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Dave is back with Adrian and tonight's guest is Bob Thorpe from Biddulph Grange talking about lots of things....!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-big-detecting-show--3690873/support.

Modern life has trained us to rely on logic, language, and endless mental chatter—but what if we're missing half the picture? In this eye-opening episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Ginny Yurich sits down with bestselling author and psychologist Steven Biddulph to explore the forgotten power of the brain's right hemisphere—our wild creature mind—and how reconnecting with it can transform anxiety, relationships, and well-being. They dive into body-based wisdom, gut feelings, and why emotions manifest physically, offering simple yet profound ways to help both kids and adults process stress, trauma, and overwhelm. Through movement, nature, and deep listening, we can unlock the intuitive, creative, and socially connected side of our brains that has been silenced for too long. If you've ever felt trapped in anxious thoughts or disconnected from yourself, this conversation will change how you think about your mind, body, and the way forward. ** Get your copy of Wild Creature Mind here Learn more about Steven Biddulph here ** Download your free 1000 Hours Outside tracker here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/trackers Find everything you need to kick off your 1000 Hours Outside Journey here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/allthethings Order of copy of Ginny's newest book, Until the Streetlights Come On here >> https://amzn.to/3RXjBlN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a reason so many people struggle with anxiety, stress, knowing our boundaries and questioning our worth. We've lost touch with the animal part of our mind says Australian author, psychologist, and family therapist Steve Biddulph. He's best known for his work on parenting and raising boys. Biddulph says the latest neuroscience shows how important it is to listen to our big ugly feelings in order to deal with them. His new book, which he says will be his last is called Wild Creature Mind: The Neuroscience Breakthrough that Helps You Transform Anxiety and Live a Fierce and Loving Life.

Since winning the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2015 with his debut picture book, Blown Away, we have been big fans of the work of Rob Biddulph. So when the chance came to visit his studio and find out more about not only his latest book, I Follow The Fox, but also about his process and passions, we leapt at the chance. Featuring foxes, imaginary friends and over two thousand post-it notes, join us for an uplifting conversation about children and creativity.

Avustralyalı yazar Steve Biddulph Raising Boys ismiyle 2013 yılında yani bundan 11 yıl önce erkeklerin eğitimde başarısızlığına dair bir kitap yayınlamış. Biddulph modern dönem erkekleriyle alakalı öne çıkan özellikleri şöyle sıralıyor: Otuz yıl önce herkes kızların durumundan kaygılanırdı. Kızların ufkunu yükseltmek, onlara hayatlarında istedikleri her şeyi yapabileceklerine dair güven vermek ve başarılarının önündeki engelleri kaldırmak için dünya çapında büyük bir çaba sarf edildi. Ve işe yaradı; Bugün kızlar kendilerinden daha emin, motive ve yeteneklidir. Kızlar erkeklerden daha fazla okul bitiriyor, daha fazla üniversiteye gidiyor ve daha iyi notlar alıyor. İlkokulda erkek çocukların dikkatleri kolayca dağılır ve çoğu zaman onlara ayak uydurmakta zorlanırlar. Öğretmenler tüm zamanlarını erkekleri baskı altına almak için harcarken kızlara olan ilgiyi kaçırıyor. Üçüncü sınıfa geldiklerinde çoğu erkek çocuk artık kitap okumuyor. Birçoğu tek kelimelik cümlelerle konuşuyor: «Ha?» «Aaa-evet!» Lisede münazaralara, konserlere, öğrenci konseylerine veya spor dışı herhangi bir etkinliğe katılmazlar. Hiçbir şeyi umursamıyormuş gibi davranırlar (Biddulph, 2013). Biddulph erkeklerin başta eğitimde ve sosyal hayatta geri kalışı üzerinde dururken kadınların kat ettiği mesafeye 11 yıl önce bu cümlelerle dikkat çekmiş. Avusturalyalı yazarın yukarıdaki düşüncelerini bu çarşamba günü dikkat çektiğim Akademisyen Yunus Vehbi Karaman'ın makalesinden aktardım. Karaman'ın eğitimde kadınların başarısının nedenleri ile erkeklerin neden geri kaldığına yönelik makalesinde Avrupa ülkelerinden oldukça dikkat çekici veriler var. ** Avustralya ve İngiltere'de kadınların eğitimde uzun süreden beri önde olması ve erkeklerin eğitimde geri kalması Amerika'nın da büyük sorunu. Makaleden alıntıya devam edelim; Sosyolog Kimmel (2008, s. 65), Amerika'da erkeklerin ilkokuldan liseye kadar kızlardan daha düşük notlara ve daha düşük sınıf derecelerine sahip olduklarına dikkat çekiyor. New York Times'ta yazdığı yazıda Thomas B. Edsall, Amerika'da erkeklerin temel, lisans ve lisansüstü eğitimde geri kaldıklarını ve böylece iş piyasalarında da erkeklerin dezavantajlı konuma gelmeye başladıklarını dile getirmiş. Edsall, okulların ve eğitim süreçlerinin kız öğrencilere daha uygun bir şekilde tasarlandığını ve bu nedenle erkeklerin eğitimde geri düştüklerini belirtiyor. Edsall erkeklerin eğitimden geri kalması ve eğitime tepki göstermeleri birbirini besleyen süreç olarak ortaya çıkarken beyaz erkeklerin sağcılaşarak 2020'deki seçimlerde %61 oranında muhafazakarların adayı olan Trump'a oy verdiklerini hatırlatıyor (Edsall, 2021).

In this compelling episode of Warriors Unmasked, Chuck Thuss sits down with Nathan Biddulph, the pioneer behind Neuro Skills Coaching. Known as “The Original Neuro Skills Coach,” Nathan has developed an innovative program from scratch, drawing from his extensive experience as a Neuro Program Director and board-certified occupational therapist. He has worked with high-profile clients, including superstar athletes, CEOs, business owners, and executives, providing them with tools to enhance their performance and well-being. Nathan's journey is a testament to the transformative power of neuro skills training. Starting in the neuro world in 2002, he has since dedicated his career to helping people improve their mental and physical performance through non-electronic, cutting-edge neuro skills training. His approach is designed to be accessible and applicable to everyone, from athletes to business professionals, focusing on enhancing pattern recognition, processing speed, impulse control, and decision-making. Listeners will be inspired by Nathan's dedication to helping others achieve their full potential by rewiring their brains for success. He shares insights into the benefits of neuro skills training, from improving sports performance to enhancing business acumen and mental health. Nathan's work emphasizes the importance of continuous self-improvement and the power of a well-trained mind in overcoming life's challenges. For those interested in learning more about Nathan's innovative neuro skills program or seeking personal coaching, this episode is a must-listen. Nathan's story is a powerful reminder of the potential we all have to transform our lives through dedicated mental training and self-awareness. To discover more about Nathan Biddulph's work and the groundbreaking neuro skills training program, visit [NeuroSkillsCoach.com] and listen to the full episode for an in-depth exploration of how neuro skills can change your life. This episode is a beacon of hope and a guide to achieving personal and professional excellence. GUEST LINKS: https://www.neuroskillscoach.com linkedin.com/in/nathan-biddulph-b3727659 https://www.instagram.com/neuroskills.coach LINKS: www.thecompassionateconnection.com www.warriorsunmasked.com  Join Chuck's Text Community: 251-418-7966 Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook Subscribe To Our YouTube My Community Contact   Episode Minute By Minute: 03:03 Nathan shares his journey from occupational therapy to becoming a neuro-skills coach. 08:44 Discussion on the difference between mental skills and neuro skills training. 14:32 How neuro skills training can benefit business professionals and everyday life. 20:10 Nathan explains the concept of rewiring the subconscious mind for better performance. 27:29 Real-life success stories from Nathan's clients in sports and business. 33:10 The future of neuro skills training and its potential impact on mental health and overall well-being.  

Tonight I will be sharing the second half of my conversation with Phil a gentleman who lives in a small village in the Biddulph area of Stoke On Trent. When Phil was younger he had some encounters with an unexplained Creature where he was shadowed in a woodland close to the Serpentine and Knypersley reservoir. One of the Creatures he saw moved across the land in a Bear-like manner, it was heavy but moved fluidly as it made its way out in front of Phil as its companion jumped down from a tree behind him. Phil felt he would be forced to confront whatever was stalking him in the darkness that night.https://linktr.ee/bbrinvestigationsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deborah-hatswell-bbr-investigations-cryptids-paranormal-unexplained-events--2840337/support.

Phil: I thought there was someone up to no good hiding in the woods and at this point the dog is back up and away from where he is looking. I took a few more paces and the dog spun round to look in the area we had just come from and I couldn't see anything. It was completely black. I couldn't see the trees, no bushes or the white path. It was pitch black and you couldn't see into it. As if someone had dropped a sack cloth in front of my face. It really unnerved me and I thought WTF is going on?? I turned for home and as I did I heard something skid on the path behind me in the blackness. I was having none of it so I looked around and I couldn't see anyone. I unleashed the dog and got his lead and heavy chain in one hand and the small axe in the other. Hearing that skid and the weight in it I thought it was going to be a huge fella or a couple of them. As I let the dog off to help he spins round and bolts for home. This is not how he would normally behave. That scared me even more. He left me standing there, alone in the darkness.So I grabbed and spun the lead in the direction of the darkness and I hit nothing, the chain hit my leg. I just started backing up, looking the way I had come and hoping I could make it back into one of the patches of light left by the moon. I thought to myself, if I did a few backwards paces and then just suddenly spin and run I would catch them out and I would make it into the light. As I spun I heard "THUD."https://linktr.ee/bbrinvestigationsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deborah-hatswell-bbr-investigations-cryptids-paranormal-unexplained-events--2840337/support.

First off, a big thank you to those listeners who've been sending me emails, a great deal of useful information emerges from our discussions which always improves the quality of this podcast, specifically thanks to John for sending me your book and to Doctor Nkosi for the contact in eSwatini. When we left off in episode 168, pressure was being exerted on the Kat River Settlement by the new Governor, Sir Henry Pottinger. A quick revisit. The Kat River Settlement came into being in I829 after a clash on the eastern border when the authorities of the Cape Colony expelled amaXhosa from land around the source of the Kat River. To prevent them from re-occupying the area when the soldiers withdrew, the colonial government decided to settle it with English settlers and Khoekhoe and bastaards. Andries Stockenstrom who was then the Commissioner General of the eastern districts, wanted to intersperse the two races and give them equal quantities of land. But his superiors insisted on placing the khoe in the most exposed military positions, then gave the Khoe smaller land-grants than the English settlers received. What is really fascinating is how many types of people lived in this small area — people who differentiated themselves based on their ancestry. The party at the confluence of the Kat and Mankanzana Rivers for example belonged to that class of mixed race South Africans known to the colonists as 'Bastaards', who had adopted Dutch clothing, religion, technology and language, and did not associate themselves with their Khoi heritage. In May 1847 Governor Sir Henry Pottinger appoint a bankrupt farmer and a man who was known as a great hater of the Khoekhoe to oversee the Kat River Settlement. Thomas Jarvis Biddulph was appointed magistrate and immediately there were issues. Andries Stockenstrom said Biddulph's moral character “could not bear scrutiny” and the new magistrate launched into a series of verbal and physical attacks on the Khoekhoe living along the Kat River and Blinkwater. He called them “a lazy set of paupers” and said that they would be better served working as labourers for the English settlers and the Boers. Just to reinforce his view, Biddulph pulled a tax stunt — increasing their tax from eighteen pence to six shillings. From eighteen cents to sixty cents. How about that for a tax hike, that's 43 percent. If you tried that these days, the scratching sound of matches would be heard across the land. This historic site didn't have long to go before it would be eviscerated by colonial jealousy. Even the former supporters, the missionaries, appeared to lose faith. One of the most ardent was Henry Calderwood. His idealism had evaporated — living on the frontier had shattered his liberal attitudes, and now he seemed to swap one obsession for another. One of the things that had driven Pottinger up the wall was the fact that the amaNgqika had continued to insist that they were at peace without admitting that they had been defeated, and by Sandile's refusal to resume negotiations. On the 7th August 1847 Sandile' had been formally declared a rebel. Then the whole situation worsened, and fast. Pottinger resorted to proclaiming that the amaMfengu, the Boers and the Khoekhoe who fought with his regular soldiers could seize whatever they liked from the amaXhosa. The full-scale invasion of the Amathola's began again on the 29th September 1847, and every grain pit was emptied, every single animal seized.

First off, a big thank you to those listeners who've been sending me emails, a great deal of useful information emerges from our discussions which always improves the quality of this podcast, specifically thanks to John for sending me your book and to Doctor Nkosi for the contact in eSwatini. When we left off in episode 168, pressure was being exerted on the Kat River Settlement by the new Governor, Sir Henry Pottinger. A quick revisit. The Kat River Settlement came into being in I829 after a clash on the eastern border when the authorities of the Cape Colony expelled amaXhosa from land around the source of the Kat River. To prevent them from re-occupying the area when the soldiers withdrew, the colonial government decided to settle it with English settlers and Khoekhoe and bastaards. Andries Stockenstrom who was then the Commissioner General of the eastern districts, wanted to intersperse the two races and give them equal quantities of land. But his superiors insisted on placing the khoe in the most exposed military positions, then gave the Khoe smaller land-grants than the English settlers received. What is really fascinating is how many types of people lived in this small area — people who differentiated themselves based on their ancestry. The party at the confluence of the Kat and Mankanzana Rivers for example belonged to that class of mixed race South Africans known to the colonists as 'Bastaards', who had adopted Dutch clothing, religion, technology and language, and did not associate themselves with their Khoi heritage. In May 1847 Governor Sir Henry Pottinger appoint a bankrupt farmer and a man who was known as a great hater of the Khoekhoe to oversee the Kat River Settlement. Thomas Jarvis Biddulph was appointed magistrate and immediately there were issues. Andries Stockenstrom said Biddulph's moral character “could not bear scrutiny” and the new magistrate launched into a series of verbal and physical attacks on the Khoekhoe living along the Kat River and Blinkwater. He called them “a lazy set of paupers” and said that they would be better served working as labourers for the English settlers and the Boers. Just to reinforce his view, Biddulph pulled a tax stunt — increasing their tax from eighteen pence to six shillings. From eighteen cents to sixty cents. How about that for a tax hike, that's 43 percent. If you tried that these days, the scratching sound of matches would be heard across the land. This historic site didn't have long to go before it would be eviscerated by colonial jealousy. Even the former supporters, the missionaries, appeared to lose faith. One of the most ardent was Henry Calderwood. His idealism had evaporated — living on the frontier had shattered his liberal attitudes, and now he seemed to swap one obsession for another. One of the things that had driven Pottinger up the wall was the fact that the amaNgqika had continued to insist that they were at peace without admitting that they had been defeated, and by Sandile's refusal to resume negotiations. On the 7th August 1847 Sandile' had been formally declared a rebel. Then the whole situation worsened, and fast. Pottinger resorted to proclaiming that the amaMfengu, the Boers and the Khoekhoe who fought with his regular soldiers could seize whatever they liked from the amaXhosa. The full-scale invasion of the Amathola's began again on the 29th September 1847, and every grain pit was emptied, every single animal seized.

