WORD ON THE STREET Ep.33 'Lights, Camera, Action' | What makes a good sports doc? | Flops and success stories | Off The Ball
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What sports documentaries do fans love and why?
Off the ball. GAA. This was a game where, like, there's a seven-day turnaround for these All-Ireland Junior Intermediate Finals. It's so tight. Oh, Tommy, there was bodies everywhere. Like a war zone. It was amazing. Join in the obsession. Subscribe now at offtheball.com forward slash join.
I think they'll go all the way to the final, to be honest. Yeah? Yeah. I believe in my county and I suppose they're good at football, they just have to believe in themselves. I love playing 12, I love playing 10, I love being on the pitch, to be honest. Are you confident?
Absolutely not. Thank you for all the supporters, thank you for the team, thank you France. Merci la France, merci les baguettes, merci les croissants. Je vous aime, I love you.
Hello, hello, and welcome to Word on the Street. I'm Susannah, and it feels so good to be sat back in here. Happy 2026, to be honest. I know for the listeners, you won't have had a kind of break from Word on the Street, but we haven't actually been in here altogether since last year. So I'm so happy to say, Eve, Rachel, we're back in studio. How are we feeling? I'm feeling good. I'm feeling like I missed it, you know? Yeah, it's a much less pressurised situation than we were here for the Nullargan Man episode last week where everything was live. Big shout out to Eve as well who did the Sunday paper review and her own football slot all live on national radio. And to you too, Susanna.
Three and a half hours did you do in the end? I did three and a half hours, but only an hour and a half of that was live. Or I did four hours and only an hour and a half was live. I did a lot. Yeah, a lot.
Which was scary. But it was also the debut of our first full, I think our first full Word on the Street episode going out on national radio. Oh, that was nice. I didn't know it was our first. Whoop. snaps all around um but this week we're also back to our traditional format which is fun um of going out and talking to people on the street about some sort of sporting topic and then bringing all those voices back into the studio so this week it's episode 33 which is mental in itself um and it's called lights camera action and basically it all kicked off when rachel was at an event during the week and had a a brilliant idea as they do sometimes come yeah Sometimes. All right. OK, I'll ignore that shade.
So tell us, tell us, what were you at? So on Tuesday, I was at the launch of Lake Regale. I don't know if listeners are familiar with it, but it's a documentary series ran by T.G. Cahir. This year's its 24th season, which is outrageous. They do eight players, eight lakes. Lake is the Irish word for hero, in case you're wondering. 24th season? Yeah. Over how many years? I'd say 24. Wow. Don't quote me on that now. Okay. But usually they bring out eight every year. You give that a little Google there. Yeah, well, you keep going. It's renowned just for being an incredible watch, not just for the sports people who are involved. Most of the time you'd know them for their accolades on the pitch, but you get a real insight into their personal side of things as well.
And a lot of the time you wouldn't have a clue what's going on behind closed doors, which, you know, you don't in a lot of cases. But I think the GAA sometimes is interesting in that it's not as publicised as a lot of other sports in terms of, you know, because they're professional and they'd be... You'd have the tabloids writing about soccer players, you know, whereas a lot of the G8s, it's more personal, it's more private. So getting an insight into these stories, it's phenomenal. So I got to chat to the eight new licks that are being featured this year. And I also got chatting to one of the directors, Cormac, who has directed over 30 episodes. He did three of them this season and... I just I was chatting to the players.
I was like, oh, what was it like having the directors in there? And they all just kept saying how comfortable they were. They were made to feel because a lot of these people aren't media trained, you know, especially the older generation.
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