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The Corrigan Cast — 238 episodes
I am neurodivergent. But of course!
Little joy from the west of Ireland's summer sun
Mingling with Colombia's killers
Captivated by Colombia's magical (sur)realism
A surprising side to Bogotá's boisterous Barrio Santandercito
Quotes and notes on James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson: Part III
Quotes and notes on James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson: Part II
Quotes and notes on James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson: Part I
Market influencers
Vichada vacillation: A visit — or not — to one of Colombia's "troublesome three" departments
A nonfiction addiction
Let's get physical: The workhorse mentality
Reigning cats over dogs
Misinterpreting insanity
Fatalist attraction
The blank diaries
'I do care but that doesn't make me a great carer'
Lost in los llanos, Colombia
'Would you like some coffee with your cow's blood?'
Colombia's cacophonies: motos, music & wandering salespeople
Colombia and a few of my favourite things
Tech it or leave it
After interactive intoxication, comes social media moderation
Appreciating Colombia's approach to health and safety
Too much of a nice guy — to the wrong people
Asking good questions — and dealing with uncomfortable answers
Our tops and flops of 2024
The mainstream media's bullshit problem
San José del Guaviare: Colombia's best department capital?
The mild rover
Cop on, Colombia, for biodiversity's sake
Fending off irrelevance in the Artificial Intelligence Age
La Chorrera in Colombia's Amazon: Bloody past, insecure present
Google/Gulag Blogger's faceless, unaccountable, cowardly censors. What are they afraid of?
Pacific Puerto Asís
US democracy drags on. But decorum is dead
Apartments of pain, cafés (and panaderías) of creativity
Shunning la Selección Colombia
Respite from uncertainty (and Migración Colombia's online system!) with residency
Round by round we go. Oh no!
Chasing the media dragon: The raison d'être
Life imitating art of Los 39, minus the bloodshed
The pernicious pull of the black hole that is film & TV
On comma ground: Where the US English team stands firm
More artificial intelligence, less human intelligence
A pet hate
Colombia's San Juan de Rioseco: Only its river runs (almost!) dry
Boosting dental health
Merging a life vacation with a vocation: Overcoming Social Studies Syndrome
An act of good
Fly on through the turbulence — there is no better alternative
Without the pain, the pleasures are plain (and enslaving)
Hell yeah or no?! It's a no, so!
Dawn of the downsizers
Goodbye Nanny State! Hello Overbearing Mother Society (it's beginning to look a lot like China!)
A little blue in the green, green grass of Ireland
Seventh heaven: Seven benefits of living in Colombia
Free love and sexual fluidity: Queer today, gay tomorrow
Yes Güicán! But you just can't touch the snow-capped mountains | Magical Colombia!
'An alcoholic?! Me?! No way!'
Colombia's credit contradiction
Less stress, less success in these idle times
Cartagena: A costly Colombian Caribbean city but more relaxed than I'd remembered
Colombia's plebeian transport: A riveting ride
Tight times ahead with no respite in sight — we ain't seen nothing yet
Exacting revenge
Fattening up our future health problems with ultra-processed foods
In need of some peace and quiet? Sleepy Somondoco is the place to go to
Bogged down in Bogotá
Video version of IQuiz "The Bogotá Pub Quiz", edition LXII: What a Juuune! | Give it a go!
Fiendish frenemies: The toxicity of ambivalent relationships
Drink-from-home boozers: Take to the tiendas instead!
Making the bell toll for us while we still can | What's rung is rung!
Not so gaga for physical footy: Time to nip it in the rib?!
The panadería's pudgy pauper: Is a boy's begging for bread killing him softly?
Little thirst to teach English in these thinking times | Any chance of a few pennies for my thoughts?!
Still chasing that dragon. Don't dream it's over!
A Boyacá fruit route: Tierra Negra-Nuevo Colón-Turmequé
The quiet man conquereth (beware the quiet ones)
Benign smartphone use: My message to BBC Radio 5 Live, thanks to my phone!
Find a way or fade away: But is the end nigh for the age of the wage slave?