Well we've had some talented coves wash up in our coves but never a world record holder, not until now that is. Rob 'Draw With Rob' Biddulph is a triple-threat cubed: a Youtube sensation, a writer, illustrator and not least a snack-mongering champion-of-champions. He tells Nadia and Frank all about his life before children's books, working  for the NME and The Observer among others, and how happy he is to have found his true calling as a storyteller for children - and that, as Frank says, really is something to be.. EMily Drabble from Booktrust is back with more picks from the May bookshelves, and Nadia breaks Frank's heart by telling him in no uncertain terms that there are occasions she just needs a bit of me-that-means-not-you time. 

4/18/24 Reacting to United's 4th round Open Cup draw with Seth Biddulph ( @SethBiddulph )

The Black Donnellys and the Feud of Biddulph escalated from a family squatting on a plot of land, to accidentally killing their landlord, and resulted in the massacre of five people and their farm burned to the ground and this week on The Dust Up, Al and Jay break it down and talk about fights on the golf course, who could survive being on the lam, and how Al almost lost his rent money to a stripper (but not in the way you think). Don't forget to Rate, Review, and Subscribe. Give us a five star review. It helps with the algorithm. We don't know how. Follow us on social media. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedustuppodcast/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDustUpTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedustupX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDustUpPod@almadrigal and @almadrigalcomedy on TikTok@jaylarsoncomedy everywhere Do you have a dust up in your life? Have you ever lost it on someone? You know you have. Call in, leave a message and we'll help settle your dust ups. Call us at (925) 727-3878‬ that's 925-727-DUSTOr write in at thedustuppod@gmail.com Theme song provided by @TheFlattrakkers

