A weekly podcast: Join Dave Pickering on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. Part interview show, part oral history project and part autobiography through conversation. British Podcast Award 2017 winner (bronze in Best Interview category) GBA was nominated for a 2012 Radio Production Award, aired for 3 seasons on Resonance 104.4 FM and was featured on BBC Radio 4's In Pod We Trust, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Helen and Olly's Required Listening and has been recommended by T ...
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Covers every genre of life. I promise it's going to be interesting, engaging, intriguing and fun. We get to have a better and clearer understanding of how to view life in general.
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The Podgoblins Hat Episode 19: The Last Dragon In The World
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This is the nineteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This story's title promises so much in terms of dragon content! In actuality there is hardly any dragon in this story, but what there is, is very good. Nina likes this story a lot anyway, Dave's more on the fenc…
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This is the 6th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.There's so much to say about The Fillyjonk Who Believed in Disasters that we invited Ruby on to say some of it for us! We ponder on the exquisite combo that is cosy and creepy, lament the missed connection betwee…
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The Podgoblins Hat Episode 18: The Fillyjonk Who Was Afraid Of Disasters
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This is the eighteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading The Fillyjonk Who Believed in disasters, certified banger no matter who you ask! It's a melancholy, funny, poignant story that feels almost too real.Join us as we relate a little too clos…
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The Podgoblins Hat Episode Episode 17: A Tale Of Horror
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This is the seventeenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Carrying on with our read-through of Tales from Moomin Valley, our story this week is A Tale of Horror! But don't get too excited. The scariest thing about it is the Whomper's daddy.This story, despite not bein…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Bonus Episode 5: Matt Miller
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This is the 5th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.To round off our spring miniseason we've got a final (for now) look at The Spring Tune, with special guest Matt Miller, a poet and theatre maker. Matt's take on this story is fairly different from all the other t…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Bonus Episode 4: Martin Zaltz Austwick
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This is the 4th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we've got a special guest in to talk all about the music of Tove Jansson, and the game we talked about last week (Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley) AND the short story that kicked off this miniseason (th…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Bonus Episode 3: Melody of Moominvalley
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This is the 3rd bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're popping in with something a little different for you this week, it's a video game review! That's right, we're almost topical!Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is a beautiful, relaxing, not quite open world ex…
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The Podgoblins Hat Episode 16: The Spring Tune
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This is the sixteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.The crocuses are up, the cherry trees are in bloom, and Snufkin is tramping back to Moomin Valley - it must be time for our spring miniseries!We're kicking off with this beautiful, perfectly formed gem of a short…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 15: The Fir Tree
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This is the fifteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're wrapping up this year on the Podgoblin's Hat with Tove's Christmas offering: The Fir Tree.It's got everything you want from a Christmas story: the light and the dark, the fear and the wonder. There's even a…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 14: Moominland Midwinter (part 2)
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This is the fourteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're wrapping up Moominland Midwinter this week, and despite being only three chapters, it's 70% of the words in this book, so do strap in for a mammoth episode.There's a whole raft of new characters: the lonel…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 13: Moominland Midwinter (part 1)
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This is the thirteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Welcome to series 3! We're back with a banger: Moominland Midwinter. Nina has had this book hyped up by everyone who knows she's doing this podcast, and despite all the hype it doesn't disappoint.In this first h…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 12: The Dangerous Journey & Villain In The Moominhouse
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This is the twelth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.To wrap up season two we are bringing you the last two picture books set in the Moomin universe written by Tove Jansson.Both of these books are a bit difficult and inaccessible! They're very interesting to Moomin fa…
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The Podgoblins Hat Episode 11: The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My & Who Will Comfort Toffle
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This is the eleventh episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're breaking from our normal format for these next two episodes to bring you Tove Jansson's picture books.The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My is really ahead of its time in terms of interactivity and the…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 10: Moominsummer Madness (part 2)
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This is the tenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Content note: discussion of suicidal thoughts in the What Would Snufkin do part of the podcast This book splits three ways on Midsummer Eve: Snufkin is enacting revenge on a Park Keeper, Moomintroll and the Snork Mai…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 9: Moominsummer Madness (part 1)
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This is the ninth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.It's summer in Moominvalley and this book truly hits the ground running. There's a volcano casually going off in the background, and another flood, and the Moomin family has to relocate to a strange floating house. A…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 8: The Exploits (or Memoirs) of Moominpappa (part 2)
