Springheel Productions

⏩ On 15 June, Thunder, starring Paul Mescal and Alex Murphy, drops on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

The next instalment of Black Alley, Thunder is a folk crime thriller starring Paul Mescal, Alex Murphy, Éanna Hardwicke, Frank Blake, Fionntán Larney, and Andrew Bennett, which takes place on a cold and stormy night as a gang of robbers arrive back at their den.

Stories are told, songs are sung. But this gang is more than a bit impatient, as there’s more than one plan afoot.

How do you avoid being bitten in a pit full of snakes?

Written by Fionntán Larney, with original music by Isaac Jones and Fionntán Larney. Recorded and produced by Morgan Beausang

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🎙: Horse’s Song, performed by Frank Blake.

'Black to the Bed', an original song from Black Alley, performed by Paul Mescal, is available to stream on Spotify from 1pm.

Black Alley is a new anthology fiction podcast, starring some of the biggest names in Irish film, theatre and television, including Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Paul Mescal, Clare Barrett, Chris Walley, Niamh McCann and Peter Coonan.

Each episode is a standalone story which takes place in an interconnected universe of crime, eccentricity, and truly awful people.

Be careful when stepping down the Black Alley.

The first episode, Hiding Trout, starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Peter Coonan, Clare Barrett, Niamh McCann and Kyle Hixon streams from Tuesday, 1 June.