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Richard Vranch is maybe best known for improvising the music in the Channel 4 series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, famously introduced as “Richard Vranch at the piano”. He's also a member of The Comedy Store Players and improvises comedy live on stage every Sunday at The Comedy Store in London, which he has done regularly for the past 39 years. He's also part of the Improv All-Stars and Paul Merton and Suki Webster's Improv Show. The Comedy Store Players have played the Olivier stage at the National Theatre and performed annually at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. They toured India in 2004 and in 2010 they achieved the Guinness World Record for the longest running comedy show with the same cast. They've also appeared at the Globe Theatre annually since the millennium and will be performing there again on the 17th of December 2024. He formed a comedy double-act with Tony Slattery in 1981. The duo hosted the Channel 4 quiz The Music Game and over 100 episodes of Cue The Music on ITV. Richard won the 2004 Sony Radio Award for Comedy for the BBC Radio 2 series Jammin .Richard Vranch is our guest in episode 452 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he'd like to preserve and one he'd like to bury and never have to think about again .Tickets for The Comedy Store Players at The Globe are available here - https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the-comedy-store-players .Tickets for The Comedy Store Players at The Comedy Store are available here - https://comedystoreplayers.com .Follow Richard Vranch on Instagram .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Helen Mayhew has enjoyed a career in the radio business for over 4 decades as both a presenter and producer. She has worked for stations that have included BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Kent, BBC Radio 2, Classic FM and of course Jazz FM which she joined as a launch presenter in 1990.This time round, Helen joins Luke to share stories of her four decade journey in radio, from Pirate radio, to the Sony Radio Award, the launch day of Jazz FM and moving over to National radio.Big Thanks to Richard Latto and Pat Marsh for the use of content and Darren Altman for arranging the interview.
Pam Spurr is presently a BPS chartered academic, teaching and research psychologist. She started working in the media during her time at Guy's/in the NHS, largely as an agony aunt, starting on GMTV, the BBC, and then got her first radio show at Heart FM London in 1997.Pam presented at Heart for five years before moving to LBC for 4 ½ years where she had the evening slot, for which she won a Sony Radio Award. She has written 15 self-help books on topics from happiness to dating, relationships and sex, dream interpretation to emotional eating and other topics. Over the years Pam has been a commentator on many TV programmes.After trying for two years, she finally found a publisher for her first children's book, published in April, 2024.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eva-Bear-Magic-Snowflake-Spurr/dp/1035821036/ref=sr_1_1 Get full access to Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing at juliebindel.substack.com/subscribe
Iain Burnside studied at Oxford University, the Royal Academy of Music and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. As a freelance pianist, he specialises in song repertoire and has collaborated in performances and recordings with many of the world's leading singers. In his recently formed Trio Balthasar, he performs a wide range of repertoire with violinist Michael Foyle and cellist Timothy Hugh. Iain is also a writer and broadcaster, and for many years presented BBC Radio 3's Voices, for which he won a Sony Radio Award. He is Artistic Director of the Ludlow English Song Weekend. http://finalnotemagazine.com/articles/iain-burnside/
Welcome to Building Brand You, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS: We enjoy working with people who are funny, who make connections with others. Being funny is not compromising your being professional in business, it is simply just being human. Humour is something you can learn and not just something you are born with. Everyone can be funny. Be more Kirk! ABOUT OUR GUEST: Jeremy Nicholas adds impact to communications, presentations and pitches. He helps clients use humour without losing status, damaging their credibility or causing offence. He's a regular keynote speaker, MC and after-dinner speaker, with tales of his long career in BBC News broadcasting. He runs the online programme Talking Funny For Speakers as well as mentoring and coaching professional speakers. He's a recipient of a Sony Radio Award, a New York Academy Award, the Professional Speaking Award of Excellence and The Badger Of Honour award. Jeremy lives in London with his wife Jeanette and dog Jimmy Chew. THE BOOK: Download Jeremy's book for free here: https://www.jeremynicholas.co.uk/books/ CONNECT WITH JEREMY NICHOLAS: Website: https://www.jeremynicholas.co.uk - to book Jeremy to speak at your event and for information on his Talking Funny, Tickle My Keynote and Funny Business programmes Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremynicholas/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Nicholas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyjnicholas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.nicholas.16 Book a Zoom Call at: https://bookme.name/JeremyNicholas/lite/book-a-15-min-phone-call-or-zoom-call ABOUT THE HOST: Kym Hamer is an international business coach, serial entrepreneur, and the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams and individuals to build visibility and reputational rigor as essential building blocks for delivering sustained business value. In 2020, she was nominated as one of the Top 100 Women in B2B Leadership influencers, and in 2021 as one of the Top 50 in Change Management and Top 30 in Marketing, Mindset/Mental Health and Entrepreneurship, by Thinkers360, the