Podcasts about Hemel Hempstead

Join Stephen, Joe, Clive, Kirsty, Chris and Matt rounding up the Hemel Hempstead game, some of the NLS play-off action and looking ahead to Torquay's game on Saturday against Boreham.

This week, Justin catches up with Izzy about her trip to London, tour manager Sam after a stop at the service station, and Barney and Angus on a shift at the coffee van. Alfie Joey tells us how it's all about The Pope, we hear from the front row-ers in Bristol and Hemel Hempstead, and we go back in time to a backstage chat at The Comedy Store with Johnny Vegas and Mick Ferry.   Get in touch here: X – @3045podcast Facebook - @3045podcast Instagram - @3045podcast Email – podcast@justinmoorhouse.com   THIS WEEK'S GIGS:   See Justin on Saturday here: https://www.chelmsfordtheatre.co.uk/events/justin-moorhouse-the-greatest-performance-of-my-life/   See Justin on Sunday here: https://www.storyhouse.com/whats-on/spirit-of-the-north/   EPISODE LINKS:   Kafeine Coffee: https://www.instagram.com/kafeine_coffee   OTHER STUFF:   Watch my YouTube Special: https://www.youtube.com/@justinmoorhousecomedian   The Greatest Performance of My Life: https://www.justinmoorhouse.com/   Join the Mailing List: https://justinmoorhouse.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4c600f8287b9c2e121f43c3a1&id=bbd0010665   Music by Liam Frost. Produced by Rachel Fitzgerald and Justin Moorhouse

Steven Wilson wird am 3. November 1967 in Kingston upon Thames, südwestlich von London geboren und wächst ab dem sechsten Lebensjahr in Hemel Hempstead auf.Mit acht beginnt er, sich für Musik zu interessieren. Er bekommt Gitarren- und Klavierunterricht. Mit 12 beginnt er mit einem Multitrack-Tape-Recorder und einem Vocoder zu experimentieren. Beides hat ihm sein Vater gebastelt. Der ist Elektroingenieur.Da ihm die Musik der 80er zeitweise nicht viel gibt, vergräbt er sich in die große Alben der Jahre 1967 bis 1977. Er entdeckt Psychedelic, Prog, Kraut und Punk für sich und wird zum alles absorbierenden Supernerd.Bald gründet er mit verschiedenen Freunden verschiedene Bands. Mit denen veröffentlicht er erste Tapes.1987 tritt Wilson gleich mit zwei Band-Projekten in Erscheinung. Beide werden seinen Werdegang als Musiker maßgeblich prägen: No-Man, die Synth-Pop und Progressive Rock vereinen und Porcupine Tree, die gitarrenlastiger sind, mit Elementen aus Psych, Prog und Metal arbeiten.In den fast 40 seitdem vergangenen Jahren hat Wilson mit Blackfield, Continuum, Bass Communion, Storm Corrosion und als Solokünstler unzählige Alben veröffentlicht.Seinen Ruf als legitimer Erbe der großen Prog-Bands der 70er hat er nicht nur als meisterhafter Gitarrist, sondern auch als Remixer untermauert. In dieser Funktion hat er an Alben von Yes, King Crimson, Marillion, Jethro Tull Gentle Giant, Ultravox, ABC und vielen mehr gearbeitet.Mit „The Overview“ ist am 14. März sein achtes Soloalbum erschienen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Tom, Matty, Matty and Clive for a Christmas eve recording, looking back at the game against Hemel Hempstead and the season so far ...

Episode 353 - Sins & The Herts GT Rich is joined by Ben and Tim to chat about a couple of recent events. First up from a couple of weekends back we have the AMG GT from Hemel Hempstead running new AMG points then from last weekend we're off to Newport, Wales for a local XWA points event! Sin city Newport November https://www.longshanks.org/event/20454/ Star Wars: X-Wing at the Herts GT 2024 https://rollbetter.gg/tournaments/1856 Cast - Rich, Tim and Den Producer - Tim Recorded 25/11/2024 via Discord Intro - Obi Wan 'hello there' from Revenge of the Sith Outro - Imagine Dragons & JID - Enemy (from the series Arcane: League of Legends) | Official Music Video Bonus outro - Greg Crash! Used without permission - it's just for fun!

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Man held after acid attack on schoolgirl bailed Tyre Anger and grief in south Lebanon city almost deserted after Israeli strikes Judge denies request from black student punished over hair Orpington Two children, aged 4 and 6, injured by four dogs New Bridget Jones film very sad, says Hugh Grant Thousands take part in pro Palestinian march in central London Why war in Middle East involves UK, BBCs Laura Kuenssberg writes Newspaper headlines PMs call for calm and private school VAT delay Strictly Come Dancing Punam Krishan says its a huge moment as Bollywood music comes to show Human remains found under St Marys House patio in Hemel Hempstead

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Human remains found under St Marys House patio in Hemel Hempstead Strictly Come Dancing Punam Krishan says its a huge moment as Bollywood music comes to show Thousands take part in pro Palestinian march in central London Newspaper headlines PMs call for calm and private school VAT delay Orpington Two children, aged 4 and 6, injured by four dogs Man held after acid attack on schoolgirl bailed Judge denies request from black student punished over hair Tyre Anger and grief in south Lebanon city almost deserted after Israeli strikes New Bridget Jones film very sad, says Hugh Grant Why war in Middle East involves UK, BBCs Laura Kuenssberg writes

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv Strictly Come Dancing Punam Krishan says its a huge moment as Bollywood music comes to show Human remains found under St Marys House patio in Hemel Hempstead Man held after acid attack on schoolgirl bailed Thousands take part in pro Palestinian march in central London New Bridget Jones film very sad, says Hugh Grant Orpington Two children, aged 4 and 6, injured by four dogs Judge denies request from black student punished over hair Tyre Anger and grief in south Lebanon city almost deserted after Israeli strikes Why war in Middle East involves UK, BBCs Laura Kuenssberg writes Newspaper headlines PMs call for calm and private school VAT delay

Morse code transcription: vvv vvv New Bridget Jones film very sad, says Hugh Grant Strictly Come Dancing Punam Krishan says its a huge moment as Bollywood music comes to show Judge denies request from black student punished over hair Newspaper headlines PMs call for calm and private school VAT delay Why war in Middle East involves UK, BBCs Laura Kuenssberg writes Orpington Two children, aged 4 and 6, injured by four dogs Man held after acid attack on schoolgirl bailed Thousands take part in pro Palestinian march in central London Tyre Anger and grief in south Lebanon city almost deserted after Israeli strikes Human remains found under St Marys House patio in Hemel Hempstead

A new MP3 sermon from Bethel Reformed Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Weekly Open Air Preaching in Hemel Hempstead 01.08.2024 Subtitle: Weekly Open Air Ministry Speaker: Pastor Chalan Hetherington Broadcaster: Bethel Reformed Baptist Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 8/1/2024 Length: 23 min.

A few months ago we told you about a new cricket club that has launched in the Hemel Hempstead area.  Hubert has been speaking to Richard the club coach and former England player Steve Humphries who plays for the club to see how the club has been progressing. Image shows RNIB Connect Radio logo. A white square with 'RNIB' written in bold black capital letters, underlined with a bold pink line and beneath 'Connect Radio' is written in a smaller black font.

A few months ago we told you about a new cricket club that has launched in the Hemel Hempstead area. Hubert has been speaking to Richard the club coach and former England player Steve Humphries who plays for the club to see how the club has been progressing.

