Podcasts about John Grindrod

This week Wayne is joined by the Founder of FTC Gym, John Grindrod. John chats to us about his time in the RAF and what led him to build a wildly successful gym in Ipswich. He shares everything he learned along the way, from retaining more than 60% of his members during the nationwide lockdowns to how you can strive for excellence in every aspect of your business. Find John FTC Gym: https://www.ftcgym.com/home  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ftcgymipswich/?hl=en  LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/john-grindrod-bsc-hons-92283271 

While Melissa continues her exploration of Europe's finest budget rail-routes (while working hard, it should be noted), Jonathan's at the BASIS Sustainable Sport Awards in London! Join him at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge Stadium to meet some of the great success stories in UK sport and sustainability thanks to the organisation right at the heart of the sector; the British Association for Sustainable Sport. Dr Russell Seymour, Executive Chair, joins the pod to reflect on another busy and constructive year for the organisation; seen as the hub for all positive work in this space. Then, as the envelopes are opened, we're joined by a selection of the award winners, including Birmingham County FA, The World Sailing Trust and Planet Earth Games. Then, almost inevitably, we end up in the pub. There are great people working at the intersection of sport and sustainability; thanks to everyone who appeared on this show, had a chat or shared a drink. Here's to 2023! Guest List, time codes and web links: 00:00 Dr Russell Seymour, BASIS. More information on The British Association for Sustainable Sport can be found at: www.basis.org.uk 06:45 Chris Broadbent, Planet Earth Games: "Sustainable School Games". More information on Planet Earth Games can be found at www.planetearthgames.org 12:20 Sam, Rebecca & Mark, HUBBUB: "Manchester is Green". More information can be found at www.hubbub.org.uk/manchester-is-green-the-challenge 20:55 Victoria Low, World Sailing Trust: "Carbon Fibre Circular Alliance". More information can be found at www.worldsailingtrust.org/carbon-fibre-circular-alliance 25:40. John Grindrod, Tiger Up and Sportex Group: Recycling facility for artificial pitches, More information at: https://www.tigerup.co.uk/sport/ 30:35. Richard Lindsay, Birmingham County FA: "Save Today, Play Tomorrow". More information at: www.birminghamfa.com/about/save-today-play-tomorrow

John Grindrod takes us on a journey around the landmark buildings of contemporary Britain in his new book Iconicon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode Libreria welcomes John Grindrod, author of Concretopia and Outskirts. Together with Iconicon these books form a loose trilogy about how the British have planned, built, lived and worked over the last 80 years. During the conversation John mentions the following books and authors: The City and The City - China Miéville Capital - John Lanchester City of the Mind - Penelope Lively

This week Rachel catches up with author of new book 'Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain', John Grindrod. Join us for a discussion all about the squatters who tried to create a refugee centre inside an oligarch mansion, two London developments being hampered by cars, the plans to redevelop London's once iconic Euston Station, and much more... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In today's episode, I chat with author John Grindrod.  John's work explores Britain's post-war and contemporary architecture from a personal and sociohistorical perspective. John describes his books as being for those of us who are fascinated by the modern histories of our towns, cities, and suburbs - but also aren't quite sure what to make of them. John has published four books: Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain (2013), Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt (2017), How to Love Brutalism (2018), and Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain (2022). In my conversation with John, we learn about the key characteristics of post-war architecture, and what got John particularly interested in this era of construction. We also explore what the greenbelt is and the issues surrounding it, as well as John's self-professed love of Brutalism. Finally, we take a look at John's new book, Iconicon, and ponder the ups and downs of our mutual home town, Croydon.   For more on John, check out https://www.johngrindrod.co.uk/   (Recorded March 2022)  

This week we talk to former RAF Physical Training Instructor and Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor John Grindrod, who now owns Functional Training Company Gym and Academy in Ipswich.John followed in his fathers footsteps and joined the RAF, having grown up being surrounded by RAF culture.His personal development and investment in his knowledge and education has driven him to demand high standards that have not(and despite challenges) will not be compromised. His military background and positive outlook have driven him to succeed and survive in the commercial world in spite of the Covid pandemic.Resilient , adaptable and determined John is a great example of making that gear change from uniform to Veteran.Please follow and share to anyone with a Forces connection.

