Podcasts about Lampeter

The Family Histories Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2024 55:13

This week's guest is Yvonne Howard, an educationalist, creative practitioner, and artist-writer. Yvonne grew up in Leeds in a challenging environment and turned to writing to process the events from those days. Yvonne left school at 15 with no qualifications. She returned to education in her late 20s, building into her first degree personal experiences on diversity and exclusion issues. She then worked in conflict resolution, adult education and community relations in east London. I first met Yvonne in the 1990s when she was studying for a British Academy-funded PhD in Lampeter on mediation, social inclusion and community cohesion. Yvonne worked extensively in equity, diversity, group dynamics and interpersonal communication. More recently, Yvonne's Diversitree.Wales won an award for its representation of nature, art, photos, and poems in Wales. She also appeared on Dare to Dance with Amy Dowden. Yvonne is readying a book for publication in 2025. We talk about how a return to education later in life as an access student impacted her perspective, especially when it centred on aspects of lived experience. We discuss how Yvonne's background subsequently influenced her students, encouraging them to follow their dreams and return to education. We discuss how art can be a creative tool for transformation and provide moments of escape when faced with difficult realities. We explore autobiography, journal writing, and the pros and cons of returning to places of oppression from the past. We talk about processing personal insecurities, self-help, overcoming personal fears, and the power of positive thinking in educational and professional journeys. We discuss the evolution in education over the years in terms of how we fit into a mould, and the benefits of a neurodivergent perspective on the world. We talk about how the belief and understanding of a teacher from 40 years ago resonated with Yvonne when she contacted him again shortly before he passed away. We also learn about Yvonne's involvement with community interest groups in Wales, including the Women's Institute, mental health advocacy groups, and organisations associated with diversity and inclusion. Then, at the end of the interview, we find out whether Yvonne considers herself to be a looking back or a looking forward type of person, and the way past, present and future interrelate.

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Can a new educational course tackle livestock worrying attacks on farm?

Over The Farm Gate

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2024 47:15 Transcription Available

On the podcast this week, we are joined by Welsh farmer Clive Jones, Wales' Rural Affairs Secretary Huw Irranca-Davies (@huw4ogmore) and Wales' Wildlife and Rural Crime Coordinator Rob Taylor (@rural_wales), to discuss livestock worrying.@WGRuralLivestock worrying, when a dog chases or attacks livestock on agricultural land can have costly consequences on the health, well-being and finances of farmers across the UK. In most cases, farmers are witnessing first-hand the devastation a dog can have on livestock, leaving farmers to pick up the pieces afterwards. Tavistock farmer Chris Dawe said 49 sheep were killed after being attacked by dogs on farm back in January.Last week, Farmers Guardian reported on the devastating livestock worrying attack at Liz Nutting's farm in Lampeter, Ceredigion, which killed 10 of her Ryeland flock. Following numerous bids to seek justice, the dog owner only received a £75 fine despite his dogs causing £6,500 in damages. Cheshire farmer Phil Latham was left disgusted and heartbroken after loose dogs savaged 18 calves in a pen. And you will hear about the impacts of livestock worrying Mr Jones has had to face as well. In its latest annual ‘Rural Crime Report', NFU Mutual said livestock worrying had cost farmers £2.4 million, with animals being severely injured or killed in dog attacks, up nearly 30% compared to the previous year. Incidents keep on taking place on what seems like a weekly basis. But why? Is the law outdated? The Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act was created 71 years-ago in 1953. The new Labour Government has yet to confirm whether a private members' bill, tabled by former Defra Secretary Therese Coffey in December to amend the law and provide police with greater powers, will be progressed or notPolice in Scotland have the powers to impose fines of up to £40,000 for owners found worrying livestock, alongside receiving a potential 12 month prison sentence. Is it a lack of respect from dog owners? Incidents can often take place when a dog is not on a lead. And an attitude of ‘my dog could never hurt anyone' still persists. Is education the answer? The Welsh Government has worked hand-in-hand with animal charity Blue Cross and Mr Taylor regarding an optional educational course if dog owners are found worrying livestock. You will hear more about the course in this podcast.Farmers Guardian has been supporting the ‘Take the Lead' campaign, alongside the National Sheep Association to raise awareness of keeping dogs on lead when near livestock. We can provide you with free signs to place around your farm warning dog owners to keep their dogs on a lead near livestock. To request yours, send a stamped self-addressed A4 envelope to: FG Take the Lead, Farmers Guardian, Unit 4, Fulwood Business Park, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9NZ. We will be able to send up to 25 signs. Alternatively, you can contact reporter Chris Brayford if you have been a victim of a livestock worrying incident and if you wish to share your story at chris.brayford@farmersguardian.com. But for now, enjoy the pod!Message us

S07EP05 - 'The Poet' with Dai Davies

Play Episode Play 33 sec Highlight Listen Later Jun 4, 2024 46:19

In the fifth episode of Series Seven, host Andrew Martin meets anthropologist and Welsh professional genealogist, Dai Davies, and finds out how they got hooked on researching family history, the challenges of researching Welsh family history from afar, and their thoughts on how the genealogy community could become a better place.THE LIFE STORY - DAVID DAVIES Dai has chosen to tell the life story of their 8x Great Uncle, David Davies who was born in 1754 in a small parish near Lampeter in West Wales, and was the son of tenant farmers and Wesleyan Methodists. Dai was excited to discover this person in their tree, as David Davies was a highly influential educator, minister, and political poet in Wales during the 18th Century. He is known to have had a school in Castell Hywel, and was a minister at Llwynrhydowen Chapel. His work to translate English into Welsh for the newly literate communities, resulted in him even being described as 'improving into Welsh' on the popular poem by Thomas Gray - 'Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard'. However, sometimes his political thoughts on the rapidly changing world around him, including the French Revolution, would cause controversy.THE BRICK WALL - DAVID THOMAS It's the family of Dai's 7x Great Grandfather David Thomas (brother-in-law of the above David Davies), that has them stuck for answers.Dai has found 76 records attributed to David Thomas, and knows about his life between 1757 and his death in 1816, Lampeter in Ceredigion, Wales, but Dai has found no trace of David Thomas' parents or siblings. Who were David Thomas' parents?Who were David Thomas' siblings?Where was David Thomas pre-1757? If you think that you can offer Dai a research clue or idea, then you can email them on the address they give in the episode, or find them at @GenealCymru at Twitter. Alternatively, you can send us a message and we'll pass it straight on.In the meanwhile, Dai has concerns about Andrew's offer of help... will this source be reliable?- - -Episode Credits:Andrew Martin - Host and ProducerDai Davies - GuestJohn Spike - Sándor PetőfiSend us a Text Message.Thank you for listening! You can sign up to our email newsletter for the latest and behind the scenes news. You can find us on Twitter @FamilyHistPod, Facebook, Instagram, and BlueSky. If you liked this episode please subscribe for free, or leave a rating or review.

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193: Paul Badham

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 57:34

My guest this week is Professor Paul Badham who for many years was Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Lampeter, where he began his career in 1973. His own father had done an English degree there before studying Theology at Oxford and whose own writings were influential on Paul. We find out how Paul got interested in his seminal research on life after death, which hadn't been a central plank of his studies beforehand. He mentions Penny Sartori's work in terms of gathering the relevant evidence and we find out about other students of his who have undertaken research on NDEs and the afterlife, including his Canadian students who worked on the care of the dying which brought about a change of emphasis in Paul's own work in this area. Paul talks about being a patron of Dignity in Dying and how his work here prompted former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey to change his mind on the topic. We discuss his media appearances and Paul talks about his regret that he has been associated so much with this particular branch of theology when his interests have spanned the wider area of Christian theology, with world religions being of particular interest to him. We talk about his own PhD supervisor John Hick and how he made it respectable to talk about issues around parapsychology but that the work was not always seen in this way. We find out about the funding that was available in the 1990s for students from Turkey to undertake PhDs in the department and we discuss Paul's stance on the ordination of women and how in many ways he was ahead of his time. We find out where Paul grew up and that his father was a vicar, and Paul reflects on how it feels as though he grew up into a different world in some respects. He did Theology at Oxford which, he reflects, was quite an old fashioned Christianity-centred degree. He talks about how the parameters of the subject and its relationship to Religious Studies was to change over the years. We also find out about the way music has impacted on Paul's life, and how he first met his wife, Linda, in a choir when they were both at Birmingham, and Paul talks about how music is often one of the triggers for religious experience. We find out also how due to Paul's health he has turned increasingly to being ‘read to' via podcasts. Paul also discusses his work on comparing religious experience in Britain and China, and we find out whether Paul, who was ordained, imagined that he would follow an academic or a church career. We learn that at Lampeter Paul wanted to move away from the notion that academic theology should be taught only by believers and that other religions should be taught by atheists who were interested in religious studies. He is proud of how world religions were taught by scholars who were both within and from without the faith traditions concerned. Paul talks about having gone five times to Japan to lecture and about his experience of working across theology and religious studies colleagues at Lampeter. It is all very different from when he arrived in Lampeter as back then everyone was a Christian theologian. I ask Paul if there was a particular golden age from his time at Lampeter, and Paul reveals what his younger self would think about what he went on to do in his life and career. We also find out at the end of the interview whether Paul is a looking back or a looking forward type of person.

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Oats and Cow Cwtches

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2024 27:53

Scientists at Aberystwyth University have produced four new varieties of oats which have been approved for growing in the UK. We speak to the team leader about growing oats for the future.Time for a spring clean - we talk to a wildlife officer with RSPCA Cymru about the dangers and distress caused by litter on wild animals like hedgehogs, deer and foxesOur bird of conservation concern for this month is a bird of prey - the Kestrel And Cow Companions - the cow-hugging therapy service at a cow sanctuary in Mydroilyn, near Lampeter, Ceredigion

189: Sally Nicholls

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2024 59:07

It was a great pleasure for this week's Nostalgia Interviews podcast to meet Sally Nicholls who was at Lampeter from 1992-95 where she studied Welsh. Originally from Llantrisant, Sally grew up in the countryside, and she talks about her passion for horse riding, which she even accomplished in India. Sally could have gone to university in Bangor, North Wales, but ended up in Lampeter, a place with which she fell in love. Living in a Welsh speaking community was an extra bonus. We learn that Sally cannot ever remember not speaking Welsh and has been working in the area of Welsh language education since 1996. Sally's favourite childhood film was The Wizard of Oz and she enjoyed Jason Donovan when she was growing up, and is, to this day, a huge fan of Neil Diamond, whom she has seen perform around the world, including at three venues in America, and nearly saw him in Australia. She has also written to another of her idols, Michael Palin, and we find out why he is the only man who has ever left Sally lost for words, and how she postponed the start of a holiday to Turkey so that she could see him in Cardiff. We find out how Sally got the travel bug, including the three months she spent in Patagonia. It wasn't the best time to go because it is when Covid hit, and which significantly impacted on what she was able to do while there. Sally talks about the huge differences of experience of dealing with Covid in South America compared with the UK. Sally talks about the positive experiences that can be gleaned from that period, and we talk too about what we think it would have been like in Lampeter if the pandemic had hit then in the 1990s. We also talk about what from Sally's undergraduate days feels strange from today's perspective, including the evolution over the years from cash to contactless payments. Then, at the end of the interview, we find out what Sally's younger self would have thought about the route she has taken, and whether she is a looking back or a looking forward kind of person, and why for Sally it is important to live in the present moment.

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187: Simon Smith

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2024 65:44

It was a great pleasure for this week's Nostalgia Interviews podcast to meet Simon Smith who was at Lampeter from 1988-91, where he studied Religious Studies, and then stayed on for the Interfaith Studies MA. Simon worked in a bank for six years before going to university, and we find out why he chose Lampeter of all places, and he reflects on the shape of the department of Theology and Religious in those days. He talks about how he could never have expected to write an essay on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy before embarking on his course. We talk about the perennial question ‘Are you religious?' and why it is important to study religion without having to subscribe to a particular tradition. Simon explains why he enjoyed the interactive element of MA teaching, and we learn about his work at the Philosophical and Religious Studies Study Centre in Leeds. Simon was born in Chester, moved to Hull and then near Birmingham, and we talk about Simon's music interests including the blog he writes. He was nine years old when he bought his first single, and we learn that his mother had the Light Programme on during the day when he was very young. His father was a BP tanker driver and Simon remembers once picking out a jukebox single while on one of the journeys. We find out too about Simon's radio memories including John Peel's shows, and listening to the charts on Tuesday lunchtimes when he would write down the Top 40 as it was being broadcast and would then share it with his friends at school. It was the centre of the week. Simon also used to create his own charts. Simon shares his thoughts on the music press and seeing John Peel and Gary Numan on Top of the Pops, and hearing the news of the death of John Lennon on Radio 1. We discuss the role of cultural memories and the death of cultural icons, as well as the seminal role played by Miles Davis and seeing The Damned perform on The Old Grey Whistle Test. We talk about quasi-memories and whether we can remember the memories of other people, and at the end of the interview Simon discusses the ways in which bad and good memories have affected him, and he reveals the lesson that he would impart to his younger self.