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This is the eighth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're back with the second half of Moominpappa's memoirs, in which our brave hero becomes the subject of a country run by an Autocrat, starts a colony and meets his wife.Moomintroll has some very sensible notes for …
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 7: The Exploits (or Memoirs) of Moominpappa (part 1)
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This is the seventh episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to a new season of the Podgoblin's Hat! This week, Nina is reading the Exploits of Moominpappa and Dave is reading the Memoirs of Moominpappa. Our theme for these books is Memoir. This episode is all …
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode Bonus #2 Dr Eleanor Janega
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Our special guest for this episode is Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega. Eleanor joins us to shout about how much she loves Comet in Moominland, share her Moomin memes of choice and talk about how Tove Jansson draws on medieval storytelling tropes like weird little guys you find in the woods, comets, and really good food writing. There is a case…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode Bonus #1: Heidi the translator
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This a bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts. It's also the last episode of the first series of the show.In this first guest episode, we're talking to Heidi Gilhooly, a lifelong Moomin fan and translator. Heidi did a comparative study of three versions of the Trollk…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 6: Finn Family Moomintroll (part 2)
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This is the sixth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts. It's also the last episode of the first series of the show.It's the end of Finn Family Moomintroll, and the end of series 1!The Hattifatteners have their barometer back, Snufkin gets around to telling the others abo…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 5: Finn Family Moomintroll (part 1)
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This is the fifth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading the first half of Finn Family Moomintroll. Spring has sprung and the children have discovered a very interesting hat on top of a hill. The hat starts to transform everything that sits inside i…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 4: Comet in Moominland (part 2)
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This is the fourth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading the second half of Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson, and what a rip roaring adventure it is! Moomintroll meets the fabled Snorkmaiden and falls in love on the spot, our brave adventurers a…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 3: Comet In Moominland (part 1)
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This is the third episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading Comet in Moominland, the first fully fledged chapter book. There's lots of to discuss! The Little Creature from last week has become Sniff, a full member of the Moomin family by adoption. A ph…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 2: The Moomins and the Great Flood
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This is the second episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.It's our first read-along and we're reading The Moomins and the Great Flood.We summarise this fairytale of Tove Jansson's, chat about her influences and make a first attempt at a taxonomy of the broader Moomin besti…
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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 1: Introductions
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This is the first episode of the Podgoblin's hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We will be introducing ourselves, our relationship with each other, and our relationships with the Moomins.Check out our twitter @ThePodgoblin and our Instagram @thepodgoblin to see pictures of the tattoos, cuddly to…
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So late last year I went to the hospital to investigate what transpired, I wanted to know if a procedure was carried out without my prior permission and knowledge and if so I was ready to sue but if not I wanted to still know because to the best of my knowledge, no procedure was carried out. I have moved on but I can see that some people haven't an…
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LOVE, DATING, ACQUAINTANCES, RELATIONSHIPS and MARRIAGE.
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When it comes to relationships or dating that should or will lead to marriage. What are the dos' and donts' in a relationship? What is your spec? Why do people get married? Is marriage an achievement? Why has divorce rate increase? Does culture play an important role in courting, relationship and marriage? Does family play an important role in taki…
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This is a talk I put together for the Maker Weekend at the London Podcast Festival and was recorded at the on 14th September 2019 at King's Place.This was the powerpoint I used for the talk: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g9zwoh6tqw7e533/Podcasting%20on%20a%20shoestring.pptx?dl=0By Getting Better Acquainted
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GBA Extra - The Possibilities Of Podcasting
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This is a version of a talk I often give about podcasting. It was recorded at the Thirsk Podcast Festival - Podcast Social Club on 23rd November 2019 at Rural Arts.This was the powerpoint I used for the talk: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cc0eccn7pmmswl0/The%20Possibilities%20of%20Podcasting%202019.pptx?dl=0…
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What is friendship? Who are your friends? Who are those in your inner circle? Do you value your friends? Does quantity or quality of friendship matters? Who are you as a friend to others? What matters to your friends? What do you discuss most of the time? How loyal are you to your friends? Are you defined by your friends? Are your friends loyal to …
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Do you know who you are? Do you know your SELF-WORTH as a Man/Woman? Do you understand the difference between Selfish Love? Do you know what it means to be Conceited towards others? How you treat, talk to, behave towards other people is on You; but how they treat you is on them. Understand WHO YOU ARE? to Yourself, to your Family, to your Society a…
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Family might be the smallest unit of the society or community but it is still this same family that makes up a society or community. Let's be the bridge to glue our family together, learn to forgive and let go and show love and catch up on all that you have missed out in your brother or sister's life or father or mother's life. Send a text, pick up…
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God is Love: what do you understand by God's love? How do you see God's love to you as a person? How do you understand the dimensions of His love? Why do we love God?