world's first open platform for thought leaders. She is Founder & CEO of Artemis Futures International, a Founding Board Member of the Customer Experience & Service Association Middle East & Co-founder of CXSA Group Ltd. as well as a trustee in the education sector. And in between all of these things, you'll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book. CONNECT WITH KYM HAMER: LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/kymhamer/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kymhamerartemis/ Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/kymhamerartemis/ BBY Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingbrandyou Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kymhamerartemis/ Website - https://www.artemisfutures.co.uk/ YouTube - https://bit.ly/3rWBKQm Email - kymhamer@artemisfutures.co.uk Book a Call at https://calendly.com/kymhamer/bbychat HOSTED BY: Kym Hamer DISCLAIMER: The views, information or opinions expressed during the Building Brand You podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent any other entities, agencies, organisations, or companies. Building Brand You is not responsible and does not verify for accuracy of any of the information contained in the podcast available for listening on this site. The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This podcast does not constitute legal advice or services. Subscribe to Building Brand You on Soundwise
If they are laughing, they are listening. Humour is a wonderful leveller and a great way of bonding with others. Throughout history, humour has proven its importance in life particularly in times of adversity. When you’re laughing with people it brings you together and rids any nervous tension or worry. With a background in news and sports presenting and broadcasting, Jeremy Nicholas now specialises in helping professional speakers to add humour to their presentations. As a professional speaker, are you spreading your message using humour? Are you ‘talking funny’? KEY TAKEAWAY “The other thing about humour is that it anchors a story in your memory. The humour and the story is almost like nectar and pollen and bees. You're attracting them into your flower because they're after the pollen but then inadvertently they're spreading it.” ABOUT JEREMY Jeremy Nicholas adds impact to communications, presentations and pitches. He helps clients use humour without losing status, damaging their credibility or causing offence. He’s a regular keynote speaker, MC and after-dinner speaker, with tales of his long career in BBC News broadcasting. Jeremy runs the online programme Talking Funny For Speakers as well as mentoring and coaching professional speakers. He’s a recipient of a Sony Radio Award, a New York Academy Award, the Professional Speaking Award of Excellence and The Badger Of Honour award. Jeremy lives in London with his wife Jeanette and dog Jimmy Chew. CONNECT WITH JEREMY https://www.jeremynicholas.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremynicholas/ https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Nicholas https://www.instagram.com/jeremyjnicholas/ https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.nicholas.16 ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, iTunes #1 Podcaster, Speaker, Mastermind Host and Property Investor. Through coaching and workshops, Amy works with businesses to Focus on WHY to create people-centred environments, by improving productivity and employee engagement by focusing on fulfilment, values and purpose. Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to make it their reality through their own action taking. Helping them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would like Amy to help you on your podcast hosting or to focus on your WHY then please book a free 20 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall Please sign up for the weekly Friday Focus newsletter at https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter CONNECT WITH AMY https://www.joinclubhouse.com/@amyrowlinson https://www.instagram.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.instagram.com/amy.rowlinson/ https://www.facebook.com/RowlinsonAmy/ https://www.facebook.com/focusonwhy/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/focusonwhy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyrowlinson/ HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.
Comedy writer/performer Katherine - "the new Victoria Wood" and star of the Horrible Histories movie, shares never-before-heard bits of her writing for TV and radio. Clips performed by: Beth Chalmers, Emma Clarke, Rachel Atkins, Leah Marks and Toby Longworth. Warning: This episode contains strong language. Katherine Jakeways is a British comedian, actor and writer, whose writing was described by the Radio Times as "acutely observed" and they suggested she may be "the new Victoria Wood". Katherine has appeared in multiple television, radio and theatre shows. TV appearances include Extras, Horrible Histories, Sherlock, Tracey Ullman's Show, Episodes and ‘Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge'. In 2010 the first episode of her debut radio comedy, North by Northamptonshire, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 starring Sheila Hancock, Penelope Wilton, Mackenzie Crook and Geoffrey Palmer. Two more series followed, one of which was nominated for a Sony Radio Award. Also for Radio 4 she went on to write 3 series of All Those Women, starring Lesley Manville and Marcia Warren, one series of Guilt Trip, starring Felicity Montagu and Olivia Nixon, and she co-wrote 2 series of Ability with Lee Ridley. In 2016, Katherine's radio play Where This Service Will Terminate debuted on Radio 4 about two strangers who sit next to each other on a train from Paddington to Penzance. The play had a positive critical and public response and led to four follow up plays, the last of which Where This Service Will Depart, was broadcast in 2020. Episode show notes: https://offcutsdrawer.com/katherine-jakeways Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer: https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/