Kathleen Parlow was one of the most outstanding violinists at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1912, she was signed by the Columbia Record Company in New York, and her first records for the U.S. label were brought out alongside those of the legendary Eugene Ysaÿe. Listen to her fascinating story and how she took the world by storm. From her devastating looks to the intrigue her priceless instrument created. You will hear rare recordings of this prodigious player as we retell her life and try to understand why such an incredible talent has been so forgotten today. Brought to you by Biddulph recordings   TRANSCRIPT   Kathleen Parlow Part 1  Welcome to this very first episode of the Historical Strings Recording Podcast.  A show that gives you a chance to hear rare and early recordings of great masters and their stories.  Hello, my name is Linda Lespets. I'm a violin maker and restorer in Sydney, Australia, and I'm also the host of another podcast called ‘The Violin Chronicles',  a show about the lives of historically important violin makers and their instruments. But today we have a different podcast and telling this incredible story with me is my co-host Eric Wen. Hello, my name is Eric Wen, and I'm the producer at Biddulph Recordings, which is a label that focuses upon reissuing historic recordings, particularly those by famous string players of the past.  I also teach at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where I've been for the past 24 years. In this first episode, we will be looking at an incredibly talented violinist called Kathleen Parlow, who, in her time, took Europe and the world by storm, giving even Fritz Kreisler a run for his money in the popularity department. She was described in the media as being ‘One of the phenomena of the musical world' on par with Mischa Elman, or the ‘greatest lady violinist in the world', and ‘the girl with the golden bow'.  She was treated with superstar status wherever she went, which begs the question as to why she is so little known today? Well, join us to discover her incredible story, the events of her career and her violin. A violin which would eventually financially ruin one man and divide his family. We will take a closer look at high hat kicking breakdancers, militant fascists, scandalous theatre directors, impossible love, a score ripping composer, and all this revolving around one of the world's most expensive violins and the incredible means one man went to get it into his hot little hands and then give it away. This is the story of Kathleen Parlow.  And all of the pieces you will be hearing in this podcast are of Kathleen Parlow playing her violin. Kathleen Parlow was born into a modest family in Calgary on the Canadian prairies in 1890.  Her mother, Minnie, was a violinist. So, at a young age at four, she gave her daughter a violin and started teaching her. When she was six years old, the family, Kathleen, Minnie, and her father, Charlie, they moved to San Francisco where her talent was immediately recognized. And well, this is probably because of the, the mom. And she was having lessons with her cousin called Conrad Coward in San Francisco.  Very soon, still aged six, she gave her first recital in San Francisco.  So is six, is six a reasonable age for a child to give a recital? What do you think? It's extremely young. In fact, that is truly prodigious. I mean, people don't even begin the violin till six and that's an early beginning of an instrument. Most people start around seven or eight, but to begin much earlier and to even be playing a concert at the age of six. That's really quite phenomenal. So with her burgeoning talent, she now started having lessons with Henry Holmes, who was a pupil of Louis Spohr, the well-known German composer and violinist. And he's a conductor and who he's the man who apparently invented the chin rest.  So where would we be without the chin rest, really? He's attributed with inventing it.  Well, Spohr was a fine violinist, German violinist. He was also a quite prominent composer. He was quite a conservative composer. So, I believe he wasn't that fond of the music of Beethoven. In other words, there were people like Spohr, Von Weber, and they represented a much more conservative branch of the sort of German composition.  of the German composers. And basically, they looked upon Beethoven as such a wild revolutionary in his music, so daring that I think they were almost a little offended by it. So Spohr, if you could say, is primarily a kind of conservative, very well-schooled, excellent composer. He wrote many, many violin concertos, the most famous of which is No. 8 in A minor, which is written in the form of an operatic scene. Full of violin solo recitatives and arias for the violin. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's interesting. So they were, there was like very shocked by Beethoven. They were, apparently. Was he a contemporary of Beethoven? Because I, because sometimes you go back pretty quickly, don't you? Like the teacher of the teacher of and all of a sudden you're in like the Well, Spohr was born 14, he's 14 years younger than Beethoven. Oh, okay. So, he was born in 1784, but he lived a lot longer. He lived over 20 years longer than Beethoven. Oh, wow. And that's fascinating. So, Henry Holmes, Kathleen Parlow's teacher, was taught by this guy who would have known Beethoven? Yes, absolutely. And objected to Beethoven.  Was shocked by his music. Well, I mean, I think sort of the, you might say the more mature Beethoven or the more daring Beethoven. But I think, you know, I'm sure maybe some of Beethoven's early works were much more acceptable. They were more normative, so to speak. Oh, okay.  So Kathleen's in San Francisco and her parents' marriage is breaking down. Her father, Charlie, moves back to Calgary where he dies of tuberculosis the year after. But Kathleen, she rockets on and is becoming more and more well known. Her new teacher sees real talent in the girl, and this teacher, Henry Holmes, he has contacts to make things happen. And he helps arrange a tour for her and playing engagements in England. So for this to happen, Kathleen's mum, she's, she's I'm getting stage mum vibes. Yes.  Because she's still very, still very young. Oh, yeah. I mean, I can't believe she wasn't playing with dolls.  And this would have been a conversation between Minnie, Kathleen's mum, and the teacher. It probably wouldn't have been a conversation with her as a child. No, probably not.  You don't really choose much when you're six, seven. No, that's true. So the problem they have is that they have no money. So, so what do you do, Eric? You have no money, you have a prodigy. You exploit the prodigy by having them play and make an income for you, which is something that happens unfortunately to many, many talented musicians coming from, you might say, less well-off families. They end up becoming the breadwinner. All their focus gets put upon these, these kids. And so not only do they have the added burden of playing and making sure they keep up They're playing well, but they also have the burden of making sure that they play well enough to make an income so that their families can survive. I mean, that's a very familiar story, and it's a story that has more failures than winners, I'm afraid, because you do hear about the winners. You do hear about the Misha Elmans or the Yasha. Well, Heifetz is a little different because he had a more middle-class family, but you do hear of Oskar Shumsky, for example, who I know I knew personally, he says, don't believe that these violence that you hear about having normal childhood behind every great violence, there's always a mama or a papa. And I think he himself endured that kind of pressure, the pressure to somehow become. The breadwinner, or let's say the some, the pressure to become a great violinist, primarily because he would serve as the breadwinner for the family. Well, if you think about it, you could say that.  Violin playing in the early 20th century was very dominated by Russians, particularly Russian Jews. And one of the reasons for that was that in Russia, all the Jews were confined to an area known as the Pale of Settlement.  In other words, a designated area that they could live in, but they could not leave that particular area. And basically, some very gifted young students could get into university or could go into a conservatory, and one of the big examples was Misha Elman, and Misha Elman, you might say left the Pale of Settlement to go study with Leopold Auer in St Petersburg. And they had to get all sorts of permission to do that. Well, the success of Misha Elman, the global success, the international success, I think resonated so well. with the people in the ghetto that they sort of saw, wow, this is one of our boys and look what he's done. He's now playing for the crowned heads of Europe. So I think for them, they felt this was a way out. And if you think about it, the film, Fiddler on the Roof,  which is a famous musical and it was adapted as a famous film. And basically, that film, just the very title, talks about the Fiddler on the Roof. And the setting is in the Pale of Settlement, the Jewish ghetto in Russia. They're often subjected to random attacks by the Cossacks and all sorts of difficulties. But here, despite all that, you know they manage to survive. And of course the image of the Fiddler on the Roof. The violinist is exemplified, you might say, by Misha Elman, who literally grew up in the Russian ghetto. Yeah, and Misha Elman, he'll, he'll become, he He'll become important in our story, yeah. The money. This is not a problem. There is a wealthy admirer called Harriet Pullman, Carolan, in San Francisco. And she pays for Kathleen and her mother to take the trip to England. And in 1904, at the age of 14, Kathleen plays for King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace. And then in the next year in 1905, she and her mother, they come back to England. This tour marks the beginning of a life that she would lead for years to come of performing and playing. And so by the time she was 15, she was touring and playing with the London Symphony. And it was in a concert at the Wigmore Hall in London that she really shoots to fame.  So is the Wigmore Hall, is that, is that still today an important place to play? Oh, extremely so. It's funny because the Wigmore Hall was originally called the Bechstein Hall, and obviously during the wars, it became a much more the name was more neutralized to become less dramatic, and it became named after the street it's on, which is Wigmore Street. It was always a very important venue, but around the sort of 60s In the 70s it had declined a bit in its status because the South Bank had been built and so the Wigmore Hall was a little bit relegated to a sort of a little second class status. But in the past 20 years or so the Wigmore Hall has catapulted to  fame again and it's today one of the most distinguished halls. In London. All right. Okay. And this is, this is pre war. So it's, it would have been called? Bechstein. Okay. So it would have been called the Bechstein Hall when she played? Probably. Oh yeah, definitely. So the Bechstein Hall was, I think first opened in 1901 and it was built by the piano manufacturers, the German manufacturers Bechstein, hence the name. And after the First World War, I believe it was changed to a more neutral sounding, less Germanic name, and it adopted the name of the street that it's currently on, which is Wigmore Street. Incidentally, the first concert at Wigmore Hall was actually performed, was a violin and piano recital, performed by Eugene Ysaye and Federico Busoni.  And then one night in London, Kathleen and her mother went to another concert of another child prodigy called Mischa Elman. And he was, so he's the fiddler on the roof guy, and he was almost exactly the same age as Kathleen. He was just a few months there's just a few months difference between them. And she, she hears him playing this concert and she's, she's just blown away. Blown away, and after the concert, she and her mother decide that Kathleen, she just has to go and have lessons from the same teacher as this, as this, as Mischa. So the only thing, only little thing about Mischa Elman's teacher is that he is in Russia. And as far as anyone knows, no foreigners study in the St. Petersburg Conservatorium, but that is about to change. Definitely no ladies. So, Kathleen and her mother had arrived in England with 300 raised by their church in San Francisco and this was, it just wasn't enough to get them to Russia and to the conservatorium where the famed Leopold Auer was a professor, but get there they would because Kathleen's mum, Minnie, still had a few tricks up her sleeve. She went and petitioned the Canadian High Commissioner.  So she must have been, I feel like Minnie, she must have been very persuasive. Like there was nothing was getting in between, you know, her daughter and this career. Forceful, a task to be reckoned with, certainly. Yeah. She's like we'll get to England, we have no money. Not a problem. We're gonna, we're gonna get this teacher. He's in Russia. Not a problem. No foreigners. It, you know, it doesn't, it doesn't seem to be a problem for her, no girls. Not a problem. No foreigner has ever studied in this St. Petersburg conservatorium. Not daunted. They're off. They go. So to pay the cost travel, Minnie managed to get a loan from Lord Strathconia, the Canadian high commissioner.  And from there, mother and daughter travelled to Russia. And in October of 1906, Kathleen becomes the first foreigner to attend the St. Petersburg Conservatorium. And in her class are 45 Students and she's the only girl. And we have to remember this is pre-revolutionary Russia. So there's still the Tsar Nicholas the second at this point. Yeah. She's mixing in, in that set. So it's an interesting place to be as a musician. Cause you're frequenting the sort of the upper classes but you can come from, from nothing and arrive there. Her professor was the famed teacher, Leopold Auer, who had a knack of discovering talent. Leopold Auer was actually a Hungarian violinist, and he was trained in Vienna, and he also studied with Joachim.  And what happened was Russia has always had a sort of love for the violin, and they employed many people to teach at the conservatory, because they really embraced Western culture. They had A number of important French violinists come, but their big, you might say, catch was to get Vieuxtemps, Henri Vieuxtemps,  to teach for a number of years at, in St. Petersburg. And after Henry Vieuxtemps, they actually got Henry Wieniawski to teach at the conservatory. And when Wieniawski decided to go back to Europe, they employed Leopold Auer to take his place at St Petersburg. Right. So he's up there with the big names. Well, they were a little bit let down. I mean, that's what they were, I think, a little bit disappointed to replace Wieniawski with Leopold Auer because Wieniawski was such a major violinist. So he had initially a little rough time, but he was adored by Tchaikovsky and Tchaikovsky loved Auer's playing, dedicated a number of works for him, including the famous serenade melancholic, and wrote a lot number of ballet scores, which Leopold Auer played the solos for. But of course, they had a big rift when Tchaikovsky wrote his violin concerto for Auer, because Auer said it was unplayable.  And that really hurt Tchaikovsky's feelings. And it laid dormant for several years before another Russian violinist. Brodsky took it up, learned it, and. Premiered it in Europe first, and only after its success in Europe did he bring it back to Russia, where it became a big success, and Auer felt very bad about that, and in fact, just before Tchaikovsky died, a few months before Tchaikovsky died, story has it that Auer went to Tchaikovsky and apologized to Tchaikovsky for his initial mistrust of the concerto. In fact, by that time, Auer himself had actually performed the concerto, championed it, and taught it to many of his students.  Yeah, and we'll see in this story how sensitive composers are, and how easy it is to hurt their feelings and really create. Like a lot of emotional turmoil. That's coming up. So Auer, like he might not have been their first choice for replacing, but he did have a knack of finding star pupils. That is something that we see, that I see in the conservatorium. Every now and then you have a teacher who's very talented at finding talent. Absolutely. And I know in Australia you have one very distinguished teacher who I think now has been poached by the Menuhin School in, in England. Yes. And we're not going to talk about that. Yes, we won't.  Because it's Must be a sore point.  But we do see, we do see him every now and then when he comes back. So along with Elman and Efren Zimbalist, Parlow becomes one of Auer's star pupils and Auer was so taken with her playing that he often called her Elman in a skirt, which I think is supposed to be a compliment. And in Auer's biography, he writes, he says, “It was during this year that my first London pupil came to me, Kathleen Parlow, who has since become one of the first, if not the first, of women violinists”.  And that, he says that in his biography, My Long Life in Music.  So, Every year, Auer had a summer school in Kristiana, which is Oslo today. And Parlow spent her summers there and became a great favourite in Norway, which leads us to the next and perhaps one of the most marking events in her career and life. At 17, having spent a year at the conservatory in Russia, Kathleen begins to put on public performances she gives solo performances in both St. Petersburg and Helsinki. So these are two places she knows quite well by now. And these concerts were, they were very important as Kathleen's mother really had no money to support them. And so, with but you know, Minnie doesn't bother her, she just ploughs on. And so with the money from these concerts this would have to tide her over.  From letters that I've read, they were living in like this small apartment and then another friend writes, you know this other person, they've been saying you live in a tiny little place, but I'm not going to spread that rumor. And, and so it was a, it was a thing on the radar that they didn't have much money and they were scraping by and they were like frequenting people of much more wealthier than they were, so they were sort of on the fringes of society, but with her talent that was sort of pushing, people wanted to know her. So she makes her professional debut in Berlin and then began, she begins a tour of Germany and the Netherlands and Norway. And in Norway, she performs for the King Hakon and Queen Maud. Of whom she'll become a favorite. And, and her touring schedule was phenomenal. It was just like nonstop. So, yeah. For a 17-year-old that's, you know, she's going all over the world. And you were saying that Auer knew . Do Tchaikovsky do you think Auer, was he was giving her these pieces that did, that influenced him? Yes.  I mean, Tchaikovsky  wrote a number of violin, solo violin works before the concerto, the most famous of which is, of course, the Waltz Scherzo and the Serenade  Melancholique. One is a fast, virtuoso piece, the other is a slow, soulful piece. And I know that Auer was the dedicatee of certainly the Serenade Melancholique, which she did play. So, so Auer's giving her stuff from, you know, his friend Tchaikovsky to play. Now she's 17 and she's touring to support herself and her mother and she has an amazing teacher who probably understands her circumstances all too well because Auer growing up also found himself in her position, supporting his father in his youth with his playing. So she's studying in St. Petersburg, which is an incredible feat in itself. So she must have had quite a strong character and her mother, Minnie, also appears to be very ambitious for her daughter. We're talking about her mother being ambitious, but for Kathleen to, you know, she's her daughter, she, she must've had quite a strong wheel as well. Yes. Well, she certainly did.  I wish we knew more about her because maybe she was very subservient, you know, we have no idea. Maybe she didn't have, I mean, it's a speculation, of course. Yeah. We do have like hundreds of letters from Kathleen and there's a lot between her and Auer, and there's a real sort of paternal, he really sort of  cared for her like a daughter almost and she looked up to him like a father and he was always very correct about it, you know, he would always write the letter to her. To Minnie, her mother the correspondents, it was, and it was always very, everything was very above board, but a very, they were very close. Kathleen later says that after expenses, her Berlin debut netted her exactly 10 pounds.  