Emma talks (and often walks) with her guests in different locations, hearing their experiences of London, the world, and life, and discovering what choices they are making to redefine themselves along the way. The conversations are geared to inspire, entertain, and bring a little more breadth to the way you yourself may be thinking - wherever you are in the world.
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076 Improvisation Is Such An Important Life (And Jazz) Tool - Jazz Musician BUSTER BIRCH Explains Why
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BUSTER BIRCH is an English jazz musician from humble beginnings. Jazz has been Buster's life from before he was born - as you will learn – and he began gigging at 16 years old. Music in the form of teaching and performance have been Buster's only profession, and sole form of income, so when Covid hit in 2020, and all music gigs were cancelled, scho…
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075 Valuing Your Creative Work - Creative Entrepreneur JOANNA PENN talks about Creative Freedom and Earning a Six Figure Income
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"Writing and walking are good ways to live your life." JOANNA PENN also known as J F PENN is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. Jo runs a successful podcast called THE CREATIVE PENN, has another podcast called the BOOKS AND TRAVEL podcast - currently on hold but with loads of great episodes - and on top of all this, Jo is an internat…
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074 Eat Your Way To Better Health - Making Choices To Change The Outcome with REBECCA RIVERS
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This episode is a wake up call for us as humans to consider taking more responsibility for ourselves as individuals, especially when it comes to what foods we are putting in our mouths. For example, if you think fat free products are the healthy choice, you've definitely got to listen to this podcast episode. My guest REBECCA RIVERS proves that we …
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073 Make A Choice To Do It Your Way - with Author, STEPHEN R. MARRIOTT
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This episode is about self-belief and a man who through his love of travel, and particularly walking, set off along a creative writing path away from high finance and from wearing a smart suit in the City of London. I sat down with author STEPHEN MARRIOTT on the (almost) eve publication date of his third book Diego's Guitar, and through a candid di…
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072 Be Realistic But Don’t Be Afraid - Making Choices Through Life with SHOBHA DAS
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This episode celebrates the determination of one woman to achieve her dreams through the choices presented to her at different times of her life to date. SHOBHA DAS with whom I was fortunate enough to catch up with in London last month, embraces an incredible life-changing challenge to build a house in the mountains above her Keralan homeland in In…
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071 Sunshine, Friendship, and Olive Oil In The Heart Of Sicily - with SARAH WOLFERSTAN
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SARAH WOLFERSTAN of ALIVU SICILY grows and produces extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) alongside her Sicilian husband Paulo Guarino. Their olive groves are located in the very centre and heart of Sicily on the opposite hills to Enna. From their land, and very much in the distance, you can sometimes see smoke rising from Mt Etna. I had the privilege of j…
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070 The Good Kitchen - Finding Purpose In Sicily with DANNY McCUBBIN
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DANNY McCUBBIN is the founder of The Good Kitchen an inspiring social enterprise project in Mussomelli, Sicily. Danny has a background in digital consultancy, he is a speaker, and a food campaigner. He worked for the chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver for 17 years while also spending much time for “promoting food-focused social enterprises and helpin…
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069 From The Big Apple To The Big Olive - GABRIELLA BECCHINA and Her Sicily
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GABRIELLA BECCHINA is an educator, a Sicilian tourism expert, a forager, a chef and an all round encyclopaedia of knowledge relating to the history, culture and food of Sicily. She studied art history in Basel, and worked in New York but her formative years were in Switzerland with school holidays in Sicily visiting family. It was only when her Sic…
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068 Travel, Backdrops and Readers - LUKE RICHARDSON talks about His Writing Inspirations
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LUKE RICHARDSON is a thriller writer, DJ, and podcaster. He studied journalism at Nottingham University but DJ-ing became his central profession for a while before he changed direction into English teaching within a secondary school and the longer holidays allowed Luke to indulge his passion for travel from which came the inspiration to write. Luke…
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067 Scottish Hebridean Whisky with NEIL MATHIESON of Torabhaig Distillery
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While on the Isle of Skye recently with my partner Stephen Marriott enjoying a bit of van-life freedom, we happened upon the inaugural Hebridean Whisky Trail Festival. Never known to say no to a dram now and again, I was fortunate enough to take part in a whisky tasting from the distilleries involved, and to have a chat with NEIL MATHIESON – CEO of…
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066 From Hitchhiking To Transport Chaos - SIMON CALDER talks about the Joys Of Travel