"I'm still Dorrien"

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2024 27:39

This weekend the Right Reverend Dorrien Davies has been enthroned as the 130th Bishop of St Davids in a cathedral which is the mother church of a large diocese covering the west Wales counties of Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. It's a part of Wales that Bishop Dorrien knows well – having studied at Lampeter, served as a curate in Llanelli and subsequently as parish priest in Llanfihangel Ystrad Aeron and at St Dogmaels before being made a Residentiary Canon at St Davids Cathedral in 2010. Five years ago he was appointed to a senior role as Archdeacon of Carmarthen; he's well-known and popular in the diocese. He succeeds the Rt Revd Joanna Penberthy who retired last year following a lengthy period of sick leave. Her time in office wasn't without controversy following a tweet for which she subsequently apologised in which she said “Never, never, never trust a Tory.” Bishop Dorrien was born and brought up in Abergwili near Carmarthen which is also where Llys Esgob – the Bishop's Palace – is situated. That's where Jonathan Thomas recorded a conversation earlier this week, covering a wide-range of topics and issues including climate change, historic churches, the management of differing opinions over same-sex blessings and the role of the Church in an election year. He also recalls growing up in the shadow of the Bishop's Palace in Abergwili, and his consecration service as a bishop in Bangor Cathedral last weekend.

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185: Matt Harrington

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2023 64:35

My guest this week is Matt Harrington who studied English at Lampeter from 1991-94. There are many great undergraduate reminisces here, beginning with a recollection of the circumstances around our graduation in July 1994. Matt worked in a bookshop post-Lampeter and then as a junior copywriter, and he talks about how this enabled him to write with economy, and how that played out in his student days when it came to submitting essays. Matt reveals how he managed to avoid reading lots of Victorian novels, and why he gelled with his peers because we were all arts and humanities students (there is a fascinating thread about Informatics being an outlier). We reflect on how a city university wouldn't have been right for us and we refer to a contemporary of ours, Alexis Athena De Winter, and the way Lampeter was a very accepting environment. Matt talks about being born in London but made in Lampeter, and we discuss the transgressive nature of Lampeter. We talk about the skills developed from our time in university, with some people having gone into politics, and we reflect on what our children today would make of the world we once inhabited in a town without a railway station or cinema. Matt was born in London and then moved to Kent at the age of three, and we talk about how so many students were from the Home Counties. He also refers to having transported Lampeter to London after he left. We discuss our musical memories and Matt remembers listening to Atlantic 252 back in his student days, and we find out which was the only song he would play on the upstairs Union jukebox where they never changed the discs. Then, at the end of the interview, we remember the 1992 General Election, which took place in the April of our first year, and Matt reveals why he is a chronic nostalgic.

184: James Grindrod

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2023 64:16

My guest this week is James Grindrod who was in Lampeter from 1993-96 where he studied Single Honours History. James talks about the impact of what he did on his life and career, and how learning is not just something that stops when you finish your full time education. We discuss different lenses of looking at the past, including how we might have once thought that things were ‘getting better', but that the events of the last decade or so might militate against that way of looking at history. James talks about always having been a nostalgic person, and we touch on the relationship between Christmas and nostalgia. We talk about the epidemic of loneliness and how people came together during the time of the Second World War, and we reflect on the role played by diary accounts. We talk about how we live in a world now where every facet of our lives is recorded, no matter how mundane, in contrast to the past, and we focus on the role of ordinary experiences. James was born and grew up in North London, and he recently re-walked the same streets, and we find out why James doesn't like change. It turns out that James and I lived in the same room in Lampeter, two years apart. We talk about what happens when one meets up again with people you haven't seen for many years, about losing people close to us, the role of life experience, and we talk about the events from childhood we are more liable to remember. Then, at the end of the interview, we find out why the dichotomy of being a looking back or looking forward type of person is not an attractive one for James.

182: Henry Jeppesen

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2023 57:51

My guest this week is Henry Jeppesen, a freelance literary translator, who studied Single Honours Swedish at Lampeter from 1993-97. We learn about Henry's Scandinavian background, find out why he fell in love with Lampeter and what happened on his Year Abroad. In his time at university, Henry sat on the Ents Committee and remembers seeing Zodiac Mindwarp and Doctor and the Medics perform – though we learn that he didn't quite manage to bring Oasis or Blur to Lampeter! We learn about the impact Lampeter had on Henry, including the Students' Union, and Henry reflects on what it would have been like to be at a different university. Henry talks about learning a language from scratch, what it was like to go to Lampeter from a small town, and growing up in Norfolk. We find out about the gigs Henry went to when young, including Def Leppard and he tells us whether he goes for the artists' old or new music. Another of his favourite bands is The Manic Street Preachers, and we reflect on the fanzines that existed when we were young. We talk about our chart obsessions. Like me, Henry bought the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles. He has always been into music, and he remembers the time that he went to see U2 in concert in Cape Town. Henry shares some of the advice he has been given along the way as far as translating is concerned and he talks about how he has been able to use his Swedish professionally. We also find out how Henry's parents met, how life has worked out for him and how he has reconnected with people through social media. And, at the end of the interview, Henry reflects on whether he is a looking back or a looking forward type of person.

178: Gary Bunt

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2023 58:59

My guest this week is Gary Bunt, Professor of Islamic Studies at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Gary and I made a reverse academic journey as he was an undergraduate student at Kent before moving to Lampeter in later years, whereas I started at Lampeter and moved to Kent. The first half of our conversation relates to a less known aspect of Gary's life in which he had a radio career in BBC production, including working with Brian Matthew. He met artists like The Specials and John Lydon when they were promoting their records. Gary also received the tapes from the last interview that John Lennon gave, to Andy Peebles, before he died, and had a week to put together a documentary on Lennon. He also did some archive work on the 60s at the BBC, e.g. finding old session tracks. We learn why Gary left that world behind and became involved with a charity called Radio Lollipop which involved laying on big events. He became more involved in working with the patients, which also signalled a change in direction. Gary remembers listening to the radio from when he was young. He was more of a Capital than Radio 1 person, with the likes of Roger Scott and Nicky Horne, and we talk about the role of the radio presenter and their personae. Gary knew Brian Matthew and used to chat to him on his commute to work. We also learn about the Pirate Radio stations which influenced him, including the Dread Broadcasting Corporation which played reggae, as well as his enjoyment of listening to John Peel. Gary interviewed Adam Ant on one occasion, being in the right place at the right time, and we learn that Gary was not someone liable to be star struck, though he wishes he had some photos/selfies from those days. We find out why Gary was intrigued by the possibility of going to university, where, at the University of Kent, he applied his research skills from his media work to his degree. After initially studying English, Gary ended up focusing after his first year on Religious Studies, including specializing in Islam. Gary reflects on his student days, including the trips he made, such as to Egypt, and how he ended up doing a research-based Masters at Durham. Then, at the end of the interview, we discover what the future has in store for Gary.

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177: Anne Pőnisch & Victoria Tomlinson

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 62:49

It was a huge privilege for my latest Nostalgia Interview to meet Anne Pőnisch and Vicky Tomlinson, daughters of John Roland Lloyd Thomas who was Principal of Saint David's (University) College for nearly a quarter of a century from 1953 until the mid-1970s. Anne and Vicky remember the days of living behind the College Chapel with its spiders, attics and cellars in an age when students wore academic gowns and had to be back home at around 10pm. They paint a fascinating picture of Lampeter from a different age. We talk about how SDC was not just a theological college, and they remember how students would line up to see their father after supper. Their father enjoyed rugby and cricket and the pastoral side of being Principal was important to him. He did all the admissions work during his time as Principal as well as taking disciplinary measures. They grew up knowing their father was a big fish in a small pond, and remember the diverse range of people they would encounter around the house. We find how things were for their mother whose first husband died in the War, and they talk about how she did all the dinner parties and cooking, in those days. We find out why she didn't let on that she was a Welsh speaker as well as why their father was keen to admit female students. This was an era when it wasn't obvious the College would survive. Vicky reminisces about once being kidnapped near Burgess Hall during Rag, and how there was once a This Is Your Life-type show arranged for their father in Lampeter's Victoria Hall. Anne and Vicky have many records from that era, including the letters that their father would write to them every weekend, and sermons and cine films. We also find out who they are in touch with from that era. Anne and Vicky reflect on how much smaller things seemed when they returned to West Wales as young adults, and we talk about returning to the place of origin. They remember when things changed in Lampeter, e.g. problems around drugs and the police having to be involved, and we learn how their father felt about retirement. Towards the end of the interview, we find out whether they have followed in their parents' footsteps at all and what their parents would have thought about the lives they have led. We learn that their father might not be happy about some developments in the Church, and what he might have thought of women priests, and they refer to the ‘lost souls' that their father was keen to take in to Lampeter who might not have secured a place elsewhere.

Episode 100: Affordable No-Dig Garden with Stephanie Hafferty and Morag Gamble

Sense-making in a Changing World

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 54:39 Transcription Available

In Episode 100 of the Sense-Making in a Changing World, I am delighted to be speaking with STEPHANIE HAFFERTY who is based on a half-acre no-dig permaculture farm in Lampeter, Wales.From the Half Acre Homestead, Stephanie explains how to grow year round using climate friendly regenerative organic gardening methods for abundant harvests and fewer weeds, working harmoniously with wildlife, and what to do with your harvests, from seasonal meals to preserving, homemade body, home and garden care, remedies and natural dyes.In this episode, Stephanie shares a wonderful story about how she discovered permaculture and gardening, the joy she derives from it, and how growing food has helped her to put healthy food on her children's plates on a modest income. This affordability and accessibility piece is a big part of what Steph is about, and what she shares with people - nothing highbrow or expensive. Just straightforward simple advice to get a diversity of healthy food from the pot to the plate.ABOUT STEPHANIEStephanie is an award winning garden and food author - she wrote the Creative Kitchen, and co-authored No Dig Organic Home and Garden - and she's a cover girl for a recent Permaculture Magazine! Stephanie is actively involved in Permaculture Wales and UK, and is a Vice Chair of the Garden Media Guild. She's also been featured on the long-running UK gardening show, BBC Gardeners World and other shows, and has 30 years of practical experience to share. She runs courses in her edible garden (and soon online) is a simple living and no-dig gardening advocate, a sought-after speaker at gardening events and she consults with edible gardening projects far and wide.Stephanie has created and worked home, community and market gardens, gardens for large estates, restaurants and galleries. In 2021 she led the RHS No Dig Allotment Demonstration Garden at Hampton Court Garden Festival. Follow her gardening and homesteading life on YouTube, her blog or social media.Support the showThis podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents. We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass. We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet. You can also watch Sense-Making in a Changing World on youtube.SUBSCRIBE for notification of each new episode. Please leave us a 5 star REVIEW - it really it does help the bots find and myceliate this show.

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171: Steve Jacobs

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2023 56:24

It was fantastic to catch up with Steve Jacobs, a retired Senior Lecturer in Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Wolverhampton, for my latest Nostalgia Interview. Steve and I were at Lampeter together from 1991-4 where we both received the same degree classification, and Steve recalls the way in which we received our results. Steve worked in Religious Studies at Wolverhampton initially on a fixed term contract at a time when the subject was not well supported. We learn how he made the shift to Media, and his motivations for doing it, and how doing Chris Arthur's Religion and the Media course at Lampeter helped him secure the job. He speaks about the importance of Chris Arthur, my own PhD supervisor, who let Steve into the department at Lampeter back in 1991. We learn about Steve's doctorate in Hindu Reform Movements which he sees now as a training ground – a process rather than a definitive product. Steve reflects on how so much of process has been lost in Higher Education today, and we ruminate on what has changed in thirty years. Steve talks about his background in catering and the Centre for Alternative Technology in Macynlleth where, prior to going to university, he ran their vegetarian kitchen. It was an educational centre whose objective was to promote sustainable living and Steve lived on site. Recently, Steve wrote a monograph on sustainable living at this Centre. Steve discusses the choices he has made, and the importance of the concept of sharing – both in academia and in working in kitchens, and we learn about his move to ethnography. Steve relates his experience of going to India, via Athens, in which he was able to study the practice and philosophy of yoga. He talks about the places that have really felt like home and about how home is a fluid construct. Then, at the end of the interview, Steve relates how he has been able, by and large, to do the things he has wanted, and how growing up it was much more possible to live in the moment than is the case today. We talk about how student experiences can be different today, and Steve remembers the aerograms he used to send from India which his father kept.

170: Becky Jefcoate

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2023 45:47

My guest this week is Becky Jefcoate, who like me was at university in Lampeter from 1991-94 where she studied Archaeology and English Literature. We find out how Becky ended up there and why her school teacher had misgivings about doing Archaeology as a single honours subject. We talk about how Lampeter was a place you knew pretty quickly whether you were going to fit in or not and how it attracted a certain type of self-sufficient person. After university, Becky moved to London and we learn about her time working at the Cartoon Museum as well as in a theatre and at the Royal Opera House. We talk about the collections in the Cartoon Museum, exploring with different audiences what the relevance was to them personally of the likes of Hogarth and Bagpuss. There was a specific Nostalgia exhibition, and we learn how it affected Becky, and the therapeutic possibilities involved when recording people's memories. Becky has always kept a diary including from her Lampeter days, and we talk about the efficacy of diaries. We learn about Becky's childhood. She was born in Birkenhead and moved to Lincolnshire, and remembers watching Robin of Sherwood and its mystical world England. Her favourite film was Raiders of the Lost Ark and which was a determining factor in studying Archaeology. Musically, Becky was into the Pet Shop Boys and Crowded House. Becky was one of the DJs in the Union Disco in Lampeter, and we talk about the interplay between new and old music played by bands at gigs. We discuss the balance of Archaeology and English as they are about people and their stories, what they have left behind, and we find out how they have both helped Becky in terms of her career. Becky wrote over 500 letters to every arts organization and museum when applying for work, and she reflects on whether with the passing of time we tend to remember the good times, and what we learn from the past. Then, at the end of the interview, we find out about the performances Becky was involved with in the Drama Society, about the way we look back on particular years, and why Becky is an especially nostalgic person.

