Podcast appearances and mentions of martin gibbons

Galway man Martin Gibbons has the distinction of celebrating 50 years of working in Ashford Castle. His love of hospitality is matched by his humourous stories of a lifetime of service at the highest level in the five star luxury hotel.

As part of RNIB Connect Radio's 20th anniversary celebrations, the team were set a challenge to find activities that blind people could excel in, or that sighted people could learn about from blind or partially sighted experts Allan Russell decided that as he practiced the martial art of Wing Chun, his sighted colleagues should have a go, with the help of experienced instructor Martin Gibbons. If you'd like to learn more about classes in your area, search for Wing Chun online. If your in the Glasgow area, search on Facebook for Martin Gibbons Wing Chun Private Lessons. #RNIBConnect Image Shows RNIB Connect Radio Team, in Partick Cricket Ground Being Put Through Their Wing Chun Paces

Last year the sky was dark with hats when it was announced that a missing Hancock's Half Hour radio show had been discovered, and for once Hancockians and Goonatics were able to put aside their differences and embrace like sisters because it turned out that this newly discovered episode featured the vocal talents of Peter Sellers! The hosts of Very Nearly An Armful, the Tony Hancock podcast - Tim Elms, Jon Street, Martin Gibbons and James Griffith - join Tyler this week to talk about "The Marriage Bureau" and Tony Hancock's history with Sellers and Secombe in particular. One of the biggest revelations was that Sellers had barely fifteen minutes to read and run through the script before recording yet pulled it off like a pro and the episode is now regarded as one of the standout shows from the first series of Hancock's Half Hour. It's a fun, fact-filled 90 minutes of chat which will appeal to all fans of the Goons, Hancock or radio comedy in general! http://www.tonyhancock.org.uk/ https://goonshow.org/ Twitter: @goonshowpod @NearlyAn @theGSPS @TonyHancockAS

Wing Chun Kung Fu is a well established martial art which can be used for self defence, general fitness and can even be used like Tai Chi, to promote balance and inner strength. The style is also well suited for being taught to blind and partially sighted people, due to it's close proximity stances and reliance on touch sensitivity rather than sight. RNIB Connect Radio's Allan Russell spoke to Martin Gibbons, Wing Chun teacher, to discuss the martial art and it's suitability for teaching to visually impaired students. If you'd like more information on Wing Chun in your area, search online for local classes. For those in the Glasgow area, contact Martin for a taster session via https://www.facebook.com/Wing-Chun-Private-Lessons-105947932104613 #RNIBConnect Image: Martin Gibbons, Wing Chun teacher

Get ready for some MORE truth bombs in Part 2! An unedited conversation between me, a director, and my casting director Martin Gibbons who, between us, have made hundreds of commercials and audition thousands of actors! Important advice for actors and directors (if we do say so ourselves!)

Get ready for some truth bombs! An unedited conversation between me, a director, and my casting director Martin Gibbons who, between us, have made hundreds of commercials and audition thousands of actors! Important advice for actors and directors (if we do say so ourselves!)

"As long as you're good, I don't care!"This is THE LUNCH BREAK where I drag my film industry colleagues away from their hard-earned lunches on set and give them three minutes to answer as many of my questions as possible.This week is MARTIN GIBBONS a casting director of award-winning Film, TV and Theatre projects as well as hundreds of commercials for major international and UK companies.

