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Daisy Upton is a Rock Star in the BestSellers Household. You'll know her better as Five Minute Mum, a former classroom assistant who's 5 min easy to set up games for kids, have come to the rescue of many an arguing home, and earned her over 250,000 Instagram followers.Her latest book is her first targeted at children rather than parents: STARTING SCHOOL walks your child through what to expect in their first few days in a brand new environment and is packed with useful tips for children and parents alike.In this episode Daisy explains where her five minute mum concept came from; how she's now judged by other parents and where her further writing ambitions lie. We also talk Cocktails and Natalie mentions The Spirits substack by Richard Godwin, which she promised we'd link to in this synopsis, plus listen right to the end for Phil's story of a cocktail experience which ended in flames...! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth." - Leviticus 11:1-2 "A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits." - Proverbs 18:19-21 This Episode's Links: If we want to save the planet, the future of food is insects - Richard Godwin, The Guardian ‘Singing' Plants? Researchers Discover Plants Make High-Frequency Noise—And It Sounds Like This - Epoch Inspired Staff, The Epoch Times This may be the most blasphemous sermon ever delivered - Peter Heck, NTB Despite push for renewable electricity, coal habit proves hard to break - Ted McDermott, Billings Gazette Ron DeSantis: "If you take a man and they dress up as a woman and you tell me I have to accept that they're a woman, then you're asking me to be complicit in a lie." - NTB Staff IN-DEPTH: Red Flag or ERPO? Some Tennessee Republicans Seek Rebrand, But Face Opposition From Within and Gun Rights Groups - Chase Smith, The Epoch Times Manchin Calls EPA's Push For Electric Cars A ‘Trojan Horse' To Increase Dependence On China - John Rigolizzo, DW Formerly expelled Tennessee Dems lead yet another takeover of state Capitol: 'Power of the people' - Cortney Weil, The Blaze What are the seven things God hates? - GotQuestions.org How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion - Marcus Tullius Cicero, James M. May, Audible --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/garrett-ashley-mullet/message
It's been a beautiful couple of weeks filled with pubs, trips out of the county, books and in Sarah's case, a bout of cystitis which meant she actually had time to read them. Huzzah! Our guest this week is the winner of the Ted Hughes Award (AKA a huge deal), a person who is not only one of Britain's foremost poets but one of Becky's absolute idols, the phenomenal Hollie McNish. Her new collection 'Slug (And Other Things I've Been Told To Hate)' is a delightful, poignant and hilarious collection of prose, poetry and essays which Becky more than got into with her as well as (because what else) wanking and being told off for reading out a poem about anal sex. Oops.As well as that, we of course have tonnes of recommendations and chat for you including the brilliant Motherland, Mare of Easttown, Deborah Levy's 'The Cost of Living', Brit Bennett's 'The Vanishing Half', heading to the dump and just Billie Piper in general. Just a normal week then eh?As always, we'd love it if you could leave us a review (but only if it's nice - at least we're honest) and to hear from you at the following: Instagram: @calmdowndearpodcastTwitter: @calmdowndearpodWebsite: https://www.calmdowndearpodcast.comEmail: calmdowndearpodcast@gmail.comShownotes:Billie Piper on Changes - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/billie-piper/id1465937091?i=1000512982808 The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/06/cost-living-deborah-levy-review-feminist-manifesto-divorced-simone-beauvoir The Vanish Half by Brit Bennett - https://britbennett.com/the-vanishing-half Motherland - https://www.netflix.com/title/81284515 Mare of Easttown - https://www.hbo.com/mare-of-easttown A trip to the dump is one of my greatest pleasures in life - and I’m not alone - Richard Godwin - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/22/trip-to-the-dump-great-pleasures-in-life-not-alone Hollie McNish - Slug - https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/hollie-mcnish/slug/9780349726342/ Caroline Bird - https://www.carolinebird.co.uk/ Andrew McMillan - https://www.andrewmcmillanpoet.co.uk/ Natalie Diaz - https://www.faber.co.uk/author/natalie-diaz/ Rachel Sirmanni - https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelSermanni/featured Wizard Hand - https://wizardhand.bandcamp.com/ Hollie McNish - Honestly - https://www.instagram.com/p/CN8RmlXhZT_/ My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/13/kate-elizabeth-russell-my-dark-vanessa-interview Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen - Like I Used To - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibj87fwRaM Excess of Everything - Grace Campbell and Scarlett Curtis podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/excess-of-everything/id1567742552 Self Esteem - I Do This All The Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtd_jlV61mA Entertain The Elk - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-gjznzViwMols6dz89qLbg Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart - https://www.douglasdstuart.com/books And keep your peepers peeled - we have a VERY exciting announcement coming soon... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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There's a ton of cabinet reshuffles this week and baby Trump - all 6-foot helium-filled malevolence - is flying over London. Is the balloon a meaningful protest; or is it a childish blimp that could ruin a trade agreement with the US? And aren't there leaders (Erdogan, for example) whose visit to the UK we should protest more? Also this week, Justin Bieber's engaged! Kylie Jenner's almost a billionaire! Cardi(gan) B has had a baby called Kulture! In (more important) news, we discuss Amanda Knox's comments on sexuality (she says she taught herself how to masturbate in prison), Terri White's piece on poverty (30% of children live below the poverty line), Giles Coren's piece on why ‘liking' things draws us further away from our authentic self and Richard Godwin's shocking piece on noise pollution - which is killing 10,000 people a year. And of course, we *had* to mention Love Island. Dolly raises Alex's comment about liking ‘natural' women (what damage does the #ijustwokeuplikethis emphasis do to women?) whilst Pandora laments our cultural obsession with augmented hotness, flagging a brilliant piece on Vice about Megan Barton-Hanson. Links- Glow on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80114988 - In defense of Megan Barton-Hanson, by Emma Garland for Vice https://www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/vbq5dy/in-defence-of-megan-barton-hanson- Terri White on Britain's poverty problem (last week's issue; not yet online)- The goop podcast on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-goop-podcast/id1352546554?mt=2 - She Must Be Mad, by Charley Cox https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008291662/she-must-be-mad/- Sonic Doom: how noise pollution is killing 10,000 people a year, by Richard Godwin for The Guardian https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/03/sonic-doom-noise-pollution-kills-heart-disease-diabetes- The Urge To Like Everything Is Rotting Our Brains, by Giles Coren: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-urge-to-like-everything-is-rotting-our-brains-vdttbtmdx - Guys We F****d with Amanda Knox: https://soundcloud.com/guyswefucked/amandaknox You can e-mail us thehighlowshow@gmail.com or tweet us @thehighlowshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Debbi Mack interviews crime fiction author Vincent Zandri. The transcript is below, if you'd like to read it. Or download the PDF copy and read it later. Debbi: Hi everyone. This is the Crime Cafe. Your podcasting source of great crime, suspense and thriller writing. I'm your host, Debbi Mack. Before I bring on my guest, don't forget that you can buy the Crime Cafe Nine Book Set and the Crime Cafe Short Story Anthology for only $1.99 and $.99 each. Just go to my website, debbimack.com and click on “Crime Cafe” where you'll find the buy links. While you're there, please subscribe to the podcast on either iTunes or Stitcher, and if you're watching this, you know that we're on YouTube as well, so you can subscribe to that channel. Now having said that, it's my great pleasure to bring on best-selling author, Vincent Zandri. Vince, I am so thrilled to finally have you on my show and to meet you this way, so to speak, after so many years of our first contact online. Vincent: I know it's been so long. Debbi: So, thanks for coming on. It's been many years and I remember one time you saying that you would love to meet and even though we haven't gotten to meet in person, it's nice to be able to do this. Vincent: Oh, Deb, I was probably just flirting with you at the time. Debbi: [laughs] Well, that's very nice. That's very kind and I'm quite, I guess, what's the word...flattered. Vincent: Oh you can't even think…you're speechless. Debbi: I'm speechless [laughs]. Vincent: Well, truth be told, I was in awe of your first book and it did so well and you were like one of the groundbreakers who was one of the first people to like, “You know