John Grindrod stays indoors at his partner's in Milton Keynes, and watches an episode of the 1992 BBC2 documentary series, Signs of the Times: That Little Bit Different (which you can view here: https://bit.ly/TVCIndoors15) - and then tells TV Cream about it.

'I began to see what a sacred cow the Green Belt has become' said Minister for Housing & Local Government Richard Crossman in 1964. The Green Belt is a political behemoth that has long loomed over the planning system. In this episode Sam Stafford asks Paul Miner, Strategic Planning & Devolution at CPRE, and Kathryn Ventham, Planning Partner at Barton Willmore, whether housing need is becoming a sufficiently irresistible force to shift hitherto immovable Green Belt boundaries? Twitter handles: @samuel_stafford. @PaulMiner3 and @kateventham. Some accompanying reading and viewing: John Grindrod's ‘Outskirts' https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/14/outskirts-by-john-grindrod-review Ipsos Mori polling for the CPRE on public attitudes towards the Green Belt https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/attitudes-towards-green-belt-land Ipsos Mori polling for Housing The Powerhouse on attitudes towards housing development in Greater Manchester http://www.housingthepowerhouse.com/downloads/Housing%20the%20Powerhouse%20-%20Ipsos%20MORI%20Opinion%20Poll%20Press%20Release.pdf 'The Green Noose: An analysis of Green Belts and proposals for reform' by the Adam Smith Institute https://www.adamsmith.org/news/press-release-free-up-3-7-percent-of-londons-green-belt-to-build-one-million-new-homes-says-new-report ‘Planned up and be counted ‘ local plan making under NPPF 2012' by Lichfields https://lichfields.uk/content/insights/planned-up-and-be-counted ‘This Blessed Plot – This Other Eden' - A film for the Council for the Preservation of Rural England https://www.britishpathe.com/video/rural-england-aka-this-blessed-plot-this-other ‘The myth of the countryside idyll' by Steve Middlehurst https://stevemiddlehurstidentityandplace.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/a5-research-the-myth-of-the-countryside-idyll/ Keith Joseph's 1964 South East Study http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/19/newsid_2570000/2570681.stm A Policy Briefing Paper by the Landscape Institute https://www.landscapeinstitute.org/policy/green-belt-policy/ The London Society's Position Paper https://www.londonsociety.org.uk/post/londons-green-belt ‘The Proud City' – A film outlining plans for the post war reconstruction of London, featuring Patrick Abercrombie and JH Forshaw. https://archive.org/details/ProudCity

Patricia Highsmith's novel Edith's Diary (1977) is the book under discussion. John and Andy are joined by writers Karen McLeod and John Grindrod. Plus Andy has been reading Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot and John talks about Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey. This episode was recorded live at Bookseller Crow (https://booksellercrow.co.uk) in South London on Nov 13th 2019.

Joining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are antiques expert, broadcaster GEOFFREY MUNN (Antiques Roadshow) and writer JOHN GRINDROD. In this episode we discuss the fossils of Malta and relics of our pasts, the lost art of plane-spotting and tragedy foretold in carefree postcards from the start of the twentieth century. Plus sequins and petticoats. Wish you were here? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Grindrod is the owner of FTC Gym in Ipswich and it was great to sit down and chat with him about his recently opened facility and what he's looking to achieve with his business. Further topics of discussion include, John's experiences working in the RAF, The importance of continued education. TRX - both the equipment and education, and his views on the future of the health and fitness industry. Enjoy the episode.