Chapters00:00 - Introduction00:19 - Degree Importance02:52 - Hands On Training03:15 - Practise Working With Bands04:11 - Working With Modern Tech06:39 - Using The Resources Available 08:39 - Encouraging A Good Performance10:36 - Performance In Electronic Music11:48 - Working For Free13:55 - Self-Releasing Artists Budgeting15:02 - Intellectual Share Of Rights17:33 - Helpful Music Organisations18:49 - Sound Design Opportunities19:42 - Working With A Varied Skillset21:57 - EndingSteve Levine BiogStarting as a trainee tape-op at CBS Studios in 1975, Steve progressed to in-house engineer and worked with many now classic new wave and punk acts The Clash, The Jags, The Vibrators, XTC as well as many of CBS Records' pop acts, including Sailor. Beach Boy Bruce Johnson was to play an important part in Steve's early career, culminating with Steve producing an album for the Beach Boys several years later. Steve produced all of Culture Club's classic hits and the bands' three multi-platinum albums.Since then Steve has worked with a wide spectrum of artistes and composed a number of film scores. Artist collaborations include Honeyz, China Crisis, Gary Moore, Ziggy Marley, Louise, The Creatures, Lemmy & Motorhead, David Grant, Westworld, Mis-teeq, 911. He also produced and composed the score for the action video game Hyperbrawl.In his career, Steve has collected a number of prestigious awards including BPI Producer of the Year, Musicweek Top Singles Producer and a Grammy for his work with Deniece Williams. Plus a Sony Radio Award.Steve has also appeared on many radio and TV programs, and is a regular guest on BBC's 6 Music. His radio production company Magnum Opus Broadcasting produces several shows for the BBC; in particular The Record Producers, a radio documentary series for BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music for which Steve received a Sony Radio Award for the 'Best Specialist Contributor'. This acclaimed documentary series focuses on the art of record production from the producer's perspective.Along with his radio and TV work, Steve is currently busy producing exciting new bands for his new label Hubris Records.Steve is a Director of PRS For Music, a member of the MU, PPL and The Music Producer's Guild, as well as a LIPA Companion (Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts).http://www.stevelevine.co.ukFelipe Gutierrez BiogFelipe is a BA Music Technology and Popular Music 2018 graduate from Huddersfield University.He carried out his course with a strong focus on music production and music for the moving image. During his placement year, Felipe worked at Warner Music as a marketing intern, but ever since graduating he has been working as a freelance sound engineer and composer.Some of the highlights of his career so far include working on Ben Frost's score of the second and third seasons of Netflix's hit series Dark, over at Soundgas Studios alongside Tony Miln and Ben Hirst; working with Yusuf Islam Foundation (founded by Yusuf / Cat Stevens) on a variety of projects.He has also worked as an assistant engineer for Kit Downes, as a recording and live sound engineer for the RIOT Ensemble, and has worked for American bassist and label-owner, Michael Janisch from Whirlwind Recordings. In addition to this, he is a writer and composer for The Nerve , a music library based in the UK.Currently Felipe lives in London and has started to get more involved in the studio circuit, working as a runner at RAK Studios.https://soundmusicuk.com/
This Getting Better Acquainted Extra is a talk I gave as part of the Maker Sessions at the London Podcast Festival 2018 at King’s Place. The title of the talk was: Passion Projects The blurb was: For better or worse, Dave Pickering has been working on passion projects since he can remember. In 2008, he wrote a drama series for a friend, which was nominated for a Sony Radio Award in 2009. He’s made podcasts in a variety of genres at the same time as working full time jobs and part time jobs, and for the last 4 years, around the paid freelance work that the passion projects have just about generated for him. His passion projects have won podcast awards, been recommended by the Guardian, Time Out and the Financial Times and have been featured on Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, Cbeebies Radio and Resonance FM. In this workshop, Dave will explore why you should follow your passions, why you should definitely not follow your passions, and how to find the perseverance to keep following your passions when no one else seems to be interested in them. http://www.davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk Thanks to Martin Zaltz Austwick and Zoe Jeyes for asking me to do it. My Passions: Getting Better Acquainted: http://www.gettingbetteracquainted.co.uk The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk Mansplaining Masculinity: https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ http://www.mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk Some things mentioned (tweet me at @goosefat101 if I’ve missed stuff as I’ve just moved house so haven’t given this the time I normally would): The Boy Who Hasn’t Lived:http:// www.theboywhohasntlived.com/ Answer Me This: https://answermethispodcast.com/ The Allusionist: https://www.theallusionist.org/ Helen Zaltzman: http://helenzaltzman.com Griefcast with Cariad Lloyd https://www.acast.com/griefcast Where Shall We Begin? With Esther Perel: https://www.estherperel.com/podcast WTF with Marc Maron: http:// www.wtfpod.com/ Richard Herring: http://www.richardherring.com/ FAKE FRIENDS EPISODE TWO: parasocial hel1 by StrucciMovies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLA-uFKjQ-g Four Thought: Liberating Men: Liberating Men: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07x5vsh In Pod We Trust: Welcome to Podland: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pjdjh/episodes/player Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!