There are times that can touch us deeply. Very often they are not about finding a place of peace or somewhere outstandingly beautiful. It is something else. Something beyond these things. It is about encountering something wonderful, and being spun by wonderment. Join us tonight as we recover from dragging a very smelly and wet dog out of the canal!   Journal entry:13th July, Saturday“Loosestrife sets alight The greyness of the day With purple fire.Chiff chaff squeak Like rusty wheelbarrows Among the dog-rose And willowherb spires.Maggie sniffs each stone in turn of the snapped-back bridge As we pass underneath it With a thrash of white water.The heron is back And so are we.” Episode Information:In this episode I briefly mention a line from ‘Waltzing Along' by James (1997) and Kai T Murano's The Monk and the Butterfly, self-published in 2024.  With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.David Dirom Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger Captain Arlo Rebecca Russell Allison on the narrowboat Mukka Derek and Pauline Watts Anna V. Orange Cookie Donna Kelly Mary Keane. Tony Rutherford. Arabella Holzapfel. Rory with MJ and Kayla. Narrowboat Precious Jet. Linda Reynolds Burkins. Richard Noble. Carol Ferguson. Tracie Thomas Mark and Tricia Stowe Madeleine SmithGeneral DetailsIn the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org. Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.All other audio recorded on site. Support the Show.Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.ContactFor pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts or to contact me, follow me on: Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPod Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw I would love to hear from you. You can email me at nighttimeonstillwaters@gmail.com or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon. For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

Ecriture et réalisation: Jean-Sébastien Grond - Crédits sonores: National anthem of Scotland, The fields of Athenry (piano cover by Hemel Hempstead),Hen wlad fy nhadau, Sunday bloody sunday (par The Backing Tracks), God save the Queen (epic version par Beyond Gaia's Horizon).

To close our preview series for this year's season, we take a look at new cricket clubs that hope to join in the fun. Here, Hubert speaks to the coach of the new Hemel Hempstead Cricket Club Richard Grayson.

Adam takes on the dizzying heights of Hemel Hempstead's Snow Centre – London's closest indoor real snow slope – for a snowboarding lesson with Sean.Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ian and Dave are joined by Former Gloverscast Quiz Champion Rob Manley to chat through the 2-0 against Hemel Hempstead at the weekend. Apologies for some of the audio, Storm Isha did a number on the internet connections.Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Leave us a review and share the pod with a pal.We'd love to welcome some local businesses into the Gloverscast family through advertising. If you're a business that would like to speak to a dedicated audience of more than 1000 monthly listeners, please get in touch. Find out more about advertising with us here.If you have an idea for the website, want to contribute or just want to send us a message, feel free to email ian@gloverscast.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hemel Hempstead come to Huish Park today, as the Glovers will be hoping to avenge their opening day defeat by the Tudors. Dave caught up with Hemel's Head of Comms Dan Finill about their season since we last met.Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Leave us a review and share the pod with a pal.We'd love to welcome some local businesses into the Gloverscast family through advertising. If you're a business that would like to speak to a dedicated audience of more than 1000 monthly listeners, please get in touch. Find out more about advertising with us here.If you have an idea for the website, want to contribute or just want to send us a message, feel free to email ian@gloverscast.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a week off, Ian, Dave and Ben are back to chat through the return of Sam Pearson and preview the visit of Hemel Hempstead.Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Leave us a review and share the pod with a pal.We'd love to welcome some local businesses into the Gloverscast family through advertising. If you're a business that would like to speak to a dedicated audience of more than 1000 monthly listeners, please get in touch. Find out more about advertising with us here.If you have an idea for the website, want to contribute or just want to send us a message, feel free to email ian@gloverscast.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode David Ozard, General Manager of John Mason International Movers discusses how he began in the industry some 50 years ago, and believes he's only spent 2 weeks working outside of the industry! David started life as a remover in his father's company based in Rochdale and has spent the past 31 years at John Mason International Movers. John Mason International Movers are based in Liverpool but do have a Southern operation in Hemel Hempstead. They are one of the largest shippers ex-UK Worldwide, and only offer international moving (deep sea and airfreight) and storage, working with partner agents from all over the world. One of David's challenges is that he comes from Bolton, but joking aside, it's the work ethic and enjoyment of working within the industry that can clearly bring the personal rewards. The one thing David would change from his moving past would have been to move off the vans and into management sooner to protect his health and body. David has two highpoints of being within the industry, becoming General Manager of John Mason International Movers which came to David as a shock, and becoming Chairman of the MTC (Movers Trading Club). The one thing David would like to change within the industry is the Ombudsman, which David believes is setup wrong as it's sometimes used as a blackmail for clients to use against the remover. The advice David would give himself, just starting out within the industry again, is to work hard, play hard, and to stay in the best hotels! In the next 5 years David dreams of retirement, but realistically he enjoys work too much (even though he keeps checking his pension), so he still sees himself at John Mason International Movers. Industry wise David doesn't know what the next 5 years holds as he believes it changes so much with challenge after challenge. Outside of the industry David enjoys sport, watching more than playing (especially football at grassroots level) but he did pay Rugby Union in his younger days. David also enjoys reading, walking (due to his new hips!) and watching foreign subtitled TV. And as always we end Moving Matters with a funny moving story, in fact two, one regarding falling asleep in a moving van, and the other regarding the use of a client's clothing. Enjoy! Links to John Mason International Movers: * Website (https://www.johnmason.com/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/johnmasonintl) * Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/johnmasoninternational) * Instagram (https://instagram.com/johnmasonintl) Special Guest: David Ozard.

Joining your regular hosts on The Paranormal Peep Show of Neil Ward and Andy Chaplin, are returning guests Ben Emlyn-Jones, Gary Robinson, and Ronnie Kinsella. Ben recounts how the year has been for him, travelling to conferences around the UK and also in Las Vegas and even visiting Area 51 almost! Gary updates us with more Mexican tales of spooky happenings and also of a strange flying sphere he once observed with his Nan over his house in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, UK. In part 2, the gang are joined by author and artist, Ronnie Kinsella, who also has witnessed a strange flying sphere, along with his own Nan and twin brother Philip when they were small boys. The discussion then focuses on the efforts to get UFOs and aliens disclosed in the USA and also in Mexico and we discuss the strange alien mummies presented to the Mexican hearing back in August!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4541473/advertisement

Join Matt, Matthew and Chris rounding up the Hemel Hempstead game, and very much NOT rounding up the game at Taunton Lido.