what? I'm not going the traditional route. I'm totally going to do this.” And, boom, you hit the New York Times with a great, great, great noir novel. So that's why I was in awe of you, to be perfectly honest. Debbi: Oh, well that's really nice of you to say. I am flattered Vincent. That's kind. Interesting that you bring up genre because how would you describe your writing in one sentence? Are you mainly a thriller writer, a noir writer, a mystery writer, adventure? Vincent: If I had to sum it up in one sentence, I don't know, this might sound namby-pamby, but I like to write what I like to read. Debbi: That sounds good. Vincent: Simple…yeah, and it's as simple as that. You know, sometimes there's like the literary Vince, a book like When Shadows Come, which Thomas & Mercer did which…like my mother or even some of my best fans will be like, “Huh? What was that book about?” And then there'll be books like, The Shroud Key, for instance which I did under my own label which…and they'll be like, “Oh my god, you've got to go to the next page, you've got to go to the next page, gotta go to the next page, gotta go to the next page,” and you eat it up like potato chips, right? Debbi: [agrees] Vincent: And then there's the Vince who writes like psychological suspense like, I don't know. Name one of my…The Remains for instance, which is like my big ass seller I guess and I even wrote that from a female perspective which is just sort of relentless. It's sort of a combination of like, it's got hardboiled in it. It's got romance in it. It's got adventure in it. It's got that Hitchcock, psychological suspense in it. So it's got all of it in there and now even more recently, I've ventured into (and I blame Richard Godwin for this) but I ventured into erotic noir a little bit. Debbi: Wow. Vincent: Yeah, which I wasn't sure if I could pull it off and I'm still not entirely sure if I've pulled it off. Debbi: [laughs] Vincent: But, the reviews have been good and to me it was like, well a lot of noir and hardboiled fiction has a lot of sex in it anyway so just take it a step further. But I think it's kind of working because and I think the plot is good. But anyway, the point being that I'm still experimenting. Debbi: Yeah.
Suspense Radio Inside Edition is back with 90 minutes of thriller radio. Three authors will be on today's show, highlighted by Bestselling Author Linwood Barclay. We will also be joined by wonderful suspense authors Richard Godwin and Ed Aymar. All three authors bring their unique style of writing to you. Suspense Radio is brought to you by Suspense Magazine. The Suspense Radio Network has five shows that include Crime and Science Radio hosted by D.P. Lyle and Jan Burke. Also Suspense Radio One on One in partnered with Partners In Crime Tours. Beyond the Cover hosted by John Raab and Jeff Ayers. And The Story Blender hosted by Steven James. www.suspenseradionetwork.com
In a special podcast we visit the Sipsmith distillery with Richard Godwin, author of The Spirits, to discover first of all how gin is made, before heading back to the studio and mixing it with a few simple ingredients to create classic cocktails. Can we get through the whole programme without slurring our words? http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224101188/richard-godwin/the-spirits/Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterRichard Godwin - The Spirits Of all the skills you might acquire in life, the ability to make a good cocktail will never be a waste of time. No lover will complain when you present them with a well-iced Negroni as they walk through your door; no house-guest will complain about a round of Gin Sours.‘To cocktail’ was coined as a verb by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1928. This guide embodies that Golden Age spirit while giving it a thoroughly modern makeover. Expressly structured for the amateur, it will remind you just how much pleasure there is in cokctailing at home. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Read by Barry J. NorthernClick to play or download the MP3.Show NotesKristine authored the full-length poetry collection, A Roomful of Machines (Searle Publishing, 2010). Her work has appeared in over four hundred publications including Aberrant Dreams, Abyss & Apex, Alternative Coordinates, Expanded Horizons, Space & Time, and Tales of the Talisman. She's received several Honorable Mentions in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror as well as five nominations for the Pushcart Prize and four for the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Rhysling Award.Music provided by Mevio at Music AlleyHollow Sun by 1000psiYou might also be interested in an authour interview with Richard Godwin, which you'll find here