Gibraltar Lane: A Jamaican Odyssey is a narrative podcast that follows the anecdotes and adventures of a girl growing up in 1960s Kingston, Jamaica. All episodes now streaming.
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Here we are diving deep into all things motherhood, mindset and mental well-being . Having conversations we sometimes shy away from, but not here! Going on my own journey with mental health has made me realise how important it is that we share these stories. Feel free to connect with me over at www.facebook.com/mindovermama If you have a story you would like to share, please send me an email to colette@mindovermama.co.uk Thank you for being here and enjoy.
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Talks and interviews about the life of biography as experienced by a biographer over forty years and fourteen biographies, dealing with subjects ranging from Sylvia Plath to William Faulkner, Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag, and much more.
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The Day I Met A Psychopath with Guest Midnight Dufresne
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Send us a Text Message. I am a psychic intuitive and empathic thinker, creator of Good Eggs, writer, self-healer, and guide for others on their healing journeys. Committed to constant self-growth and determined to be part of the solution, I hold space for myself and others to heal deeply and truthfully. In the process of working towards setting up …
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Self-Care and Motherhood with Guest Emma Benyon
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Send us a Text Message. Emma Benyon is a self-care and motherhood coach and educator, supporting busy mums who are juggling the school run with a job and building a business with the tools to be less overwhelmed and have more balance, energy and clarity. She is also a mum to a six year old and a qualified NLP, mBIT and Practical Magic Coach and ful…
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Healing Hearts, Minds, and Souls with Guest Emma Kirkham
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Send us a Text Message. It's never too late to create the change you want! That’s what happened to Emma. Leaving university in1996 as a qualified glass designer and maker- Emma ran a business doing just this and then in 2015 switched to making kiln glass. She spent years building up the business but always feeling like she was meant for more- She’d…
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Emily. Van Duyne discusses her new, ground breaking book, Loving Sylvia Plath
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You think you know the Plath story? Ah, but who gets to tell it, and why do they do so, and how does someone like Ted Hughes commandeer the narrative?
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Creating Abundance with Guest Marcia Wilson
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Send us a Text Message. I am a money mindset cheerleader for soulful heart led females, helping them create a new wave of money & abundance in their lives just as they are. Connect with me here Website www.theabundantfemale.co.uk Facebook : www.facebook.com/theabundantfemale Insta: www.instagram.com/theabundantfemale Thank you again so much for tun…
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Ghostwriter, biographer, novelist, Shakespeare, Faulkner—we cover it all in Lawrence Wells’s work
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What happens when a writer is hired to do a biographical novel seeking to prove Shakespeare was not Shakespeare, and how years later, the project becomes two books of nonfiction and fiction
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Transforming Grief into Hope with Guest Fran Lloyd
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Send us a Text Message. Hi, I’m Fran Lloyd, wife, mum, grandmother and founder of Solutions 4 You Coaching. After 43 years as an NHS Nurse, I decided it was probably time to retire but didn’t want to waste the skills I gained from my time in the NHS so, I retrained as a Master Practitioner in NLP and more recently (14 months ago), became a Certifie…
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Marcia Biederman on her fascinating book about abortion in 19th C. New England
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Marcia Biderman writes biography like a mystery story. There is much to learn from her.
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Send us a Text Message. My name is Laura and I’m a mammy to an amazing 14-year-old who’s pretty much a little best friend I grew. I LOVE all things food related and travelling to new places. My friends and family are everything to me and I genuinely believe that life is so short that it's our health and the people around us that truly matter. Just …
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Empowering Mums to Thrive with Guest Jemma Andrew-Adiamah
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Send us a Text Message. Jemma Andrew-Adiamah is a holistic empowerment coach, mentor, and podcast host helping mums to shift out of survival mode to crystal clear clarity, confidence, and fulfillment, so they can rediscover their purpose and identity beyond motherhood in a way that’s on their terms. Connect with her here: Website: https://drjemma.c…
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Detox Your Life With Guest Aislíng Owens Nash
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Send us a Text Message. Aislíng Louise Owens Nash is an Irish Mummy of 3, carer, a self confessed nerd, and she is obsessed with food! She is female empowerment networking leader with MIB International, leading the Ireland and Northern Ireland team and the Head of Hopefull Handbags Global for Ireland. Life for Aislíng is pretty full. Her mission is…
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Advice you may not want to take.