La pasión por Jesús que nace entre los “hippies” a finales de los años 60 en California se vuelve un fenómeno internacional a principios de los 70. A partir de Escandinavia, el movimiento se extiende por el centro de Europa, pero en Inglaterra hay ya un foco importante en 1971 –el año que la revista Time fechó la Revolución por Jesús–. Tiene que ver entonces con la visita de Arthur Blessitt con su cruz a Bugbrook (Northamptonshire) –después de abrir una misión en el Sunset Strip de Los Angeles en 1968–, donde el excéntrico pastor carismático Noel Stanton comenzaría el Ejército de Jesús, pero también con el Frente de Liberación por Jesús, que nace sin relación con Estados Unidos en Hemel Hempstead, todo ello ante la creciente invasión de los Niños de Dios, que todavía se consideraban parte de este movimiento. En este episodio de esta serie de programas de radio contamos lo que pasa antes de llegar David Berg a Londres en 1972. Tras el nacimiento de los Niños de Dios como Adolescentes por Cristo (Teens For Christ) en un juego de palabras con el nombre de la organización de David Wilkerson (Teen Chalenge), que había establecido la misión en la que comienzan en la playa californiana de Huntington en 1966, el Club de la Luz (Light Club), el antiguo pastor de la Alianza Cristiana Misionera, David Berg (1919-1994) es obligado a abandonar el local que pagaba ahora el grupo pentecostal del empresario Demos Shakarian, la Fraternidad de Hombres de Negocios del Evangelio Completo. El grupo emprende un éxodo en el que Berg se va a convertir en un nuevo Moisés, que en cumplimiento de las profecías bíblicas les lleva a la tierra prometida de Texas, donde el evangelista Fred Jordan les deja establecer su Clínica del Alma, a la vez que usan el edificio que tiene en Los Angeles, a cambio de aparecer convenientemente trajeados en su programa de televisión como fruto de su ministerio. En este programa escuchamos el testimonio de algunos que estuvieron en aquella época con los Niños de Dios, así como de la propia hija y esposa de Berg (Faith y Eve), en el documental más serio y riguroso que hizo sobre la secta, una directora judía canadiense, todavía no traducido al castellano (The Love Prophet & The Children of God 1998). Oímos también la narración de Arthur Blessitt de su primer viaje con su cruz a Europa, que comienza con un recorrido por Irlanda en medio del conflicto entre el IRA y el Ejército británico en 1971. Escuchamos una canción del guitarrista de Fleetwood Mac, Jeremy Spencer con los Niños de Dios (Can You Hear The Song?) y del grupo irlandés U2 (Tomorrow) con los comentarios de José de Segovia sobre la música instrumental de Fleetwood Mac y Clannad.

Phillip of Leicester Fan TV joins us for the first time to discuss our trip to the King Power on Saturday!! We find out about Leicester's season post relegation from the Premier League (which Phillip is still quite rightly not happy about), another former Pep Guardiola assistant in the hot seat at the foxes we hear about how Maresca has got on and what the Foxes fans think, recruitment after the inevitable departures are covered including Hemel Hempstead born Harry Winks, and we cover two Leicester player who had loan spells at the Hornets and Mordor FC respectively one of whom had massive hair!!We hear how Leicester have been setting up in terms of system with a lot of possession and heavy on ball retention which Phillip has found frustrating on occasions, we discuss Everton's 10 point deduction for Profit and Sustainability rules being broken and Phillip seems fairly magnanimous about it all but asks, quite rightly, about the Premier Leagues approach to financial fair play – preventing Pete from having another rant at the football authorities (for once). Carl looks forward to Man City appearing in the Northern League at some stage. Pete asks about Nigel Pearsons forearms and winning the Premier League, the tragic loss of their owner, an incredibly poignant 1881 banner moment and how the FFP rules seem to be to try to stop another team outside the top six/seven to repeat their success.The Prediction League sees Pete fail to control the proceedings per normal, John does some drawing (Badly Drawn Watford now has a copycat with felt tip pens!!!) as his printer isn't working and then goes to the pub, Ben and Jarvis make a trip to a local football ground, Phillip tries to make a draw prediction but is unreasonably prevented from doing so! Finally, we all conclude that we are old, grumpy and cynical and see that as a good thing!!COYH!This Podcast has been created and uploaded by Do Not Scratch Your Eyes. The views in this Podcast are not necessarily the views of talkSPORT.Huge thanks to all our Patreons:Chris Giannone,RichWFC2,Steve Holliman,Ian Ball,Paul Fiander Turner,Sean Gourley,Lee Anselmo,John Parslow,Mark von Herkomer,Neil Silverstein,Steve Brown,Dave Lavender,Chris MundyKasey Brown,Nipper Harrison,Boyd Mayover,Colin Payne,Paul Riley,Gary Wood,Karl Campion,Kevin Kremen,The Big Le – Bofski,Greg Theaker,Malcolm Williams,Bryan Edwards,Peter Ryan,Jack Foster,Jason Rose,Michael Abrahams,Ian Bacon,Ken Green,Nick Nieuwland,Colin SmithAnt!!!!!& PDF Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This National Snow Week Special is packed full of interviews, including Mia Brookes, Ed Leigh, Chemmy Alcott, Charlotte Bankes, Warren Smith and more, all recorded at the consumer shows in Birmingham and London, and at trade networking event LISTEX. Intersport Ski Hire Discount Code Save money on your ski hire by using the code ‘SKIPODCAST' at intersportrent.com, or simply take this link for your discount to be automatically applied at the checkout. SHOW NOTES The Ski Podcast was a finalist in the ‘Best Broadcast Programme' category at the 2023 Travel Media Awards (1:00) Sam Haddad featured in our snowboard special episode (1:30) Sam won the Travel Media award for ‘Best Sustainability Feature' (1:40) Save money when you book your ski hire with Intersport by using the code ‘SKIPODCAST' (1:45) Listen to Iain's interview with Tim Warwood (2:45) Mia Brookes became world champion in snowboard slopestyle earlier this year (4:45) Charlotte Bankes won the mixed team Snowboard Cross with teammate Huw Nightingale (8:00) Iain interviewed Charlotte when she first joined Team GB Colin Martin appeared in our Ski Boot Special podcast (13:30) Al Morgan discussed the BOA Fit System for ski boots in Episode 187 Listen to Iain's interview with BBC Ski Sunday presenter Ed Leigh, recorded in Feb 2023 (18:30) Tord Nilson is on the SIGB board (22:00) Guy Fowles works at Wasteland Travel, specialists in ski trips for student and young professionals (25:15) Ian Brown from The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead (27:15) James Gambrill from The Ski Club of Great Britain, who are bringing back Ski Club reps to France (29:30) Dan Keeley is from the charity Snowcamp (33:30) Iain reported on his trip to Roccaraso in Abruzzo in Episode 170 (36:15) Graeme is the owner of Ski Abruzzo (37:45) Aaron is the founder of OOSC Clothing (39:00) Iain led panels about train travel at both shows (41:00) Krissie Roe from Inghams talked about their new train travel product in Episode 184 (44:00) Listen to Iain's ‘Behind the Scenes at Ski Sunday' interview with Chemmy Alcott (44:15) Richard Sinclair is MD at ski travel agency SNO Holidays (44:30) SNO are reporting an increase in demand for train travel (45:00) Richard appeared on our electric vehicle special podcast (49:00) SNO has a page about electric car travel to the Alps in their website Warren Smith has been taking the POW Carbon Literacy courses (49:45) In Episode 183 we discussed the POW ‘Send It for Climate' campaign (52:00) Dom Winter is Head of Programmes for Protect Our Winters UK Nathalie Davies is MD of Raccoon Media Group (54:00) The 2024 London Snow Show will take place on 19-20 October at ExCel in London (55:00) Iain was joined for The Ski Podcast Live by Mike Richards, Katie Bamber, James Wilcox, Catherine Murphy and Tristan Kennedy (speaking about Japan, Turkey, Iraq, Pays de Gex, Uzbekistan and Abruzzo respectively) Feedback (57:00)  We have some great feedback from ‘Snowheads' (57:30)   Fixx: "The Ski Podcast panel with Iain re. train travel to the slopes was very interesting" wiigman: "The Ski Podcast panel stuff excellent and thought-provoking" elzP: "I also really enjoyed the train travel session" Tim: "I recently discovered The Ski Podcast and I have been binge listening! I'm impressed by the engaging content and captivating discussions on all things skiing and snow sports" Inside Morzine: "We can't wait for the new season to kick off but first there a little matter of the National Snow Show and meet someone who has not only got us through the pandemic but the all the months in between: Iain Martin from The Ski Podcast - a total legend!" Andrea Dalton: "Just managed to catch up with this latest episode and fab to hear from Al always love listening to what he has to say." If you like the podcast, there are three things you can do to help: 1) Review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify  2) Buy me a coffee at BuyMeaCoffee.com/theskipodcast (thanks David) 3) Book your ski hire with Intersport Rent using the code ‘SKIPODCAST' You can follow Iain on social @skipedia and the podcast @theskipodcast