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And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2023 27:42

As Easter draws to a close, Christians around the world will be focussing on the Day of Pentecost which comes a week today. This major festival has been given other names too - Whit Sunday or Whitsun for short. It's even been referred to as the birthday of the church. Coming 50 days after Christ's Resurrection, it's the time when (according to the dramatic account in chapter 2 of the Acts of the Apostles) the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit. The passage continues, “Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them” The Holy Spirit had arrived in no uncertain terms. From then on – as the remainder of the Book of Acts relates - the disciples and their followers were inspired to go forth and set up the first churches in places like Corinth and Thessaloniki; their mission was far from easy. Down the centuries, churches have been opened and closed and indeed the landscapes of Wales and other places around the world are punctuated with neglected and derelict churches which were once proud testaments to fervent revivals. Here in Wales, many places such as Llandudno, Llantwit Major and Llanbadrig are testament to church cells founded by saints about 1500 years ago. Now, despite an increasingly secular society today, new churches are being opened with congregations growing in number. We ask why. With the help of his guests, Jonathan Thomas hears about the descent of the Holy Spirit on the very first Day of Pentecost, and its subsequent influence on new churches emerging around the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. He also explores the work of the Holy Spirit today in Pentecostal and mainstream denominations, and learns about the seeming exponential growth of neo-Pentecostal churches in south America. Our guests: Catrin Williams: Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Wales, Trinity St David. The Revd Dr Gareth Leyshon, a Roman Catholic priest and Director of Adult Education in the Archdiocese of Cardiff. The Revd Dr Jonathan Black: Lecturer in Theology at Regents Theological College of the Elim Pentecostal Church, and a minister in the Apostolic Church. Luca Sparey: an ordinand based at the Citizen Church in Cardiff. Professor Bettina Schmidt: Director of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Centre based in Lampeter.

168: Maggie Webster

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2023 58:07

Maggie Webster is my fantastic guest this week, five years to the day since I broadcast my first Nostalgia Interviews podcast episode. Maggie teaches Religious Education at Edge Hill University in Lancashire, and we learn that she did a PhD in Lampeter which explored how people become witches on social media. Maggie discusses her fieldwork in which she interviewed 13 witches who ranged in age from 20 to 70, and how among other things they fought back against stereotypes. We talk about how there was a coming out of the broom cupboard in the 1990s, through magazine articles, films and TV series but how even today it is very difficult to find in-person covens. We find out how Maggie was destined to do this research on contemporary witchcraft, we learn about her research drivers and how it was as much a hobby as work as she would read all fiction and watch films about witches in her downtime. We talk about Witch Lit and The Witches of Eastwick and how films today are less heteronormative than they were a few decades ago. Maggie has compared the two versions of Hocus Pocus, thirty years apart, in terms of showing how we have changed as a society. We discuss Eurovision 2023 which was just about to take place when we recorded the interview, and we learn that Maggie was brought up in a working class family in Bangor, North Wales. She talks about the role of music as a child especially listening to Leo Sayer when cleaning the house, and hearing her Dad singing ‘Don't Worry Be Happy' to help when she was anxious. We move on to talk about the Welsh hiraeth and nostalgic longing in relation to Beddgelert, and she talks about the differences between the campus where she works and that of Lampeter, discussing along the way subcultures and Dungeons and Dragons. Maggie then talks about how she ended up going to university and the importance of education having come from a background where her mother was not allowed to have one. We find out why Maggie wanted to study religion and the importance of pluralism and we discuss her eclectic religious predilections. (You also get to hear my confession regarding church and the Top 40 singles chart.) We also find out how Maggie learns from what she has done and how it has made her the person (and academic) she is today. Then, at the end of the interview, Maggie reflects on her educational journey where becoming an academic was never on the cards, but that she has always been set on a path where she can help and make a difference to people's lives.

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167: Susan Norvill

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Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2023 58:16

My guest this week is journalist, editor and poet Susan Norvill, who like me was in Lampeter in the early 1990s where she read Victorian Studies and English Literature. We find out about Susan's love of Victorian literature and what drew her to Lampeter, and how the place exerts such a hold over those who went there, and how the people are still there for us. Susan grew up in Weston-super-Mare and went to a convent school in Bristol, and we find out about her first job after leaving university as a mortgage counsellor. Susan worked at the Albert Hotel in Weston in the summer holidays while she was at university and recounts the time when she bumped into Anthony Hopkins while he was filming The Remains of the Day. We discover that Susan was offered a job as an extra and find out why she unfortunately had to decline. We talk about Susan's earliest memories and her love of Anne of Green Gables. She did a teacher training course in Scarborough after graduating, and we talk about the literary connections in the North Yorkshire town. We find out about Susan's affinity with the Victorian era, and with the music of the 90s when we were at Lampeter. We talk about how the journey to school in Bristol in the car was very music-oriented, and Susan's affection for Roy Orbison. We discuss the influence of radio, vinyl, cassettes and other audio technologies as well as Ceefax, and about which facets of the past appeal, and whether you have to live through an era to feel connected to it. Susan edited the Hong Kong Industrialist in the 1990s and we find out about her time in Hong Kong at the time of the Handover. We also find out about Susan's poetry, and the anthology she collated and edited following the Ukrainian invasion by Russia, United for Ukraine. Then, towards the end of the interview, Susan reflects on the bittersweet nature of nostalgia and how the past serves the present. We find out what Susan's younger self wanted to be and, at the end, we discover whether Susan is a looking back or a looking forward type of person.

161: Edward Owen

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2023 57:39

My guest this week is Revd. Edward Owen, Vicar in the South Cardiff Ministry area, the most multicultural area of Wales, who like me did his degree in Lampeter in the early 1990s. We learn that Edward's grandmother's brother was Richard Burton and he talks about a photo from when he was aged three of him with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor taken in his grandmother's front room. We find out how Edward ended up in Lampeter and we talk about the overlap between St. David's University College and the Church in Wales. We talk about what might be said to comprise the hub of Lampeter and how it has changed but also remained the same, and how Lampeter had a connection which bigger universities lacked. We discuss why nostalgia is important for one's own development and why Edward has chosen to be an inner city parish priest. He talks about the concept of ‘intentional community', misremembering the past and our capacity to cling to a past that is not real. Edward identifies the importance of belonging and the Church's role in rebuilding that common narrative, and we find out about Edward's interfaith walks. For Edward, bringing together people who are different is more important than bringing together people who are the same. We hear about Edward's work with conflict resolution and mediation, and Edward explains why nostalgia enables us to change and how we only get better by embracing that which is difficult. Edward reveals that his father thought he should become an accountant and was dumbfounded when Edward left the teaching profession to become a priest, and Edward talks about the self-criticism that comes with looking back at the past. Then, at the end of the interview, we talk about how there are things we do now which we couldn't have done in the past, the role of social media and the public vs. private interface and how our lives are often led through a filter. Edward refers also to the running community of which he is a part, why his memories are mainly positive and Edward explains why ‘Why' is such an important question for him.

Post-Christian Wales

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 27:32

The recent release of Census statistics for religion suggests that the number of people with no religion now far exceeds the number of those purporting to be Christian. Roy Jenkins discusses the implication of these results with a panel including Dr Emma Whittick, chaplain of Trinity Saint Davids University of Wales at Lampeter and Carmarthen; George Craig, a retired civil servant and Methodist lay preacher; Kathy Riddick, Wales co-ordinator for Humanists UK; and Chris Street, who leads the Wales Leadership Forum, an organisation that aims to help church leaders to develop their mission.

156: Wendy Dossett

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2022 73:10

My guest this week is Wendy Dossett, whom I have known for around 30 years from when we were both based at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Wendy is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Chester, specializing in Buddhism, and has more recently been studying Addiction Recovery Spirituality. Wendy grew up in Hastings and we talk about what it is like to return to the place of one's birth and the teachers who actively chose to teach in a school with challenges. We find out about Wendy's love of live music, the first gigs she went to, and how she got into American protest music, Bob Dylan and Two-Tone. We talk about pop nostalgia and the importance of lyrics and the ‘moment in timeness' of seeing an artist live as well as about cover versions and how they match up. Wendy discusses why she studied English and Religious Studies at university. Her mum was an Anglican and her dad was interested in the paranormal, and we find out about her interest in ‘meaning of life' questions and against whom she might have been rebelling. We discuss the interplay between Buddhism and nostalgia, and the changing nature of the self. Wendy reflects on the past in the light of addiction recovery and the notion that change is possible, and we find out about the project that Wendy has undertaken around such fellowships and the concept of Higher Power. Wendy focuses on the notion of recovery and the moving forward element to it. We talk about the living element to these terms and the importance of ‘ordinary experience' vs. the power dynamics that lead some figures to be presented as authorities, and how it applies to what for example is ‘proper' Buddhism. This leads to a discussion around power dynamics and who are the legitimated voices in any discourse. We discuss the alchemy involved when people share their negative experiences of the past, in the context of recovering from addiction, and the notion of ‘busting shame', and how all of this links with questions of impact in academia, and how we are all struggling human beings. We find out what Wendy's younger self wanted to become when she was older and whether she looks back more than she looks forward.

Food and Farming

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2022 27:51

This week we're joining farmers, businesses, environmentalists and people with a passion for talking about food and farming - to discuss how it's good for us, our communities and the environment. Caroline Evans visits the Lampeter campus of University of Wales Trinity St David's for this years' Wales Real Food and Farming Conference.

150: Irene Williams Part 2

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 50:49

In the second part of my interview with Irene Williams, Irene talks about how the family moved to Cardiff, and how to begin with they had neither a house nor any money. Her father helped them with a deposit and Irene decided to go out to work, managing to secure the first job for which she applied. We also find out about what was the hardest nine years of Irene's life. We learn whether their son Martyn was able to get a scholarship to study at Atlantic College. Irene recounts in detail what she heard about the interview experience and about the unexpected occasion when he brought his friends over to stay the night after missing the bus. We hear about how Irene and Cyril ended up in Lampeter. The journey started in Canada when Cyril was asked to start up a department of Religious Studies at Aberystwyth. Irene talks about the importance of studying more than Christianity and how Cyril managed to get a colleague down from Bangor to Aberystwyth. They ate at home and with the money saved Cyril was able to buy books. In due course Cyril was asked if he could come to Lampeter where he lived in the decades that followed. Irene did up the garden of their home so well students would call it The Embassy, and we learn that she would make the students Welsh Cawl. Then, towards the end of the interview we hear about Irene's work with Amnesty International and how Cyril encouraged her to travel. Irene talks about their invitation to Japan, her time in Cuba and the work of the Missions of Charity. It was such a privilege to spend time with Irene in July 2022 to record both instalments of this interview.

149: Irene Williams Part 1

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2022 49:50

My very special guest this week is Mrs. Irene Williams, a centenarian. Irene is an inspiring lady with a wealth of history and experience in terms of the development of Religious Studies at Lampeter and a considerable amount of international humanitarian work over many decades. We will hear more about these dynamics in the second part of this interview, to be broadcast in the next episode. In this first instalment, we learn about Irene's early years. She was born in October 1921, she talks about her father who had been in France in the First World War, and we discover that Irene is the eldest of four sisters, one of whom is still living in the same house. We hear about Sunday School and her father's pacifism and how he became the Baptist Church organist for 44 years. Irene met her future husband, Professor Cyril Williams, when they were both at school, and Irene talks about his brilliance. Irene reflects upon her mother's legacy and values – cleanliness and cooking. We hear about her and Cyril's courtship and how Irene never got to meet Cyril's father, and we learn about the time when her parents got to meet Cyril and how Irene's father was keen for her to pass her driving test. We find out about Irene's time in London training for nursing and helping refugees and how she didn't want to wait before she got married on 9 August 1945 – the day war ended. We also hear about Irene's wedding dress experience and the birth of her son and Cyril's appendix operation. Then, at the end of this instalment, we learn about a refugee from Holland and the resulting ‘nutmeg' experience, and why she and her family didn't want to leave London. We also find out that their daughter, Anne, contracted polio on the train back from London. Part 2 follows…

148: Anne Watkins

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2022 50:42

My guest this week is Anne Watkins, who came to Lampeter in 1985, after originally expecting to work for the Civil Service, where she studied Philosophy and Ethics in Western Thought. Anne recalls hearing the sheep bleating on the hills and knowing that Lampeter was the place for her. We talk about long friendships especially with the overseas students and about how Philosophy helped her to think carefully. Anne also did an MA in Interfaith Relations. Anne talks about growing up in Cardiff and her earliest memories and her traumatic transition to high school. She remembers her Catholic education and the Corpus Christi procession. She remembers listening to the charts when growing up and discusses how her dreams have changed over the years. We find out why Anne couldn't join the Merchant Navy and how she always wanted to travel. Anne failed her ‘O' levels but ended up staying and working in Higher Education and made it her mission to improve education for others. Anne is a fanatical record keeper by way of diaries and photograph albums. She started keeping a diary in 1974 and reflects on how the photo interest in the early days, pre-digital, was expensive. Anne talks about the teachers who inspired her, and remembers dancing around a cauldron at school and being given animals to look after. She also remembers some of the gigs she went to see when growing up. Anne then talks about what has changed in recent years in terms of going out vs. staying at home due to lockdown. We get to hear her lockdown story which involved her having to change her routine. She returned to letter writing and encouraged others to do so. Anne talks about why she found coming out of lockdown difficult, and how she spent much of lockdown without internet. Towards the end of the interview, Anne talks about how she would live her life again in the same way and how she tries not to dwell too much on what is negative. She considers whether she maybe has been living too much in the past, discusses why friendships are crucially important and why her home has been referred to as a shrine. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Anne Watkins and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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147: Jonty Stern