Chasing Zetaquirá's waterfalls — from hot to cold
Tourism cancer
Agents of short-change
Rewarding the reckless
Living with unsettled and unsettling questions
Abandoning the beer standard
Focusing on filling the glass
A shout-out to Sutamarchán
The care necessities: Dealing with old age
A Pauna cracker: Somewhat satisfying and not too dry
Finding that savoury spot between feasting and fasting
The Wrong Way "hits" of 2022
BBC Radio 5 Live Christmas message
Lending Migración Colombia a helping hand
Unattended bags on buses? Not a problem in Colombia
The Hypocrite World Cup: Everyone's a winner
Audio blog: The digital dystopia
Audio blog: The just-how-it-is society
Audio blog: The calm of La Palma (when music's not blaring, that is!)
Audio blog: Everlasting love?
Audio blog: The bellicose side to biking in Bogotá, worsened by the snooty "e-scooterers"
Audio blog | Grupo Vanti's vanity: 'The customer is rarely right'
Audio blog: Colombia's clothes-in-the-window bane
Audio blog | San Luis de Gaceno: Going its own way
Audio blog: Easygoing El Peñon. But is Topaipí tops?
Audio blog: Hooked on the BBC (or CCP if you will)
And now for something a little different ...
Audio blog: The liberal illusion
Audio blog: Colombia on the fringes
Audio blog: The Bogotá curse
Audio blog: Return of the peripatetic preceptor and the languid language learners
Decluttering discussion with Nihal Arthanayake on BBC Radio 5 Live
Audio blog: The WhatsApp voice messages of wrath
Audio blog: 'Death to dissenters. It's for your own good.'
Audio blog: A pleasant Villanueva vibe
Audio blog: Colombia's foreign "saviours"
Audio blog: Conservative Colombia left in the cold — for now
Audio blog: Making ends meet in Colombia
Audio blog: Set on singlehood
Audio blog | Saboyá, Boyacá A rare hotel less Colombian town
Audio blog: Bogotá's biking blues
Audio blog: Colombia's aggressive-driver mentality
Audio blog: Paths to cleaner living
Audio blog | Colombia decides: Go with Gutiérrez or plump for Petro?
Audio blog: A balmier (and wetter) side to Boyacá
Audio blog: Drunk almost to death on the culture wars
Audio blog: Running frantically to a more troubled life
Leo Varadkar: Visa-free travel to Ireland for Colombians | 'New generation' Boric encouraging
Audio blog: Feigning understanding. Who cares anyway?
Audio blog: In awe of the strongman
Audio blog: Tibaná time
Audio blog: The West "woke" to its demise
Audio blog: Lest we forget
Audio blog: Never-ending solo searching
Audio blog: A reinvigorated fun police
Audio blog: Gachetá if you can
Audio blog: Addicted to a prescribed life
Covid-19, anti-vaxxers & immunity: My chat with Noel D. Walsh on Shannonside Northern Sound
Audio blog: As Bog(otá)-standard as it gets
Audio blog: Wrong Way's tops and flops of 2021
Audio blog: Cosying up to Cúcuta
Audio blog: Ten-up, a decade of 'Wrong Way Corrigan — The Blog'
Audio blog: The Great Resignation
Audio blog: The case for non-pharmaceutical covid defences
Audio blog: The thuggish thief, a growing problem for Colombia?
Audio blog: The barrio banker
Audio blog: These boots aren't made for walkin'
Audio blog: Happy in Jenesano
Audio blog: Rocking in the fear world
Audio blogs: Cry me a perico — adiós to a Bogotá addiction
Audio blog: "Essential" Colombian expressions to help you through the day
Audio blog: The vaccine vexers
Audio blog: Warning! Being true to yourself causes harm
Audio blog: A series of unfortunate events — when Bogotá bites back
Audio blog: Bogotá's perpetual Corner Bar barrio
Audio blog: Enticing extras, the siren call of our times
Audio blog: Our freedom isn't being taken away — we never had it in the first place
Audio blog: 'And your date of death is ...'