Steven Wilson, Roland Orzabal, Lucy Rose and Andy Partridge talk about the effect of fan expectations on the creative process, whether the world needs any more new music, and if “retro mania” is stopping rock music from evolving. Born in London and raised in Hemel Hempstead in the UK, Steven Wilson developed an interest in music as a child and was heavily influenced by Pink Floyd. His dad built him a multi-track tape machine when he was 12, which allowed him to start experimenting with sound. He formed two bands in 1986, No Man and Porcupine Tree, both of which came to define much of his career. His music covers everything from rock, to ambient, to electro pop, and he's worked with Elton John, Guns N' Roses, XTC, Pendulum, Yes, Marillion, and Black Sabbath. He's just released his seventh solo album, The Harmony Codex. Roland Orzabal is a British musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and author. He is best known for co-founding of one of the most influential bands from the 80s, Tears for Fears. British singer-songwriter Lucy Rose started out performing with indie act Bombay Bicycle Club before becoming a successful solo artist in her own right. More recently she's worked with Paul Weller, and she's just finished her new album. Andy Partridge is a British guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who, as a founding member of cult rock band XTC, many call the godfather of Britpop.

This week, a brand-new Justin Moorhouse catches up with Barca Jim in Blackpool. We hear from the front row-ers in Hemel Hempstead and Mountsorrel, before finding out what Izzy's having for tea.   Get in touch or #AskIzzy here: WhatsApp – 07495 717 860 Twitter – @3045podcast Email – podcast@justinmoorhouse.com   THIS WEEK'S GUESTS:   Barca Jim: https://twitter.com/Barcajim3   THIS WEEK'S GIGS:   See me on Wednesday here: https://justinmoorhouse.seetickets.com/event/justin-moorhouse-stretch-think/royal-spa-centre/2649631   See me on Thursday here: lowtherpavilion.co.uk/book-online/338602   See me on Friday here: https://justinmoorhouse.seetickets.com/event/justin-moorhouse-stretch-think/pocklington-arts-centre/2649633   See me on Saturday here: frogandbucket.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873634788/events/128461948   Or a little bit later on here: frogandbucket.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873634788/events/128461724   EPISODE LINKS:   Room for Improvement:   Stretch and Think tour: https://justinmoorhouse.seetickets.com/tour/justin-moorhouse   Out of Office Coffee: https://www.outofofficecoffee.co.uk/locations/newport-pagnell/   Music by Liam Frost. Produced by Rachel Fitzgerald and Justin Moorhouse.

In this episode, Mitesh Dhanak – founder of Precious Homes – takes us on his career journey, from his own beginnings in banking, to opening his first learning disability home, and now to the day-to-day running of over sixty units nationwide. We explore the challenges facing the healthcare sector and, importantly, how Mitesh has navigated these by creating the right organisational culture, striving for quality and maintaining talent in his team.

Sam in Gloucestershire and Ian from Hemel Hempstead try to end the week on a high!

Gary Robinson, musician and resident of Mexico joins Neil in the August edition of The Paranormal Peep Show, to discuss his own personal Paranormal experiences initially that took place in his birth town of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK, and then later on in Mexico where he got married and presently lives there with his wife and family. We discuss the 'Woke' of various TV shows and films, and then move on to the Woo! Gary has experienced ghosts and UFOS and shares those stories with us and also discusses the strange mind and reality-altering substance Ayahuasca . In Part Two, we change locations and move out of the studio, to location and meet up with Paranormal UK Radio's founders Mark Johnson and Irene Allen at a pub near Stonehenge. Mark has been visiting the UK for the first time and has been given a tour of some of the sites and Stonehenge was on his bucket of places to visit. We discuss this and other sites like Avebury, Tomb of the Eagles, and discuss other strange phenomena like time slips, ghost Maids, haunted hotels, haunted highways and much much more!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4541473/advertisement

SHOW RUN DOWN My Dad's favourites: Joe Glazer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5kQXAGhow UNTITLED POEM ON A FOUR PAPER PLATES By Raymond Charles Lewis (My dad) The big dipper is too low in the sky to see above the trees, - emmense, tiny clusters and mist of the milky way, A cow almost brays or honks, lapping + lap + soft slapping the water, - across the water. the cow almost brays were it only this yet ever pressence I know, this grow-up here around these stars- the cool of the late autumn - the wood fire - today the young preacher talking sensible death on the radio, and today a picture, a photograph– I never so much as touched her hand. and her wedding picture has turned me back, so deep inside against the outside world, I want to go again away, I want to wak again alone. I want to kneel someplace & be beat to death. Moved on waters and asleep on land. Here now I remember a feeling. RESOURCES INSIDEOUT PODCAST - Stephanie Boulet. Checkout Episode 1 on "Recovery" https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/insideout-institute-podcast/id1454173233?mc_cid=1187ba0c8d&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D AMAZING INSPIRING FILM by writer Todd Perelmuter I Watched 'Aloneness to Oneness' this morning - enjoy!  https://youtu.be/9M56t0UoW5M DISCUSSION ON GRIEF Excerpted from Opening to Grief: Finding Your Way from Loss to Peace, by Claire B. Willis and Marnie Crawford Samuelson (Dharma Spring, 2020). Reprinted by permission of Red Wheel/Weiser. All rights reserved. COOL DUDE: JOHN KIM https://www.theangrytherapist.com/ O X Y T O C I N https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-increase-oxytocin R E T R E A T with Buddha, in HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, U.K. Amaravati https://amaravati.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/minnie-yazmin-lewis/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/minnie-yazmin-lewis/support

