Radio & Podcasts
Colm is the writer and presenter of the multi-award-winning Colm O’Regan Wants a Word on RTE Radio 1 since 2016. Across each half hour Colm explores a topic with the help of an expert witness and enriched by hilarious sketches from some of Ireland’s top comic actors. He has also written and presented radio programmes and columns for BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service and RTE Radio 1 was heard across American Public Radio on the Moth Radio Hour.
And since Covid, Colm has made a small return to his Engineering roots and set up the Function Room Podcast. A podcast about the big numbers, the hard sums, the mathematics that defines, runs, shapes, changes, begins, ends, every things our lives and the world around us.
The Function Room Podcast
A podcast about the big numbers, the hard sums, the mathematics that defines, runs, shapes, changes, begins, ends, every things our lives and the world around us. Each episode sheds light on a tiny corner of a giant subject with entertaining guests and accessible talk.
Colm O’Regan Wants A Word
Colm is the writer and presenter of the multi-award-winning Colm O’Regan Wants a Word on RTE Radio 1 since 2016. Across each half hour Colm explores a topic with the help of an expert witness and enriched by hilarious sketches from some of Ireland’s top comic actors. The show has won a two PPIs and a Celtic Media Award as well as being nominated for a New York Radio Award.
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... In Public
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 18th Mar 2019
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... with your parents - link added soon!
BROADCAST • 13:30 • June 2017
Colm O’Regan Wants A Word … about Food - link added soon!
Colm O’Regan Wants a Word …about Fashion - link added soon!
BROADCAST • 19:00 • October 2018
Colm O'Regan Wants a Word....about Property
BROADCAST • 19:00 • 28th Dec 2018
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... about the Weather
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 1st Jan 2019
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... about Irish
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 18th Mar 2019
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... about Technology - link added soon!
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 22nd Apr 2019
Colm O’Regan Wants A Word .. about the Environment - link added soon!
BROADCAST • 13:30 • JUNE 2019
Colm O’Regan Wants A Word … about Farming - link added soon!
BROADCAST • 13:30 • August 2019
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... about Sport - link added soon!
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 6th May 2019
Colm O’Regan Wants A Word … about Elections - link added soon!
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 2019
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... about Marketing
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 17th Mar 2020
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word...about Maths
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 30th Dec 2019
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word...about Marketing
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 17th March 2020
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word...about The New Abnormal
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 30th October 2020
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word...about 'building back better' 1
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 28th December 2020
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word...about 'building back better' Part 2
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 30th December 2020
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... about the Past
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 17 March 2021
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... about Hiberno English
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 05 Apr 2021
Colm O'Regan Wants A Word ... about staycations
BROADCAST • 13:30 • 05 Apr 2021