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When we feel the need to question the love of God, when we think He doesn't love us, He doesn't care for us, then look around you, look and nature and see His wonders and if He can take care of them, how much more you. God Loves each and everyone of us regardless of who or what we are, in Him we are so complete.…
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Here in my Podcast we talk about everything that is about Life: Art, Beauty, Nature, Society, Religion, Media and Entertainment, Relationships with God, family and people and in particular my favourite Children. As we start this year 2021, let's be focus in reaching out and touching as many lives as possible, by viewing life in a different way from…
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Here we talk about every aspect of life. Get people to show us how to see and handle life and life's situations, lifestyle and culture differently. (How to make lemonade out of lemons). So from People, culture, love, business, art, beauty, nature, so many things we would talk about and understand as we go along.…
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GBA Extra - In the dark times there will also be singing
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On the 31st of Decemeber 2020 I sat down to record a reflection on this strange and terrible year in personal and political terms. Which makes it sound like a downer but I did try to focus on good things as well as bad and all the rest of the things that don't fit the good/bad binary. Then I listened back to it and did some light editing. Then I mi…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 18: Legacy
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: sex, assisted dying, war This episode is the last episode of the first (and possibly last) season of this show, and it's about legacy.I’ve been planning this show for years. The earliest recording I’ve used was recorded by my dad on cassette …
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 17: The Box And The Jar
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: grief, suicide, terminal illness, abuse, bereavementIn the final full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to counselor and psychotherapist Karen Pollock MBACP about grief and deat…
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: euthanasia/suicideBut no matter what he forgets, it can’t take away the love we have shared, that existed, and will always have existed, even when he has forgotten it; even when he is no longer alive to remember it; even when I have forgotten…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 15: Death is not something that can be kept at a distance
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: bereavement, pain, terminal illness (including cancer) and the caste systemIn the seventh full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to Khyati Tripathi about studying death. This is…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 14: André Gorz Tweet
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: euthanasia/suicideI realised that maybe our positions aren’t that different after all. And I wondered if, in the moments that I manage to believe in hope, I seem as inspiring and naïve as he does. It made me wonder if maybe the spark I see in…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 13: New answers to old questions
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: operations, medical procedures, assisted dying, euthanasiaIn the sixth full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to sociologist Dr Gill Haddow about embodiment, replaceable hearts,…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 12: Hearts Breaking
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: war, medical operations, suicidal ideationI’m still pretty terrified of my dad stopping existing. He has been such a part of my life that it feels like a world without him in it is impossible. But ever since I was a child, I have been imagini…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 11 - Drink Sangria in the park
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: PTSD, dependency/addiction, rape (touched on lightly, no descriptions)In the fifth full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to psychologist and epidemiologist Dr Suzi Gage from th…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 10: Friendship Part 2
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesThis episode is about creating things: imaginary worlds, homes and friendship. It's also about walls: drawing on walls, putting up boundaries, and pulling down the walls inside your mind and heart.Artwork by my brother Tony Pickering: http://www.pick-art.co.uk/The BP…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 9: We're not in uncharted territory
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: Suicide, self-harm, bereavement, war, antisemitism, the Nazis, COVID-19 In the fourth full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to health psychologist Professor Rory O'Connor about…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 8: Chivalry
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: sexism, misogyny, questionable behavior, power dynamics and age gaps within romantic and sexual situations.When I made a show about my relationship with masculinity, I talked a lot about my mum and my stepdad, but my dad hardly featured at al…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 7: Friendship Part 1
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesIt’s important to keep in mind that the story of my relationship with my dad is only one part of his life. It’s only one of the ways he has been a father: the context of my childhood has been very different from the context of my siblings’ childhoods. While he was re…
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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 6: I don't want to die, but I'm dying
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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: Bereavement, suicide, disability, abortion, terminal illnessIn the third full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to three doctors with different perspectives and experiences that…
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