Award winning podcast returns with stories to “bury into your heart”
The award winning critically acclaimed Promenade which was released in November 2022 returns for its second season. Reviewed as “Stories that will burrow their way into your heart”, Season One heard stories from around the world dealing with memory and the stories they trigger from the sound of the sea reminding of an old romance, a smell that can make one yearn for home – these memories can be triggered by the oddest of things. Created and concepted by Andy Gaffney, Promenade was born “from both love and curiosity of nostalgia and a love of hearing a person’s story. Memories and the stories they trigger can be actual real life time travel.”
Promenade Season Two features fourteen stories from around the world dealing with memory and the stories they trigger from the sound of bookshops reminding, you of childhood, a perfume maker trying to create the scent of her life to a piece of music in World War two being a lifelong companion to a man hidden from the nazis.
Season two is built around the idea of searching through old video tapes looking for a recorded memory and those moments late at night when you wake up to a static lit room after falling asleep.
Talking on his own trips down memory lane, Andy commented, “A memory I hold dear and one I used in my own Promenade story in Season One is being in my childhood room with my parents old Bush TV, retired Betamax and a box of tapes. As much as I loved watching those liberated local video shop tapes like Ice Station Zebra and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, I also loved the old recorded over a thousand times from the TV videos featuring ads from an era, a random Christmas Special before cutting to a home video that nobody remembers recording. Those tapes feel packed with Ghosts.”
A theme that emerges throughout these fourteen stories is people remembering fathers, mothers and grandparents. Both in the things they did for you as carers when you were child but also what tthat now means when you think back when you remember someone not as a parent but as a
person. When you listen to this series as a whole it becomes clear, nobody does it alone.
Promenade Season Two is available on all platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Also available on www.theshift.ie
