ABOUT THIS EPISODE
The voice that tells Ireland to mind the gap spent thirty years being trained never to let silence happen. In radio, they call it dead air — eight seconds of quiet and alarms sound in rooms you'll never see.
Then Michael found himself in coaching rooms where the silence after a question turned out to be the only part that mattered.
On studio clocks, Irish funerals, the forensic recall of two men avoiding one true sentence, and the answer that only arrives after eleven seconds.
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