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SIMON CALDER is a travel broadcaster, journalist and podcaster in the UK. He writes and podcasts regularly for The Independent. I do quite a lot of coverage of travel turmoil. Simon reports from travel strewn locations which has made him a recognisable figure on UK television and as he and I podcast walked and talked our way through central London …
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065 Self Publishing, Travelling and Social Anxiety - A Walk and Talk with STEVEN MOORE, Author
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STEVEN MOORE is a writer of action thriller books. He is proudly self-published and has written 25 books. Since this podcast episode was recorded, Steve has just launched another book in his compelling Hiram Kane action thriller series entitled The Oak Island Enigma to find out more and buy your copy, click on the links below. During our walk and t…
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064 Beef, Bible and Bullets (Part 2) - RICHARD LAPPER talks about London, Brazil and Populism
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In this, Part 2 of my chat with Richard Lapper, we walk from Wapping to Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and back to Wapping via King Edward VII Park, the Regents Canal, Mile End Park and Limehouse Basin talking about history, politics, London, and Brazil. Tune in to be inspired by London’s east side, understanding more about Brazil, and how farming, re…
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063 Beef, Bible and Bullets (Part 1) - RICHARD LAPPER talks about Brazil and Journalism
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RICHARD LAPPER is an independent journalist and consultant. Originally from Sheffield, Richard is the author of Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro. Originally published in 2021, the paperback is now available and comes at a time when the spotlight is on Brazil with respect to the alarming depletion and destruction of the Amazon…
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062 A London Stroll With Author SARAH PENNER - talking about The Lost Apothecary and more...
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SARAH PENNER is the author of The Lost Apothecary, which, on its release in the USA in 2021, immediately flew to the heady heights of the New York Times Top Ten Best Seller List. Published by Park Row Books/HarperCollins in the US and by Legend Press in the UK, the book is now in paperback and her readers are eagerly awaiting Sarah’s second book du…
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061 The Opposite of Addiction Is Connectivity - JOHNNY FAVOURITE talks about Music, Touring, Alcohol and Tuk-Tuks
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Stuart Duncan Bastow was born in Newfoundland, Canada. Along with his jazz collective, The Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra, he initially rose to fame in Halifax. Throughout the 1990s they played to audiences across Canada, America and Europe, front-lining bands such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and many more. Johnny, as he became known, recorded…
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060 Tacos, Tortillas, Moles and Music - The Tastes and Sounds of MEXICO in May
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San Miguel de Allende in Central Mexico is one of the most popular towns to where Mexicans, Americans, Canadians and many others are drawn to eat, live, marry, paint, hear good music and generally seek out a good life. The climate is agreeable most of the time and likewise the people. This is a town which attracts expats but not in such large numbe…
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059 People Who Live Differently - ELISABETH BLANCHET talks about Documenting Through Photography
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ELISABETH BLANCHET documents the world through photography. She has travelled widely and her interest and patience in getting to know communities who live differently have resulted in her being able to capture peoples’ worlds beyond the ones in which we ourselves live. Elisabeth’s photography takes us to the Normandy beaches, the worlds of the Iris…
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058 Is Your Life The Life You Want To Lead? - MARI WILLIAMS talks about Being An Alternative Leader
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MARI WILLIAMS is a trained coach, therapist and mediator. Her business, The Mind Architect, attracts clients from all walks of life and includes many at the top of their professional game looking for solutions to be better leaders. Mari believes this leadership comes from within you, and in her mind is based on five guiding principles, which she ex…
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057 Wild Swimming, Urban Solos And Cycle Rides - ABIGAIL TRIPP talks about London Outdoors
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ABIGAIL TRIPP has lived in London Waterloo for almost 25 years. She is an avid swimmer, cyclist and traveller and loves searching out the wild swimming and lido spots in and around London. “Being in touch with the water is so important to me.” Abigail is also a huge cycling fan and cycles all around London. Her idea of finding peace and quiet is go…
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056 Community, Gardening And Lockdown On A London Estate - CAROLE WRIGHT talks about Feeling Rooted
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Carole Wright is the founder of Blak Outside a multi-disciplinary creative collective providing culturally diverse and inclusive events for the community both online and in person. This collective had its beginnings in the Peabody Blackfriars Estate also known as Peabody Square where Carole has lived for many years. Through her extensive knowledge …
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055 Sentio Is To Feel - OLIVER TRACE talks about Art, Animation and Augmented Reality
