Welcome to the Smoke Hole Sessions, a series of vital conversations with some of our most admired writers, musicians, artists, comedians and more. In this first episode, Martin Shaw chats to longtime friend and Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan. They discuss what sorts of stories, performances and practices have helped them get through the last year (often without an audience) and in turn, how we as a society can use stories to emerge from the pandemic and learn to grow our hands back again.
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Find Tommy Tiernan on insta @officialtommedian; twitter @tommedian; <a href="//www.tommedian.com">www.tommedian.com</a>
A huge thanks to Ben Addicott for helping to produce this podcast
Violin music by John Matthias
Smoke Hole is published by <a href="//www.chelseagreen.co.uk">Chelsea Green Publishing UK</a>.

EP 4: Mouth Open, Story Jump Out, feat. Jan Blake

Author and master storyteller Martin Shaw brings us the Smoke Hole Sessions – a series of vital conversations with inspirational people, in the hope that in the crackle of the thinking, the fire of the language, the visioning and the wildness of the exchanges, we may find breadcrumbs that lead us out of the forest again, and into a deeper life. Inspired by his new book Smoke Hole, Martin speaks to some of today’s most admired writers, musicians, comedians, activists and more about their own work and what the last year has meant to them.