She didn't know it at the time, but this was an indication of what her future would be like, and she would be sort of financially in a precarious state most of her life, and she would so her routine was she studies with Auer every summer in order to prepare, like they were preparing her repertoire for the next season of touring. So now she has a tour  in 1908, so she's still 17, almost 18. It's in Norway, and to understand just a little bit of the political climate in the country, We can see that Norway, only three years earlier, had become independent of Sweden and had basically become its own country. So there's this this great sense of nationalism and pride in being Norwegian. And they have a newly minted king, King Hakon, who she's played for, and his queen, who was, He was in fact a Danish prince. And then when Norway, the Norwegian parliament asked him if he would like to become the king of Norway when they had their independence. And he said, why not? As part of this great sense of nationalism Norwegian musicians, composers, writers, and poets, they were celebrated and became superstars. And, oh gosh, yes, We can sort of understand. Poets have sort of dropped off the list, but back then poets, they were a big deal.  So you add to this a young, fresh faced, talented Canadian girl who knows and understands their country. She arrives in Oslo to play in the National Theatre, where Norway's very own Johan Halvorsen who's conductor and composer and violinist, he's conducting the country's largest professional orchestra. And that night for Kathleen's concert, she plays Brahms and some of  Halvorsen's compositions and the two, Kathleen Parloe and Halvorsen, they would go on to become quite good friends and Halvorsen regarded her very highly in saying, he said that her playing was superior almost to all the other famous soloists who made guest appearances in the city. So, I mean, a lot of people went through Oslo, so that was, you know, high praise.  And Kathleen quickly Becomes a admirer of his and she would become a driving factor in him finishing his violin concerto that he'd been dithering over for a very long time.  And this is Kathleen playing one of Halvorsen's compositions. It's not his concerto, it's Mosaic No. 4. So back to the theatre. And it was a magical night with the romantic music of Brahms to make you fall in love. And everyone did, just some more than others. And to finish off, there's music from their very own Johan Halvorsen to celebrate you know, a Norwegian talent. So Kathleen plays her heart out and when the concert ended, the crowd goes wild and the 17 year old soaks up the thunderous applause. She's holding on tight to her violin as she bows to adoring fans. Tonight she is the darling of Oslo.  In the uproarious crowd stands a man unable to take his eyes off this young woman. Her playing has moved him and her talent is unbelievable.  This man makes a decision that will change both their lives forever. So, Einar Bjornsson had fallen head over heels for the 17 year old Canadian there and then. She would turn 18 in a few months. And in that moment, he decided to give her the most beautiful gift she would ever receive.  So, who is Einar Bjornsson?  So what we were saying, poets, poets are less of a, you know, a hot shot today, but Einar was the son of a very, very famous poet. A Norwegian businessman and son of one of the most prominent public figures of the day, Bjørnstan Bjørnsson. He was a poet, a dramatist, a novelist, a journalist, an editor, a public speaker, and a theatre director. Five years earlier, in 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and one of his poems, called ‘Yes, We Love This Land', was put to music and is the Norwegian national anthem up to this day. So, you could say he was kind of famous in these parts, and his personality alone would have easily filled. A concert hall, that one in Oslo.  Einar's father here, we're talking about Einar's father, he's the poet. Einar himself doesn't appear to have written any poetry. And this, so this situation could have been just fine the whole infatuation, love at first sight thing, except for a few things that put a spanner in the works. To begin with, Einar Björnsson is somewhat older than the youthful Kathleen he's 26 years older.  Then her, in fact, and for a 17 year old, that is a big age gap. So he's 45, but that aside, there is a problem that he's also married and has two children. His daughter is actually almost the same age as Kathleen she's 16, but he doesn't really seem to  see that. All he can see is this violinist and her talent. And he's been just, he's besotted and he's going to make a grand gesture. So obviously, one way to support the arts is to, what patrons do is they will buy, a lovely instrument and lend it to someone. So that's your normal affair. Obviously, one way to show his devotion to her is to find her a better violin. Hers is absolutely not good enough for someone of her talent. And he has to find her something amazing because she is amazing. He's determined to give her the most wonderful gift she has ever received.  So he goes out and he's a businessman. And so he goes to his businessman contacts. And Kathleen would have spoken to her entourage. I imagine, and I now finally finds a violin worthy of Kathleen's virtuosity, and it happens to be one of the most expensive violins on the market in 1908, and it's a 1735 Giuseppe Guarneri Del Gesu violin. It had previously belonged to great violinists  such as Giovanni Battista Viotti and Pierre Baillot. So just to clarify in the violin making world Antonio Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesù are the two top makers. If you're comparing two instruments, if one was owned by no one not anyone that you know. And then another one was owned by Viotti and Pierre Baillot . The one that's owned by Viotti and Pierre Baillot is probably going to be worth more. Yeah. So Viotti, he was just huge. He had a lot of instruments. I think he did a little bit of teaching and dealing on the side, Viotti. Like with the number of instruments named after him, or he just went through a lot of instruments. So she buys this violin, and it's not all smooth sailing to get the violin. Because she, there's this, there's a big correspondence between her and Auer, and we see that actually there's this letter where it says from Auer saying, I saw Hamming very cross.  He says that the violin is compromised if he takes it back. So at one point, I think she may have changed her mind about this violin, but Hamming the dealer was not okay with this. All the I'm just trying to read his writing, it's not that easy. All the papers brought the news That Kathleen bought it so the newspapers have already, so the, you've got Hamming, that's annoyed, the papers have already said they've bought this violin and he could not, it says he could not sell it soon and repeat the sale, waiting till he finds something equal to the Guarneri. He showed me a Strad, indeed wonderful, asking 60, 000 livres, which must be pounds, right?  A nice fellow, isn't he?  And now, goodbye, write to me.  Love, Auer.  They do end up getting the violin. They, they don't get the 60, 000 Strad that Hamming Gets all upset about and offers, which I think he might have been exaggerating the price just to make him calm down about and to keep the del Gesu. Then Einar gives this to Kathleen. So this is a very kind of strange situation because normally you don't, you don't actually give, the patrons don't actually give their instrument to the No, absolutely. That's a remarkable gift. Just in terms of, I mean, the gesture is very magnanimous, but in terms of financial, there's just a financial cost or value of the gift is quite enormous. And  so really after only knowing her for a month, Einar transfers this money into her account and she travels, Kathleen travels to Germany to the Hamming workshop and purchases her del Gesu violin for two thousand pounds  and in today's money  according to an inflation calculator, that is three hundred thousand pounds. Almost four hundred thousand US dollars. More than half a million Australian dollars, which at the time was a lot for a violin as well. So we're not I mean, I, today you'd be kind of happy to buy a Del Gesu for half a million, but then it was, it'd be a bargain. So, it's interesting this, like, he buys this, this young violinist this very expensive present and it's a, and it's a grey area and it's fraught with debate ethically, really. And I feel like today musicians find themselves sometimes in this position where they're sort of indebted to the, to a benefactor. It's almost feudal. I I feel cause at the same time you're very happy that they're lending it to you, but got to keep an eye on if it's a healthy relationship to. To get the money he had to get, you know, half a million pounds pretty quickly. If you remember, Ina's father was a very famous poet who'd won a Nobel Prize in literature and part of the prize is that you win a large sum of money. And so, what does Einar do? He goes and asks Dad. So he asks, he borrows, he borrows most of the money actually. Goodness knows how he convinced him, but you know, he's a businessman. And also for the remaining, he's married, remember, and he's married to, actually, to an heiress, and he takes a bunch of her, her dowry money and transfers this to essentially a teenager he met a month ago. The purchase of this incredibly expensive violin attracted, it attracted the attention of the press internationally, but journalists It's never really questioned the fact that this, this gift was given to a young woman by a, by an established family man. So everyone was just like, Oh, isn't it amazing? Because normally in this circumstance, people don't often give the instrument. You buy it as an investment and you'll lend it to someone. I think I've heard of like very few, very few cases of things being gifted, but actually normally your standard practice is to, to lend it to people. And most people playing on strads, that's, that's what it is, someone's lent it to them. How would you feel about someone giving a 300, 000 instrument to your daughter, who's a teenager? Well, I'd be, I mean, I'd just hate the sort of obligation that would involve, because On one hand, it is a very wonderful gift if it is a gift, but you almost expect that  there is some expectation in return, don't you? Yeah. It's like he's bought her almost.  Kind of.  So, Einar, as, as I mentioned, he's, he's from a well known Norwegian family. They're very patriotic. His father's writings really established a sense of pride and meaning to what it was to be Norwegian. And he was. Like his father was this beloved figure in the country and he was quite frankly a hard act to follow. But his children gave it a good shot.  You have Einar was one of five children. His father Bjornstein Bjornsson was the poet and public figure. He worked in a theatre. His mother was an actress when he'd met her. Which is a little bit risque also for the time. So they're a bit more of sort of an acting bohemian theatre family. His older brother Bjorn Bjornsson, just to be complicated here, his brother's called Bjorn Bjornsson.  And not to be confused with Bjornstein Bjornsson, his father. So he was a stage actor and a theatre director.  Like his dad. He was a playwright and he was the first theatre director of the National Theatre. And that was the big theatre in Oslo where Kathleen played. He was also quite busy in his personal life, because his first wife was Jenny Bjornsson. I mean, another Bjornsson. Boarding house owner. So he married her for four years. So this is Einars older brother. He married her for four years, then he divorced her, then he married an opera singer. Called Gina Oselio for 16 years, but then he, they, they got divorced, and then he married in 1909 Aileen Bendix, who was actually Jewish, and that's an important point, that she was Jewish, because at this time, things are kind of soon things will start heating up in Europe. And then he was, then there was Einar's younger brother called Erling Bjørnson, and he was a farmer and a politician for the Norwegian Far Right Party. So he was extreme right. Bit of a fascist. The other brother. So he was elected to the parliament of Norway and he was very active during World War II. So his two brothers have very, like, polarized opinions. Einar himself, he was a passive member of the far right party, but during the war years at that time that was the only party that people were allowed to be part of, so you can't, it's hard to tell his political leanings from that. Then he has a younger sister.  Bergliot Bjornson, and she was a singer and a mezzo soprano, and she was married to a left wing politician Sigurd Ibsen, who was, he was the son of a playwright, and he becomes the Norwegian Prime Minister, so he plays a central role in Norway getting its independence. He met Einar's sister because he's a big patriot. Einar's father is a big patriot and that's how they were kind of family friends. It's not bad, you know, having your husband as the prime minister. Then he has another little sister called Dagny Bjornson and she was 19 when she marries a German publisher called Albert Langdon and so they're sort of like leftish as well. So Einar, he marries the sister of Albert Langdon. So they have this joint brother sister wedding. On the same day, the Bjornson brothers sisters marry the Langdon brothers sisters. But, the important thing to know is that the Langdons are very, very wealthy. They're orphans and they, they've inherited a lot of money. And so, but then Dagny, she ends up leaving her husband. Goes to Paris and works at another newspaper. And this is all in the, you know, the early 1900s.  So she had this amazing life and then and then she marries another man, a French literate called Georges Sartreau well he comes also from a very wealthy family. Then you have Einar, who's a businessman, and he marries Elizabeth and they have two children, and his life is like not that remarkable. I think the most exciting thing he does is fall in love with Kathleen, I suppose, and sort of runs after her and her violin. From Kathleen's diaries, we can see the day after this concert in Oslo on the 10th of January, it's written 10th January, Mr Bjornson, 11;30am She meets with him the day after skiing and tobogganing with the Bjornsons. She has a concert the next day, but the day after that it's dinner with the Bjornsons, then another concert. And then she plays for the King. Then she goes to dinner with the Bjornsons. So this is just an excerpt from her diary for those weeks. And the next day, it's just Mr. Bjornson. That's just her meeting him not with the family. And maybe this is where he says, you know, I'll get you a violin. Maybe that was that meeting. And then on the 28th of February, she's in Germany and, and he's there. Einar is there. He goes to see her. Then on the 6th of March, she's in Amsterdam and in her diaries, you know, Mr Bjornson, he's there. He's kind of like, I don't know if this is creepy. He's following her around and then, and it's around about this time that he buys the violin for her. So she finishes her tour and she goes back to England and a month later in her diary, who rocks up?  I know, he's there.  In England, and she's still only 17 there. It's like he's kind of shadowing her a bit. Yes, it's that next level patronage.  And then there's the, the aesthetic at the time, the, the pre-Raphaelite willowy type woman, which she fits perfectly into. And Kathleen, if you, if you see Kathleen, it's kind of like. John William Waterhouse, his paintings. There's women in these long flowy robes with flowers in their hair and long willowy postures and, they're often like, you know, they're flopping about on something like a chair or there's this one holding this pot of basil. And there's that famous painting, The Lady of Shalott, where you've got this woman float, is she, is she dead? She's floating in the water with her hair and, and all this fabric and flowers and.  In a promotional article, there was this quote from a review in the Evening Sun. “Kathleen Parlow, tall, straight, slim, and swaying as the white birch sapling of her native Canada, but a spring vision, but a spring vision all in pink from her French heels to her fiddle chin rest and crowned with parted chestnut hair of a deeper auburn than any Stradivarius violin made an astonishing impression of masterful ease”. I don't know if men were described like this, but they loved her. She's like a white birch.  Well she's very slender, she had beautiful long hair she was very thin, very fragile, and I think she sort of exemplified this pre Raphaelite beauty basically and that was so enchanting to have someone who  was almost from another world playing the violin divinely. I think she must have cut an incredibly attractive image  for the day. Absolutely. Yeah. And then she would have been like playing these like incredible romantic pieces. It would be juxtaposed with her playing. Yeah. And yeah. Yes. So she was this real William Waterhouse figure with her violin.  So she's lithe and willowy, and she has her touring schedule, which was phenomenal. She, so she tours England, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Just to name a few. It just kind of stopped after that. It was just never ending. And you have to remember it's the beginning of the 20th century,  and traveling, it's not like it is today. It was much more. Uncomfortable. I mean, it's incredible. You see one day she's in one country, the next day in another country. So this must have been quite fatiguing. And she's just playing night after night. Her mother, Minnie, she's her, she's, they're quite close. She's, and often like with these, with prodigies, often their parents. They're best friends, like they're the only constant in their life. So in the summers, she returns to Oslo every year for the summer school hour that's helping her for the next concerts. She spends quite a lot of time with Halverson, going to lunches and teas and rehearsals with him. You can see this in her diaries.  But is this, is this kind of the life of a musician as well? Like you have to, you have to go to a lot of teas and lunches with people to please patrons and so on. Yes, I think you do because musicians don't normally have much money and so to ingratiate themselves to patrons and sponsors they really had to coax them into help Yeah, because she's living this life sort of beyond her means, going to the theater, going to concerts and things, and sort of a balancing act. Back in Norway, and a week after she turns 18, there's an entry in her diary, play for Mr. Bjornson, and the next month her entries, they change slightly, and she'll now just call him E. B. For Einar Bjornson and the entries will say things like E. B. arriving and then often like a week later It's E. B. leaving and in her diaries, it's intermittently always though he'll be there for a week wherever she is often in England or and every few months He'll just pop up, you know in London in Germany in the Netherlands And he just always happens to be happens to be there and what's interesting is she has these hundreds of letters archived Of her writing to friends, to family, to her pianist. And it's really interesting that there's zero letters to Einar. There's no correspondence between them, which I think is maybe on purpose, they may be, they have to have been removed because she just writes letters to everyone, but we don't have these, any letters from them, so it just leaves things up to speculation. This brings us to the end of part one in the story of Kathleen Parlow. I would encourage you to keep listening to the music of Kathleen. To do this, Biddulph Recordings have released two CDs that you can listen to on Apple Music, Spotify, or any other major streaming service. You can also buy the double CD of her recordings if you prefer the uncompressed version. I hope you have enjoyed her story so far, but stick around for part two to find out what will happen with her career, the violin, the man who gave it to her, and the mystery behind a missing concerto that Kathleen would, in part, help solve after her death.  Goodbye for now.   ​ 

