast downloads exceeding 166,000 (as of January 2023).

Shows

15th March 2025 - Spotify has just changed the code for embedding podcasts into our web pages. As a result, the 400+ links in our archive have been messed up. To overcome this, in the podcast box, scroll down and accept or reject cookies and then the podcast player will show. Future podcasts will contain a new embed link. If you have difficulty you can always listen on the Spotify Player. Thanks

We are pleased to bring you Podcasts of all the shows for Seasons 4 to 10 (the current season) here on our website. Seasons 1 to 3 can also be found on the Irish Radio International Mixcloud account using the following links: Seasons1 & 2, Season 3.

We publish the Anchor/iTunes podcasts at 2pm on Saturdays each week. Our podcasts are also available on these platforms:

Anchor Apple Podcasts/iTunes Google Podcasts
Spotify Breaker Castbox
Google Play Music Overcast Pocket Casts
PodBean RadioPublic

New Season & New Presenter

Welcome to Season 9 of the Talk Show for Talkers on Irish Talkers. After 8 years of a largely unchanged format we are developing into a new format of alternating episodes of a longer format but only one episode each week. The first week will be an interview, following the traditional format but extending into a wider conversation. The second week will consist of news about Toastmasters, a Word of the Week and a section on speechmaking. 

Episodes will be published on Saturdays at 2pm Irish Time. We look forward to seeing you there.

We are delighted to welcome James Finnegan as a presenter on the show.

Christmas 2022

Yes, I know, we have been off the air since August this year - as Harold Macmillan once said, "Events my boy, events" - Ted Mellamphy and Gearoid Murphy both left the show for pastures new and it was not possible in the short term to bring in new faces.

However, we are planning to come back early in 2023, so keep a look out here for new episodes to come. We are looking forward to a new look for the show and fresh blood.

Moira O'Brien (Producer & Editor)

Summer Break 2020

We are taking a 2 week summer break to recoup our energies. We will be back in September with more great content. Moira, Ted & Paul

Summer holidays

As we are now into the summer holidays there may be a couple of weeks with no new shows starting with next week (August 2nd). We will be back with our new season in early September with our usual regular shows.

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