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2022 90:20

My guest this week is Jonty Stern, who works at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London. Jonty ran the Doctor Who Society at Lampeter and we learn about his encyclopaedic knowledge of the series and the impact it has had on him over the years. Jonty did Welsh Studies at Lampeter and focused on Celtic languages. He was the only student in the UK doing Middle Breton at the time, and we find out how he became interested in languages. His ‘A' levels didn't work out for him – and we learn how Lampeter beckoned. Jonty is obsessed with diaries and history and has been keeping a diary since 1986. He even brought along his 1990-93 Lampeter diaries to our interview which took place at the O2 in Greenwich on one of the hottest days of the year in July 2022. Jonty explains how some of his entries were written up many years later and we have a discussion about who his diaries are written for, and how some of the topics on which he writes only exist in his diary – there is no other, say, internet reference to the events described. Diaries are connected to his photos and tax returns, and during lockdown Jonty interviewed elderly relatives and friends. We find out how they were able to connect what happened, say, on VE Day with their experiences of lockdown. We talk about the LBGT community, freedom of speech, RP accents on TV, and how diversity changes were not predicted accurately in, say, sci-fi. We also learn about Jonty's work in market research and his love of museums. Then, towards the end of the interview we find out about Jonty's stint on the Channel 4 series Big Brother in 2007, what made him apply, how it was a break from his life up to that point, and how he made it through to finale night. He talks about being both an extrovert and an introvert, how he feels about Channel 4 following doing the programme and what it was like being a celebrity and then no longer being famous. We also discuss how he wasn't allowed to take his diary with him into the Big Brother house. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Jonty Stern and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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143: José Moreno Carbonell

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2022 57:31

It was a great pleasure to meet José Moreno Carbonell for my latest Nostalgia Interview. Our paths may have once crossed in Lampeter where we were both students in the 1990s. José lives in France but comes from Spain and works as a high school Spanish teacher. José has just had a novel published called A la sombra de la glicinia - https://www.amazon.es/sombra-glicinia-Antonio-Moreno-Carbonell/dp/B09W7FLQ49 - which is a recreation of oral tradition from his home village mixed with classical mythology and 20th century Spanish history. It was written during lockdown and José talks about how it came about and the way in which writing was a survival strategy. We learn about José's earliest memories from growing up in Spain and how he comes from a family of school teachers. He always wanted to be a writer and we find out how José couldn't have been a writer if he hadn't become a teacher. We learn about José's TV influences when growing up in Spain in the days when there was just one channel, and we talk about the music our children listen to and how José started liking his father's classical music when a teenager. We also discuss the musical accomplishments that our children inherit. We find out about the teachers who made an impression as well as about José's time in Lampeter and the benefits from living there compared to a city life. We also discover why he would never keep a diary of his own. José then tells me a story from the time he was 12 years of age involving a Nobel Prize for Literature winner, The Three Musketeers and false memories. At the end of the interview we talk about what he wanted to be as a teenager, the advantage sometimes in not being paid for the things we love doing, why José is a looking forward person and why ‘this year's Christmas will be next year's nostalgia'. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and José Moreno Carbonell and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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129: Jennifer Uzzell

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2022 61:00

My guest this week is Jennifer Uzzell, who is studying for a PhD in Durham, has done a Masters degree at Lampeter, and used to teach full time in a secondary school. Jennifer's original background is in theology and biblical studies, when she did her undergraduate degree at Durham. We learn about how her interest in Hinduism developed and how Jennifer is a Senior ‘A' level examiner. Her latest research is on Druids and their attitudes towards death and dying. We talk about how on many levels she is squaring circles. We learn about how she became involved in the funeral director business which in some respects could be construed as a form of therapy. She didn't see a dead body prior to working in a funeral home, and we find out how Jennifer does the job and how she has the right resources to do it and how she has a vocational role both to the bereaved and the dead. We talk about how Jennifer's job impacts on her research and vice versa, and we talk about the different ways of conducting funerals that work for each family – including juggling and drinking whisky in one case. She devoured Greek mythology as a child and she talks about the paucity of work on non-Christian traditions when she was at university. Jennifer has always been interested in how words are used in translation, and she talks about why she considers herself an anthropologist of religion and being aware of watching herself watching. She discusses also being an insider both as a Druid and a funeral director. We talk about the key role of fiction in paganism and of re-enchantment, and about the importance of myth and magic and folk horror. Towards the end of the interview, Jennifer talks about the way funerals can be a way for families to reconnect, and we discuss the role of connecting with an imagined past and about Jennifer's work in historical re-enactment. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Jennifer Uzzell and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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128: Chris Deacy

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2021 62:11

The tables were turned on me for this week's Nostalgia Interviews podcast – as I am the guest. Pamela Petro, who did such a fantastic interview with me earlier in 2021, asks me about my background (and we talk about why I don't sound Welsh), why I used to emulate great radio presenters and newsreaders and why I ended up in academia if I always wanted to be on the radio. I talk about my career path, the dream that never went away, the bridge between broadcasting and teaching, and how this all dovetailed during lockdown when I would record my lectures like doing a radio show. I talk about my first university memory and recount my memories of the first day at Lampeter, which dovetailed with buying a bed for my sister, and why I came close to crying. Friday 4 October 1991 was the beginning of the rest of my life. Pamela asks me what the song is that sums up my student days (the answer may surprise you), and I talk about the 1992 Lampeter Arts Hall Christmas disco when I danced really badly to the Human League and how it led to a particularly memorable experience at the Quarry club in Lampeter the following Tuesday… I discuss how I wasn't in a good place 5 or 6 years ago and, through my work on Nostalgia, I have wanted to return to the prosaic, humdrum stuff from my undergraduate days and to say thank you to those friends from that era, and how one episode in particular was the template for me becoming involved with student support many years later. I then talk about my diaries and how and why I have been annotating my past, and what it says about the difference between experience and memory. I refer to the diary as being a corrective against having a rose-coloured lens reading of the past. We also talk about what makes Lampeter special by virtue of what for other people might be its perceived limitations. We then focus on the role of memoir and finding a way to connect a personal story to universal experiences. Specifically, I talk about why the diary became a form of salvation after I met somebody in 2016 who didn't turn out to be who she promised to be, and the diary turned me into a detective in my own story. I talk about how the diary is both primary source, secondary source and work in progress. The interview finishes with me being asked what I would do if God gave me the chance to satisfy one desire!

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Nov 13 A Darwinist's description of religious experience

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2021 7:18

The Marine Biologist - Sir Alister Hardy - set up a centre to study religious experience. He claimed that 50% of people in the UK had a religious experience and saw this as an evolutionary response to some dimension of reality

124: Penny Sartori

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2021 50:20

My guest this week is Penny Sartori, a medical researcher and teacher in the field of near-death experiences who did a PhD in NDEs at Lampeter. Penny used to work in the Intensive Therapy Unit in Morriston Hospital in Swansea where she was upset about the death of her patients and which led her to want to research more about death. Something that Penny discovered is that the neurophysiological assumptions that better fitted her nurse training didn't seem to be an adequate or sufficient model for understanding the phenomena. She found that talking to patients about what they were feeling and what they said face to face was an eye opening experience. They appreciated the fact that she was taking their experiences seriously whereas in many cases their relatives might dismiss their testimonies. It was a form of empowerment for them which counterbalanced the trauma of having come close to death. Penny talks about the negative experiences which some of the patients had, and she reveals what her colleagues thought about her research and the importance for nurses to recognize and validate these experiences and support their patients. We learn how this ended up becoming the PhD with Paul Badham as supervisor and how this all changed her life. Her work on NDEs has enabled her to become more appreciative of her life and it taught her to live in the moment. We talk about NDE characteristics, some of the findings of her research, including the seeing of deceased relatives and whether all of the patients she was studying had clinically died. We learn that she is interested in the extent to which NDEs give meaning to patients' lives, and Penny discusses the lack of acceptance in nursing circles of these experiences. Do we understand the dying process sufficiently? Penny tells me about the impact of her research and the book, which was serialized in a national newspaper, had on her personally. We also find out what made her enter the nursing profession in the first place and how everything has fallen into place in her life since. Finally, towards the end of the interview Penny talks about growing up in Swansea where she used to enjoy going surfing, and we hear about her love of 80s music. We learn that she is in touch with her best friend from school, why she enjoyed the solitude of lockdown, and why Penny is a looking forward kind of person. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Penny Sartori and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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Hour 2: Important Theological Terms

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2021 24:33

Moody author, J. Brian Tucker is a guest on Dawn and Steve Mornings for an important conversation about theology. Brian has written the book 50 Most Important Theological Terms. Listen and learn why these terms matter. Brian is a Professor of New Testament at Moody Theological Seminary in Plymouth, MI, and an External Affiliate at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London. He is co-editor of The T & T Clark Social Identity Commentary on the New Testament and the author or coauthor of several books including Reading Romans after Supersessionism, and All Together Different. Brian earned his DMin from Michigan Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. from the University of Wales, Lampeter. In his spare time, he enjoys science fiction and playing and listening to jazz. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

120: Pamela Petro

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 75:20

My guest this week is Pamela Petro, American author, artist and teacher based in Massachusetts. Pamela has just published a memoir called The Long Field in which we learn about her passion for Wales as an American, based around the concept of hiraeth. Pamela did an MA in The Word and the Visual Imagination at Lampeter and she talks about how she never got over her ‘Welsh thing'. In the last 35 years she has been back something like 28 times. Lampeter has affected her in a way no other place has. Pamela talks about how she felt instantly at home there and about being comfortable on the margins looking critically at the centre. She felt that she was in touch with the world in this intimate place, and she talks about using our own stories as a jumping off place to a universal plane. We learn about the importance of hiraeth, which might be thought of as a form of homesickness and longing and as the presence of absence – perhaps a longing for the self that we once were. We hear about the time a man appeared out of a manhole wearing a German pith helmet, and a sheep wandering in the library. Pamela grew up in New Jersey and she talks about the search for that in between state and about how one is always imagining what we don't have. To miss something is the springboard to imagination, and Pamela is happy to be in that liminal space. It's the looking forward, say to Christmas, that's more important than Christmas Day itself. We find out why Pamela looks forward to the shortening of the light in winter, and we consider these motifs via the endings of The Shawshank Redemption and Local Hero. At the end of the interview we discuss how negative experiences allow one to grow, and we talk about how loss might be deemed to be the most important thing in life. We discover that Pamela carries the past with her all the time – and we find out what would happen if she could choose between going to the past or the future. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Pamela Petro and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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118: Gregory Shushan

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2021 68:59

My guest this week is Gregory Shushan, a researcher in the area of Near Death Experiences who is currently based in Portugal. Gregory went to Lampeter to do a PhD in 2004 on a cross cultural study of afterlife beliefs under the supervision of Paul Badham. We talk extensively about Near Death Experiences and how Gregory was interested in looking at the impact of NDEs on culture. Gregory was born in San Diego and grew up in an environment where his parents had very different approaches to life. He talks about the role of travel in his life, and we learn that he studied at UCL before going to Lampeter. We learn too about Gregory's tendency to the outsider way of thinking. He once contemplated being a musician and Gregory discusses his musical influences, and the resonances of Matt Dillon's debut 1979 film Over the Edge. British music and culture also influenced him, and we discover that Gregory listens to it today though not so much in the case of punk. Gregory talks about his work on indigenous religions and NDEs and is looking at Victorian and Edwardian work on mediumship and reincarnation memories for his next book. He calls out the racist elements in some of that spiritualist literature, and we talk about the way NDEs are overlaid with our cultural conditioning and symbols. We then discuss H.H. Price's work on mind-dependent worlds which, Gregory believes, comes closest to explaining the similarities and differences in afterlife and NDE experiences. Gregory talks about what people who have had an NDE make of his research, and he talks about how people who have had an NDE may look to his work to corroborate their experiences. The materialist sceptics also want him to corroborate their ‘it's all in the brain' position. He explains why he isn't interested in proving whether or not NDEs are true or not. At the end of the interview we learn that Gregory's memories are fairly mixed. He talks about finding journals from when he was a teenager and he talks about ‘nostalgicising' certain periods of his life and how he is inclined to look back and forward more than be in the present. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Gregory Shushan and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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115: Bettina Schmidt

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2021 62:37

My guest this week is Professor Bettina Schmidt, Professor in Study of Religions and Anthropology of Religion at University of Wales Trinity Saint David and President of the British Association for the Study of Religion. Bettina is also Director of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre in Lampeter. Bettina is currently looking in her research at questions of spirituality, health and wellbeing and one of her areas of specialism is spirit possession and trance in Brazil and on vernacular forms of religion, such as voodoo, in the Caribbean. Originally from a working class background in Germany, where her father was a coal miner, Bettina reflects on how her mother made sure she and her sisters had a good education. Anthropology was a way for Bettina to see the world, and Bettina talks about the role that religion played in terms of identity in her mother's life. Indeed, for Bettina, religious identity is more important in some respects than the content of religion. We learn what her parents thought about her career and about the role that the patron saint Barbara played, including in Bettina's PhD viva. Bettina also discusses musical interests, including Abba and Grease and civil rights songs. She saw Joan Baez perform in Cardiff shortly before lockdown and she also remembers being impressed by Joe Cocker. We learn how Bettina entered academia and talk about whether fieldwork can still take place due to lockdown. Bettina explains that she keeps a diary of each of her field trips and we discover why Brazil is the only place to which she has returned. Indeed, she joined Facebook because of the people in Brazil and we learn how she sent her books to the leaders of the community who helped her. We find out about the university teachers who inspired Bettina and why she is inspired more by ideas than people. She talks about her father's experience of being harassed for being a German after the War and she discusses the role of nostalgia in the context of a past that was destroyed by political events. Bettina also reflects on how Brexit has been tough on Europeans living in the UK, and we talk about the concepts of cultural memory and of a Utopian Africa. Then, at the end of the interview, we learn that Bettina enjoys reading Agatha Christie crime novels and we talk about the nostalgic idea of a Britain that never existed vis-à-vis the stories of Enid Blyton and how anthropology comprises a subjective reflection of the world. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Bettina Schmidt and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