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“Sentio is to feel.” OLIVER TRACE is an artist and animator and the founder of SENTIO SPACE. His company has collaborated with other artists and has been commissioned by Tate Britain, Tate Modern, BBC and Cambridge University amongst other prestigious, high profile organisations to help them tell their stories in a short form, animated context to h…
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054 Gender And Identity Are Different Things - CHARLOTTE HARKER talks about Being A Creative and Transgender
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“I think gender and identity are different things. My identity is not related to my gender.” CHARLOTTE HARKER is an artist, writer and performer. She wrote A Species of Trees; collaborated with Tamar Yoseloff with Nowheres; has written The Wear and Tear of Conversation; The Poetry of Lost Landscapes. She is currently completing The Novel and Other …
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053 Everyone Has Their Own Uniqueness - LIZA PADERES talks about Books, Publishing and Children’s Heroes
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What can make you happy can change constantly. LIZA PADERES works for the independent publishing house Legend Press, an arm of the Legend Times publishing group. People buy books visually. Liza is a first generation Londoner born to Filipino immigrants. She was brought up with English and a smattering of her parents’ native tongue. She grew up in B…
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052 I Felt Like I Had A Split Personality - HELENA HALME talks about Displacement, And Being Finnish
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“We had to call them Soviets, not to anger the large bear next to us.” HELENA HALME is a self-published author of contemporary fiction. She is the Nordic Ambassador for the Alliance of Independent Authors. Helena has written two box sets, the Nordic Heart series and the Island series. One of her recurring themes is displacement and the human condit…
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051 Gender Diversity, Social Inclusion, and God - CANON GILES GODDARD talks about 21st Century Challenges
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“We’re here for you, whoever you are.” CANON GILES GODDARD is the Vicar of St John’s Waterloo and St Andrew's Church in London SE1. His challenge is one that many face while living and serving in a fast-paced multi-cultural, socially diverse, and gender diverse city such as London in the 21st century. “We’re quite famous for being inclusive.” Giles…
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050 Without Your Attention I Cannot Connect With You At All - CALVIN NILES talks about Mindful Storytelling
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"Stories Are Vehicles of Powerful Messages" CALVIN NILES is a Communication Coach and Mindful Storyteller. He is an author, poet and founder of SOAR Book Club. Calvin also hosts a number of podcasts including Stories of Awakening and Mindful Conversations. Calvin’s mission is to guide and inspire others along their own work and life path by empower…
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049 Wherein Is The Authenticity? - JOHN BOLD talks about Learning From The Past To Sustain Our Future
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JOHN BOLD is an architectural historian who specialises in English architecture and European heritage management. He was Head of Architecture for the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, as well as Reader in Architecture at the University of Westminster, and continues to be a consultant on heritage management to the Council of Europe. John is …
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048 Across the Balkans in a Vintage Yugoslav Car - Emma reads from her travel memoir DRIVING TITO
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In 2009 Emma Carmichael (your podcast host) left her Council of Europe job as a conservation heritage professional in southeast Europe, and travelled across the Balkans in a vintage Zastava 750 classic car (a hugely respected rustic relic from the former Yugoslavia era). In 2019, Emma published DRIVING TITO: Through The Balkan Backroads With A Cele…
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047 Somehow My Fate Is Linked Up With Ukraine’s Fate - LEONORA MERIEL talks about Living Brightly
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"Why would you wait until you are seventy? Now’s the time to tell your story!" LEONORA MERIEL : author – entrepreneur – businesswoman – mother "I like to live very brightly. Life is full of excitement waiting to happen." LEONORA is a writer of literary fiction embracing a range of genres. She has two books published and two in the pipeline for publ…
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046 London, Inherited Memory And Time Travel - NIGEL PLANER talks about Writing, Acting and Travelling
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“When you’ve got a relationship with a writer who just gets what you’re up to… You just have the feeling that I can be really funny in this.” NIGEL PLANER is an actor, singer, songwriter, and author - amongst many other attributes - and is forever associated with his role as Neil in the 1980s cult comedy series The Young Ones. Today we are talking …
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045 From Forest Bathing To Just Sitting Outdoors - HOLLY WORTON talks about The Positive Effects Of Nature On Your Mindset
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“Winter camps are deliciously empty. It’s kind of been my survival thing for this COVID year that never seems to end. It’s nice to just relax, And just sit in the outdoors.” HOLLY WORTON is an author, podcaster, publishing strategist, personal and business coach, long distance walker, ultra-marathon runner, lover of nature and trainee druid. Despit…
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044 New Year’s Eve 2021 Reflections - What Has 2021 Meant To You?
