Owen Sweeney
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248 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Owen Sweeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But, you know, not too much of anything really to put you off.
But you don't need to know the characters.
You don't need to know who's going to end up being the kingpin, although, you know, it starts off with that premise.
it's very much Naples it's Napoli is a character as it is the local pride the port city the crime you know it all ties together there's a bunch of teenagers trying to you know kind of the usual stuff we've seen it in the streets of New York idolising 20 something kind of mafiosi and kind of wanting their life and thinking they don't have to answer to anybody and they're going to get out of the ghetto because it is destitute basically it's you know shared toilet kind of living squalor it's that sort and in the sun kind of you know you know
They're the forgotten Mezzogiorno of Italy of the 1970s.
There's plenty of flares.
There's plenty of crack.
It's good fun.
But, you know, there is that kind of, you know, not giving anything away, you know, one character betrays the other.
They're best friends.
Yeah, so he has to kind of act on this act of betrayal.
But all you're hearing is the clinking of the teaspoon on the coffee cup as he sips his last taste of espresso.
So it's incredibly Italian.
There's plenty of spaghetti.
There's rice balls.
There's gambling.
It's all there.
It's good fun.
No, and this is not just any Troubles documentary, if I could not come across as too flippant in saying that, but there obviously have been plenty of them.
This is well worth a look.
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