We find out about trends in après-ski, skiing in Bosnia and mountain biking in the French Alps.   Iain was joined by Ella Robinson from Apres Ski Bands, plus regular guests Mike Richards (last on show in E170 talking about Rusutsu in Japan) and Chris Moran (last on in the action camera special in E171). SHOW NOTES Mike last skied in the Brecon Beacons National Park in April (2:00) Find out more about skiing in Wales in Episode 65 (2:30) Iain caught up with Chemmy Alcott, Graham Bell, Babsi Lapwood, Steve Morgan and Jasmin Taylor at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead (5:00) Dan Keeley has completed his 1100 mile run from London to Rome (5:30) The Ski Podcast is sponsored by Les 3 Vallees - the largest ski area in the world (6:30) Chris spends a lot of time on his MTB in Méribel (8:00) Find out about BikeParkWales (11:45) Méribel has several Enduro trails (14:30) The new Bozel lift is getting close to being greenlit (15:00) Après Ski Bands booked at over 80 venues last winter (19:30) Top après venues in Les 3 Vallées include the Rond Point and Jacks in Méribel, Lodge du Village in Méribel Village and The Ski Lodge in La Tania (28:30) The Feeling played at Lodge du Village in April 2023 (31:00) Back in the early 2000s they were a popular Alpine covers band known as ‘Superfly' and regularly played at Natives parties (31:30) Mike travelled to Bosnia with Crystal Holidays (38:30) Mike was based in Jahorina (41:45) Check out Mike's Instagram photos Mike will be joining Iain for ‘The Ski Podcast Live' at the National Snow Show at the Birmingham NEC in October (47:00) You can get a free ticket for the show by using the code 'SKIPODCAST' (47:45) We will publish the full interview with Peter Landsman from liftblog.com in July (48:00) Feedback I enjoy all feedback about the show, I like to know what you think, ideas for features so please contact on social @theskipodcast or by email theskipodcast@gmail.com Padster: "Great interview with Chemmy” Wiigman: "Loved Episode 176 about National Snow Week” Richard Sideways: "Great interview with Tim Warwood in Episode 177" Dave of the Marmottes: "[Episode 177] was a good insight into the accidental career of professional snowballers!" Our three most listened to episodes of all time (50:45) 161: The Ski Boot Special (How to choose ski boots, custom insoles (Nov 2022) 86: Travel Bans, Olympic Tips & Stöckli skis (Jan 2022) 44: Gstaad, Val Thorens, Verbier, and your dream ski job! (Dec 2019)   You can follow Iain @skipedia and the podcast @theskipodcast 

On this Andy Powell interview: Tracing a lifetime of musical success to ONE bold move he made, early on in his career (with Richie Blackmore)… Tons of stories: opening up for The Who for his first gig (age 14), Deep Purple… working with Tom Dowd, Miles Copeland, Martin Birch & Bill Szymczyk… smoking hash in Marrakesh… Seeing Clapton, Hendrix, Cream, Fairport Convention, Peter Green, John Mayall (w/ Mick Taylor) in concert… the deliberate decision to come up with the twin lead guitar sound. His work ethic and how it informed his attitude and success in music… Being so broke, the band was literally starving… What business old record companies were REALLY in, and why “It's not about Andy, it's about the Band.” AWESOME convo with a lovely guy Cool Guitar, Music & ELG T-Shirts!: http://www.GuitarMerch.com   Andy Powell is a founding member and guitarist of the British rock band Wishbone Ash. Wishbone Ash was one of the earliest bands to have twin guitars playing. The band still  tours worldwide and has released 26 studio LPs, 11 Live LPs and 5 Live DVDs. Over the years Andy's received tons of accolades including appearing in Rolling Stone's "Top 20 Guitarists of All Time" list. Andy was born on the East End of London, and grew up in Hemel Hempstead but has been living here in the states in Connecticut for quite some time now.  Subscribe & Website:  https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/subscribe Support this show: http://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/support  

Paul has lovely skin and Tony has burger regret, and as if that wasn't enough, we also have nine songs from Civil Rats, Horsemeat, Continental, The Frenzy Of Tongs, Ugly Fly Guys, Johnny Throttle, Tina And The Total Babes, Salem Trials and Confusionaires.Fans of the, Voice of Jeff, Comedy Suburbs, Tony has your Facebook comments, skin, last week, work tv tv work, Troll, Viking Werewolf, Verbal Warning, Ugly Fly Guys interview, From the Vaults, Tony's International Gig Guide, Hemel Hempstead facts, drummers get in touch, this week, Tony's Birthday, founders day, Sam Smith, bad Bond themes, Izzatwat and a reminder of the ways you can listen.Song 1: Civil Rats - SnacksSong 2: Horsemeat - RecallSong 3: Continental – State O' MaineSong 4: The Frenzy Of Tongs – Fun Fun FunSong 5: Ugly Fly Guys – Dead FreshSong 6: Johnny Throttle – I Wanna Be Your ExSong 7: Tina And The Total Babes – Tell That Girl To Shut UpSong 8: Salem Trials – All Ears No SpeakSong 9: Confusionaires – Everybody Wants What They Can't Have

Wales captain Gareth Bale retires from football at the age of 33. Plus the Legendinho Tim Vickery & Mark Gleeson join Dotun to discuss football shirts & political protest; and we hear from the late great Gianluca Vialli in his own words. Tim gives the lowdown on the young Argentinian talent heading for the Premier League, Mark assesses the upcoming African Nations Championship, and Dotun explores Henry VIII's links to Hemel Hempstead.

In Episode 101, Iain is joined by journalist Gemma Bowes and equipment expert Al Morgan to discuss skiing in Greece, ‘frontside' skis and the ‘Parablock'. James Gambrill  also joins us with news of the latest Ski Club of Great Britain survey. SHOW NOTES ·       Gemma travelled to Val Cenis and Val Frejus last spring ·       Splitboard Fest will be held in La Norma in January 2023 ·       Skiing on the glacier in Zermatt restarted on Tue 20 September ·       Recent episodes have included Warren Smith, Helen Coffey, Speed Opening in Zermatt and, of course, our 100th Episode ·       Thanks to Julie for her comments on the taxonomy of the podcasts! ·       Les 3 Vallees - the largest ski area in the world - is now the main sponsor of The Ski Podcast ·       Read about the solar panels installed in Meribel this summer on the Saulire Express ·       Gemma skied in Parnassos in Greece  https://youtu.be/GtEc9RJU8cM ·       Listen to Iain's report on his half-term family ski trip to the French Pyrenees in Episode 49 ·       ‘The Ski Podcast' will be at the National Snow Show taking people ‘off the beaten track' in our live episode covering Morocco, Turkey, Albania & Kazahkstan. It's on at 12pm on Saturday 15th October.  ·       On Sunday 16th October, Iain will be presenting about driving EVs to and around the Alps.  ·       Iain curated the forum at ‘Ski Launch' – an industry event in London on 13 September – and the sustainability panel at LISTEX, held at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead ·       James Gambrill is the General Manager of the Ski Club of Great Britain ·       Iain was reading these US ski reviews  ·       Mike Greenland asked us via Twitter: "Who remembers the Parablock from the 70s?” ·       A vaguely similar idea available now is the Edgie Wedgie  FEEDBACK You can give us feedback about the show, on social to @theskipodcast or  by email to theskipodcast@gmail.com  Rachel Frisby: "Loved episode about La Plagne (99). Love the resort so much.” Joe McHugh: “Great podcast again, as always! Regarding the Vanoise Express link to Les Arcs, if you stay in Montchavin, you can ski a full day in either La Plagne or Les Arcs. The village is one lift away in the morning and there are no extra lifts to be taken in the evening: you just ski back to the village. It's a traditional village, quiet with limited night-life, but location makes it a great base to explore the whole Paradiski area.” Richard_Sideways: “Great special with Warren Smith”  BobinCH: “Great podcast with Warren! Didn't know he filmed with Guido Perrini” Liam Major: “I just wanted to say I've been listening through the podcast series and I'm hooked, you and Iain do a really good job. I've only recently developed an interest in skiing and have started listening through all of your podcasts in anticipation for my first trip away. The magnitude of knowledge I've have learned from these podcasts is exceptional so I can't thank you enough.” Photo from https://www.facebook.com/OnParnassos