Part II Kathleen Parlow was one of the most outstanding violinists at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1912, she was signed by the Columbia Record Company in New York, and her first records for the U.S. label were brought out alongside those of the legendary Eugene Ysaÿe. Listen to her fascinating story and how she took the world by storm. From her devastating looks to the intrigue her priceless instrument created. You will hear rare recordings of this prodigious player as we retell her life and try to understand why such an incredible talent has been so forgotten today. Brought to you by Biddulph recordings   Transcript     Welcome to the Historical String Recordings podcast, a show that gives you a chance to hear rare and early recordings of great masters and their stories.  My name is Linda Lespets and my co host is Eric Wan. This is part two of the story of the remarkably talented violinist Kathleen Parlow. In part one, we met a prodigious talent. She was the first foreigner to study in the Russian Conservatorium in St. Petersburg with the famous teacher Auer, and her most ardent admirer had given her an extraordinary gift of a Guarneri del Gesù violin. But just how far can talent, hard work, and good looks get this young woman in the beginning of the 20th century? Keep listening to find out. So now it's 1909 and Kathleen has her career taking off. She has her teacher with connections, she has her violins, and the concert that she did in the National Theatre, the one where Einar saw her for the first time, the one with Johan Halvorsen conducting, well Kathleen and Johan hit it off. And now, a year later Johan Halvorsen has finished his violin concerto, and he's been working so long and hard on it, like it's his baby and, he actually dedicates this concerto to Kathleen Parlow, and asks her to premiere it with the Berlin Philharmonic at the Modenspa outside The Hague in the Netherlands in the summer of 1909. Then Johan Halversen writes this concerto, which is sort of athletic and sort of gymnastic to play. And  he finishes it and dedicates it to her to Kathleen Parlow. And she plays this very tricky piece which kind of shows his faith in her virtuosic talents.  Well, one of her first recordings was the Moto Perpetuo by Paganini and Auer says it's one of the most difficult pieces in terms of bowing technique ever written, he says in one of his books. The reason why is one has to keep a very controlled bow, crossing strings all over the place, and play it very rapidly. Now Kathleen Parlow's recording of the Paganini Moto Perpetuo, which was made in her first recording session for HMV, is really astounding. It's the fastest  version ever made. I think it's even faster than the Jascha Heifetz and Yehudi Menuhin.  Clean as a whistle, but she also phrases it so beautifully. So she doesn't just play it technically very fast. She really shapes, you know, it's all regular sixteenth notes or semiquavers, and yet she shapes the line beautifully and really gives a direction. So when you hear this, you realize she's more than just a virtuoso performer. She's somebody with real musicianship.  She's an astounding player. And this concerto, it's quite interesting. It's, it's tricky and it's a piece that really shows off a virtuoso. So it's, it's quite a good one for Kathleen. And at the same time, he gives it a Norwegian twist. It's cleverly composed and a virtuoso such as Kathleen was perfect for playing this piece. There are references to Norwegian folk music. In the last movement, we can hear pieces that were traditionally played on the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. So it's a violin that has sympathetic strings that run under the fingerboard, and it gives it quite like a like a haunting sound, a very kind of Scandinavian sound. So there are bits in this concerto that are from traditional music played on that violin. Then there's, there's this fun bit which makes a reference to a traditional Norwegian dance called the Halling Dance. And the Halling Dance is danced, it's danced by men at weddings or parties, and there's really no other way to describe it than breakdancing and it's like the ancestor of breakdancing. So what happens is the men, they show off their prowess to the ladies by doing this really cool sort of these acrobatics and the music for this hailing dance itself is quite tricky and you have to play it with like a rhythm to get the crowd moving and to give the dancer like the impetus to do his tricks and the men, they wear these like traditional costumes of like high waisted breeches and red waistcoats with long puffy sleeves and this little black hat. It's a bit like Mr. Darcy meets Run DMC.  You've got this man in this traditional dress doing this breakdancing, basically. And then they do they do backflips. They do that thing where you hold your foot and you jump through it with your other foot. They do like the caterpillar move. Even like spitting around on their heads. And what happens is they'll be, they'll be dancing to this music often played with, you know, the epinette and they'll be spinning around and then intermittently after spinning around, they'll do, you know, the backflip and the headspin or the, the caterpillar. And it's, I don't know how they do it. It's, they must be very dizzy. Anyway, it's incredible. And then sort of the climax of the dance is that there's a woman also, you know, dressed traditionally, and she's got this pole, this long pole. And on the end of the pole is a hat. And the idea is you have to kick the hat off, but the pole is three meters high.  So she's standing on like a ladder with the pole. And so the dancer, he'll do this kind of flying kick in the air. Either you can, you kick it off or you miss it. So in Johan Halvorsen's concerto at the end, there's this high harmonic and that you either have to hit on the G string. And like in the dance, you know, you're hitting that hat off. And so you're always there. You're always wondering if the soloist can pull it off. Can they, can they hit that high harmonic? And it's, it's the same sort of the equivalent of the spinning high kick from the dance. So, and if you were Norwegian, You would get this, I think, from the, from the music and you'd hear it. You hear that you do hear it in the music. So Kathleen Parlow, she plays this Halversen concerto and she plays it three times that year, and when she plays the piece in the National Theatre in September, there's sort of, there are mixed reviews with the critics saying that the piece was too unconventional. It's a little bit different and here's where Halvorsen, he like, he kicks up a stink a bit. This, because this concerto is like his baby and he's really protective and he's like, you know, he's quite fragile. He's, he's worked so much on this thing and people are just saying, you know, nasty things.  They don't understand the work that went into it. Yeah, you write a concerto.  So people, they flocked to hear Kathleen play Johan Halversen's concerto at the theatre. And it was full to bursting on several nights in a row. And if you consider on the same night in Oslo in another hall, Fritz Kreisler was playing and here you have Kathleen Parlow and people are just like cramming in to see her and Halvorsen's concerto. She was a huge name in her time. Only after a few performances and the negative critiques, Johan Halvorsen, he cancelled all the future performances of the work and, and when he retired, he burnt the manuscripts and asked for all the copies to be destroyed as well, it really, he was really hurt. Well, it was to be lost forever, except So a hundred years later, a copy of the concerto was serendipitously found in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, when one of the employees was looking through, not music, but personal documents of Kathleen's and it had been filed in there by mistake. And because it was with her personal files, it hadn't really, like her letters and things, it had been overlooked. So they found it and they resurrected it and they've re performed this concerto that had been lost for a hundred years.  And that's another role as a musician. You're also not managing, but you also have to deal with composers that could have quite be quite touchy and everything like a musician has to have, have on their plate. Well, I think being a musician, not only do you have to have an incredible skill level, you have to have an engaging personality. You have to be able to transmit a personality through the music itself. And you have to have incredible social grace to navigate charming not only your audience, but charming the people who create the concerts, the sponsors, the people who bankroll them. I think it's an incredibly difficult task. Because the skill level playing the violin is so difficult. That in itself would take up most people's energy. But on top of that, also have to be ingratiating and charming. I think it's an incredibly difficult life. Yeah, must be exhausting. And she does get exhausted. She'll have Breakdowns through, like her first one is when she's about 22. She has like almost like a nervous breakdown. And so it's kind of, she runs hot for a long time and then crashes.  And it might be like, you're saying like all these different things they have to, all the balls that they have in the air that they're juggling to keep it going. Kathleen Parlow, she's still in her teens. She's still a teenager. She has incredible success. She's performing in Germany and the Netherlands. And later that same year, she returns to Canada where she makes an extensive tour. She makes her debut in New York and Philadelphia.  I mean, she's just like, she's just all over. I mean, America's a big place and she's just all over the place.  And then in 1909, at the age of 19, she gets a recording contract with the gramophone company known as his master's voice. And that's the one with the dog listening into a recording trumpet.  And she was offered a 10 percent artist's royalty figure. So is that good? Getting 10 percent royalties? Yes. A 10 percent royalty at that time. is really quite unheard of. I believe the gramophone company gave that to their superstars. Louisa Tetrazzini, for example, was the great coloratura soprano of the day, and she received 10 percent of the sales royalty. So for Kathleen Parlow to be receiving that percentage really attests to her status. Yeah. And like you were saying before, it was, it's like amazing that we've forgotten about her. Oh, it's kind of astounding. She was an absolute star. The concert halls and one newspaper wrote an article and I quote one of the articles, the young woman could not mistake the furor she created. She was, so she was described as the greatest woman violinist in the world and the girl of the golden bow and Of course the obsession with her willowy figure and pale complexion and feminine wilds continues Which is sort of I mean even the case today I suppose will people will go into describing a woman and what she's wearing what she looks like a bit more than a guy, this thing that's just pervaded and then there was Einar Bjornsson, always there in the background. The communications between them, himself and Kathleen, was sort of constant. He was always visiting and in her diary she was, you know, just abbreviating his name because it was so his feelings for the young woman were extreme and the money he borrowed from his father, he would never be able to repay. So he was sort of indebted his whole life because of this. It must have been a little bit awkward explaining to his wife as well where the money has gone. Yeah, it's a big chunk of her dowry. I mean, even if he did tell her, maybe, you know, I don't know, maybe he didn't tell her. Maybe she, it was possible for him to do that. I'm not sure how the laws in Norway work. If, you know, sometimes in some countries, once you marry, your, your money becomes your husband's.  Basically, after the successful gramophone company recordings, she was really launched her career. She travelled all over. She travelled to, back to the United States, even though she's from Canada. She was regarded as a British artist, primarily because Canada was part of Britain, but then she made her success in the United States. And she was a very big success, so much so that the Columbia Record Company decided to offer her a recording contract. Now, there were two main companies in the United States. One of them was the Victor talking machine, which is essentially, that later became RCA Victor when it was bought by the Radio Corporation of America. But it originally started as the Victor talking machine. They had many, many big artists. They had people like Fritz Kreisler and Mischa Elman, and they also engaged a female violinist by the name of Maude Powell, who was an American born violinist. And so the Columbia Record Company decided that they should have their own roster of great instrumentalists, particularly violinists. And so they signed up Eugene Ysaie,  the great Belgian violinist, but at the same time they also signed up And I think, in a sense, that was to somehow put themselves in competition with the Victor Company. These two major record companies in the United States. So you had  the Victor Company with Mischa Elman and Fritz Kreisler and their female star, Maude Powell. And then you have Columbia answering back with Eugenie Ysaie and their female star, Kathleen Parlow.  Yeah. So you have like we were saying, like all the relationships that you have to keep juggling as a musician. And I think what Kathleen Parlow had on top of that was this. This complicated relationship with Einar, her, her patron, who was, who it was, it's all a bit ambiguous what was going on there, but she also had that in the equation. So it's not surprising that she had multiple breakdowns like she would just go for it and then, and crash. And she plays, I think Kreisler's tambourine chinois. And was that because there was sort of this, like this kind of fascination with the Orient at that time in the, in like the 1910s, 1920s? Well, the origin of tambourine chinois, apparently according to Kreisler, but Kreisler always spun tall tales. He said that he was in a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco when the idea, the musical ideas of tambourine chinois came to, to being. So, but Kreisler always. You know, invented stories all the time. I mean, the thing is, it's a very  playful, it's a very you know, fun piece of music. It's very bustling.  So, hence, that's why probably Fritz Kreisler is associated with a busy Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, because it's very, very bustling in its character. But the middle section of Tamborine Chinois It's Act Viennese,  so it's funny, because the middle section, when you hear it, it doesn't sound like anything  to do with the Orient, or if anything, it sounds like the cafe, coffeehouses  of Vienna. Yeah, it'd probably be cancelled anyway today. Well, if they heard that story, it certainly would. Then, she actually only does her first tour in America when she's 20. Kathleen, she continues with her endless touring and concert. Her money management was never great, although, you know, she's still, she's still earning quite a lot of money, and her mother and herself had, they had enough to live on, but never enough to be completely hassle free. And not that she wanted it, it seemed like she was sort of addicted to this life of the stage, and she once said when she was older that she thought maybe she had to get a job teaching, but she just couldn't do it.  She played more than 375 concerts between 1908 and 1915 and, and you can believe it to get an idea. So she's 19 year old's touring schedule. Here are the countries she played in in 1909. And you have to remember the concerts are nonstop every night, almost in different cities, but here are just, here are just some of the countries she travelled to in this year, in 1909. Germany, England, Poland, Netherlands, then she goes back to England, Ireland, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Norway, Wales, England again, Ireland again, England, Scotland, Poland. Man, I gave it, it was just, you know, huge. And in her diaries we can see that she's, like, she's just a young woman, like, about town when she's in London, she takes trips to the theatre, and she talks about going to see Madame Butterfly, and she goes shopping, and she goes to tea with people she has like, appointments at the dressmaker for fittings for new dresses, and, and all of this is in between lessons, and rehearsals, and concerts. And her diary is just jam, she has these day books and they're just jam packed. Then Auer when he comes to London, her diary, it's like she has lessons with him. And you can see she's sort of excited, she's like hours arriving and then she'll see him and then she'll often have lunch with him and lessons and sometimes the lessons are at eight o'clock at night or, or 10am on a Saturday or at the middle of the night on a Monday. And she'll skip from him to rehearsals with her pianist from Carlton Keith. And she's lots of tea. She's going to tea a lot with a lot of different people. She's still only 19 here. So her popularity, it's like, it's far reaching and she's not just playing like classical music. She'll also play just popular pieces of the day. There's Kreisler's Tambourine Chinoise. And then she'll play, there's some of the recordings. They're these Irish, little Irish. Songs. So it was to appeal to the general public as well, her repertoires and her recordings. And then in 1910, she turns 20 and she has her first tour in North America. And then in 1911, the New York Herald declares her as one of the phenomena of the musical world on par with Mischa Elman. That must have been frustrating because for years she's in the same class as him and she knows him. And everyone just keeps comparing her to, she's like, Oh, she's almost as good as this guy. But no, here they're saying she is as good as this guy. I could just, must've been a little bit frustrating. Then she makes an appearance with the Toronto Symphony in 1911 and she'll go back there many times. And in the next year, in 1912, she moved with her mother, who's still her mentor and manager and chaperone, to England, where they, they rent a house just out of Cambridge, you know, in the peaceful countryside away from the big cities. And in between her touring from here, she went, she goes to China, to the U. S., to Korea and Japan. And in Japan, she records with Nipponophone Company. She recorded quite just in a not much in a short space of time. She could have, she could have recorded more afterwards, because yeah, but she doesn't. Then the news of the tragic sinking of the Titanic in April had Kathleen jumping on a streamliner herself to play a benefit concert in New York for the survivors of the disaster. And I've seen that booklet, and that you open the booklet, and there's like, life insurance.  And then there's actually ads for another streamliner, and you're like, too soon, too soon, people don't want this. And then she plays, so on that same trip, she plays at the Met Opera. She plays Tchaikovsky's Serenade, Melancholique.  And in New York, she signed up by Columbia Record, by the Columbia Record Company. And her first records for the US label are brought out alongside those of Eugene Ysaye. So she's alongside these, they all, they must've all known each other. She was a contemporary and she just kind of slips off the radar. And as with all the recordings of the great violinists of the day, most of Paolow's recordings on American Columbia were of popular songs and that, that would attract the general public. But the fact that most of these recordings were accompanied by an orchestra and not just piano highlights her status as a star. So they had the, they got together an orchestra for her, so she's worthy of an orchestra.  Still in 1912, Kathleen, she's 22 now and she's been traveling so much, she's, now it's happening, it's hitting her, she's exhausted and she has a kind of breakdown it'd probably be like a burnout and, which, it's amazing she's lasted this long, since, you know, age 5, 6, up to 22. So she's both mentally and physically exhausted and her mother, acting as her agent, realizes that she needs to reduce some of her tours. She retreats to Meldreth, that's that house just outside of Cambridge that they have, that they've been renting. It's quite close to London, that little cottage that they have. They have easy access to London by train. And not only could they go easily to London, but traveling, traveling businessmen! From Norway! Could come to them! Easily. She continues with the concerts, one at Queen's Hall in London. So she has her little burnout, but then she's back again. Plays Schubert's Moment Musical around this time. After they've rented this home for four years, they end up buying it. So she does have enough money to buy a house, so she is you know, not frittering away all her money. So this gives her some sort of stability. And it, even though it's a, it's still a very unusual existence for a young lady of the day. So she's breaking a lot of stereotypes and this could end up being exhausting after a while. So it was nice for her to have a calm place to kick up her heels or fling off her corset. But no, she didn't, but willowy frame, she doesn't look like she's got a corset. I don't think you can play. Can you? Could you play that much? You know, you can't breathe. But, but, aren't there like old photos of, of lady violinists in corsets? I don't know how they do it. Like, you can't.  Well, you had to do everything else in the corset.  But you get kind of hot and sweaty and you're under the lights and it must have been exhausting. At least she was like lucky to have that pre Raphaelite fashion where she could be wearing, you know, the flowing sort of we're heading into the, the sort of the looser clothes in this era. But I think some people are still hanging on to corsets, but it's like the end of corsets and you're getting more loose clothing thankfully for her. And according to letters Kathleen wrote to friends her and her mother, and they fell in love with the village life in Mildreth. Kathleen was able to relax and lead a normal life in between tours. And then in 1915, you have World War I hits, and her tours are less frequent. Her, her patron Einar, must have been having some lively fun. Dinner conversations with his family on opposing sides.  So you've got, you know, with his, you know, fascist party, enthusiastic brother and his ex-prime minister brother in law and his theatre operating lefty brother and his Jewish wife and his Left wing satirical journalist sister, and her German husband, and then,  and then his patriot father. So Einar probably just wanted to run away to willowy Kathleen, and her stunning violin. But she remains in England for much of the war, and she does a few concerts locally.  And her diary is quite blank until about 1916. And she uses, like, so she uses this time to relax. So ironically, she needed a war. To have a rest. That was the only thing slowing her down. She could, because she couldn't travel and tour. Now she's 26, but I feel like she's just, she's lived so much already. It's incredible. So Meldreth was the happy place where she enjoyed their lovely garden and their croquet lawn and Miss Chamberlain from the Gables next door would come and play croquet and she could escape to another world, almost. She'll go through periods of having these sort of breakdowns. I think she just pushes, there are some people like that. They'll push themselves; they just keep pushing themselves until they collapse. And I feel like she was one of, she looks like she didn't really pace herself. She just went, just hurtling into it. She just catapults herself into life and concerts and playing.  In 1916, she returned to the US. She toured Norway and the Netherlands. For playing she was said to possess a sweet legato sound that made her seem to be playing with a nine foot and was admired for her effortless playing, hence her nickname, the girl with the nine foot bow. So yeah, so she must have had this really kind of, it's hard to tell, you want to be there in the concert hall to hear her. I feel like the recordings don't do her justice. A lot of Experiencing music and these pieces is actually going to a concert and it's the same today listening  on a you know, at home, it's not the same as being in a concert hall and having that energy of the musician and the energy of the orchestra and the and the audience,  it's very different dynamic. She recorded a few small pieces for Columbia records. And then that was, that was it. And we have no more recordings of her. And between 1917 and 1919, she wasn't able to tour outside England due to the war that was going on. And for the last 12 years, Einar Bjornsson had. He'd been this presence in her life, but now in the summer of 1920, he visited her one last time in London before sailing home for good. So that.  So it finishes at this time, so he was, he was married, he had children, he was also broke. Buying a horrendously expensive violin and giving it to a girl can do that to you. And Kathleen writes, Kathleen writes in her diary simply, E. B. Sailing home. Einar had to return to his family as soon as possible because he couldn't afford to divorce his wife. Elspeth Langdon, she was, she wasn't going to let him off that easily. And if he left, he would have had to repay the, the dowry, I imagine.  Thank you. Thank you very much.  As I said, there are just no letters of her correspondence. There's correspondence between her and everyone else, but not with them. So that still remains. But you can sort of see by circumstance what was kind of going on. And after the Great War, Kathleen Parlow, she resumed her career in full force. She gave several world tours traveling to the Middle East, to India, to China, to Korea and Japan. And she toured the States, Canada, Indonesia and the Philippines in that year and she played concerts in 56 different cities. It was just non stop and in, and when I say 56 different cities, that's not 56, you know, concerts. That's like multiple concerts in each.  City, night after night.  And then in 1926, Kathleen and her mother, they leave England and they move to San Francisco. She takes a year off due to her mental health. So again, she's like, she's overdone it. The stress and basically, you know, a nervous breakdown and she's now in her mid thirties. But after having this year off, she's back onto it. She's back touring again. It's like this addiction, like you were saying, this is what, it's kind of like her, what makes her run. It's what, You know, keeps her going. But at this point she begins to slow down slightly and she starts teaching a bit. Starts teaching more and in 1929 she tours Mexico and she travels without her mother for the first time. Because her mother, Minnie, she would have been getting quite old and then Kathleen she's 39 now. So despite playing many concerts and receiving very high praise financially, she's barely kind of breaking even and she later told an interviewer that when things were very hard she and her mother had talked about her getting a job to ensure their security for the future but she just couldn't do it. And then, but then she did end up teaching at Mills College, Oakland, California. For from 1929 to 1936, but then her world tours continued and this is like, this is how she thrived, even though she would, you know, she'd crash and burn and from the exhaustion and, but then, you know, then she would go back. She realized she had to teach to earn some money. And then she returned to Canada in 1941, where she remained until she remains there until she dies in 1963.  She's offered a job at the Toronto College of Music and she begins making appearances with orchestras. She has a pianist, she has the, she creates the Parlow String Quartet, which was active for 15 years. Even though this time was difficult financially for her, she would,  she would never give up her violin. You know, she was struggling, just scraping by, but she, she would never give up her violin and so, I mean, it was a tricky situation. It was, it was a gift. Yeah. I mean, could you imagine? Like, she must've realized what Einar went through to give this to her and she can't, you know, she can't just be like, I'm going to sell it. So there's this sort of, it's like she's holding on to a bit of him really, like, by keeping it, if she, she gives that up.  So she taught at the University of Toronto and on her wall was a large portrait of her teacher, Leopold Auer, whom she would always refer to as Papa Auer. Now that she'd given up her career as a soloist, but she still remains very active in chamber music, concerto appearance. October of 1959, she was made head of the string department at the London College of Music in West Ontario, Canada. She never marries, and she dies in Oakville, Ontario, in 1963 at the age of 72. She kept her Guarneri del Gesu until her dying day, and the instrument was sold with her estate. The Kathleen Parlow scholarship was set up with the proceeds from the sale of her violin and the money from her estate. So Kathleen Parlow was a somewhat extraordinary woman, ahead of her times in many ways, and her relationship with Einar, must have been pretty intense. And it was, there was obviously strong feelings there. And even though it's a very grey area, we don't know her love life contrasts with her, her brilliant career and her phenomenal touring and the, the energy that she had to do, it was.  Exceptional she just does these brief recordings and then she does no more. And maybe, maybe that's why we've forgotten her. Have the other, did the others go on to keep recording? Well, they did. They certainly did. I think I'm surprised that Kathleen Parlow didn't make more recordings. I really am. And I don't know what that's about. I can only speculate, but I think she also kind of retreated from concertizing, didn't she,  in her twenties? So, I mean, you know, she did play as far afield as the, you know, she went to China, she went to Japan. She even made recordings for the Niponophone Company in the early twenties. So she was obviously still a great celebrity. But it's sort of puzzling how somebody who had all their ducks in place to make a superstar career. You know, she had  talent, she had beauty, she had interest. You know, from the public, so support from her teacher, all those elements would guarantee a superstar career. But it's so mysterious that she kind of fell off the radar. So much so that her name is completely forgotten today. Yeah, it's one of the big mysteries, but it's really quite remarkable that she was such a terrific violinist, even at the end. It wasn't that she lost her nerve or lost her playing ability. She obviously had it. So there are definitely other factors. that made her withdraw from public concertizing.  And just her touring schedule is just exhausting. Like just the traveling. Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, I mean, this is truly an example of burnout. Yeah. But, but then she would, she would have the crisis and then she'd be back on, she'd be back touring.  Well, you know, she was pretty resilient. But I think just the sheer number of years, I think, must have taken its toll. I think she loved being in England, in Cambridgeshire. I think those were some really happy years for her, to have a home and in a beautiful setting. But it really, it's a very complicated life and a life that really, one would want to try to understand in a deeper way.  Yeah, and it seems a little nothing was ever very simple. Yeah, and she never, she never marries, she never has a family. It's Yes. Her life is really And you'd imagine she'd have suitors, you know, send them off because, you know, she was a talented, beautiful woman. So she's got Misha Elman. He could, like, if you were a man, you could easily get married and then your wife would have children. But at that time, if you married, like, she had to choose between getting married and her career. You couldn't work if, like and it often, like, you weren't allowed to work. Absolutely. Terrible. No, it's true. So she had this like, this threat, and that's all she could do. That was her life playing. And then if she married, that would be taken away from her. So she had to decide between, you know, a career and this. It's kind of, it's a bit sad, but yeah, it's a huge choice that she made and she  was married to life. Yeah. The sacrifice. One way or the other. Well, I think it's wonderful that she is being remembered  through this Buddulph recordings release.  And it's the first time there's ever been a recording completely devoted to her. So I'm really glad that. will be able to somehow restore her memory, just a little bit even. Well, thank you for listening to this podcast. And I hope you enjoyed this story about the incredible Kathleen Parlow.  If you liked the podcast, please rate it and review it wherever you listen to it. And I would really encourage you to keep listening to Kathleen Parlow's work. What you heard today were just excerpts from her songs. So if you would like to listen to. The whole piece, Biddulph Recordings have released two CDs that you can listen to on Apple Music, Spotify or any other major streaming service. You can also buy the double CD of her recordings if you prefer the uncompressed version.  Goodbye.   ​ 

