Alley Theatre launches Podcast service

The Alley Theatre, Strabane, supported by Harte and McGarrigle Estate Agents has scooped not only the North West, but the whole of Northern Ireland with the launch of the new Alley Theatre podcast site at http://alleytheatre.podbean.com/

The podcast was set up after training from Audiences NI and the arts website Culture Northern Ireland. One of the hardest parts about podcasting has been getting the correct equipment and software together, however once that was all sorted a pod cast can be recorded, edited and up loaded within 20 - 30 minutes.

Currently on the podcast site are interview with Mike Absalom (if you don't know him, have a look at Ambrose Blog, his life story is on here!) and Barry Clarke, who stars in Martin Lynch's new show, the Chronicles of Long Kesh, which I had the pleasure to see at the Alley last week. Fantastic, heartbreaking, funny, moving, painful, the show had everything, and justified the standing ovation it received.

UPDATE - July 19tg 2009 - The podacast site is going really well, plenty of users and coverage. Check out what the Derry Journal had to say at http://www.derryjournal.com/journal/Alley-Theatre-leads-the-way.5453828.jp