Post-lockdown Church

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2021 27:42

We're now into week two of what First Minister Mark Drakeford calls ‘the final lap' of emerging from the pandemic. Legal limits have gone on the number of people we can meet in our homes, in public places or at events; restrictions on worship have eased, the kinds of gatherings which have been impossible are starting to happen again. Although they're still likely to be wearing masks for much of the time, many congregations are at last able to be seeing one another in person. But it's been eighteen months in which shared worship has largely taken place online. New technology has offered exposure to very different styles of worship, but day-to-day pastoral care and work with children and young people have faced huge difficulties, and many buildings have remained closed. What have churches learnt through this – and what have they lost? In what ways will this experience help to shape their future? To explore this, Roy Jenkins is joined by: Father Christopher Hancock, who was Catholic parish priest in Merthyr until he moved to Sunderland nine months ago Rev Dr Emma Whittick, chaplain at the University of Wales Trinity St David in Lampeter and Carmarthen Rev Gethin Rhys, Policy officer at Cytûn, Churches Together in Wales Rev Edwin Counsell, Ministry Area Leader for the Glamorgan Heritage Coast Ministry Area

114: David Cheetham

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2021 63:38

My guest this week is Professor David Cheetham, Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham where he has been based since 1999. David and I were both Theology students at Lampeter, with David studying for his PhD at the time that I was an undergraduate, and David talks about how Lampeter influenced him – and how there was more going on than his academic achievements. We talk about the second nature element of Zoom and how it has affected our teaching and we learn why David is an optimist about life post-lockdown. We discuss his memories of living in Lampeter back in the days when you ‘had to make your own entertainment' in a way that wouldn't have happened in a city university and why Lampeter was like a self-contained ecosystem of people in which he didn't have to worry about ‘tomorrow'. We learn all about the legendary Edmund Estafan and the Mydroilyn Sound Machine where David was the band's keyboardist and David reveals that he had originally wanted to be a musician and that despite ostensibly going there to read Theology Lampeter enabled him to become a musician. He also recalls his ritual of running over to the local Chinese takeaway for 11pm. David recalls growing up in the 1980s in what was a very musical world and that he once told the Revd. Richard Coles that ‘Don't Leave Me This Way' by The Communards was the first song he danced to at the Lampeter union disco. David is not the first person I've interviewed who has written a PhD on John Hick (see my interview in 2019 with Gerard Loughlin). He talks about meeting John Hick at his home in Birmingham over a strong sherry and David recounts an hilarious story about how he once had a clash between a Blend Band rehearsal and seeing John Hick give a talk. We learn about how David doesn't necessarily agree with everything Hick has written and he tells us why Hick was worried about how Death and Eternal Life would be perceived, before moving on to talk about Paul Badham's influence (on his both) and his defence of dualism. We learn what David's younger self would have expected him to do and how one of his secondary school teachers thought he was a bit too ambitious when he said at the age of about 14 that he wanted to be a Professor one day. We discuss whether our university tutors could ever have known what we got up to outside of our work and at the end of the interview we discover why David has a ‘good nostalgia' about what he has done in his life to date. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and David Cheetham and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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112: Jonathan Trigg

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2021 57:56

My guest this week is Jonathan Trigg, who studied Archaeology at Lampeter from 1995-98 and has been at Liverpool for the last 22 years. We talk about the advantages of living and studying on a small campus like Lampeter. Jonathan, who was brought up in Essex, talks about how and why he decided to apply to university and being a late developer. We talk about our relationship with the past and his work on war memorials and how some people are going to be more deserving of our praise than others. From growing up Jonathan remembers watching cricket with his father and we discuss the 1981 Royal Wedding. He also remembers the love of family and then discovering after going to university that he had the chance to become himself. Jonathan doesn't have a mobile phone and we talk about the benefits (or otherwise) of doing everything online due to lockdown. He appreciates the time that his tutors took to give him and others to learn and we talk about the importance of feedback. We also learn how he ended up working in academia and why he feels that in some ways it is a hobby. He relays what happened when he saw Gladiator at the cinema with a Roman archaeology and history lecturer who had a problem with some facets of the film. Jonathan also talks about voting for the first time while a student and playing for the student cricket team. He learned life experience at Lampeter and academic experience at Liverpool. When asked at a young age what he wanted to be he would have said a museum curator. Jonathan talks about how good it is when people go on to do things because of your efforts, and he finishes with a reference to the Welsh hiraeth. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Jonathan Trigg and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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Earth and World

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2021 18:31

Professor Louise Steel examines the history of clay and how the cultural and technological knowledges of the earliest settled farming and urban communities were informed by people's engagements with clay.       As one of the first mineral substance to be transformed from a malleable to a durable state. Many societies perceive it as an animate substance permeated with "a spiritual energy and life-force" that retains a "thing-power", allowing it to be shaped into various forms.[1] [2]     Building on her ongoing research Steel looks at the agency of matter to illustrate how the distinct capacities of clay (in relationship with water and fire) shaped and facilitated, but equally constrained, people's behaviour, resulting in distinctive social and material worlds. Focusing on the vitality of matter, Steel considers how “the materials themselves are determining—even actively responsible—for the final shape and manner by which the finished article can manifest”. [3]   [1] Boivin, N. 2012. From veneration to exploitation: Human engagement with the mineral world. In Soils, Stones and Symbols: Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World; Boivin, N., Owoc, M.A., (Eds). London: Routledge, pp. 1–29.  [2] Bennett, J. 2010.Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.  [3] Attala, L. and Steel, L. 2019.Body Matters: Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body> Cardiff: Wales University Press.  Louise Steel is Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter. Her research focuses on materiality and the interaction of objects in people's social worlds. She is series editor of Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Wales Press, and is currently editing a volume on Earthy Matters: Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay.

Mobile Milk & PYO

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2021 27:36

As the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show goes virtual for the second year running, we speak to the Welsh Government Rural Affairs Minister, Lesley Griffiths on farming matters. Back to nature, the businessman rewilding a farm in Ceredigion. We buy a pint of milk from Llaeth Llanfair - a mobile vending service set up by a Lampeter dairy farm. And how social media and a desire to be outside following the pandemic, sparks a revival in PYO.

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111: Charles Musselwhite

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021 72:31

My guest this week is Charles Musselwhite, Professor in Psychology at Aberystwyth. Charles is a specialist in gerontology with a particular focus on how people engage with place in terms of age. He first went to Lampeter to study Archaeology and Charles talks about how that experience underpinned what he thinks now. We learn that he prefers a bottom up approach to his research, asking how someone lives their life and we learn how, for example, transport is more about people than vehicles. After Lampeter Charles went to Southampton to study Psychology and later did a PhD looking at how young boy racers change in their lifetime. We look at the role of nostalgia vis-a-vis the people that Charles interviews, and the views that older people who are housebound see from their windows. Charles also talks about how the most interesting bits in people's lives are often the everyday and ordinary ones rather than the extraordinary events. He grew up near Portsmouth, his parents were teachers, and Charles remembers once seeing his headmaster throwing up in his parents' downstairs toilet at 3am. He talks about how he can feel and smell the past as well as see it. Charles talks about how gratifying it is when students tell you how much they learned from your teaching. He didn't complete his degree at Lampeter and Charles explains why he doesn't now want to be a Professor who doesn't teach. Musically, Charles has always been into progressive rock and he recounts the time when he went down from Lampeter to see Marillion in concert in Cardiff in January 1994 and how he especially remembers the most unusual of journeys there. We discuss how the journey is often as important as the destination. Charles reveals that he suffers from rose tinted glasses syndrome and he talks about the importance of keeping diaries in terms of correcting the way we look at things. He's not very good at parking the past, he tells us why returning to Lampeter is restorative and unique and we finish by reflecting on how our friendships often evolve in ways we might not have anticipated. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Charles Musselwhite and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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Winning Wine & the Climate Shop

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2021 27:19

Let Britain Grow - the horticulture industry calls for the Government to negotiate a plant health agreement between the UK and the European Union. Following a vote in the Senedd to declare a nature emergency we speak to Wales' new climate change minister, Julie James. Addressing the need for farms to reduce their carbon footprint and make them more efficient. The shop in Lampeter that sells your unwanted goods in exchange for growing carbon hungry trees. And cheers and congratulations to a gold medal winning Pinot Noir, putting Wales on the global wine map.

105: Paul Hedges

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2021 72:53

My guest this week is Paul Hedges, Associate Professor in Interreligious Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore. Paul and I were contemporaries in the University of Wales and we learn about how Lampeter made him the academic and person that he is today. We learn about the days when computers weren’t used for writing essays, when students would pay someone to type up their dissertations for them, and the library had a card catalogue. Paul tells us about the time he once derived his inspiration for writing an essay from a strong bottle of cider. The whole Lampeter experience was like a bubble, quite different from the rest of the world. Paul reflects on what it has been like to go back on the other side of the fence, as it were, and he recalls the chance in Lampeter to explore the countryside. He talks about his lower middle class upbringing and how he would play Dungeons & Dragons back in the days when it wasn’t cool to be nerdy. He also talks about growing up in one of the most boring towns on the planet (according to Paul!). Paul had friends who represented very different world views to his own, and Paul considers how his academic interest in interreligious relations and how different worldviews or traditions make sense of each other can be traced back to those days. Paul is interested in questions of autoethnobiography and the way in which you can’t understand people without understanding their location. We talk about how different research is now that we have access to technology, but Paul reflects on why there is something missing - less time for cogitating, perhaps. We talk about postcolonialism and the move away from the western paradigm and the importance of inclusion. We learn about Paul’s musical influences, including Pink Floyd, and that his son is a classical music buff. Then, at the end of the interview, Paul discusses why he has positive memories of childhood and why, thanks to Lampeter discos, he can’t get YMCA out of his head, as well as his propensity to airbrush the negative stuff of life. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Paul Hedges and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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288 - “Not Yet” by Thomas Elson

A Moment of Your Time

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 4:34

Thomas Elson's short stories, poetry, and flash fiction have been published in numerous venues such as Calliope, The Cabinet of Heed, New Feathers, Pinyon, Lunaris, New Ulster, Lampeter, Selkie, and Adelaide. He divides his time between Northern California and Western Kansas. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Created during a time of quarantine in the global Coronavirus pandemic, A Moment Of Your Time's mission is to provide a space for expression, collaboration, community and solidarity. In this time of isolation, we may have to be apart but let's create together. Follow Us: Instagram | Twitter Created by CurtCo Media Concept by Jenny Curtis Theme music by Chris Porter Edited by Darra Stone A CurtCo Media Production See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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100: Pete Paphides

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 61:02

For my 100th Nostalgia Interview, it was a massive pleasure to meet Pete Paphides, a music journalist who has written for Melody Maker, Q and Time Out and has been the chief music critic for The Times. Pete’s memoir Broken Greek, with the wonderful sub-title A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs, was Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Pete also went to Lampeter, where he studied Philosophy from 1989-92, and Pete begins the interview by talking about his fond memories of rainy mornings in Lampeter and the culture shift he experienced from having left the city of Birmingham for one of the smallest campuses in the country. Pete relays his experiences of hearing the sound of sheep at night and we talk about the notion of ‘infinite choice’. Pete tells us about his more recent, very felicitous visit to a shoe shop in Aberaeron and we learn that Pete wrote Broken Greek in coffee shops – and how Lampeter kickstarted the idea of the café as office. Pete talks about his reasons for writing what he calls a ‘confusion memoir’ and how he wanted to put the reader in his head space. We talk about his very early memory of sitting in his parents’ car and hearing Leo Sayer’s ‘When I Need You’, how from the ages of 4-7 he had selective mutism, and we learn that for Pete music was a proxy means by which he understood his life. We talk about childhood diaries, how music was an imperfect mirror of what was going on in the world around him, how we tend to look back on childhood decisions and tastes and how it is wrong to apply to them adult categories. Pete dissects the concept of Guilty Pleasures, which is applied to Abba, and we learn why Hag’s Record shop is the reason why he decided to stay in Lampeter. We learn why Pete made a point of keeping in the book the real name of one of the ‘characters’ from his past, and we learn his thoughts on Paul McCartney and ‘Mull of Kintyre’, and what happened on Christmas Day 1977 involving a racist neighbour and an unexpected act of kindness. Then, towards the end of the interview we learn why writing Broken Greek was an escape of sorts. We learn how Pete came to write it and how he never thought he’d make a living out of writing (as a music journalist). Pete tells us why his 10 year old self was in some ways smarter than his 25 year old self, and at the very end we discover why Pete looks forward practically but looks back sentimentally. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Pete Paphides and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

90: Brendan McSharry OBE

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2020 64:22

My guest this week is Brendan McSharry, Editor of The Link, who studied History and English at Lampeter from 1968-71. He has received an OBE for services to education and culture in Iraq where he spent four years working for the British Council. Born in North West London in 1949, Brendan explains why he wanted to study as far away as possible from the city, and he remembers the long train journey to Carmarthen and what happened when he travelled with a Welsh lorry driver who couldn’t speak a word of English. Brendan discusses his Irish background and how, from childhood, he can recall the fast pace of life in London and how he had hardly visited the countryside before going to Lampeter. In his family he was the first of his generation to go to university, and we find out what his parents did. Brendan discusses Carnaby Street and how he became a voracious reader in later years, as well as developed a love of classical music. He was Captain of the cross country club while at university. His school, on the other hand, didn’t encourage debate, and he talks about the shock he received when theology students told him that parts of the Bible were not true. He recalls hitching in his Lampeter days and travelling to the former Yugoslavia. We learn about the Dominican Sister who taught him English and inspired him to read widely and consider going to university. Brendan then talks about the university lecturers who inspired him too such as Bob Sharpe. We learn about Brendan’s life post-Lampeter which included working for the British Council for 42 years and how he ended up in Iraq, and he recounts the time when the house three doors down from his was obliterated by a scud missile. Brendan talks about how he has developed a world view and is not a Little Englander and why diversity is so essential to having a strong community. He reflects on the time he met with a Lampeter contemporary of his who voted differently in the Brexit referendum. At the end of the interview we learn that when he was young Brendan wouldn’t have expected that he’d end up doing the things he has, and he talks about how he became more ambitious as he grew up. We find out what he thinks he would have done if he hadn’t gone to university as well as why he is so interested in the lives of others. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Brendan McSharry and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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Gordon Ramsay goes to The Fish and Anchor, Lampeter

Where's The Lamb Sauce?