In this bonus episode Iain talks with Helen Coffey, travel editor at ‘The Independent' and author of the book ‘Zero Altitude: How I Learned to Fly Less and Travel More'. We discuss her background in skiing, time at Telegraph Ski & Snowboard Magazine and her decision in 2020 to give up flying completely – a significant decision for a travel journalist. SHOW NOTES ·       Helen was on the show in Episode 80 ·       She learned to ski at Hemel Hempstead (2:15) ·       Her first ski season was in Les Arcs (4:00) ·       Listen to our interview with ski instructor Warren Smith here (4:45) ·       Helen worked as a transfer rep for Crystal Ski (6:45) ·       Younger listeners may be surprised to learn that ski passes used to require photos (9:30) ·       She started as a sub-editor at the Telegraph Ski and Snowboard Magazine before moving to the relatively new position of Online Editor (12:00) ·       She was schooled in ‘churnalism' at the Daily Express (14:15) ·       During PyeongChang 2018 we produced a podcast every day (15:30) ·       Iain founded Ski Flight Free in 2019 (16:15) ·       Anna Hughes was on the podcast in our Train Travel Special episode (20:00)  ·       Following an interview with Anna Hughes at Flight Free UK, Helen decided to take the Flight Free pledge and to stop flying completely (20:45) ·       Tagsyrt is a Swedish word loosely meaning ‘train bragging' (25:15) ·       If you're paying £2 to offset your flight (say with Ryanair), it's unlikely to be an effective scheme (29:30) ·       Iain uses MyClimate to offset emissions from flights (30:15) ·       Aviation fuel is not subject to taxation that other forms of transport are (32:00) ·       Research has shown that 1% of people cause half of global aviation emissions (34:00) ·       Look at Mark Smith's excellent Seat61.com website for advice on flight free travel (37:00) ·       Helen travelled on the Travelski direct Eurostar service last winter to Les Arcs (38:30) ·       You can listen to our bonus episode about Iain's experience on the TravelSki Express service here (39:30) ·       You can see Helen ‘in person' at The Independent's virtual event for advice on your next holiday, with Simon Calder on 22 September (41:30) ·       Helen's book ‘Zero Altitude: How I Learned to Fly Less and Travel More' is available in all good bookstores

Iain was joined by Warren Smith, eponymous founder of the Warren Smith Ski Academy, for this bonus episode of The Ski Podcast. SHOW NOTES Warren learned to ski at the Hemel Hempstead dry ski slope, before it was recreated as The Snow Centre – an indoor snow slope His first snow experience was on a school trip to Saalbach in Austria, when the coach broke down Phil Gordon presents the ‘Legends of the Brand' podcast (3:30) Warren's first qualification was as a UK dry slope instuctor (4:45) He first taught on snow in Seefeld in Austria, before moving to Verbier in 1994 (5:00) Joyce Read from Ski Verbier was an early mentor (6:00) You can watch Blizzard of Aaaahs – the famous ‘extreme' ski movie – on YouTube Jamie Strachan designed top sheets for Volkl and brought Warren on the their team in winter 1998/99 (8:45) Strachan also designed many of the legendary ChamJam posters (9:30) Listen to Iain's interview with GB Snowsports coach Pat Sharples in this bonus episode of The Ski Podcast (10:15) Stu Brass and Spencer Claridge were behind the AIM Series of events and built the freestyle features for events like the London Ski Show and The Jump (11:00) Iain launched Natives.co.uk in April 1999 (12:00) Other early freestyle projects that Warren set up were the British Freestyle Camps and the Ride Series  Pat talks about the impact of the Salomon 1080 on the freestyle scene in this interview, as does Jim Adlington (founder of Planks) in our bonus episode with him (14:00) Paddy Graham came out of the Sheffield dry slope scene and is still producing award-winning movies with the ‘Legs of Steel' crew (17:30) Warren also produced movies such as the ‘Snow's In The House' series and ‘Snow Odyssey' featuring a 16-year-old Candide Thovex (19:00) Warren's ‘Go Ski' technique book and DVD is available online (25:00) Rob Sawyer from the Farinet Bar in Verbier recommended Warren to England rugby player Laurence Dallaglio (28:00) Other celebrities that Warren has skied with or instructed in Verbier include James Blunt, Princess Eugenie and Prince Harry (33:00) Listen to Peter Hardy's anecdotes about James Blunt in our special episode Louis Smith, Spencer Matthews and Jason Robinson were among the quickest learners that Warren coached for the wintersports reality show ‘The Jump' (35:00) The Warren Smith Ski Academy now has a team of 15 instructors with key focus on biomechanics (39:00) Find out about the Carv device here (45:00) The Academy also offers ‘Gap Year' Instructor Qualification courses, having changed from BASI to the Irish IASI qualification in 2013 (45:30) The Warren Smith Ski Academy will be at the National Snow Show at the Birmingham NEC on 15/16 October 2022 (48:00) Courses start in Cervinia from 06 November for five weeks, then on to Verbier. Warren will be leading a trip to Japan in February (50:00)

In Episode 96, we discuss skiing royals, the cancellation of the London Ski Show, new lifts in Chamonix and preloved skiwear.    Iain was joined by ski journalist Neil English, Claire Burnet from the Chamonix tourist office, Whoski.com founder Sally Warren and Al Morgan from SkiKitInfo. Thanks as always to Switzerland Tourism for their continued support of The Ski Podcast. SHOW NOTES Geraint Thomas became the first Briton to win the Tour de Suisse We can exclusively reveal that the British royal family were skiing at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead (although we can't tell you who there were!)  Shortly after announcing start of ticket sales, the organisers of London Ski Festival announced its cancellation  The National Snow Show at the Birmingham NEC will be going ahead as planned on on 15-16 October The Travelski Express is back for 2022/23 Listen to our special episode about the Travelski Express, recorded when Iain travelled on the inaugural service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oScG28dQkQ&feature=youtu.be Alex Irwin from 150 Days of Winter reported from Tignes Alex Armand from Tip Top Ski Coaching was in Les 2 Alpes Jasmin Taylor reported from Mt Hotham in Australia Jasmin was last on the show in Episode 94 Episode 97 will be an Australia/New Zealand special Our 2022 Survey is now live – it only takes a couple of minutes to complete and you could win one of two pairs of Atomic Four Q HD goggles to give away, plus other prizes   https://twitter.com/theskipodcast/status/1538190097631281152 You can read Neil's article about Matt Hancock in Villars here Other celebrities seen in Villars include Jacques Villeneuve and Mike Tindall Iain travelled to Chamonix by train https://twitter.com/skipedia/status/1536951851899359233 The Chamonix Film Festival took place earlier this month  The Charamaillon lift is being redeveloped and there is work going on at Montenvers to improve the cable car to the glacier https://twitter.com/skipedia/status/1539326038433583105 Love Island is being supported by ebay Jemma Tadd (Head of Fashion Buying at eBay) believes Love Island has power to change consumers' perceptions around secondhand clothes Whoski.com is a platform for selling pre-loved skiwear Iain spoke to Par Johan Astrand about his 3000km cycle ride to bring awareness of climate change You can follow Par's journey on Instagram Feedback & Reviews I enjoy all feedback about the show, so please do get in contact - Reviews/comments wherever you leave them are always welcome, whether on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, social media or via email. Old Fartbag: "I listened to what Al said with interest. I'm not sure I have ever heard him be so enthusiastic over a ski" Andrea Dalton: "Loved listening to Diane, another fab episode! Found it interesting but also a shame for our English young people that want to do a season.” BobinCH: "Enjoyed that! The Diane from Skiworld lady was funny. Great work!" Anon: “Thank you so much Iain for keeping going during the last two years, your podcasts helped more than you probably know (for me at least) during challenging times. I love hearing about everything related to the mountains, long may it continue.” Ryunis: "Great to put a voice to LaTania.co.uk It's a fantastic website and a really great source of info. Keep up the great pods. They help me still feel tuned in to the mountain community." You can follow Iain at @skipedia and the podcast @theskipodcast