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On this week's episode of Happily Ever After, I'm joined by someone who, to me, is as synonymous with lockdown as PE with Joe. It's Rob Biddulph! He'll be telling us how he builds his confidence to draw and we learn his take on open communication and connecting with your kids. You can find a full list of Rob's appearances on his website here. And thank you to Louise who connected us! You can find her here. Transcript coming soon. (Get it direct to your inbox by subscribing at mumsdays.substack.com)

6/27/23 New Mexico United talk with our social media director, Seth Biddulph

In this exceptional birthday gift episode (dedicated to my incredible Mother), I delve into a story of intense vigilante justice amidst Canada's settlers. This is the account of the brutal massacre endured by the Black Donnellys of Biddulph, Ontario during the 19th century. The Black Donnellys, an immigrant family hailing from Ireland, gained notoriety due to allegations of their involvement in crimes and acts of violence. Eventually, they became victims themselves when the local townspeople subjected them to a savage lynching. Their narrative encompasses rural conflicts, strained community relations, vendettas rooted in religious differences, and a heartbreaking conclusion. Originally from County Tipperary, Ireland, the Donnelly family settled in the rural township of Biddulph Ontario in the mid-19th century. James and Johannah Donnelly, along with their five children—James Jr., William, Bridget, Robert, and Thomas—established a farm and integrated into the local community. However, tensions between the Donnellys and their neighbors gradually intensified. The Donnellys were viewed by many as squatters, outsiders, and criminals. The local animosity was fueled by their perceived audacious conduct and alleged involvement in numerous petty crimes. Furthermore, the religious and cultural divide between the Donnellys, who were of Irish Catholic descent, and their Protestant counterparts in the area added another layer of complexity, reviving age-old rivalries from England. Happy Birthday Mom! May this bring an extra touch of joy to your day. Love you.   RESOURCES: The Donnelly Album by Ray Fazakas (Book) Heaven & Hell on Earth: The Massacre of the Black Donnellys (Website) The Lucan Museum (Website) The Donnellys (Vol. 1): Powder Keg 1840-1880 by John Little (Audible Book)   SMOKE FILLED ROOMS SHOW DETAILS: HOST: Gregory Zink (@GregZesq) EMAIL: smokinggunpod@gmail.com WEBSITE: https://www.smokefilledrooms.net FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/smokefilledroomspodcast/ TWITTER: @SmokyRooms PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/smokefilledroomspodcast RSS FEED: https://feed.podbean.com/smokefilledrooms/feed.xml Darkcast Network   

Can you follow the footprints and solve the mystery?

4/25/23 TEAM Talk introduces our new Director of Social Media, Seth Biddulph

Writer Salena Godden chooses Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys, a book she's re-read many times and returns to now – older, wiser and with even greater empathy for its protagonist. Author-illustrator Rob Biddulph recommends When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle, named Children's Fiction Book of the Year at the 2022 British Book Awards, which brought him to tears and conjures London in the Blitz so vividly. Presenter Harriett Gilbert picks Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore, the story of a heart transplanted from one life to another. Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Sarah Goodman.

https://hammeringdown.com/ Hello! In this episode, I was joined by Chris Walker of the WASP and The 2how, and Seth Biddulph of Somos Mas. We talked about the culture of New Mexico, what makes it a special place to be a fan, and of course, what makes them so good. This match has been one I have had circled for a while and I cannot wait to see it all come together! If you did enjoy, follow me on Twitter, @KaylorHodges --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hammering-down/support

A family, murdered in their homes as vengeance for slights real and imagined. The Donnellys - one of the more gruesome murders committed in cold blood in Canadian history. Visit us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/canadianhistoryCheck out our website: www.canadianhistorypodcast.caVisit us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/canadianhistorywithstevenwilsonCheck us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNfOI7uxJ04GIn7O_b1yarASee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My guest on this episode was one of the nation's saviours during the first lockdown in 2020. Reacting to a clear need for parents to keep their kids busy and happy while schools were closed, Rob Biddulph started a regular online drawing lesson for kids – Draw With Rob – and the response was huge.A dad of three, himself, Rob is the author and illustrator of brilliant picture books for younger kids, like Blown Away and Odd Dog Out, and of his new chapter book for older readers, Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City.Rob talks to me about parenting teens and why he still reads to his kids even though they're older, we talk about father daughter bonding and we talk about what it's like to have Tom Hardy read one of your books on CBeebies Bedtime Stories…Watch Draw With Rob here, follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Find out more about his books here.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/notanothermummy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, I talk to Edward Biddulph, author of 'License to Cook' and the blog 'James Bond Food'. We discuss his new book COMING SOON called 'Double-0 Dining' from the publishers Bear Manor Media.We ask "Does Bond like Marmite?" and I feel we get a definitive answer. For those who don't know, Marmite is a British condiment, normally spread on toast, with the slogan, "You either love it or you hate it". We talk about the best food(s) from Ian Fleming's novels, and also which is the best Bond film for food. You can find me on Instagram: @FlemingNeverDiesYou can e-mail me: AlbionNeverDies@Gmail.comCheck out my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/britishcultureCheck out my Red Bubble shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/british-cultureSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/britishculture)

Thought Leader Interview -  Doug and Nathan spoke about intellectual growth and skills to help executives in their career. Imagine if you could train your brain to be more positive and focused. You'd be calmer, less stressed out, and more productive. You'd be a better leader that can handle a lot of opportunities. Learn more at https: https://www.neuroskillscoach.com (https://www.neuroskillscoach.com) Doug's business specializes in partnering with companies and non-profits to create value and capture cost savings without layoffs to fund growth and strengthen financial results.  You can find out more at http://www.terminalvalue.biz ( www.TerminalValue.biz) You can find the audio podcast feed athttp://www.terminalvaluepodcast.com ( www.TerminalValuePodcast.com) You can find the video podcast feed athttp://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5a4QbT-dXhpgb-8HJHdGg ( www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5a4QbT-dXhpgb-8HJHdGg) Schedule time with Doug to talk about your business athttp://www.meetdoug.biz ( www.MeetDoug.Biz)

This is episode 1061 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest coach Nathan Biddulph. Nathan Biddulph is an executive coach, occupational therapist, and "Sports Peak Performance Coach." Nathan teaches neuro skills for competitive athlete clients that include star plays from Major League Baseball Players, National Hockey League Players, and other sports. In recent years, Nathan's Neuro Skills Coach training has been expanded from for Athletes, to Actors, and Business Owners. Nathan shares his career journey and lessons learned from his neuro-skills coaching practice. The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io. This episode was produced on January 4, 2022. Arete Coach Podcast is Copyright © 2022 by Arete Coach LLC. All rights reserved.

In this episode of Shift - Getting out of your comfort zone! - I sit down with Nathan Biddulph - a neuro-skills coach - we discuss how his work with professional athletes using neuro-skills enhances performance. With research in how our brains operate, there is a lot of insightful things we can learn to apply in our daily lives, using neuro-skills. About Nathan: Nathan Biddulph is known as “The Original Neuro Skills Coach,” as he developed his original program from scratch after years of experience as Neuro Program Director for several world-renowned organizations. Nathan has developed programs for business executives, entrepreneurs, performing artists, students and athletes. Nathan has coached one-on-one several high-profile clients, including: MLB All-Star First Baseman Josh Bell, Calder Trophy finalist & 2021 NHL Leader in 4 categories Alex Nedeljkovic, New York Yankees Starting Pitcher & Former USA Baseball Gold Medal Winner Jameson Taillon, First Team 2020 AHL All-Star & 2020 Defenseman of the Year Jake Bean, and Collegiate Baseball's 2020 National Player of the Year Nick Gonzales. www.neuroskillscoach.com About your host: Elena Agaragimova is the co-founder of Bessern (https://www.bessern.co/)

Nathan Biddulph Neuro Skills Coach https://www.neuroskillscoach.com/ This is the original Neuro Skills training program for professional athletes, performing artists and actors, business executives and entrepreneurs. Nathan trains essential neuro-cognitive skills, such as:  pattern recognition to pick out sequences and to detect patterns of any scenario, accelerated processing speed to process information faster (which slows down any situation to determine strategy), and many more Neuro Skills that advance your career. Website: www.manageme.godaddysites.com --------------------------------- Manage Me Coaching If you are looking for someone to help you find your why, plan your career, look at your next steps and options for your career….or even just an impartial voice to talk through your options….contact me. Your first session is free. We'll talk about where you are and what you are looking to do. Podcast: https://anchor.fm/manageme Question link (leave me a message): https://anchor.fm/manageme/message  Website: https://manageme.godaddysites.com/  Email: manage.me.podcast@gmail.com  Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Todd_Doherty --------------------------------------- Sponsors - I have relationships with sponsors and may make money if you purchase their products: Dollar shave club http://shaved.by/v/todd_6856 Calm 30 days free unlimited guest pass https://www.calm.com/gp/up6fxu?utm_medium=email&utm_source=lifecycle&utm_campaign=newreleases_10102021&utm_content=b2b -------------------------------------- --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/manageme/message

The unlocking of the mind can be achievable if done rightIn Episode 2 of Bench Talk, the Original Neuro Skills Coach Nathan Biddulph joins the show to discuss his unique techniques on how to unlock the best version of a professional athlete. Nathan Biddulph, Owner and founder of Neuro Skills Coach, a company that provides professional athletes the essential neuro cognitive skills necessary to succeed in the sports that they are in. Many sports athletes that Biddulph coaches include Washington Nationals 1B Josh Bell, New York Yankees Starting Pitcher Jameson Taillion, NHL Defenseman Jake Bean and others. In a nutshell, Biddulph basically unlocks the player's best version of themselves.Neuro Skills Coach: https://www.neuroskillscoach.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-biddulph-b3727659/Kenny The Sports Guy PodcastTwitter: @kenny_sportsInstagram: @kennythesportsguyTik Tok @kennysportspodcast www.kennthesportsguy.com

The unlocking of the mind can be achievable if done right In Episode 2 of Bench Talk, the Original Neuro Skills Coach Nathan Biddulph joins the show to discuss his unique techniques on how to unlock the best version of a professional athlete. Nathan Biddulph, Owner and founder of Neuro Skills Coach, a company that provides professional athletes the essential neuro cognitive skills necessary to succeed in the sports that they are in. Many sports athletes that Biddulph coaches include Washington Nationals 1B Josh Bell, New York Yankees Starting Pitcher Jameson Taillion, NHL Defenseman Jake Bean and others. In a nutshell, Biddulph basically unlocks the player's best version of themselves. Neuro Skills Coach: https://www.neuroskillscoach.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-biddulph-b3727659/ Kenny The Sports Guy Podcast Twitter: @kenny_sports Instagram: @kennythesportsguy Tik Tok @kennysportspodcast www.kennthesportsguy.com

Whenever Sumner gets asked “who's the most talented person you've ever worked with?” there's only one answer: “Rob Biddulph.” Back when they worked together in the magazine biz, Rob was an innovative, multi-award-winning art director (responsible for zeitgeist-defining titles like SKY and the NME before his storied run on the Observer Magazine). Now Rob's an innovative, multi-award-winning and wildly-successful children's author/illustrator and no-one could deserve that success more. Because, as you'll hear in this week's edition of Hard Agree, Rob Biddulph isn't just an amazing talent, he's a genuinely nice guy who truly believes in community - the architect of the immensely popular #DrawWithRob, a series of twice-weekly draw-along videos designed to help parents whose children were forced to stay home from school due to the coronavirus pandemic - now used as a learning resource by thousands of families across the globe. Check out Rob's website here: http://www.robbiddulph.com/ Check out #DrawWithRob here: http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob Check out Rob's books here: http://www.robbiddulph.com/books Follow Rob on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/robbiddulphauthor https://twitter.com/RobBiddulph https://www.instagram.com/rbiddulph/ Follow Hard Agree on Twitter:https://.twitter.com/hard_agree Follow Sumner on Social Media & YouTube:http://twitter.com/sumnarrhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Forbiddenplanetdotcom/videoshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ/videos “Golden – The Hard Agree Theme” written and recorded for the podcast by DENIO Follow DENIO on Social Media: http://twitter.com/denioband/http://instagram.com/denioband/ http://facebook.com/denioband/http://soundcloud.com/denioband/ Follow the Spoilerverse on Social Media:http://facebook.com/spoilercountry/http://twitter.com/spoiler_countryhttp://instagram.com/spoilercountry/ Kenric Regan:http://twitter.com/XKenricX John Horsley:http://twitter.com/y2clhttp://instagram.com/y2cl/http://y2cl.nethttp://eynesanthology.com Did you know the Spoilerverse has a YouTube channel?https://youtube.com/channel/UCstl1UHQVUC85DrCagF-wuQ Support the Spoilerverse on Patreon:http://patreon.com/spoilercountry  

Rob Biddulph is well-known for his picture books and the phenomenally successful Draw with Rob YouTube channel. Now he has turned his talent to writing longer fiction and his first book Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City is an absolute triumph.In this episode, Rob introduces the world of Peanut Jones and also describes his process of creating longer illustrated fiction.About Peanut Jones and the Illustrated CityDrawing feels like magic to Peanut Jones.But art can't fix her problems. Her dad has gone missing, and she's stuck in a boring new school. Until the day she finds a unique pencil turbo-charged with special powers.Suddenly she's pulled into a world packed with more colour, creativity, excitement and danger than she could ever have imagined. And maybe, just maybe, she might find out what happened to her dad. '

Does a week of wild swimming and yoga in Cornwall sound like bliss to you? Well, that's what Lauren Biddulph thought when she founded The Salt Sisterhood, a women's wild swimming retreat based in Cornwall. Lauren has a moving story to tell about the power of swimming and its ability to bring people together and forge female friendships. In this episode, we spoke about banishing negative self talk, how we can not just accept that there's light and dark in life, but also lean into it. And how yoga and swimming can help with that. Follow:@freybromley #TheTidalYear@thesaltsisterhoodExplore upcoming wild swimming retreats: www.thesaltsisterhood.comThanks to this episode's sponsor TRIHARD. Say goodbye to chlorine and shop their skin and hair products at 15% off with the code Tidal at trihard.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen as the artistic equivalent of PE with Joe, author and illustrator Rob Biddulph, chats to Annie and Wendy about keeping kids occupied in lockdown, and his new book, Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City, out now!