Once called 'Green Girdles', today's Green belts are strange and relatively unknown places. Follow the writer John Grindrod on his guided tour through a world of naturists, cavemen and rancid pies. Presenter: James Ward Contributor: John Grindrod Producer: Luke Doran Editor: Moy McGowan

John Grindrod tells of the vision behind green-belts, their creation, and discusses the fiery emotions they stir up and tells a story of growing up there, recounted in his poignant social history Outskirts. Hosted by Scott Wood of New Lands http://dirtymodernscoundrel.blogspot.co.uk/

Author and critic Alex Preston and Rachael Kerr, Unbound's Editor at large, join John and Andy around the table to discuss Charles Sprawson's ground breaking 'Haunts Of The Black Masseur', together with all things aquatic. The subtitle of the book is 'The Swimmer As Hero' and Sprawson's book tells the tale of literary swimmers from Byron to Cheever. Also discussed; Outskirts by John Grindrod and Bleaker House by Nell Stevens.

John Grindrod grew up on 'the last road in London' on Croydon's New Addington housing estate, surrounded by the Green Belt. He is the author of Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain, described by the Independent on Sunday as 'a new way of looking at modern Britain'. He has written for the Guardian, Financial Times, Big Issue and The Modernist and has worked as a bookseller and publisher for over twenty-five years. He runs the popular website dirtymodernscoundrel.com and his latest book is Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

​Two architecture writers: one looking at inner city marvels, the other at the Green Belt. Together in the Pod, they look at the similarities and differences in their work - and what it means to be creative in London today. ​Tom Dyckhoff is a historian, journalist and broadcaster. He wrote and presented the primetime documentary TV series The Secret Life of Buildings, and recently published The Age of Spectacle: Adventures in Architecture and the 21st-Century City – the story of how architecture became obsessed with the flashy, the monumental and the ostentatious. ​John Grindrod has also just published a book called Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt. It explores the tensions between conservationists and developers, town and country, politicians and people, NIMBYs and the forces of progress. His previous book, Concretopia, is on the architecture of post-war British reconstruction.

John Grindrod, author of Concretopia, joins John Mitchinson and Andy Miller to discuss Memento Mori, the third novel by Muriel Spark. They also pay tribute to the author and agent David Miller, who passed away recently, and read a short story in his memory.

In this lovingly illustrated evening, social and architectural historian and lover of postwar modernism John Grindrod (author of Concretopia) talks us through the dreams and the reality portrayed in the books over the decades. Social and cultural historian Helen Day documents the changing attitudes to gender race and class and Tim Dunn, transport historian, enthusiast and model village expert will discuss the social and design history revealed in the books From People At Work and Our Land In the Making and How It Works…to the changing reality around Peter and Jane. https://conwayhall.org.uk/event/ladybird-books/

John Grindrod is author of Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain is new in paperback. We talk to John about his book, the National Theatre, the Festival of Britain, the prefabs in Catford and New Addington where he grew up. We also address the Croydon question.

A month with only three reviews but unlike last time, two of these involve Colin Baker! Hurray! The three we review are: Short Trips Volume 4 by Richard Dinnick, Foster Marks, Vin Marsden Hendrick,John Grindrod, Jason Arnopp, Cindy Garland, Charles Williams, and Avril Naude Recorded Time And Other Stories by Catherine Harvey, Richard Dinnick, Matt […]

John Grindrod was born in 1970 in Croydon and still lives in South London. Last year he published Shouting at the Telly, a book in which a host of comedians, actors and writers wrestle with such weighty issues as:  Is Freddie from Scooby-Doo a colossal pervert? What does Howards’ Way tell us about the eighties? How do you win America’s Next Top Model? Which programmes do you only watch when you’re off sick?  I spoke to John about the book for the Blackwell Online podcast when it came out. You can listen to it here. Here are John’s holiday reading choices: The most obviously summery book I’ve been reading has been Travis Elborough’s hilarious and hugely informative Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, a cultural history of seaside resorts and our national obsession with piers, paddling and penny arcades. Travis grew up in Worthing and his disdain for the place colours the book, but this is as much a reconciliation with his own seaside demons as it is a gloriously eccentric travelogue around England’s …