In Episode 94, we find out about skiing in Svalbard, Narvik in Norway and how Team GB got on in this winter's Telemark World Cup.  We also have snow reports from Japan…and Hemel Hempstead, plus we discuss new lifts in Les 2 Alpes and find out about the spring edition of industry networking event LISTEX.   Iain was joined by Jasmin Taylor, Team GB Telemark skier, freelance journalist Rob Rees and Al Morgan from SkiKitInfo.  SHOW NOTES The Plaine Morte glacier in Crans Montana remains open for skiers until 05 June.  Jasmin was in Hintertux, Austria LISTEX took place last week at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead Babsi Lapwood told us about LISTEX in Episode 92 https://twitter.com/skipedia/status/1521791925023563776 Iain spoke to Vanessa Fisher, Colin Matthews (Meriski), Stephen Morgan (National Snow Snow), Nick Williams (Mountain Heaven), Phil Brown (Impulse Racing) and Ian Brown (MD, The Snow Centre/Chill Factore) Jasmin Taylor has her best season ever with 8 World Cup podiums including 2 wins (giving her 7 in total across her career) https://twitter.com/skipedia/status/1523615325396340738 She finished second in the world behind Swiss skier Martina Wyss Team GB had their best season overall ever with Tim Gough recording his first top 10 result Jasmin will be working in Hotham in Australia this summer https://twitter.com/_hotham/status/1522461592419733504 Rob Rees went to Narvik in Norway ‘Home of Skiing' You can see Rob's photos on Instagram He will be writing up his adventure for Skier and Snowboarder Magazine~ Chris Howie travelled to Svalbard in the Arctic Circle https://twitter.com/theskipodcast/status/1523614627929726978 Chris booked his trip with Base Camp Explorer Listen to Chris' experiences of heliskiing in Iceland in Episode 38 Christophe Aubert is mayor of Les 2 Alpes The Jandri lift is being upgraded to an ultra fast 3S lift Al explained about how PIN touring bindings Listen to Iain's report on ski touring in Morocco here Find out more about the Shift binding here Jasmin uses customised versions of the Meidjo binding REVIEWS   Please do get in contact with your feedback and reviews whether via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, social media (@theskipodcast) or email to theskipodcast@gmail.com  make_love_not_warz (IG): "Keep up the good work with the podcasting and tweets" Andrea Dalton (FB): "Another great episode"   Don't forget there are 145 episodes to catch up on, 93 listened to in the last week.  Coming up in Episode 95 we'll be talking to Di Palumbo from Skiworld, Chris Brown from LaTania.co.uk and Arnie Wilson – the first man to ski every single day of a calendar year. If you'd like to make your own small gesture to say thanks, you are very welcome to Buy Me A Coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/theskipodcast 

In this episode I'm speaking with Elaine McNally. Elaine is an English Head of Department and enthusiastic presence on Twitter, where she she tweets https://twitter.com/mrsmacteach33 (@mrsmacteach33).  I reached out for a chat with Elaine after seeing her speak at the TeachMeetEnglishIcons event earlier this year. Her presentation -  ‘Powerful Voices: A Year 8 Curriculum', tackled the topic of how she had tried to deliver diversity within her department's curriculum thinking. Although an important and timely endeavour, what stood out about the way Elaine navigated the discussion was her observation that she had felt out of her depth at times. This was due to ‘the thorny nature of diversity as a term,' which is me quoting Elaine, who was quoting Bennie Kara. Needless to say, this was a fantastic exploration of the consequences for planning and teaching around the concept of diversity and something that I wanted to be able to talk about in more detail.  We discuss: The best text Elaine's ever read, taught or learnt herself What diversity actually means when leading a curriculum rethink The canonical or classic texts that have been kept in Elaine's KS3 curriculum and how she approaches them with diverse interpretations in mind The texts her department have introduced or kept that have a more diverse point of view at their core And finally, the substantive and disciplinary concepts that Elaine and her team chose to include after their KS3 review At a time when my own school foundation is considering its output in relation to empire, imperialism and inclusion, this was a conversation I hugely benefitted from thinking forwards into the future so thanks again to Elaine for that.  If you want to be kept up to date on when educational chat like this happens, then be sure to subscribe to the podcast and/or follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/chrisjordanhk (@chrisjordanhk) Links: https://www.teachmeeticons.com/recordings (TeachMeet English Icons Recordings) https://mrsmacteach33.wordpress.com/2022/03/08/powerful-voices-diversity-and-a-year-8-curriculum/ (Slides from Elaine's presentation) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Guide-Teachers-Diversity-Schools-ebook/dp/B0895XHTW1 (A Little Guide for Teachers: Diversity in Schools) by Bennie Kara https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01ARXVT5O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 (The Bone Sparrow) by Zana Fraillon http://www.raymondantrobus.com (Raymond Antrobus) - poet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Sun_Kim (Christine Sun Kim) - poet

