{"podcast":{"title":"Light Hearted","slug":"light-hearted-754364","podcast_index_feed_id":754364,"rss_url":"https://news.uslhs.org/feed/podcast/","website_url":"https://news.uslhs.org","image_url":"https://news.uslhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-LIGHT-HEARTED.jpg","author":"Jeremy D'Entremont, U.S. Lighthouse Society","episode_count":430,"summary":"The official podcast of the U.S. Lighthouse Society","last_synced_at":"2026-09-27T08:23:53.936742+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/light-hearted-754364"},"episode":{"title":"Light Hearted Lite 44 – Richard Cummins, Irish light keeper, part 2","slug":"light-hearted-lite-44-richard-cummins-irish-light-keeper-part-2","published_at":"2026-06-14T04:00:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/light-hearted-754364/light-hearted-lite-44-richard-cummins-irish-light-keeper-part-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/light-hearted-754364","url":"https://news.uslhs.org/2026/06/14/light-hearted-lite-44-richard-cummins-irish-light-keeper-part-2/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/light_hearted/content.blubrry.com/light_hearted/LHL-2026-06-14.mp3","summary":"Richard Cummins This is part two of a two part interview with Richard Cummins, a native of Ireland who worked as a lighthouse keeper in that country for a decade. This is an edited version of a conversation first heard on the podcast in 2020. Richard spent time as a keeper at the very famous Fastnet Rock Lighthouse; at Hook Head, one of the oldest operating lighthouses in the world; and some other well known light stations – more than 20 in all. One of Richard’s ships in a bottle In this part of the interview we talk about what it was like to live at isolated lighthouses, and also about Richard’s more recent career as a photographer and an acclaimed builder of ships in bottles.","meta_description":"Richard Cummins This is part two of a two part interview with Richard Cummins, a native of Ireland who worked as a lighthouse keeper in that country for a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1731,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/light-hearted-754364/episodes/light-hearted-lite-44-richard-cummins-irish-light-keeper-part-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/light-hearted-754364/light-hearted-lite-44-richard-cummins-irish-light-keeper-part-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}