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 41:43

We reach peak Kitchen Nightmares this week as Gordon walks into marital as well as culinary hell. He samples Welsh snot; is confronted by a dirty magician and gives us a genuine contender for Insult of the Series. Elsewhere, we were left gobsmacked by an item in our inbox of unique musical nature. Music by Adam Wiltshire (and Yung Toro).

79: Chris Gordon

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2020 70:14

It is two years this week since my first Nostalgia Interview was broadcast, and, on the second anniversary, I am putting out my first interview to be recorded via Zoom. My guest is Chris Gordon who runs a podcast called Hellblazerbiz (https://www.hellblazerbiz.com/), in which he interviews people in the movie business. Chris tells us how he got into it and how he was once talked about on the red carpet at a premiere in Los Angeles. For his podcast Chris gets fans to ask questions to his guests and he talks about how the experience of interviewing has been likened to old friends catching up in a pub. We learn why independent actors are likely to want to put themselves out more and why Matthew Modine didn’t want to be interviewed by him. Chris studied German at Lampeter from 1994-8, which included a year in Germany, and he talks about why Lampeter was his coming of age and the place which set him up for the rest of his life. We learn that he came to Lampeter from North Wales and why he likens Lampeter to the community in the sitcom ‘Cheers’. Chris also reveals that he was half an hour late for one of his finals exams because he was drinking cider in the Student Union bar. We talk about how we have moved on after 25 years and how he listens to the same music from back when he was at university but has more recently developed an interest in country. We talk about carrying something from the past into our futures and what he is trying to capture through his interviews, likening it to a time capsule. We reflect on the strong political opinions that people had at university and he talks about how he perks up whenever Lampeter appears on the news. Chris talks about being a massive film fan and being so moved by ‘Schindler’s List’ which he saw as a student – remembering the solemn exit from the Arts Hall afterwards, and how that wouldn’t have happened had he seen it elsewhere. At the end of the interview we learn that Chris’ biggest regret is not joining the Forces. He has been working for the last two decades in IT which, we find out, is different to what he originally expected to be doing. Chris would love for his podcast to be his main career and to knock James Corden off his top spot, and the interview ends with Chris asking me who my Muppet character would be… Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Chris Gordon and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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78: Esther Weller

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2020 47:55

My guest this week is Esther Weller, Chair of the Lampeter Society who was a student in Lampeter in the mid to late 90s. Esther was born in London but then moved to Wales when she was six months old and grew up in the South Wales Valleys. We learn that she wanted to find out about her family background before it is too late and we find out what she found out. Esther talks about her father’s Jewish background and about her family’s association with a betting club and the community aspect around Passover. In terms of earliest memories, Esther remembers her first day of school and having milk in the playground and how she was to lose a teacher to cancer. She has strong memories of her maternal grandmother and we discover what it was like to go to university from an all girls’ school where she wasn’t used to being around boys and why Lampeter was very much a ‘hidden gem’. We talk about the growth of coffee shop culture in recent years and how students don’t drink alcohol so much anymore. As a child she listened to the charts on a Sunday on her Walkman while helping her parents decorate and we find out that Esther only listens to love songs. The first cassette single she bought was the Bangles’ ‘Eternal Flame’ and Esther talks about how it was better in respect of shared community in the days when we all used to watch the same programmes on the TV. Esther talks about the university tutors who stood out, including one who was so inspirational. We also learn that Esther was involved in the Albania Appeal and went there to deliver aid, including working once in a children’s home and hearing gunshots all around her. She also once drove a lorry to Bosnia to bring aid to refugee camps, and Esther talks about the importance of making a mark in life by helping people. Towards the end of the interview we learn that university was the first time she felt she could be herself and we talk about how our children end up with accents that we might not have, about how her upbringing was very positive and how she wanted to make her parents proud. We also discover at the end whether she is a looking back or a looking forward kind of person. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Esther Weller and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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76: Linda Pike

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2020 92:37

My guest this week is Linda Pike who works at BT HQ as a Project Manager and graduated from Lampeter in French in 1995. Linda reveals why Lampeter was like a pleasure dome, and how it wasn’t a judgemental place and how she embraced the ‘away from home’ experience. We talk about the ‘melting pot’ of people and how she would get paid to socialise by working down the bar. We find out about how she had access to the reject button on the jukebox, and when and how she would use it, and Linda likens Lampeter to Neapolitan ice cream. Linda was born in Essex but grew up in South Devon, and we learn that her earliest memories involve her cuddly lion called Leo. We discover that Linda is a kinaesthetic person and she talks about how she would go swimming on Sundays and that, today, her happiest state involves being at the seaside. When she was young she would record programmes off the radio and we find out that the first album she was given was Duran Duran’s 'Seven and the Ragged Tiger'. We find out why Linda prefers not to order cards through Moonpig and why the ‘wrong’ lyrics in a song are often better than the original. She was once the second youngest licensee in the country and we discover how she moved into business development and then into her present job at BT. We learn about how Linda is very people-focused within a technical environment and why the analogy of a conductor is appropriate. Linda reveals that she is passionate about scuba diving and how it is a counterpoint to work and the tendency to live life through a screen. She talks about being very collaborative and inclusive and about how people are multifaceted rather than one dimensional, and we discuss the things we learn about people outside of, say, their work environment. The conversation then moves on to our love of film and how one can be transported somewhere and even have a kind of out of body experience. The first film she and her husband went to was a Muppets film and Linda talks about her favourite films including 'Jaws' and ‘Pulp Fiction’ (the latter came out during her final year at university). In the final part of the interview we learn why Linda is a ‘glass is half full’ person, and we find out what she would do if she had her time again – Linda would like to do a degree in marine biology – and at the very end Linda reveals whether she is a looking back or a looking forward type of person. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Linda Pike and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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75: John Loaring

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020 51:21

My guest this week is John Loaring, whose claim to fame is that he invented PPI, and who was at Lampeter from 1964-67 while it made the transition from being an all-male theological college. He recounts how many of his contemporaries thought that having female students was an experiment that would fail and go away, and John recounts how he ended up going to Lampeter in the first place. We learn that he had previously been working for the Inland Revenue and as a porter for British Rail, and did train announcements at Cardiff General. We talk about the days when we were paid to go to university. His father worked for the railway for 38 years but was always classed as temporary staff. He recalls the days when there was a lot of mental bullying depending on one’s background and we discuss the concept of stepping outside of one’s comfort zone. He was the first in his family to go to university, and we learn about the role that rugby and drinking played in his student days. John used to write down what was on the radio and talks about fostering his musical loves at university and how he still plays the same music. John went into banking after university where it mattered that he had a degree irrespective of its subject or classification. He taught English to civil servants without having had any teaching experience and we learn that he went from there to work for TSB in the Manchester area. He remembers the days of handwritten ledgers and then saw the move to computerization, and we find out why he thinks banking has gone downhill now. He talks about the value of having a university education and thinking outside of the box and he relays some of the professions which his contemporaries went into, including teaching, the military and the Church. He had himself been Church-minded as a Methodist and we learn that the College was largely apolitical in his day and how it was largely an English college in a Welsh setting. In the final part of the interview John talks about not forgetting the bad times and how Lampeter on a Sunday evening could be a miserable place. We learn why since retirement he tends to focus on the here and now and why he doesn’t think there is an awful lot to look forward to. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and John Loaring and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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Ep62: Ethan Demme, Entrepreneur & East Lampeter Township Supervisor

Brews & Views

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2020 41:49

As former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neil famously said, all politics is local. In this episode, entrepreneur and East Lampeter Township Supervisor Ethan Demme takes a hyper-local look at how local governments can foster—or hinder—economic growth and opportunity. Particularly, Ethan explained the commonsense principle that people should have the freedom to use their own property to earn income.

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71: Marion Stuart

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2020 56:12

My guest this week is Marion Stuart who studied Divinity at Lampeter in the 1980s and talks about the oddity of being in the same peer group as her lecturers. She reflects on how she took a subject which her parents wouldn’t really have approved of and she remembers the legendary DP Davies. From childhood Marion recalls the bombs that dropped during the Second World War and when the Crystal Palace grounds opened up. She tells us why she was ‘teacher’s favourite’ and how she had to deal with bullying. Marion remembers the rules of grammar school and how different it is from today, and she reflects on the difference between public and private school and her experience of working in a Lebanese refugee school in Cyprus. In terms of growing up, without pop music, Marion’s music was the school choir. She also learned songs from musicals and we talk about the concept of pop music being ‘of the Devil’ as well as how singing was her thing. Marion became a Reader in the Church in Wales and she talks about being a member of the movement for the ordination of women and reminisces about the staff in Lampeter who influenced her, including Paul Badham. She talks about relating to staff in terms of life experience and we learn how she was an agony aunt to the younger students. Marion reflects on her time working in the legendary Pooh’s Corner and about how the mural of Winnie the Pooh was created by her daughter. We talk about the role that university plays in ‘learning about yourself’ and Marion explains why Lampeter is somewhere that it is possible to stay for so long. Marion in turn asks me what it feels like to live now in Canterbury. We talk about fate and destiny and why Marion could never return home after leaving school and she talks about political influences, how she once crossed the political floor and why students latch on to particular parties. We ask whether Brexit will ever happen (note this interview was recorded in November 2019), why she was a supporter of Wales becoming independent and why she hates strikes. In the final part of the interview, Marion talks about whether her memories are positive and links this to questions of spirituality and we learn how she has turned around negative things. She has had some dark moments but she can now be nostalgic about them. We learn about how she officiates at weddings in Cyprus and also carries out humanist funerals. We learn how she ended up in Cyprus, how she has 2000 Facebook friends and how different it is to growing up in a house without a telephone, and why Marion thinks that life is a gift which has to be used. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Marion Stuart and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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70: Andy White

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2020 48:45

My guest this week is stand up comedian Andy White. We start by talking about his victory on ‘The Weakest Link’ in 2002 and how the prize enabled him to pay for his wedding. Andy tells us about the work he has done for the National Autistic Society and we talk about our apprehension of ‘slightly obscure celebrities’. We learn how he ended up at university - Andy initially went to Aston to study town planning and then moved to Lampeter to study English where he enjoyed rattling tins for Rag and going to London to protest against the BNP. Andy explains why he didn’t mind that Lampeter was in the middle of nowhere and how he threw himself into it, and we talk about the political careers of some of the people who studied there and some of the eccentric figures that populated Lampeter. We find out how Andy got into stand up and how petrified he was when he did his first gig and then found that the microphone wasn’t working. He tells us about the different ways to ‘read’ an audience, and the difference between doing stag and hen nights. Andy tells us what happens on those occasions when a comedian has ‘lost‘ the audience and we learn about the so-called ’11 o’clock rule’. We deconstruct a gig and talk about the concept of ‘counterpoint’. Andy remembers when I used to keep a folder about the charts which I then, surreally, produce 30 years on during the interview. We find out what type of music Andy used to listen to, including REM, and how he will listen to Classic FM when driving to a gig. We learn what was the first record he ever bought. In the final part of the interview Andy talks about the musicians and comedians he has seen on stage, we find out what his dreams were when he was young and how Andy reflects on bad mistakes from the past and why golf club after dinner gigs don’t tend to go well. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Andy White and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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59: Andy Crome

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2019 67:32

My guest this week is Andy Crome, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University. We learn that Andy grew up in St. Andrews and studied Theology and Ancient History at Lampeter. We talk about dialects, accents and early memories, including about the history of Lampeter and the people who embodied the place and gave it a sense of continuity. We find out about Andy’s work in early modern history and fandom and how it relates to ‘Dr. Who’, and the cross overs between these areas, as when Andy talks about 'Dr. Who' episodes set in early modern history. I ask Andy whether he would fancy being a consultant for 'Dr. Who', and whether there should be a 'Dr. Who' musical, and we talk about the mystique of the lost episodes. Andy mentions the Starbucks appearance in ‘Game of Thrones’, and the potential for something to go wrong during live theatre performances. Andy recalls his musical passions, including going to see Bon Jovi in concert. He talks about Manchester being a great city for live music and we discuss what the artists think about what academics are saying about them. For instance, Andy refers to the time when Mark E. Smith didn’t think there was value in what was being written about the music of The Fall. We find out how Andy entered academia and the guilt he feels around getting jobs that other academics haven’t been successful in obtaining. We discuss what being an academic is about and the need to do several different things well. Andy discusses how not all of his memories are positive and he reflects on the sadness in nostalgia around people that we have lost. In terms of whether we can be nostalgic about negative experiences, Andy talks about the desire in apocalyptic groups for martyrdom, as well as about the fear of endings and how the history of apocalypticism is about people who have been wrong in their predictions. Then, in the final part of the interview, we learn what Andy wanted to be as a teenager and whether he’d be surprised to learn what he is doing now, which includes research on ‘My Little Pony’ fandom, as well as about how things once dismissed as geeky and embarrassing are now considered very much a normal part of popular culture. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Andy Crome and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