We are very excited to present an EXTENDED LENGTH edition of this podcast. We have many rare clips included in it that we are proud to be able to present here. First and foremost, we continue our conversation with Tristan Brittain-Dissont. Tristan is the archivist for the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society. He brought a ton of wonderful and rare Tony Hancock audio clips that put some perspective not only on his career and his work habits but also the rise of the comedy writing legend duo Galton & Simpson. Some of the clips included are bits cut out of HANCOCK HALF HOUR radio episodes such as “Fred’s Pie Stall”, we have audio recorded by Tony himself that he used for learning his lines and we include a wonderfully long segment clocking in over 7 minutes from the rare radio series CALLING ALL FORCES that features Tony in this clip. There are some great clips from the series HAPPY GO LUCKY featured too. Just as we were working on this episode, we got call from Tristan who told us more material of interest had been found and would we mind talking about them on this podcast? The answer was, of course, YES! So, we have a quick conversation with Martin Gibbons who is the Social Media Manager for the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society. He dazzled us with audio clips recorded from the original transmission of the first broadcast episode of THE BLACKPOOL SHOW from June 1966 where Tony does a little singing and then forgets the first act he is supposed to introduce! We share an audio clip from another recently found domestic audio recording of COMEDY PLAYHOUSE starring Harry H. Corbett. Perhaps the most baffling is the material discovered from off-air audio recordings of STEPTOE AND SON from 1963. This is really worth listening to and makes you wonder about the completeness of the versions released on DVD. Finally we say farewell to Alan Simpson who has given many of us so many laughs over the years with his writing partner Ray Galton. We put together a little tribute to him using audio in his own words along with audio from Ray Galton and even Dennis Main Wilson. Equally exciting is we tie it all back to where their career started by playing a recording of the first joke they ever sold to the BBC. We are extremely proud to present this episode and we hope you enjoy it! It may not be able to all be heard in one sitting and it certainly needs listening to more than once! If you have feedback or questions you would like to have read on the podcast or general inquiries, please contact us at feedback@fromthearchive.co.uk. We would love to hear from you! This podcast is a co-production between From the Archive: A British Television Blog and Kaleidoscope. Thank you for listening.

The UK's number 1 retro gaming podcast returns with a special "Commodore Amiga" focused episode! Hosts Steve, Matt & Sam take a look back at their favorite 16 bit computer and the games that made the system so special as it reaches it's 30th birthday. Check out our Official Retro Asylum YouTube channel for more retro discussion http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag Main Site Sponsors http://www.playexpo.net For all the latest news on Play Blackpool in May 2015 keep an eye on their site. http://www.funstock.co.uk Loads of excellent gift ideas here, from Neo Geo X, JXD Android Gaming Tablet and much more! Get 5% off your order using the discount code ‘asylum' at checkout. http://www.retrotowers.co.uk The only place to pick up the fantastic Everdrive and retro console cables and peripherals. For 5% off your order use the discount code ‘retroasylum' at checkout. March Site Sponsors Dino Dini, TheRetroHunter, Mikey J Hay of Retromash, Michael Keith, Mads Christensen, Martin Gibbons, Sean Higgins & Darren McKenna. If you'd like to sponsor the show please visit our website at retroasylum.com and click the donate button at the bottom of our homepage. Everything pledged goes straight back into maintaining the site, so if you enjoy the show please consider donating. Any feedback is more than welcome and please leave us an iTunes review if you haven't already.

In this bumper episode 109 of the Retro Asylum, Swainy and Paul D grab the remote and flick through the 4 channels of 80's telly to find retro gaming TV tie-ins. We also have the debut introductions of our two new hosts, answer your questions in ‘Ask RA' and feature two awesome tracks from Spectrum beeper tune-inspired band YamaYama. For more information on YamaYama please subscribe to their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6iwYgMkgg Check out our Official Retro Asylum YouTube channel for more retro discussion http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag Main Site Sponsors http://www.playexpo.net For all the latest news on Play Blackpool in May 2015 keep an eye on their site. http://www.funstock.co.uk Loads of excellent gift ideas here, from Neo Geo X, JXD Android Gaming Tablet and much more! Get 5% off your order using the discount code ‘asylum' at checkout. http://www.retrotowers.co.uk The only place to pick up the fantastic Everdrive and retro console cables and peripherals. For 5% off your order use the discount code ‘retroasylum' at checkout. March Site Sponsors Dino Dini, TheRetroHunter, Mikey J Hay of Retromash, Michael Keith, Mads Christensen, Martin Gibbons and Sean Higgins. If you'd like to sponsor the show please visit our website at retroasylum.com and click the donate button at the bottom of our homepage. Everything pledged goes straight back into maintaining the site, so if you enjoy the show please consider donating. Any feedback is more than welcome and please leave us an iTunes review if you haven't already.