To support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Organizations can email skiing@substack.com to add multiple users on one account at a per-subscriber enterprise rate.WhoTravis Seeholzer, Third-Generation Owner and Mountain Operations Manager of Beaver Mountain, UtahRecorded onMarch 21, 2022About Beaver MountainClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: The Seeholzer Family (since 1939!)Base elevation: 7,200 feetSummit elevation: 8,860 feetVertical drop: 1,660 feetSkiable acres: 828Average annual snowfall: 400-plus inchesTrail count: 48 (25% advanced, 40% intermediate, 35% beginner)Lift count: 6 (3 triples, 1 double, 2 conveyors - view Lift Blog’s inventory of Beaver Mountain’s lift fleetWhy I interviewed himWhen our son turned 1 year old, my wife and I hosted a small baby-naming ceremony for our families. To prepare for this event, I tapped into my aunt’s extensive ancestry.com research. What I found both surprised me and explained everything: tracing my paternal lineage back for centuries, no one had died in the place where they were born since George Winchester, born in Hemel Hempstead, Herfordshire, England in 1555. George begot Daniell, and his son Daniell edged closer to London until Willoughby jumped the Atlantic and landed in South Carolina sometime in the early 1700s. The pattern continued through William, Francis, Jonathan, Wiley, Edward, Herman, Ken, and then me. Four hundred years of getting the hell out of wherever you were from. I’m sure my kids will leave New York City the second they can program their robocars to fly them to Moonbase Six – my 13-year-old daughter already hates the subway and just wants to live somewhere “where I can look outside and see grass.”Perhaps because of this generational wanderlust, I’ve always been interested in the multi-generational clans who unite around place and purpose. I was in awe of kids in my grade school whose grandparents lived across the street from them, amazed by my neighbor who had attended my high school in the ancient 1960s, astonished to realize that local landmarks or roads were named after families whose children I knew well.Many – probably most – ski areas started as family concerns. Gramps and the boys went up-mountain with some chainsaws and a tractor, and the next thing you knew you had a ski area. Over the generations, most of these went bust, and most of the rest grew and grew until the grandkids said to Big Ski Company X, “Wait, you’ll give me how much money to just go sit on my ass for the rest of my life?”That never happened at Beaver Mountain. Harry Seeholzer hacked the joint out of the wilderness in 1939, and the Seeholzers are still running it 83 years later. That alone makes this a good story. A family could be running a petting zoo for eight decades and I’d want to host them on the podcast to talk about it. But add in 400 inches of Utah pow, a tie-in with the comet-across-the-night-sky Indy Pass, and a bursting-at-the-seams ski area acting as Exhibit A for why Vail and the Epic Pass may be the best thing to ever happen to independent skiing, and this is a conversation I couldn’t book fast enough.What we talked aboutUtah’s not-so-snowy (for Utah) season so far; Remembrances of Travis’ grandpa, Harry Seeholzer, who was born in 1902 and founded Beaver Mountain in 1939; a bygone America where hardscrabble ancestors lived off the land; the big change in Logan Canyon management that allowed Beaver to open for skiing; the ski area’s different locations over time; what inspired Seeholzer’s grandfather to found a ski area long before the sport had entered the American mainstream; what saved Beaver Mountain in the 1960s; how a group of good-old boys hand-built a parking lot, baselodge, and chairlift in the course of a single summer; the transformational installation of the Harry’s Dream chairlift; the vagaries of running a ski area with no snowmaking; growing up and raising your family at a ski area; the old days of driving through Utah snowstorms that would close canyons today; how rapidly and profoundly Utah skiing has changed in recent years; how the megapass scene has transformed Beaver; who really runs Beaver Mountain; the story behind the woman who will hand you your Beaver Mountain lift ticket; the pride and pressure of maintaining an 83-year-old family business; whether the Seeholzer family is destined to continue managing the ski area; “there’s definitely no motivation to sell the ski area”; deciding what’s next as the megapass refugees roll in off the horizon; Beaver’s massive forthcoming base area expansion; tech’s place in the future of small ski areas; why Beaver Mountain still has RFID season passes but metal sticky-wickets for day passes; the downside of technology; the kids just don’t get the wicket tickets; reaction to nearby Cherry Peak, one of the newest ski areas in the country, opening in 2015; where we could see expansion and what it would take to make it happen; how Beaver Mountain shifted from federal to state land; where Beaver may drop a new chairlift and which chairs are priority for upgrades; the story behind the 20-year-old Marge’s terrain expansion and how that transformed Beaver Mountain; musings on being the new home of Keystone’s Ruby lift and Alta’s Germania; why Germania was such a great lift and what made it unique; why Beaver Mountain doesn’t have snowmaking and whether it ever could; why Beaver Mountain was one of the first to adopt the discount volume season-pass strategy and why they have persisted with it; how Beaver Mountain joined the Indy Pass; why the ski area blacked out weekends and holidays this season and why that’s likely to continue; and why Beaver still maintains reciprocal partnerships with a number of mid-sized regional ski areas.    Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewThe West is dotted with ski areas like Beaver Mountain, three- or four-lift outposts serving a hyper-local population of families and school groups and the unexpectedly hardcore, the retiree or the stay-at-homer racking up 100 days a year while the rest of us are yelling at each other on Facebook.For decades, many of us have treated these bumps like the bounce house at Six Flags. “Yeah, that’s cute, but I’m moving right along past it to crush the Triple Upside Down Tyrannosaurus Rexicoaster. On the fourth loop they have a Siberian tiger fighting a white rhino in a 10-foot cage!” So tourists drive right past places like Homewood or Sunlight or Diamond Peak or Monarch or Sundance or Bridger Bowl. They didn’t fly across the country to ski at some rinky-dink place that’s five times the size of their local and gets 10 times the snow – they’re here to wait an hour on the Snowbird tram line and post about it on Instagram. Many locals have a more nuanced view - enough of them that Beaver Mountain lasted eight decades with little help from the outside world. But for a lot of people, ski area choice was a pretty simple equation of size + snowfall + reputation = where I’m going.But this attitude is evolving, for a lot of reasons. One, the Epic Pass worked too well. Not only did it hyper-activate capacity at most Vail-owned mountains, but it spawned the Ikon Pass, which also worked too well. Trying to ski a weekend powder day in the Wasatch is like trying to catch the last lifeboat off the Titanic. You have a lot of competition. People, especially locals, need a break, and they’re seeing what else is out there. Beaver Mountain is not Alta (nothing is), but on a mid-winter Saturday, it’s not a bad stand-in if you can skip the canyon traffic and not spend much of the day plotting a Wile E. Coyote network of fake “to Little Cottonwood Canyon” signs that send unsuspecting tourists sailing off a cliff.The second reason is the Indy Pass, which arrived at the perfect historical moment, when both the Epic and the Ikon passes had corralled the continent’s biggest butt-kickers onto a pair of thousand-dollar-ish products and everyone else was sitting around going, “huh, would you look at that?” And Indy Pass was sitting there like, “Oh, you want a lesser-known ski area with comparable terrain and maybe one or two fewer four-horse chariot lifts? Well here’s like 80 of them.” But while Indy raised the general awareness of these back-of-the-canyon outposts, it never overran them – passholders only get two days at each mountain. And the blackout dates can be insane – there are more full moons in an average month than days you can use your Indy Pass at Beaver Mountain. Nonetheless, the ski area’s presence on the Indy Pass has worked as an attention-grabber - Seeholzer told me on the podcast that Beaver Mountain was the most-searched resort on the Indy coalition during its first year.The final reason is a mix of things, rising from our current cultural fixations on the local, the family-owned, the “authentic,” and the relatively unknown. In this arena, social media helps. “Oh, you took a vacation to Park City? Nice job tracking down the busiest ski resort in Utah, Inspector Gadget. Hey how about this gorgeous powder dump I found in the back of a canyon a couple hours away?”Eighty-three years ago, Travis Seeholzer’s grandfather staked out a ski center on the fringes of the Utah wilderness. Word just now got out to the rest of us. It’s time to give these places the love they deserve.Why you should ski Beaver MountainUtah has fewer ski areas than you probably think: just 15, less than half the number of Colorado or, gulp, Wisconsin. The state is tied with Montana for 12th in total number of ski areas, according to the National Ski Areas Association. And yet, Utah finished third in skier visits last year, with 5.3 million. That’s behind only California’s 6.8 million and Colorado’s astonishing 12 million.The reason is that Utah has some seriously kick-ass mountains, most of them are on some megapass or another, and all of them are exceedingly easy to access. Park City is an Epic Pass headliner. More than a third of the state’s ski areas – Alta, Snowbird, Brighton, Solitude, Deer Valley, and Snowbasin – have lined up on the Ikon Pass. Beaver joins Powder Mountain and Eagle Point on the Indy Pass, and MCP’s Power Pass claims Brian Head and Nordic Valley. That really just leaves Sundance and Cherry Peak as true independents (the remainder are specialized facilities like Woodward or the Olympic training center, or surface-lift bumps out in the hinterlands).All of that is a long way of saying that it can be hard to find your own little bit of lift-served Utah. Even out-of-the-way Beaver Mountain is facing some volume concerns, as Seeholzer points out in the podcast. But crowding means different things at different places, and while you may be looking at some weekend liftlines at Beaver, the low-capacity, fixed-grip fleet keeps the trails relatively empty.And while you’re waiting in line, you can think about this: you’re part of a pretty cool story, of a single family whose story echoes across generations and up Logan Canyon to the end of the road.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 30/100 in 2022. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer. You can also email skiing@substack.com. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

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