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EMMA, your podcast host, persuades her partner STEPHEN MARRIOTT (author, traveller and podcaster) to join her for a New Year's Eve walk on Wimbledon Common and reflect on what London, the world and life has meant to him in 2021. What has 2021 meant to you? Perhaps our chat will encourage you to consider what the year has meant to you wherever you a…
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043 The Magic of Coincidences - ANTJE KUNST talks about Rights, Resolutions and Yoga
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ANTJE KUNST is an International Lawyer, Childs’ Rights Advocate, and a Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn). She was born in Friesland near the Nordsee in Germany but her working life as a lawyer has nearly always been abroad. It began in India from where her love of the country flourished. She subsequently worked in the Gaza Strip from 1999 for over 5 years …
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042 From The Boreal Forest To Avocados - ALICIA COLSON talks about the Human And Environmental Aspects of Archaeology
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“What Can I Find Out, What Does It Tell Me? I May Never Know, So I’m Okay With That” ALICIA COLSON is an Archaeologist and Ethno-historian. Both disciplines have a huge role to play in protecting our environment as well as our human connections to the environment. Alicia’s PhD research involved a complete survey of the Lake of the Woods in Ontario,…
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041 From Scottish Mountains To The Mayan Underworld: JENNIFER WALLACE talks about Academia and Beyond
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JENNIFER WALLACE is a literature academic and an author of fiction and non-fiction. Her most recent works are Digging The Dirt, Digging Up Milton (brilliantly imagined from minimal primary information, and set in London’s St Giles, Cripplegate in the heart of the Barbican, and Tragedy Since 9/11. Jennifer splits her time between writing in London a…
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040 Come Back To Me, Then Go Away - GERRY KING talks about London, Memories and Writing Auto-Fiction
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GERRY KING writes autobiographical fiction – commonly referred to as auto-fiction. Amongst other writings, he is the author of Lubin Tales and Smoke and Other Tales. His most recent book published by Tangent Books in September 2021 is entitled Come Back To Me, Then Go Away. Gerry was born in Battersea (south London) and spent his early years there,…
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039 Gelato for All Seasons - VITORIA SANVICENTE talks about Ice-Cream and Setting Up Candiero London
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VITORIA SANVICENTE is Italian, although born in Brazil. She was brought up in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, but now considers herself a “Water-pudlian” – a term she has created for those living in Waterloo, London. Vitoria loves this area and so it’s no wonder that she persuaded her family to bring their gelato business to Lower Marsh. I w…
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038 Healing Our Oceans - LOUISA HOOPER talks about How We Can Make A Difference
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LOUISA HOOPER is a Londoner born and bred. She was a regular customer at Travelling Through bookshop not suprisingly as she studied literature at University and equally has a penchant for travel. In 2019 Louisa took a three month sabbatical from her work with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to travel across Russia, through Japan, China, Australi…
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037 Representation Matters - TAYO JAIYESIMI talks about Her 5 to 9 Side Hustle
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TAYO JAIYESIMI is also known as The Five To Nine Traveller : because life is more than your 9 to 5. Tayo is first generation British/Nigerian and describes herself as a "Londoner by birth, a Jordie lass by nurture with Nigerian spice". She considers her five to nine life as precious in which she can explore, dance, travel and "do all the other bits…
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036 The Zigzaggy Path of Life - KULI SINGH talks about Taking Kuli’s Kitchen Online
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KULWINDER (KULI) SINGH is a Londoner. He studied at Cambridge and went down the traditional employment path into a corporate job in technology with the aim of earning a good living to do the things he wanted to do in life - this included travelling. Through his travels, Kuli's love of food and knowledge of different cultures across the continents h…
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035 If You Don’t Notice Them, They’re Doing A Good Job - PAUL KAYE talks about Language and European Borders