In this podcast, which was recorded in 2014, Kevin Cadwallender talks to Jennifer Williams about the performance poetry/page poetry debate, his religious beliefs (or lack thereof), how family and architecture inform his poetry and fast writing-slow thinking. http://cadwallenderkevin.blogspot.co.uk/ Kevin Cadwallender lives in Edinburgh. He has published nine full collections of poetry and 24 pamphlets including; Baz Poems (Rebel Inc), Public (Iron Press), Rewiring Houdini (Bee Books), Dances With Vowels : New and Selected poems (Smokestack Books), Dog Latin (Calderwood Press) andColouring in Guernica (RSP) He is a Commissioning Editor for Red Squirrel Press, Lectures in Modern Poetry and was Scottish National Slam Champion 2012-2013. His BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Voyages’ was shortlisted for a Sony Radio Award and the book of that programme for a Raymond Williams Community Publishing Award. Kevin Cadwallender's latest collection is Making Buildings out of Gods & Glue (RSP, 2013). He runs '10RED', an eclectic spoken word night in Leith.
Hello and welcome to this week's episode of My Big Idea with our guest, Radio 1 live Lounge DJ, Clara Amfo. My Big idea is an Asos podcast giving young women advice and inspiration to start their own businesses. London- born Clara Amfo is a dynamic young broadcaster who can currently be heard on Radio 1. Starting out her radio career at KISS FM, she later joined BBC Radio 1Xtra to present the weekend breakfast show, after being nominated for a Sony Radio Award in the 'Rising Star' category. In January 2015, Clara began her stint as the new presenter of The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1 and in May she joined the Radio 1 weekday schedule taking over the prestigious “10-1″ and Live Lounge slot from Fearne Cotton. Clara has since reported from vastly popular events in the UK including Wireless, Global Gathering, SW4 and NASS festivals. In this broadcast Asos editor Naomi Attwood talks to Clara about how she approached her broadcasting career and continues to make waves in the music industry. Here's... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This is the song that will end the Stand Up Tragedy live shows. If you're coming to one have a listen because we'd love you to sing a long with us at the end. It's by The Reactionaries: http://soundcloud.com/thereactionaries But what is Stand Up Tragedy? Part cabaret, part variety show, Stand Up Tragedy will make you cry until you laugh and laugh until you cry: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk Let some great performers make you sad, make you think and make you smile. Sometimes they’ll be putting a new twist on what they do with brand new material tailored towards the theme. Expect music, comedy, true stories and more, all playing up to the tragic form but not taking it too seriously. The night will end, not with a whimper, not with a bang, but with a cathartic sing-a-long. Here's our IndieGoGo campaign. Please help us to pay our performers by contributing something to this crowdfunding drive, It offers some interesting perks: http://www.indiegogo.com/Stand-Up-Tragedy-and-Getting-Better-Acquainted Brought to you by Sony Radio Award nominated writer, musician and performer Dave Pickering, this monthly show will be recorded and released as a free weekly podcast.
Introducing a new night coming soon to The Leicester Square Theatre. Part cabaret, part variety show, Stand Up Tragedy will make you cry until you laugh and laugh until you cry: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk Let some great performers make you sad, make you think and make you smile. Sometimes they’ll be putting a new twist on what they do with brand new material tailored towards the theme. Expect music, comedy, true stories and more, all playing up to the tragic form but not taking it too seriously. The night will end, not with a whimper, not with a bang, but with a cathartic sing-a-long. Brought to you by Sony Radio Award nominated writer, musician and performer Dave Pickering, this monthly show will be recorded and released as a free weekly podcast.
Introducing a new night coming soon to The Leicester Square Theatre. Part cabaret, part variety show, Stand Up Tragedy will make you cry until you laugh and laugh until you cry: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk Let some great performers make you sad, make you think and make you smile. Sometimes they’ll be putting a new twist on what they do with brand new material tailored towards the theme. Expect music, comedy, true stories and more, all playing up to the tragic form but not taking it too seriously. The night will end, not with a whimper, not with a bang, but with a cathartic sing-a-long. Brought to you by Sony Radio Award nominated writer, musician and performer Dave Pickering, this monthly show will be recorded and released as a free weekly podcast.