Audio blog: OK, covid's not the flu. But it's not yellow fever, either
Audio blog: Breaking up (with WhatsApp groups) ain't hard to do
Audio blog: Scaling down survival mode
Audio blog: Hold tight, the worst is yet to come
Audio blog: Calling out the keyboard warriors
Audio blog: Bogotá's Santandercito, keeping the satiated dullness at bay
Audio blog: The Colombian compromise
Audio blog: The quieter side to Bogotá
Audio blog: Colombia — a system failure
Audio blog: Colombia, between a rock and a hard place
Audio blog: The case against covid vaccine passports
Audio blog: A dog's life in Colombia
Along came a virus
Audio blog: Hardening the hands and strengthening the mind with an honest day's work
Audio blog: Swimming against the Big Tech tide
Audio blog: The price of independence
Audio blog: Growing up and taking responsibility
Audio blog: Dealing with a sexed-up society
Audio blog: Home is where the barrio is
Colombia's Tourism Minister on covid supports, foreign visitors & Medellín's prostitution 'cancer'
Daniel Coronell on dating Duque's sister, unmasking Uribe, Petro's problems & Vicky Dávila's Semana
Dr Jay Bhattacharya on covid controls, vaccine priority, failing our elderly & Tony Fauci's myopia
Why I won't be rushing to get a covid vaccine (audio blog)
Comunes: Old Farc wanna live like common people (audio blog)
Negative utilitarianism in coronavirus times (audio blog)
Trumpism: Why it won't go gentle into that good night (audio blog)
Audio blog: The Great Reset
Audio blog: Where's Archie? The case of Bogotá's Cuban cardiologist and the phantom smartphones
Peter Hitchens on Anglican virtues, Japanese wisdom, lockdown lunacy, drug dopes & Venezuela
Audio blog: 2021 — Reasons to be fearful
Audio blog: Bogotá's Fraudia López
Audio blog: Christening conservative Colombia
Going coca loca down in Colombia with Ocean Malandra
Audio blog: Wrong Way's Loser and Winner of the Year Awards
Audio blog: Western leaders' crimes against humanity
The Viva Effect in Colombia and Latin America, with Rupert Stebbings
Audio blog: Bogotá's cocaine barrios
Audio blog: Broadening the horizons, both mentally and physically
Inhaling the devil's breath in Colombia: A scopolamine nightmare
Audio blog: Living with a destructive parasite
Audio blog: 'Cry me a river?' 'Eh, no thanks'
Audio blog: Christmas, the one thing that arrives early in Colombia
Giovanni Figueroa: 'The absent father in the book could be a representation of the Colombian state'
Audio blog: Colombia's tough love
Audio blog: Colombia's Migración mess
Colombian visa applications in coronavirus times, what you need to know, with Camilo Trujillo
Audio blog: Caveat emptor with Colombia's Localiza
Audio blog: Beware of the (Dominic) Wolf warrior, Cancillería de Colombia
Adapting to tour-free living, upskilling & hopes for the future with Laura Vega
Audio blog: No and behold in Colombia (and elsewhere!)
Audio blog: Colombia's independent work visa: ¿Vale la pena?
Audio blog: Helpful today, harmful tomorrow
Audio blog: Will Javier Ordóñez's death mark a turning point for Colombia?
Audio blog: Democrats' Biden time strengthens Trump's card
Cali-based coffee with a conscience
Audio blog: 'God may be dead, but I want to live (for now)'
Audio blog: Sanitising to death our future generations
Opportunity in a crisis: A Bogotá "shoe-in" success story
Audio blog: Carry on regardless, Colombia
An expat guide to having a baby in Colombia
Audio blog: It's war alright, but not as we know it
'Sam didn't seek recognition for his charity work at Casa Taller'
Your Colombian visa questions answered
Daniel Raisbeck: 'Colombia has never taken property rights seriously'
Get up & go Colombia: Building peace through tourism
Prof. Niall Ferguson: 'Colombia didn't have the capacity to do East Asia's smart coronavirus policies'
'The Colombian government has abandoned small businesses'
'Nobody knows when Colombian football will return'
'The sex-toy market is still largely taboo in Colombia'
'President Duque understands well the world of the creative economy'
'I won't miss being pointed at in Colombia because I don't look Caucasian'
Declan Ryan: 'Viva Air is in a good position, unlike Avianca'
IQuiz "The Bogotá Pub Quiz", Edition L
Leopoldo Fergusson: 'Colombia's tax code does nothing to level wealth distribution'
'Economically, we're buggered for the year'
Douglas Lyon: 'I worry for the Venezuelans who can no longer go to Cúcuta for basic essentials'
Kate Nash: 'My boyfriend and I talked seriously about living in Bogotá, it felt like such a good city'
Coronavirus chronicles: Virus speaks out in world exclusive
The Irishman saving la Selección Colombia