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PAUL KAYE is from Bolton in the UK. He studied for a year in France - his first pure language immersion experience. After University, Paul completed TEFL training with the idea of teaching English in Hungary but instead he ended up in Slovakia for three and a half years as a teacher, broadcaster and journalist. This was a seminal part in his life a…
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034 It Hurts, But That’s My Story, My Truth - WILL DYSON talks of Being A Part of London’s Recent History
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WILL DYSON is a born and bred Londoner. After a short spell away studying Geography at Manchester University, Will returned to London and has worked in several of the city's central businesss improvement districts (BIDS) including Waterloo, Baker Street and currently Bond Street/Oxford Street. Will acknowledges that London has many faces and he und…
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033 EVOO The Holy Grail Of Food? - SARAH WOLFERSTAN talks about Olive Oil and Sicily
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SARAH WOLFERSTAN trained as an archaelologist. She has worked for the United Nations, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), and the Council of Europe (CoE) on various cultural heritage projects and is now affiliated to UCL in London in the Institute of Archaeology. Sarah lives with her Sicilian husband and children in Malmesbury, Wilt…
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032 When A Smile Means More Than Any Verbal Compliment - Your Podcast Host talks (a little) about Her Life So Far...
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EMMA CARMICHAEL is normally the Travelling Through Podcast host but in this episode, she's swapped seats to be interviewed by her partner Stephen Marriott who is soon to launch his own podcast series, Marriott's Side Trips. Emma was brought up in Edinburgh and moved to London when she was 20 years old. In her own words she did "everything upside do…
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031 Finding Pockets Of Time To Be Creative - CALI BIRD talks about Being An Author
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CALI BIRD is the author of Don't Give Up Your Day Job and has recently self-published her first fiction story Tales of the Countess which will form part of a series of books about the 'Countess'. Cali was born in Bedfordshire and lived a considerable part of her early adulthood in the Waterloo and Kennington areas of London. Although now back in Be…
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030 Don’t Look Back And Regret Anything - JO THWAITES talks about her Life In London
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JO THWAITES has been in London for over 40 years. Jo was born in Forfar and brought up in Aberdeen in the north of Scotland. She studied at Edinburgh University, spent six months in Australia before landing in London in the 1970s. She considers London home. Jo was keen to support many activist causes in London. She is a stalwart supporter of the La…
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029 For The Love of Lorca And More - JORGE GARRIZ talks about Romancero Books Online Bookshop
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JORGE GARRIZ is from the Spanish region of Navarra, close to Pamplona. He studied Fine Arts in Valencia and Bilbao after which he ended up in Barcelona with the idea of studying an MA. Instead, he came to London on a two-month grant to learn English. Ten years later he has a number of key jobs under his belt working for architectural practices in h…
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028 Be Persistent And Grind Like Crazy - SHACK BAKER talks about Being An Entrepreneur
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SHACK BAKER was born in London and brought up on the Heathbrook Estate off the Wandsworth Road in south London. From the age of eight, he was determined to be rich. This is his inspiring story of becoming an entrepreneur in the clothing, design, music and now the property sector with his company The Property Shack, through sheer drive, self-belief …
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027 The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Architects - CHRIS COLLINSON talks about Building A House In The Indian Ghats
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CHRIS COLLINSON jacked in his job as a civil servant in London and set off to India with his city-loving (internationally-travelled) partner Shobha Das to build a home in the Ghats mountains of Kerala, a State in southern India where Shobha was born but had never lived until now. Two years on, I had the unexpected opportunity to catch up with Chris…
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