58: Martin Bloomfield

Business News Wales Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2019 54:07

My guest this week is Martin Bloomfield (aka ‘Dodgy Shoes’) who is studying towards a PhD in Philosophy at the University of York and who, like me, studied at Lampeter during the 1990s. Martin explains why Lampeter was a ‘collection of caricatures’, and we also find out about the range of schools he attended when he was young. Martin remembers the birth of his younger brother, and Martin reflects on how York (and himself) have changed over the years. We learn about Martin’s current employment, and Martin reveals what the most valuable lesson was that he learned in Lampeter and how it informed the rest of his life. We learn that as a student he would see gigs at Gassy Jacks in Cardiff, including Bad Manners, and we reflect on the more ‘C’ list musicians who would tend to come to Lampeter. We also learn about the different branches of the karate club as well as the fencing society that Martin used to be involved with, and why he thinks of Lampeter as a person. We hear about the infamous ‘foot joke’, and how going to university helped Martin to discover who he was. Martin tells us how he did (and did not) stand for Parliament for the ‘Not on the Ballot Paper’ party, and we reflect on how politics has changed over the decades, and why he is a classic floating voter, as well as why he has found the last few elections to be extraordinarily depressing. We talk about the role of the radio in growing up, and how the charts don’t matter so much anymore and the days when ‘Top of the Pops’ was the gold standard. Martin remembers listening to Mark & Lard at the height of Brit Pop, the time when Radio 1 didn’t play Status Quo, as well as Simon Bates and ‘Our Tune’ and how young people were no longer connecting with Radio 1. Towards the end of the interview Martin explains why he chooses the sweet over the bitter, how he was tested quite late for dyslexia, why his school days weren’t as good as his university days, and how happiness is not just about smiling. Martin also explains why his younger self wouldn’t recognize what he is doing now and what advice he would give his 15 year old self. Finally, we discover why Martin has a synchronic view of time. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Martin Bloomfield and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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Carwyn Meets: Phil Jones, Director of Prince's Trust Cymru

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2019 29:56

Previous to his appointment as Prince’s Trust Cymru Director, Mr Jones was the Wales Area Manager for The Royal British Legion during a time of that charity’s transformation. Previously, he served in the Armed Forces for over 25 years as an officer in The Royal Welsh. His roles included overseeing the delivery of combat and leadership training, media and strategic communications, and planning and delivering intelligence training both in the UK and abroad. Phil’s family hail from Lampeter and Llandullas. He was born in Bicester, Oxfordshire and attended Lord Williams's School, Thame, before being commissioned into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1986.

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48: Gerard Loughlin

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2019 52:42

My guest this week is Gerard Loughlin, Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham who, like me, has published in the field of theology and film. We also have a shared background in Lampeter where Gerard studied English Literature and Theology in the late 1970s, and we learn who it was that awakened his interest in philosophical theology and literature. We find out what Gerard’s earliest memory was and about his family background and Gerard reflects on how many of his close friends went to university. He talks about the teachers who influenced him and how he excelled at long essays. We learn that Gerard had an interest not just in watching but in making films as a child and that his school physics teacher inspired this passion. We find out that Gerard is interested in the grammar of filmmaking and which he imparts to his own students. Gerard’s parents were inclined to disapprove of popular music and we discuss the extent to which it isn’t possible to shake particular influences many years down the line. We discover how Gerard ended up in academia and how he has never lived outside of the academic system, though he has also done teacher training. We discuss the changes in student culture over the years and how, in Gerard’s undergraduate days, going to Lampeter’s Arts Hall was the major cultural event of the week. We move on to talk about whether students were into politics back in Gerard’s student days and we find out that he was involved with CathSoc. We also discuss John Hick whom Gerard studied when he was in Cambridge, and we move on to talk about Hick’s work in religious pluralism. On the whole we learn that Gerard’s memories are positive and that he once kept a diary for a short period. We find out whether there are things that he hasn’t fulfilled, how many friends he is still in touch with from his Lampeter days and whether Gerard is a looking back or a looking forward type of person. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Gerard Loughlin and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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47: Donna Timmiss

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2019 71:19

My guest this week is Donna Timmiss, a Durham schoolteacher who has followed her dream of going into teaching, and who specialises in looking after disabled children and those within social services. Donna was the first in her family to go to university and in this very candid interview Donna talks about how her parents, who had experience of the care system, valued the importance of education and how she ended up at Lampeter. She talks about her experience of getting to Lampeter – with the perils involved – and how she felt very safe there. Donna’s earliest memories involve playing collaboratively with other children and an abundance of green spaces, and how she used to explore the attic of her local Catholic club, and tap dancing. We learn about Donna’s eclectic taste in music, including Keith West’s ‘Excerpt from a Teenage Opera’ and Dollar’s ‘Mirror Mirror’. She tells us how she once saw Bucks Fizz by accident and about the mix tapes that her fiance made for her when she went to university. We find out which song reminds her most of Lampeter and how when she was young she could go to the cinema for 50p – the train fare there and back was more expensive. She also recounts her experience of the time when she went to see ‘Rocky IV’ and was hit in the cinema. Donna used to write fan fiction regarding ‘Dirty Dancing’ and has old diaries from the time, and we also find out about her obsession with ‘Babylon 5’ and Terry Pratchett and the role of spirituality in his novels. The conversation then turns to the teacher who most inspired her and the Cinema and Society module that she took at university and we talk about the skills that emanate from giving class presentations. She reveals how she voted in the 1992 General Election which, we find out, is the only time that Donna hasn’t voted Labour. Donna tells us why the Durham Miners Gala is so important to her, and why she finds Jeremy Corbyn to be different to other politicians. She then reflects on the 1984/85 Miners Strike and the role of extremist groups in the North East. Towards the end of the interview Donna talks about her experience of being bullied at school and how the girl who stood up for her is her lifelong friend. We talk about school reunions and her recent experience of seeing how the ‘top dogs’ sought to reclaim their throne. Donna also reflects on her experience of how where she lives the women have tended to do better than the men and that the North East is quite matriarchal. The interview then concludes with Donna’s explanation as to why she considers herself to be more of a looking back than a looking forward type of person. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Donna Timmiss and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

44: Katy Hanrahan

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2019 49:13

My guest this week is Katy Hanrahan, who is originally from Teesside, works in special needs education and went to the University of Wales, Lampeter, in the late 1990s to study Religious Studies. We talk about Teesside, growing up against the backdrop of an industrial region whose heritage has now gone, being the first in her family to go to university, and Katy’s keenness from a young age to learn about people from different backgrounds. We also find out about what Katy’s perceptions were of returning to Teesside after spending three years in Lampeter and finding that nothing had changed. The conversation then turns to childhood memories and what she remembers doing, and we discover that Katy has always been very animal-centred, including having a passion for looking after horses from a young age, as well as why her mother pushed her into something she could thrive at. 90s dance was a big thing for Katy, and we talk about going to nightclubs, how ‘Ride on Time’ by Black Box was a seminal influence and how not everyone had had the same experiences by the time they went to university. We find out why Katy was a bit lost after leaving university and how she fell into a career, where she has been working for nearly 20 years, in special needs education. Katy relates her experiences of working in a difficult school, where she had to break up fights between the pupils and where some pupils planned immediately upon leaving school to get pregnant. Katy talks about the teacher who inspired her, and why she sees him as a life coach, why she ran the netball team at university, and her experience of driving the Union minibus, and listening to Mark and Lard. Katy then tells us why she chose to study RS and the value of seeing things from somebody else’s point of view and how it gave her a skill set for her profession. She also reflects on what stood out for her in her degree – namely, work on death and religion. In the final part of the interview we learn whether Katy’s memories are predominantly positive, why she had a great childhood, and Katy talks candidly about negative relationship experiences and about meeting the man of her dreams. We also find out whether Katy is still in touch with friends from her past and how she has a very strong memory of events from her childhood. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Katy Hanrahan and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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30: William Price

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2019 75:00

This week it is a privilege to interview Canon Dr. William Price who taught me when I was an undergraduate student in the University of Wales in the early 1990s. William Price was born in Colwyn Bay and went to Lampeter in 1970 as a History lecturer, and stayed until 1997. He now lives in Wem, Shropshire. His father was a curate and William read History at Keble College, Oxford. In this hugely insightful conversation he talks about how he was attracted by Lampeter’s Anglican tradition and saw the job as a chance to revive his Welsh. We talk about how Lampeter is a unique town and William recounts how at one point he knew every academic colleague by name. We learn what William’s earliest memories are, which include walking by the sea during the terrible winter of early 1947 and the birth of his sister. He also remembers his first day at school and he relays what he said to his mother at the end of that first day. We find out why, at the age of 8, his village school said that they couldn’t teach him any more, and William talks about the role that piano music played in his youth. He also played the organ in church, and indeed sometimes still does to this day. He has no interest whatsoever in sports and recalls that TV was the main form of entertainment when he was growing up. His parents had one of the first TVs in the village and he remembers watching the Queen’s coronation in 1953. Before TV, radio was an influence, and William discusses how he recently found an old diary from 1954 which recounts how he used to listen to ‘The Archers’ and ‘Dan Dare’ as a child. William was also keen on railways and enjoyed trainspotting. He also remembers travelling on the last train to go through Lampeter in the early 1970s. At school, his History teachers inspired him and we learn why his ‘O’ level Art teacher summed up his ‘O’ level as the triumph of intellect over ability. At ‘A’ level William studied History, French and Geography and he tells us why his life would have been different if he had been two years younger as he would then have done Modern Languages and might have gone on to do French and Russian at University. William read History at Keble College. In his first term at Oxford, in October 1962, there was the threat of nuclear war due to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and William explains why his biggest University ‘hero’ (seeing him as a genius and a saint) was Austin Farrer. William discusses how he would like him to be commemorated in the calendar of the Church of England. We learn whether William’s memories are predominantly positive and he discusses how he has ‘ridden two horses’ in the respect that for 25 years he held twin academic and clerical professions. William reflects on what might have happened if he had ridden just one horse. We learn which of the two professions he ultimately chose and why he has no regrets about the choices he has made. In the final part of the interview we learn why if he had his time again he would make the same choices and we discover why William is mentally very curious, is a looking forward type of person and why his family is at the centre of his life. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and William Price and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

25: Dan & Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2018 60:52

This week I have interviewed Dan and Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok who were based in Kent from 1975 until 1997 when they moved to Lampeter after Dan was appointed Professor of Judaism. Dan is originally from Denver, and is of Hungarian descent, while Lavinia descends from an established middle class English family whose father was the lawyer of the Church of England. Dan talks about how he found out when he was in his twenties that he was the product of artificial insemination and how he didn’t have a good relationship with the man that he had hitherto thought was his father. Lavinia relays her unhappy experience of going to a girls’ boarding school and how university was a completely different, liberating experience for her. We learn that from 1980-87 Lavinia taught Religious Studies at King’s School, Canterbury, where she was the only full time female member of staff. She later became a headmistress. Dan talks about his experience of going to an ‘American Graffiti’-type high school and from there went to a small elite male-only college in Massachusetts. We learn why he found it to be so horrible and why he felt a sense of displacement. He later went to a rabbinical seminary and on to Cambridge to do his PhD which is where he and Lavinia met. Lavinia reflects on having been an unmusical child in a musical family but is someone keen on opera and Anglican church music, and she relays her experience of passing her driving test by singing hymns – and how she invited the examiner to join in with her. Dan talks about how he has a perverse fascination with films about dysfunctional families and he explains why there is something psychologically strange about the cathartic experience. Lavinia discusses her reasons for writing ‘A Campus Conspiracy’, based on the way she and Dan have been perceived by colleagues over the years, and we move on to talk about how we have to deal with conflicts in all aspects of life. This leads us to the question of whether nostalgia can have a negative as well as a positive dimension. Dan and Lavinia share quite different perspectives here, with Dan fearing that nostalgia can blind us from facing the present while Lavinia’s family is obsessed with the past. In the final part of the interview we learn whether Dan and Lavinia have fulfilled the dreams they had when they were young and why Lavinia is a looking back and Dan might be thought of as more of a looking forward type of person. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Dan & Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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14: Juliette Jones

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2018 76:54

My guest this week is Juliette Jones, a freelance writer/journalist, currently based in Glasgow, who studied Religious Studies in the University of Wales in the late 1990s. Juliette was born in Inverness and she talks about the route that took her to Lampeter and the appeal of living and studying in a smaller place. Her earliest memory is from her time in playgroup and she talks about the relatively uncomplicated world of her childhood where the radio played a foundational role. In the context of learning to play the piano we also discuss the difference between wanting to do something and having it imposed. The conversation then turns to the role and importance of music and Juliette talks about how she had a different taste in music to other school friends, and we learn whether she is a New Kids on the Block or a Pet Shop Boys fan and which of the two gave her a taste of the adult world. We then move on to discuss the work she has done presenting a request show on hospital radio in Edinburgh and the ‘pure joy’ involved in ‘pretending to be a DJ’ where everything was on vinyl. Juliette reflects on how she thinks of Lampeter and hospital radio in the same way as they are two things she chose to go and do of her own volition. We learn why Mark Radcliffe is Juliette’s radio hero and why she designates one stage of his career as being that of ‘an Olympic swimmer in a bathtub’. Juliette talks about what it is that singles an excellent DJ out from their competitors and we discuss why there wouldn’t be any sacrifice entailed in ‘giving up’ one’s Christmas in order to go on the radio. Juliette refers to her time at Lampeter as one where she almost forgot about getting a degree as doing the course was more about the journey there. We then talk about some of the tutors who especially inspired her. In the final part of the interview Juliette discusses how, generally, her memories are positive and how the first part of her life in particular was more uncomplicatedly happy. But, we learn why Juliette doesn’t feel that she has necessarily fulfilled her dreams and Juliette talks candidly about what she is missing and would like to do and why it is that she considers herself to be more of a looking back than a looking forward type of person. Please note: Opinions expressed are solely those of Chris Deacy and Juliette Jones and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of Kent.