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Send us a Text Message. Jess Taylor is a published author and mentor on self-love, cycle wellness, shadow work, and embodiment after trauma. She has helped women around the globe connect to their bodies, heal generational wounds, and move forward in fierce pursuit of their dreams. As a Master Teacher of Womb Light, Usui Reiki, and Lightarian Reiki,…
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Escaping Reality with Guest Clare Bentley
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Send us a Text Message. Clare Bentley is married, with a son and daughter, who are now adults. She was raised by a single mother and didn’t care to know her abusive biological father, instead considering her stepfather to be her dad. As a child, playtime for her was filled with creating scenarios to act out and making up dance routines to her favou…
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Robert Hamblin discusses his new book, a kind of biography of William Faulkner in verse
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An important Faulkner critic and biographer introduces us to new way of understanding Faulkner, his fiction, and his life
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I have reloaded the episode with Roger Lewis talking about his Taylor-Burton biography.
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A loading issue made me repost this exciting talk with Roger Lewis.
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A talk with Jared Stearns about his new biography of Marilyn Chambers and the world of hardcore
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How does a biographer deal with the world of pornography and so-called porn stars. Jared Stearns knows how in his biography, Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers.
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The Existential Loneliness of the Long Distance Biographer
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This podcast is not as pretentious or self-pitying as you might suppose.
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Malcolm W. Browne reporting from Vietnam and other biographical matters with Ray Boomhower
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Ray Boomhower talks about what it is like to be a journalist in Vietnam and about what it is like writing biographies of journalists.
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Biography in the Prison House of Modernism, Part 2
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I had fun with this one. I really let it rip, if I do say so myself.
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A new Greta Garbo biography by Lois Banner, with new sources and insights
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Lois Banner, biographer of Marilyn Monroe, turns to Garbo, learns Swedish, and discovers all sorts of important sources not to be found in previous biographies.
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Send us a Text Message. Kyra Lennon is a British romance author who has published several books in the contemporary romance genre. She began her writing career in 2012 with her debut novel “Game On”, which has since been unpublished and is currently being reworked. She has published several other books since her debut, including “If I Let You Go,” …
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Mary Dearborn discusses her new biography of Carson McCullers
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Mary Dearborn does a valiant job of dealing with my interruptions in our discussion of her splendid biography of Carson McCullers.
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From Sleepless Nights to Cancer Fights with Guest Charlotte Hillyard
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Send us a Text Message. Hi, I’m Charlotte and I’m an Infant Sleep Consultant and mum of 2. This March is brain tumour awareness month, a month where we shine a light on this terrible disease in order to drive change. Here is my story of how my daughter, who was 3 at the time, was diagnosed with a brain tumour and subsequently Cancer last May. To fo…
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Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” and the Prison House Modernism
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You might want to read Plath’s poem “Mirror” as I explain my reactions to it as a biographer.
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Authors vanish after they die and are revived. A talk with the biographer of Carolyn Wells.
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How Rebecca Rego Barry discovered Carolyn Wells, and why she wrote a biography of a forgotten literary figure, and how she did it.
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Rewiring Minds & Reshaping Lives with Guest Nicola Noél
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Send us a Text Message. Nicola is a Clinical Solution-Focused Hypnotherapist, Clinical Specialist Mental Health Nurse, and Mindset Coach. Nicola is the owner of Brainworks Therapy, a private online mental health clinic delivering talking therapies and coaching. This includes treating clients with a wide range of problems, helping them change their …
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A rollicking interview with Paul Alexander about his new biography of Billie Holiday.
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Paul Alexander talks about his new state of the art biography of Billie Holiday. I listened and I learned.
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Send us a Text Message. Today's episode delves into my journey with sobriety and how it has deepened my spiritual connection. Can't wait to hear what you think. Thank you again so much for tuning in. To connect with me your host Colette, you can find me at : www.instagram.com/mindovermamauk And if you haven't heard, I am super excited to be hosting…
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My listeners respond and I comment on their comments
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Turning Pain Into Power with Guest Jo McGee
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Send us a Text Message. ⚠️Trigger warning! This episode contains talks about overdose and r*pe. Hi I'm Jo I'm a best selling author and a NLP practitioner. I help women turn their pain into power by taking control of their thoughts, behaviour and actions . You can connect with me here - www.instagram.com/the_power_queen_ www.facebook.com/joanne.mcg…
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A rambling meditation on the biographer as exile.