Bestselling award-winning children's book author and illustrator Rob Biddulph joins Bex! He's chatting all about his new book, Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City! Drawing feels like magic to Peanut Jones. But art can't fix her problems. Her dad has gone missing, and she's stuck in a boring new school. Until the day she finds a unique pencil turbo-charged with special powers. Suddenly she's pulled into a world packed with more colour, creativity, excitement and danger than she could ever have imagined. And maybe, just maybe, she might find out what happened to her dad. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What makes Lemony Snicketts mind tick? Hear about his new book, Poison for Breakfast, as well as some of the hidden illustrations to look out for in Rob Biddulphs new book, Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City. And a quiz from JM Joseph! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Duncan is mellow........pleasantly smooth. As executive chef of Rootstock Wine Bar near Humboldt Park, he has an appreciation for cuisine one can only gain from travel. Born & raised in the Chicago area, he got his first experience in hospitality at a Country Club, before heading to Honolulu to work at a Chili's and experience something different. After attending culinary school, he got a job at Lula Cafe in Logan Square, and his mentor Jason Hammel eventually pushed him to go travel Europe and acquire some real respect for the art of food. After working at an Agriturismo in Italy on top of a mountain, and living in a staff house in England, he came back to Chicago in late 2009 and right off the plane, answered the call to be the executive chef at Rootstock. Serving up unique wines to go and leveraging great relationships with local farms, the restaurant has become a secret haven of high quality, with a small space and no reservations taken. Follow @rootstockbar on Instagram, and come by the Humboldt Park restaurant to experience a taste of, whatever is freshest, in the area.

Bonus Episode Time! On 8/4 Seth had the opportunity to join friend of the show Joshua Carrillo on his show here in Albuquerque, The Morning Mix. In case you missed it, here's the meat and potatoes of that show. Josh and Seth talked everything from the Olympics to the negative coverage of the stadium bond and even spend some time talking about the El Paso Flopping Fish. You can catch The Morning Mix daily online at radio.tellabq.com Find out more at https://somosmas.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-166b1c for 40% off for 4 months, and support Somos Mas.

Paul and Jim come from similar stock, in the sense that a big chunk of their perspective was cultivated over 4 years with the help of the same few lecturers in IADT Dun Laoghaire. Paul is now a practicing counsellor, who holds the majority of his sessions online. During this conversation, we cover the state of Irish mental health services, what Paul would recommend if one is struggling in the midst of these services, along with some of his favourite modes of inquiry and practices that have worked for him and his clients. Paul is a warm soul and it was a true delight having him on. If you'd like to learn more about Paul and his work, please see the link below.https://www.bacp.co.uk/profile/a7d2bf4d-07e6-ea11-a817-000d3ab85666

Back in 2019 Emery of Intrepid fame did his first interview within the Bond community, taking time to talk to Edward Biddulph, author of Licence to Cook. The cookbook is unique in that it breaks down food from the novels and boy does 007 like to eat. Hope you all enjoy this delicious throwback.

Revisiting Steve Biddulph In the late 1990s, Australian psychologist Steve Biddulph wrote the best-selling parenting guide "Raising Boys". Geraldine did extensive interviews with Biddulph at the time. She says some women saw it as a negative commentary about women moving further into the professional workplace and and out of the home. Now, Steve Biddulph has released a new article in the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper. It notes that the phrase 'educate your sons' has become a mantra of the times, following testimonials from women and girls who feel unsafe. He decided to go back and investigate how childhood shapes the man. Also this episode, Geraldine reflects on the year she spent Easter in Israel. Eliza remembers the beauty of Jerusalem. Please note: the next edition of LDC Bookclub will be released on Friday April 9. In March, Eliza, Madeleine Genner and Sarah Gerathy read "Mayflies" by Andrew O'Hagan. Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review on iTunes or however you listen to your podcasts. Email us at ldcpodcast1@gmail.com LINKS What science tells us about raising boys - Steve Biddulph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/science-tells-us-raising-boys-affluent-could-spell-trouble/ Kingdom of Heaven - Ridley Scott https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320661/ Easter in Jerusalem - Geraldine Doogue https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3981328/ Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/fiction/Mayflies-Andrew-OHagan-9780571273690

Multi award-winning children’s author and book illustrator Rob Biddulph joins our host Suzie Cox to discuss his life, his new book and he makes a very compelling argument for why Ringo is the ultimate dog name for any Beatles super fan. * Rob is the genius behind the #DrawWithRob - a series of twice-weekly draw-along videos designed to help parents whose children were forced to stay home from school due to the coronavirus pandemic. It proved immensely popular, garnering millions of views and international media coverage. Rob has a bestselling and award-winning book, Blown Away! His latest book Dog Gone has just been released in paperback. Before he became a full-time author/illustrator he was the art director of the Observer Magazine, NME, Uncut, SKY and Just Seventeen. * Don't forget you can follow us on Instagram @topdogsandtheirhumans or @suziecoxlive or use the hashtag #TDATH * The TDATH podcast is all about human connection through dogs. Our host Suzie Cox chats with some amazing humans - going behind the scenes to find out why they love their pooches so much, who really sleeps in the bed, who behaves well, who doesn't and who is really Top Dog. * This podcast is produced by Bird Lime Media.

To celebrate World Book Day, we are interviewing the official illustrator of WBD, Rob Biddulph. Rob is a multi-award winning children’s author & illustrator. As well as working on his own books, he also illustrates for other authors including Michael Bond and Jeff Brown. In March 2020, in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, Rob started running a series of draw-along YouTube sessions called Draw with Rob. On 21st May he broke the Guinness World Record for the largest ever online art class when 45,611 people tuned in to one of his classes. Rob’s latest picture book, Dog Gone, came out in paperback on 18th February and his latest activity book, Draw With Rob: Build a Story is published on 4th March. --- Books mentioned in this episode: Dogger by Shirley Hughes - https://bit.ly/387307z Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - https://bit.ly/3e1WYcg To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - https://bit.ly/3sKj6Mf Odd Dog Out by Rob Biddulph - https://bit.ly/2MHsZem What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry - https://bit.ly/3bckJN5 Meg & Mog by Helen Nicoll & Jan Pienkowski - https://bit.ly/386ciki The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr - https://bit.ly/30851vT How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss - https://bit.ly/309ZwwQ The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf - https://bit.ly/3b9KZHO Alan's Big, Scary Teeth by Jarvis - https://bit.ly/3qe1EOP Look Up by Nathan Bryon - https://bit.ly/3e3Rtts Produced & presented by the team at Mostly Books (www.mostly-books.co.uk) twitter.com/mostlyreading instagram.com/mostlybooks_shop Edited by Nick Short (www.instagram.com/alongstoryshorter)

This is DAY 042 of our 100 Days of 007 Trivia Challenge. Today's challenger is Edward Biddulph! moneypenny@the00files.com | www.the00files.com

Rob Biddulph is an award-winning author and illustrator who has increasingly used video to connect with his ever-growing audience.Before turning to illustration full-time, Rob had established himself as a leading designer and art director, winning awards and steering the visuals for some of the UKs most iconic mags including the NME and the Observer magazine. Having already caused a storm on social media with his #packedlunchpostits and behind the scenes book development, during the UK lockdown Rob came up with the idea of teaching kids how to draw live online – to help relieve many peoples’ homeschooling stresses. He found a lot of grateful parents!His #DrawWithRob campaign grew exponentially and led to not only a #DrawWithRob book – another best-seller, but also a Guinness World Record for the biggest audience for a live art class ever – via YouTube. Rob delves into the story behind how he got started in writing books and how video has ultimately helped him grow his audience. In this episode you'll discover:Rob's background in magazinesHow Rob finally found a publishing agentHow he went from art director to published authorHow the Covid-19 pandemic inspired him to help parents and their kidsWhy you should always learn from your mistakesHow he broke a world record on YouTubeWhy video channels like YouTube are great for self promotionThe value of live videoWhy YouTube can directly influence salesAn insight into the future for his creationsRob’s experience as an influencerHow brands and businesses can use video effectively

Day 24 in Awesome Author August - Tonight's story is called Grrrrrrrr by Rob Biddulph - Read by Martyn Kenneth (E3D)

Hey, I'm Tom Biddulph and have been through a lot in my 38 years of time on this earth. Since 1994, I have lost 16 loved ones that have either been family or friends. Grief is a never ending journey, but I've learned to find the good grievings along the way that bring me joy. My hope is for you to feel a sense of self worth and to see there is so much more available in life than just to wallow in the pain and fear. I want you to feel love after death, and happiness so you can be present and not lose out on what greatness life has to offer you now. goodgrievings.com @goodgrievings (twitter) @goodgrievings (instagram) @goodgrievings (YouTube) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deathdialogues/message

In this week's episode, Andrew tells Kayley about a historical feud between The Donnelly family and the entire town of Biddulph, Canada. Other topics include riding bikes, Kayley finishing her masters degree, and lots and lots of sex. (talking about It, not having It)Intro/Outro music provided by Ribbons @RealRibbons on twitterFollow the Pod:@BestEnemiesPodEmail us at: BestEnemiesPod@gmail.comFollow your hosts: @AndrewHilaryusand @KayleyAnn13

Stan T. and Evan are joined by Tom Biddulph, who has channeled his experiences with a spectrum of emotions, including grief and anger, to his blog and YouTube channel, Good Grievings. Tom discusses how he coped with trauma, tragedy, and loss and found resiliency through therapy, writing, and connecting with others--but it took a journey to get there. Stan and Evan discuss their own journeys from adolescence through adulthood to express emotion in healthy ways as men. Then, they discuss how to deal with our current situation of mass quarantine, which has left many feeling lonely and disconnected.

To celebrate the APN turning 5, we have asked some of our hosts what the network means to them. Kim Biddulph of the Prehistories podcast talks about her experiences of the APN, her show and why podcasts are important part of outreach. You can find more info about Kim on Schools Prehistory website and her own website

To celebrate the APN turning 5, we have asked some of our hosts what the network means to them. Kim Biddulph of the Prehistories podcast talks about her experiences of the APN, her show and why podcasts are important part of outreach. You can find more info about Kim on Schools Prehistory website and her own website

Welcome to We are the University. A podcast about the people who make Cambridge University unique. In this episode we meet James Biddulph, the headmaster of the University of Cambridge Primary School. https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cam.ac.uk%2Fprimaryschool&token=3eff6c-1-1573483994741 (www.cam.ac.uk/primaryschool) We talk about the school's character and vision, how a trip to Nepal helped him realise that he wanted to teach as a career and we find out how he inspires the team of teachers that work with him. https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fpeople%2Fstaff%2Fbiddulph%2F&token=798873-1-1573483994741 (www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/biddulph/) More than just an outstanding Ofsted rating sets the University of Cambridge Primary School apart: it places research at its heart, informing education practice and furthering research at Cambridge's Faculty of Education and elsewhere. Visitors walking through one of the ‘learning streets' that run through the core of the University of Cambridge Primary School (UCPS) soon notice something unusual. It's not the fact that they end up back where they started – the school's Polo-mint-shaped structure is just one of its radical features – but the startling lack of doors: classrooms open up invitingly on each side of the street, with snatches of lessons, storytelling or music audible within. The open-plan design both facilitates and symbolises the school's role as the first, and still only, University Training School at primary level in the UK (the only secondary UTS is in Birmingham). Sponsored by the University of Cambridge, its role is to provide brilliant and inclusive primary education for its local community, and also to work alongside the University's Faculty of Education and others to be research informed and research generating. Building from the work of the Faculty of Education, the school identified three ‘golden threads' that bind together its curriculum: habits of mind (the resilience and problem-solving skills that help children learn); dialogue (exemplified in the new DIALLS project); and playful inquiry. The aim, looking forward again, is to “empower children to make sense of the complex world in which they live” and nurture “compassionate citizens who want to make a positive contribution to their local and global worlds.”

I chatted with Tom Biddulph who is a fellow blogger extraordinaire who created the blog called Good Grievings (GoodGrievings.com). Having lost his close loved ones, he wanted to establish a place where fellow readers can feel comforted as they go through their stages of grief all while respecting the memories of lost loved ones. In this episode, we shared a soulful conversation discusses about his views on grief, thoughts on his journey reclaiming spirituality and is latest coaching venture.

Valuable frost research is equipping grain growers with practical information on how to identify frost damage in cereal crops. In this podcast WA Department of Primary Industries & Regional Development research officer, Dr Ben Biddulph, discusses what to look for, when and where, to identify frost damage. According to Dr Biddulph grain growers need to be alert, but not alarmed about frost, and know what management options are available to reduce or mitigate frost risk. Further information: Dr Ben Biddulph DPIRD Grains Directorate 3 Baron-Hay Court, South Perth, WA 6151 m: 0428 920 654 e: ben.biddulph@dpird.wa.gov.au GRDC project code: DAW00244; DWA00243; DWA00242; DWA00236 A range of resources to help growers identify and manage frosted crops are available on the GRDC website: • Frost Identification Guide, produced by DPIRD with co-investment from GRDC, available at https://grdc.com.au/CerealFrostIDGuide • Frost - Frequently Asked Questions, a DPIRD publication produced in collaboration with GRDC at https://grdc.com.au/frost-faq • The GRDC YouTube frost playlist which includes segments about the emotional cost of frost and managing the effects of frost https://www.grdc.com.au/GRDC-Video-NationalFrostInitiativePlaylist • GRDC Managing Frost Risk Tips and Tactics at https://grdc.com.au/ManagingFrostRisk • More information on frost management can be found via the GRDC's suite of GrowNotes™ publications available at https://grdc.com.au/grownotes Frost resources are also available on the DPIRD website at https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/frost/frost-tools-and-support and https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/frost/management-options-frosted-crop

Musicalfungus and Matt Biddulph perform at Piqued.