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Lampeter Strasburg Hybrid Pearls of Wisdom

Blended Learning Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2018 2:07

The very first episode of Blended Learning Podcast!

Episode 046 - Symbologist Michelle Snyder

Masonic Lite Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2018 74:26

Tonight on Episode 046, join Pete, Jason, Jack, and guest host Justin (because Larry's out sick) while our minds explode with information overload from our special guest, Symbologist and author, Michelle Snyder. Our brains are still numb, so we stole her bio and copied it below. "Michelle is a professor of mythology and symbolism, fairy tale author, blogger, and geek. She earned her post-graduate degree at the University of Wales, Lampeter and has been teaching art and visual language to students of all ages for 35 years. Her artwork, inspired by her love of symbolism, has appeared in galleries from Massachusetts to California. Michelle is co-owner of White Knight Studio with her husband Jay." We had such a blast talking to Michelle that our show ran long, we're sorry. You can find more information about her, and where to purchase her publications, at the links below: Amazon Book Store: https://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Snyder/e/B004ZOHKFA/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 White Knight Studio https://whiteknightstudio.blogspot.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichelleSnyderSymbologist/ And other events mentioned tonight: Lodge No. 43, and Jason's, March 3rd 2018 event: www.lodge43presents.eventbrite.com Jack and Seth's AMD In-Gathering: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inaugural-eastern-pennsylvania-allied-masonic-degrees-in-gathering-tickets-42883294087

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Managing peer pressure decisively - Judges 1v1 - 2v5

Simon Bowkett's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2017 30:54

Latest podcast from yGRWP.com and @WelshRev visiting @LampeterCU and ministering for Grace Christian Community Llandeilo

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(034) God Knows Your Password with Prof. Mark Cartledge

God Conversations with Tania Harris

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2017 28:24

What does prophecy look like in the contemporary church? How do we handle the fact that we can get it wrong when we try to hear from God? And what could God possibly be saying to someone when he gives her a vision of a yellow peacock? In this episode of God Conversations with Tania Harris, I’m excited to be talking to Professor Mark Cartledge, a British scholar who pioneered in the field of practical theology by looking at how contemporary prophecy functions in the Church of England. What I love about Mark is not only is he a very smart man, but he is also a practitioner who has been involved in local church life for over 25 years. He’s a worship leader and preacher as well as a theologian and a lecturer. It’s a winning combination! In this podcast we talk about: How God knows our passwords - God speaks through the preached Scriptures but he also speaks specifically into the details of our lives. What Mark discovered in his pioneering research and how common it was for followers of Jesus to just “know things” they wouldn’t ordinarily know The need for humility in our God Conversations. How there should be a general reticence towards using the words: "God said" and more commonly preferring the words; “I believe the Lord is saying this.” Listen to (034) God Knows Your Password: Subscribe to God Conversations with Tania Harris and never miss an episode! Mark Cartledge is both a scholar and an anglican priest. He is currently a Professor of Practical Theology in the US and is ordained in the Church of England (UK) for over twenty-five years'. He has worked in parish ministry, overseas theological education in an Anglican seminary in Nigeria as well as campus ministry in the UK (Universities of Liverpool and Durham). He has also taught in seminary (Durham) and secular University departments (Lampeter and Birmingham). During this time he has remained active in ordained ministry at parish level and regularly leads worship, preaches and participates in congregational life.

The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy

Tolkien at Oxford

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2015 40:32

60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the final volume of Tolkien’s fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings, the Bodleian Libraries and TORCH hosted a panel discussion on reactions to Tolkien’s work, then and now. The discussion was introduced by Elleke Boehmer (Acting TORCH Director and Professor of World Literature, University of Oxford), and chaired by Stuart Lee (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford). In a series of three short talks, scholars considered Tolkien's legacy from a range of perspectives. Patrick Curry (Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Lampeter) addressed the question: “Is the Lord of the Rings a good book?”, describing Tolkien as a counter-culturalist who focused on the “primacy of storytelling”. Dimitra Fimi (Lecturer in English, Cardiff Metropolitan University) discussed the challenges and opportunities of teaching Tolkien's work, and examined why his work is rarely a compulsory part of the university curriculum in the UK. Andy Orchard (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford), who holds the same chair at the University of Oxford that Tolkien held from 1925 – 1945, explored Tolkien's contribution to academia, which he suggested rivals his contribution to fiction. The panel also discussed a range of topics, including uptake of Old Norse, the literary canon and Tolkien's work with DPhil students, in response to audience questions. Please visit www.torch.ox.ac.uk/tolkien for more information, or www.torch.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-review for a review of the discussion.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2015 40:32

60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the final volume of Tolkien’s fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings, the Bodleian Libraries and TORCH hosted a panel discussion on reactions to Tolkien’s work, then and now. The discussion was introduced by Elleke Boehmer (Acting TORCH Director and Professor of World Literature, University of Oxford), and chaired by Stuart Lee (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford). In a series of three short talks, scholars considered Tolkien's legacy from a range of perspectives. Patrick Curry (Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Lampeter) addressed the question: “Is the Lord of the Rings a good book?”, describing Tolkien as a counter-culturalist who focused on the “primacy of storytelling”. Dimitra Fimi (Lecturer in English, Cardiff Metropolitan University) discussed the challenges and opportunities of teaching Tolkien's work, and examined why his work is rarely a compulsory part of the university curriculum in the UK. Andy Orchard (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford), who holds the same chair at the University of Oxford that Tolkien held from 1925 – 1945, explored Tolkien's contribution to academia, which he suggested rivals his contribution to fiction. The panel also discussed a range of topics, including uptake of Old Norse, the literary canon and Tolkien's work with DPhil students, in response to audience questions. Please visit www.torch.ox.ac.uk/tolkien for more information, or www.torch.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-review for a review of the discussion.

The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy

TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2015 59:12

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Episode # 69 - Songs In the Night - Transforming Our Pain Into Praise

ReformedCast Video

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2012 77:33

This week, we welcome Dr. Michael A. Milton to the program, and we will be discussing his book Songs In the Night: How God Transforms Our Pain to Praise. Dr. Milton accepted the call to become the President and Professor of Practical Theology of Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte on November 1, 2007, after serving as 12th Senior Pastor of the historic First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Dr. Milton is also the host and speaker on Faith for Living: an Outreach Ministry of Michael Milton and Reformed Theological Seminary, and is also the author of Small Things, Big Things: Inspiring Stories of God’s Everyday Grace, What is the Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints, and Hit by Friendly Fire: What to do when you are hurt by other believers. Dr. Milton received his M.Div. from Knox Theological Seminary, sand his Ph. D from University of Wales, Lampeter.

Men and Spirituality

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2011 27:40

Ernie Rea invites guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives to debate the challenges of today's world. Each week a panel is assembled to represent a diversity of views and opinions, which often reveal hidden, complex and sometimes contradictory understandings of the world around us. In this programme Ernie Rea and guests discuss male spirituality and ask if men and women respond differently to religious convictions. Do the leaders and prophets of the Hebrew scriptures offer role models for men going to church or synagogue today? Are the characters of Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon suitable and appropriate role models? For Christians, does Jesus and his selection of 12 male apostles offer an image for brotherhood today? Is the church focusing too much on love and nurture rather than courage, risk, adventure and sacrifice? Why are Jewish communities seemingly more successful at retaining men compared with their Christian counterparts? Joining Ernie to discuss men and spirituality are the Reverend Andy Drake, director of evangelism at Christian Vision for Men; Dr Janet Eccles, a sociologist of religion attached to the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Lancaster; and Rabbi Dr Dan Cohn Sherbok, Emeritus Professor of Judaism at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Producer: Karen Maurice.

Men and Spirituality

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2011 27:40

Lampeter Podcast: RAG Week

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2011 35:48

It's RAG week and we're BACK (temporarily)!!!!!11 Neill, Iwan and Tom discuss RAG week type things. Featuring all sorts of sexy; including hilarious fake trailers made by us, a brand new feature, talk of RAG, original theme music, lots of unnecessary swearing and also the hideous return of the dispicable Ents Droid. PodRAG! RAGcast!

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The Charedi (ultra orthodox) Jewish communities

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2010 27:42

In Beyond Belief, Ernie Rea and his guests explore the place of faith in our complex world. Ernie is joined by three guests who discuss how their own religious tradition affects their values and outlook on the world, often revealing hidden and contradictory truths. In this programme, Ernie and his guests explore the beliefs, practices and lifestyles of the fastest growing group within Britain's Jewish community - Ultra Orthodox or Charedi Jews. Much of its rapid growth is down to a high birth rate - they average around seven children per family - but they are also attracting members from other Jewish communities. In Israel they play a key role in electoral politics. But what is their impact in this country? What do they believe? How do they practice? And how do they interact with those who sit outside their community? Joining Ernie to discuss Charedi Jewry is Rabbi Avraham Printer, Principal of the Yesodey Hatorah Senior School for Girls, Mrs Henya Myer, a member of the Hasidic Congregation in Manchester, and Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Professor of Judaism at the University of Wales, Lampeter who belongs to the Reform Movement of Judaism. The middle interview is with Hillel Athias Robias, now a Liberal Rabbi in London but once Rabbi to a Haredi Congregation. Producer: Karen Maurice.

The Charedi (ultra orthodox) Jewish communities

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2010 27:42

Lampeter Podcast S02 E11

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2010 27:26

Hello! We are here for the last week of term. David Watt and Erica Statham guest in the studio, and it's actually quite a heavy edition this week, lots of talk of Union Politics and the Elections and Fetish Ball and Vaginas. There is also talk of the LGBT position, and the Ents Droid is a very naughty robot with gossip as well as your last week's Ents Guide. Listen and enjoy! If we get plenty of downloads, we may carry on next term. As always, you can email suggestions or questions or mp3's or anything to lampod@live.com

Lampeter Podcast S02 E10

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2010 16:55

Habitual swearing addition, listener discretion advised! talk of presidents ball, the sabbaticals, Medwin and the fetish ball. Guest staring Sophie Evans and Tom Lanyon.

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lampeter Podcast S02 E10

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2010 16:53

Habitual swearing addition, listener discretion advised! talk of presidents ball, the sabbaticals, Medwin and the fetish ball. Guest staring Sophie Evans and Tom Lanyon

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Lampeter Podcast S02 E09

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2010 20:38

The second podcast within a week! Back to normal this week, with rants about Chris Moyles, Charity Shops and cats. Featuring another track from Hag's own Bob, and as always, The Ents Droid!

Lampeter Podcast S02 E08

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2010 15:39

This podcast is late, the Ents droid is not happy with Iwan and Neill because they did not turn up on sunday. Contains a awesome track by Bob from Hags called repartee and the usual irrelevant banter.

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Lampeter Podcast S02_E07

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2010 14:48

Hello Lampeter! It's the newest edition of the Lampeter Podcast, featuring the Ents Droid and John Tierney's reading of Twilight and Iwan flirting with himself as a lady. This is as special an edition as we're going to get, with the boys talking about how and why they make the podcasts. Shortest one yet!

Lampeter Podcast S02 E06

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2010 23:57

This week it's Valentine's Day! So we discuss RAG week, Valentine's Day, Pancake Tuesday and other banal nonsense. Featuring Ents Droid (and She-Droid, his girlfriend) and a track my electronic music genius and Lampeter student Lee Miller. Asta la Vista bitches!

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Lampeter Podcast S02 E05

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2010 23:20

This week, Valentine's Day is on the horizon, Iwan is back from Barcelona, and Neill has the sexiest voice in the world. Also, Ents Droid is depressed.

Lampeter Podcast S02 E04

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2010 24:31

Iwan is absent this week, so to fill his enormous boots we have Cpt. Matt Mensley and Ltn. Sophie Evans, talk of football, Tony Lee and pugging some silly beach thing. also includes another Mp3 from the fantastic Thyrd Eye.

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Lampeter Podcast S02 E03

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2010 31:22

Hello hello hello hello! its the lampeter podcast (well duh!). Neill and Iwan are joined in the studio (cramped living room) by podcast favorite John "Wolverine Beard" Tierney! on the agenda this week is Forum, gray pubes, Thyrd Eye, the bit between your balls and arse, BJJ and drinking games. featuring the ents droid. thats it. hand gesture send. done submit. go! why are you still typing?

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Lampeter Podcast S02 E02

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2010 18:35

With music from Minus IQ, Talk from Tom Lanyon, Iwan Pitts & Neill Burton.

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Lampeter Podcast S02 E02

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2010 18:35

With music from Minus IQ, Talk from Tom Lanyon, Iwan Pitts & Neill Burton.

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Lampeter Podcast S02 E01

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2010 25:35

Welcome back! Lampeter is covered in snow, it's 2010 and it's episode ten, or episode 1 of the new series of the Lampeter Podcast! A new season for a new term, the format has changed but the hosts remain Neill Burton and Iwan Pitts. Featuring the Ents Guide, new theme music and irrelevant banter, it's a half hour slice of wonder and wisdom for your listening pleasure.

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The Lampeter Podcast Christmas Edition