Meet Your Maker

Meet Your Maker

Meet Your Maker is a show about the people who make the things we love. It’s hosted by Liam Geraghty. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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July 3, 2023 27 mins

Rosemary Mac Cabe's first book - This Is Not About You - is a life story in a series of love stories. On today's episode she sits down for a conversation on how to write a very personal book.

You can order a copy from Easons, Kenny's and all good book shops.

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In writer/director Robbie Banfitch's found footage film The Outwaters - four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert. In this episode Liam chats to Robbie about making the film.

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January 14, 2022 28 mins
Doc and his dog Sprocket from Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock are two of the most beloved characters on television. On this episode we tell the story of the actor who played Doc - Gerry Parkes. We look at his journey from Dublin to Canada through theatre, film & TV with a little help from his family and co-star Steve Whitmire - puppeteer of Sprocket and Kermit the Frog.

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May 15, 2021 13 mins

A sculpture of an Irish fairy creature leads to trouble in a small town.

Meet Your Maker is produced & hosted by Liam Geraghty.

Theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.

Additional music in this episode was by Blue Dot Sessions.

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Meet Your Maker is a founding member of The Warren - the home of great Irish podcasts.



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March 16, 2021 23 mins

Irish cartoonist Luke Healy grew up obsessed with America and goes in search of the American experience on a 147-day, 2660-mile-long hike across the Pacific Crest Trail.

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Meet Your Maker is produced & hosted by Liam Geraghty.

Theme music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.

Additional music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions and Louie Zong.

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September 15, 2020 30 mins
Cartoon Saloon founders Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey and Paul Young tell the story of the Kilkenny animation studio behind Oscar nominated films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner and now Wolfwalkers.

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July 14, 2020 18 mins

Global pop sensation CMAT on launching her music during a pandemic, living with her grandparents and taking inspiration from Rodney Dangerfield.

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July 7, 2020 42 mins

Just as he was poised to take over from Disney's Nine Old Men Don Bluth defected, set up a rival company and moved it to Ireland in the 80s. There he created animated classics like An American Tail, The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go to Heaven and helped kick start the Irish animation industry.

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Produced and hosted by Liam Geraghty

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June 10, 2020 22 mins

A chat with a poet, an artist, a cartoonist and an illustrator about creativity during Covid.

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This weeks guests are: Poet Emily S. Cooper in Donegal. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Emily_S_Cooper

Illustrator, designer and book author Charlot Kristensen's graphic novel What We Don't Talk About is available for pre-order at Ave...

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May 26, 2020 29 mins

How do you make a TV show during a pandemic? The classic Jim Henson children's series Fraggle Rock has returned with all new episodes shot entirely from home. We speak to puppeteers Dave Goelz, Karen Prell and John Tartaglia about returning to Fraggle Rock and shooting on iPhone.

Dave Goelz is a puppeteer who performs Gonzo the Great, Bunsen Honeydew, Beauregard, Zoot, Boober Fraggle and many other characters from The Muppet Show, ...

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May 7, 2020 6 mins

Throughout COVID19 one video game has been helping people get through all this - Animal Crossing.

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March 10, 2020 19 mins

Often called the founding father of Irish animation, Jimmy Murakami was behind some of the most iconic animation of all time from The Snowman to When the Wind Blows not to mention his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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February 10, 2020 12 mins

Pioneer of Irish animation Aidan Hickey on cut out animation, Bosco and dental surgeries...

Part 2 of Animation Island - a new mini-series from Meet Your Maker that tells the story of the Irish animation industry.

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January 29, 2020 26 mins

Animation Island is a new mini-series from Meet Your Maker that tells the story of the Irish animation industry.

Episode 1 explores Walt Disney's links to Ireland, the oldest surviving piece of Irish animation and one of the first animators in Ireland - Gunther Wulff.

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January 7, 2020 17 mins

Ian builds a board game to save his kids from boredom on holidays but it doesn't exactly go according to plan...

 

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December 19, 2019 12 mins
In the 90's Lucasfilm did something very odd. They created a new Star Wars film complete with action figures, soundtrack and video game - everything except the film itself. This is the story of Shadows of the Empire.

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November 18, 2019 24 mins

Meet Your Maker is a proud founding member of The Warren - Ireland's newest podcast network and home to some of the most remarkable and innovative podcasts in the country.

In this special episode we meet the creators behind The Warren's podcasts.

You'll find them all on www.thewarren.ie

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October 17, 2019 22 mins

Author Deirdre Sullivan on why making things is not a straight line.

 

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September 11, 2019 19 mins
This week we sit down to talk to disgruntled North Dublin anti-folk pop merchant Big Monster Love.

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August 29, 2019 28 mins

We go behind the scenes of the new Netflix series Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance with director Louis Leterrier, puppeteers Louise Gold and Damien Farrell and author Caseen Gaines.

 

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