4月初的博洛尼亚童书展上，我在插画师生存角听了插画师及绘本作家Rob Biddulph的一堂Masterclass，觉得这个人真是太有趣啦！结束后请他签名时，把我们小朋友的作品集送给他，并试探性地问了问有没有机会采访。结果Rob很热情地喊来了出版社的负责人，让她协调时间。于是便有了第二天的故事星球Rob Biddulph专访。今天，大家就会在音频中听到现场采访的实录哦！

4月初的博洛尼亚童书展上，我在插画师生存角听了插画师及绘本作家Rob Biddulph的一堂Masterclass，觉得这个人真是太有趣啦！结束后请他签名时，把我们小朋友的作品集送给他，并试探性地问了问有没有机会采访。结果Rob很热情地喊来了出版社的负责人，让她协调时间。于是便有了第二天的故事星球Rob Biddulph专访。今天，大家就会在音频中听到现场采访的实录哦！

4月初的博洛尼亚童书展上，我在插画师生存角听了插画师及绘本作家Rob Biddulph的一堂Masterclass，觉得这个人真是太有趣啦！结束后请他签名时，把我们小朋友的作品集送给他，并试探性地问了问有没有机会采访。结果Rob很热情地喊来了出版社的负责人，让她协调时间。于是便有了第二天的故事星球Rob Biddulph专访。今天，大家就会在音频中听到现场采访的实录哦！

4月初的博洛尼亚童书展上，我在插画师生存角听了插画师及绘本作家Rob Biddulph的一堂Masterclass，觉得这个人真是太有趣啦！结束后请他签名时，把我们小朋友的作品集送给他，并试探性地问了问有没有机会采访。结果Rob很热情地喊来了出版社的负责人，让她协调时间。于是便有了第二天的故事星球Rob Biddulph专访。今天，大家就会在音频中听到现场采访的实录哦！

Today I have a chat with Tom Biddulph. Tom's blog, Good Grievings chronicles the several loss stories he's experienced throughout his life. As one who wrestled with if and how to share my own story, I was curious to discuss why he chose to blog about grief, or even speak about it in the first place. As always, I'm always interested in discussing grief with other men. You can find Tom's blog here: Good Grievings Or connect with Tom on Twitter: @GoodGrievings For more grief related resources, please visit: http://www.dealingwithmygrief.com/grief-resources/ Subscribe to this podcast by using one of the following: Click here to subscribe via Apple Podcasts Click here to subscribe on Android Click here to subscribe via RSS Click here to subscribe on Spotify Contact me using any of following: email - darwyn@dealingwithmygrief.com twitter - http://www.twitter.com/dealwithgrief web - http://www.dealingwithmygrief.com voice message - http://www.dealingwithmygrief.com/voicemail Facebook - https://facebook.com/groups/dealingwithmygrief Instagram - https://instagram.com/dealingwithmygrief   Music provided by Oren Levine (oren@ohljazz.com)

It's World Book Day! To celebrate, this week we've got three answers to a great question, from Bonnie, which is...‘Where do Ideas Come From?' Our first answer is from children's book writer Abi Elphinstone. Abi is a 2019 World Book Day author and you can get her new book, Everdark on World Book Day with your WBD tokens! She talks about how adventures, daydreaming and looking at the sky out of her writing shed inspired her big ideas and tells us about how she came up with the stories and characters in Everdark.There's also a chance to win a very special copy of Everdark, signed by Abi and with a message in it just for you! To find out how to WIN this fab copy of the brilliant book with a note from Abi have a listen to the show. Next up is Rob Biddulph, a writer and the official World Book Day illustrator. If you look at your World Book Day tokens, or posters at school, or in the library and local bookshops you'll see Rob's colourful drawings of bookmarks all over them. Rob answers Bonnie's question too, but because everyone creates differently he has other ways that ideas come to him. Rob says ideas come to him all the time in all kinds of different places, so he thinks its really important to but make a note of ideas, as soon as they arrive so they don't disappear and get forgotten! Rob tells us the story of how his daughter Kitty's imaginary friend Kevin gave him the idea for one of his first picture books! Find out how Roald Dahl wrote ideas in his ‘Masterpiece' notebooks and where those notebooks are now, how his wonderful children's book The BFG began as well as how Matilda started. You'll also find out where the idea to start this very podcast came from, and how it took lots of friends to help make it a real. Friends, lots of hard work, and a sprinkling of magic! Happy World Book Day everyone! If you would like to find out more: Abi Elphinstone is @moonrug on twitterRob Biddulph is @RobBiddulphI am @mollyoldfield Instagram @mollyoldfieldwrites World Book Day's website is here: https://www.worldbookday.com My website, which has information about The Secret Museum, which has the story of Roald Dahl's notebooks in it is www.mollyoldfield.comThe podcast website is www.everythingunderthesun.co.uk With thanks to Tyler Simmons Dale, Ash Gardner @houseofstrangeand Billy Colours. If you like the show please do rate and review and tell all your friends. Of course, if you have a question you would like answered on the show do record yourself asking it on an adult's smartphone and email it into me at molly@everythingunderthesun.co.uk Thank you and enjoy this book filled week! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 5 In this episode we try something a little bit different, hosting a live de-brief with startup founder Anton Lokhmotov who was seeking a break through meeting with ARM Exec Monika Biddulph as he was trying to sell to ARM a solution he knew they needed. We bring them together face to face for the first time and unpack the experience to discover their insights and learn the perspectives of both sides of buying from a startup and selling to a corporate.

Welcome to We are the University. A podcast about the people who make Cambridge University unique. In this episode we meet James Biddulph, the headmaster of the University of Cambridge Primary School. We talk about the school’s character and vision, how a trip to Nepal helped him realise that he wanted to teach as a career and we find out how he inspires the team of teachers that work with him. https://www.cam.ac.uk/primaryschool www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/biddulph/ More than just an outstanding Ofsted rating sets the University of Cambridge Primary School apart: it places research at its heart, informing education practice and furthering research at Cambridge’s Faculty of Education and elsewhere. Visitors walking through one of the ‘learning streets’ that run through the core of the University of Cambridge Primary School (UCPS) soon notice something unusual. It’s not the fact that they end up back where they started – the school’s Polo-mint-shaped structure is just one of its radical features – but the startling lack of doors: classrooms open up invitingly on each side of the street, with snatches of lessons, storytelling or music audible within. The open-plan design both facilitates and symbolises the school’s role as the first, and still only, University Training School at primary level in the UK (the only secondary UTS is in Birmingham). Sponsored by the University of Cambridge, its role is to provide brilliant and inclusive primary education for its local community, and also to work alongside the University’s Faculty of Education and others to be research informed and research generating. Building from the work of the Faculty of Education, the school identified three ‘golden threads’that bind together its curriculum: habits of mind (the resilience and problem-solving skills that help children learn); dialogue (exemplified in the new DIALLS project); and playful inquiry. The aim, looking forward again, is to “empower children to make sense of the complex world in which they live” and nurture “compassionate citizens who want to make a positive contribution to their local and global worlds.”

Join Rob Biddulph in conversation with Nikki Gamble. Rob talks about the influence of his design background and introduces us to his latest project Dinosaur Juniors.

In this Podcast, I will be talking to Mark Biddulph, a DJ Producer from Wolverhampton who is putting together a club night from scratch with a special guest or two.   - Bookings: info@djolem.com - Website: djolem.com

Alison & Laura share on the Spirit of God & the mind of Christ, as they unpack this passage with a mixture of revelation, teaching & testimony. Don't be surprised when people think you're crazy, & remember that God always has a solution!

Today I'm going to take a look at Blogging From Paradise - How to Retire To A Life Of Island Hoping Through Smart Blogging by Ryan Biddulph. I've been looking forward to getting my hands on this for a while, and it didn't disappoint.

Join us with a 2-hour podcast special featuring past guest speakers, Bryan Taylor of thePASS podcast and Tom Biddulph of Good Grievings. We dive into randomable topics ranging from the new music today, dating in the 30s, new tweet lingo, high school memorable moment, when sliding in the DMs goes bad, and the infamous Alexa and her future rap battle career. FR FR.

Tom Biddulph of GoodGrievings.com, joins Ash and Jazz as they discuss his personal story with the inspiration behind his blog. He dives deep in regards to what helped him during the natural grieving process. He also shares his insights and solid advice for first time writers looking to get their start on blogging. The sky is the limit when it comes to sharing positivity with others amidst the grief.

Sandra Biddulph is a structural engineer, and a Principal at the firm DCI Engineers. Before settling down in Irvine, Sandra worked in both LA and Seattle, and has had a really interesting career journey. She’s worked at small firms, co-founded her own practice, and worked on the general contractor side before becoming Principal at DCI. She appreciates the art of structural design; watching a project come together, with a tangible finished product that becomes a part of our built environment. In this episode, we talk about what it was like transitioning from Project Engineer to Project Manager to Principal, why engineers should get out and promote their profession,  and how she was able to balance her work life with her home life.   Show Recap: How Sandra decided to pursue structural engineering On designing her first project What it was like transitioning from Project Engineer to Project Manager Letting go and developing trust in younger professionals On co-founding her own practice If she ever considered not going back to work after having kids Realizing modified work weeks are a thing! How she became a Principal at DCI What it feels like to be one of the few female principals at a structural engineering firm How the profession can attract more young engineers What she wishes more architects knew about her profession Lightning Round

Award-winning children's author and illustrator Rob Biddulph joins Steve and Rich to explain what he has learned about talking to kids through his books. The guys also discuss what makes a great kids' book, the joy of reading to your child… and the very strong feelings Bono from U2 has on this subject. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

'We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life.' Alison and Laura shared how we can walk with the Spirit and experience him in our daily lives. The Holy Spirit is a person who lives with and in us as we acknowledge and welcome.

My guest on the podcast today is Ryan Biddulph, founder of Blogging from Paradise. Listen to this episode to find out about making the leap from paid employment to the life of an online entrepreneur, why island hopping in paradise is more affordable than you might think, some of the mistakes Ryan has made during his life as a digital nomad, and much more. As you're going to hear in this episode, Ryan and his wife Kelli have spent the past six years travelling, pretty much non-stop. They've spent a lot of that time in some incredible parts of South East Asia; when we spoke over Skype, they were kicking back in Thailand. Welcome to Blogging from Paradise with Ryan Biddulph, in episode 198 of Informed Choice Radio.   Some questions I ask: -Where has your journey taken you since becoming a professional blogger? -Have you always enjoyed travelling? -What was it like making the leap from paid employment to becoming a digital nomad? -Why did you choose blogging as a path to support this lifestyle? -Are there any particular steps people should take to follow in your footsteps? -How much research and preparation do you carry out before moving to a new location? -Is the cost of travelling comparable to a more conventional lifestyle? -What have you learned about money management when living overseas? -Have you made any significant mistakes during your time as a digital nomad? Thank you for listening! To get new episodes of Informed Choice Radio sent directly to your device as soon as they are published, you can subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher Your reviews on iTunes are incredibly helpful and really appreciated. We get notified about each one; please leave a note of your name and website URL so we can mention you in a future episode.  

Vi hör Finska Radions Symfoniorkester spela musik av Lotta Wennäkoski och Emerson-kvartetten spela Alban Berg. Och så sveper Johan över samtliga Sibelius symfonier. I panelen sitter Ella Petersson, Tithi Hahn och Tony Lundman som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor:LOTTA WENNÄKOSKI Soie, Hava, Amor omnia suite Kersten McCall, flöjt Finska radions symfoniorkester Dima Slobodeniouk, dirigent Ondine ODE 1259-2GABRIEL FAURÉ RICHARD STRAUSS Violinsonater Itzhak Perlman, violin, Emanuel Ax, piano DGG 00028948117741ALBAN BERG EGON WELLESZ Lyrisk svit Sonette der Elisabeth Barrett Browning Renée Fleming, sopran Emerson-kvartetten Decca 478 8399PETER TJAJKOVSKIJ Symfoni nr 5 e-moll, Romeo och Julia, fantasiuvertyr San Franciscos symfoniorkester Michael Tilson Thomas, dirigent SFS Media SFS 0062Johans val Johan Korssell spelar valda delar ur Simon Rattle och Berlins filharmonikers cykel med samtliga Sibelius symfonier. En box bestående av 6 CD inspelade på det egna märket Berliner Philhamoniker.Andra nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar- Tjajkovskijs Romeo och Julia med San Franciscos symfoniorkester ledd av Seiji Ozawa på DG. - Wennäkoskis Soie minner om Per Mårtenssons Flöjtkonsert. - Richard Strauss violinsonat med Jascha Heifetz och Arpad Sandor på Biddulph. - Gabriel Faurés violinsonater med Arthur Grumiaux och Paul Crossley inspelad på Philips.    Johans svepJohan sveper över Sibelius Belsazars gästabud med Åbo filharmoniker ledd av Leif Segerstam på skivmärke Naxos samt över Stravinskys violinkonsert med solisten Itzhak Perlman som spelar tillsammans med Bostons symfoniorkester under ledning av Seiji Ozawa på DG.

The team are joined in the studio by picture book creator Rob Biddulph and author Non Pratt to discuss three new children's books. Plus a feature about forthcoming YA fantasy The Sin Eater's Daughter by debut author Melinda Salisbury.

Geoff Biddulph is a convert to the Church of just over 15 years. Before joining he read a lot of anti-Mormon literature. However, it was the Spirit that converted him and helped him be open to being baptized. Since then, Geoff has read the book of Mormon more than 10 times and have read the […] The post Articles of Faith 20: Geoff Biddulph – Why Didn’t The Church Teach Me This Stuff? appeared first on FairMormon.

Geoff Biddulph is a convert to the Church of just over 15 years. Before joining he read a lot of anti-Mormon literature. However, it was the Spirit that converted him and helped him be open to being baptized. Since then, Geoff has read the book of Mormon more than 10 times and have read the […] The post Articles of Faith 20: Geoff Biddulph – Why Didn’t The Church Teach Me This Stuff? appeared first on FairMormon.

Jacqui and Nat discuss 'Raising Girls' based on the talk by Stephen Biddulph at the Parenting Place. As Steve says: ‘A girl catastrophe is happening’ and that the world has ‘become a very toxic place for our daughters’.  In the podcast we outline some of his tips on how to keep girls feeling happy and positive. Auntie Campaign - get some positive female role models in your girls life Help them find and keep their Spark 14 is the new 18!! Things are happening at a younger age (sexual pressure, body image issues etc) Links: Parenting Place: http://www.theparentingplace.com/ Raising Girls Blog:  http://www.ifonlytheytoldme.com/raising-girls-steve-biddulphs-talk-at-the-parenting-place/ Steve Biddulph's Raising Girls: Amazon