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From Cell Blocks to Business Blocks with Guest Donna Walker
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Send us a Text Message. Donna is a Mom to 2 daughters (27 & 14), Nanny to her granddaughter soon to be 3 and a Wife. She is also a Business Mindset Coach and is passionate about guiding female business owners to work through their mindset barriers. In doing so, she helps them to move their business forward , so they can have the business and life t…
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A talk with Marian Janssen, biographer of Carolyn Kizer, one of the wild women of American poetry
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A talk with the delightful Marian Janssen who describes her career as a biographer and why she chose to write about the American poet Carolyn Kizer.
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Speaking Hope: A Conversation with Award-Winning Therapist Karen
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Send us a Text Message. Award-winning published child speech therapist, Karen has been a therapist for the past 15 years and currently works privately as CEO for All About Speech Therapy Ltd and co-founder of the Sensory Speech Box Ltd. Karen helps parents and educators of primary-aged children who are desperate to speak and haven't yet had the rig…
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How close is too close when it comes to the biography of your subject?
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I explain what happened when I became part of the lives of my two subjects while researching and writing To Be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie and A Private Life of Michael Foot
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Nurturing Little Superheroes with Guest Claire Rushton-Plant
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Send us a Text Message. Claire runs her own business in Staffordshire and Derbyshire, teaching children aged 3+ all about their internal superpowers. Helping them to build their confidence, resilience and to recognise and regulate their emotions. All through using a range of mindfulness and mindset techniques. Claire works in schools, nurseries and…
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You’ve heard of Chaplin and Keaton, but Al Christie?—the subject of Mark Kearney’s new biography
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Al Christie: Hollywood’s Forgotten Film Pioneer by Mark Kearney. A wide ranging discussion of a pioneer Hollywood filmmaker, how to write his biography, and what implications there are for biographers of film figures.
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Tim Christian discusses his audiobook version of Hemingway’s Widow
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How to do a biography as an audiobook
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The author records his book: Tim Christian on Hemingway’s Widow
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Tim Christian describes the process of doing an audiobook, with some very specific advice and technical specifications.
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Biographer Ruth Laney discusses her decades of work on the life and world of Ernest J. Gaines
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Cherie Quarters: The Place and People That Inspire Ernest J. Gaines: biography, memoir, history, and an evocation of the material world out of which a great American writer fashioned his fiction.
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Whose biography is it, anyway? My answer to Joyce Carol Oates
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A brief podcast, what you might call a short snort, about those who malign biography.
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Honey Traps! Why spies make good if spooky biographical subjects.
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A talk with Henry Schlesinger about his book on Honey Traps and the biographies of alluring spies.
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A slightly trimmed version of my talk with Chris Wallace about biographers and political lives
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What happens when the biographer becomes part of the story? Chris Wallace shows us in her unique book, Political Lives.
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Beyond the Bottle - Reflecting on a Year of Sobriety with Colette
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Send us a Text Message. This year has been the best ever for me and sobriety has most definitly played a huge part. I wanted to share my story to show that there is hope and you can do it too. Please reach out if you need a hand and as always thank you for listening. x Thank you again so much for tuning in. To connect with me your host Colette, you…
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A conversation with Chris Wallace about her book Political Lives and how biographers get the story
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A discussion of a unique book by Chris Wallace, a journalist turned scholar, and how biographers interact with their subjects.
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Travelling for Happiness with Guest Deb Applegate
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Send us a Text Message. Hi I’m Deb and I’m an independent travel agent. My ethos is that I work from my own travel experiences and this helps me to give you the best and the holiday you really want. I work closely with a variety of suppliers and provide you with my service throughout your journey. Let me know what type of travel you love to do and …
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Come On! Get Happy! How Summer Stock with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly got made
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Join David Fantle and Tom Johnson for a lively discussion of the backstory and performances and production of the MGM musical, Summer Stock
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Danny Fingeroth’s new biography of Jack Ruby
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How to deal with a figure so involved with conspiracy theories: What does a biography have to add to history?
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