Podcasts about Southern England

Let us know your views now - text us hereA packed edition of Bisexual Brunch. Ashley catches up with Andi White, a bi trans woman who only recently came out. Andi tells the programme about the abuse they've experienced in the aftermath of the recent Supreme Court Ruling. Ashley, Lewis and Sam wonder whether there's a positive to the bi profile remaining under the radar while they will also discuss recent news on bisexual stats. The trio answer two 'Ask a Bisexual' questions from Holland and there's a bisexual journey story from David in Belgium. Special Guest is Dr Lori Beth Bisbey, the bisexual sexologist from the Open House, Great Sex Experiment on Channel 4.  Meanwhile 3 Bisexual Brunch listeners - from Seattle, Chile and Southern England tell us about their experiences of using dating  apps. Actor Tom Ward-Thomas looks at all things B in entertainment while Ashley's also joined by the writer and actors from a new bi play being shown on Merseyside. Support the show

Queen Elizabeth was crowned and buried in 1603 at Westminster Abbey, a large twin-towered Gothic church with a vast interior. Founded over a millennium ago, it is one of the United Kingdom’s most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Many royal marriages and national commemorative events have also been held within its walls. This episode concludes the recounting of my excursion to Southern England in search of the glorious era of Tudor England that helped shape the early exploration and colonization of the North American Continent. E113 Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/8vOAsYqUzbA which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. Westminster Abbey books available at https://amzn.to/3AXBaZH England History books available at https://amzn.to/4526W5n British Kings & Queens books available at https://amzn.to/430VOo0 Age of Discovery books available at https://amzn.to/3ZYOhnK Age of Exploration books available at https://amzn.to/403Wcjx ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you). Mark Vinet's HISTORICAL JESUS podcast is available at https://parthenonpodcast.com/historical-jesus Mark's TIMELINE video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkVinet_HNA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Mark's Books: https://amzn.to/3k8 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why are major Champagne houses, like Taittinger and Pommery, spending millions of dollars to buy and plant vineyards in England? How did Brexit reshape the English wine industry, from barrels to picking grapes? Why does visiting the English wine country feel like uncovering a hidden secret? In this episode of the Unreserved Wine Talk podcast, I'm chatting with Henry Jeffreys, author of Vines in a Cold Climate. You can find the wines we discussed at https://www.nataliemaclean.com/winepicks   Giveaway Three of you are going to win a copy of his terrific book, Vines in a Cold Climate. To qualify, all you have to do is email me at natalie@nataliemaclean.com and let me know that you've posted a review of the podcast. I'll choose three people randomly from those who contact me. Good luck!   Highlights Is England's greatest wine yet to be discovered? What makes Peter Hall of Breaky Bottom such a memorable and inspirational person? What is it like to visit English wine regions as a tourist? How can you make the most out of a trip to London as a wine lover? What was the most surprising historical tidbit about English wine that Henry uncovered while researching? Which significant milestones have signalled the improved quality of English wine in the past 20 years? What makes English winemakers different from those from other regions? If English wine is such a precarious venture, why have champagne houses like Tattinger and Pommery chosen to plant in England? How did Brexit impact English winemakers? What's the biggest risk to the English wine industry?   Key Takeaways Henry observes that Champagne is warming up and the concern is that eventually the grapes might not have enough acidity, so they're hedging their bets. He also thinks they are entrepreneurial. If you could bring your expertise and get it to work and make a great, great wine - which is what they're interested in - then, why not? Brexit had a big impact on the English wine industry. There was a hell of a lot of upheaval, but I think generally the industry has adjusted and worked out how they can bring things in. The cost, obviously, has gone into the wines, and we probably have to pay more. But I think all the problems have already been dealt with. It's all kind of factored in. Southern England, especially in the spring and summer, Henry says, is breathtakingly beautiful in a way that no other country is. There are beautiful little villages and hills and churches. It can be quite incongruous sometimes seeing the vines, especially if on a cold day when you'd expect to see horses and apple trees. Wine tourism is quite in its infancy at the moment, but it's coming on strongly. A lot of wineries have realized that you can sell tourists wine without anyone taking a cut. So they're beginning to take it a lot more seriously… have restaurants on site, really good tour guides. The potential is massive because most of the vineyards are within an hour and a half of London.   About Henry Jeffreys Henry Jeffreys worked in the wine trade and publishing before becoming a writer. He's a contributor to Good Food, The Guardian, Harpers Wine & Spirit, and The Spectator, wine columnist for The Critic magazine, and has appeared on radio, TV, and The Rest is History podcast. He won Fortnum & Mason Drink Writer of the Year in 2022 and is the author of four books, including Empire of Booze and Vines in a Cold Climate, which was shortlisted for the James Beard awards and won Fortnum & Mason drink book of the year. Along with Tom Parker Bowles, he hosts the Intoxicating History podcast. He lives in Faversham, Kent, with his wife and two daughters.         To learn more, visit https://www.nataliemaclean.com/335.

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This episode concludes the recounting of my excursion to Southern England in search of the glorious era of Tudor England that helped shape the early exploration and colonization of the American Continent. Queen Elizabeth was crowned and buried in 1603 at Westminster Abbey, a large twin-towered Gothic church with a vast interior. Founded over a millennium ago, it is one of the United Kingdom’s most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Many royal marriages and national commemorative events have also been held within its walls. Check out the YouTube version of this episode which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams at: https://youtu.be/8vOAsYqUzbA https://youtu.be/5Ug4jat5Amg Westminster Abbey books available at https://amzn.to/3AXBaZH Queen Elizabeth books available at https://amzn.to/45YvzPN England History books available at https://amzn.to/4526W5n British Kings & Queens books available at https://amzn.to/430VOo0 Age of Discovery books available at https://amzn.to/3ZYOhnK Age of Exploration books available at https://amzn.to/403Wcjx ENJOY Ad-Free content, Bonus episodes, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on https://patreon.com/markvinet SUPPORT this channel by purchasing any product on Amazon using this FREE entry LINK https://amzn.to/3POlrUD (Amazon gives us credit at NO extra charge to you). Video channel: https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoricalJesu Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Books: https://amzn.to/3k8qrGM See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  Reinvention isn't just a change—it's an art, and Susan Hays has mastered it, French style. In this episode, Susan Hays shares her journey of reinventing herself after settling in southwestern France. From managing a guest cottage to curating a boutique vintage shop and assisting clients with property searches, Susan has built a fulfilling life centered on passion and purpose. She reveals how she combines her love for France with entrepreneurial spirit, creating a life that embraces change and thrives on connection. Tune in for Susan's insights on adaptability, building a business, and living with gusto, all inspired by the charm of French living. --- Watch the episode here   Listen to the podcast here   Reinventing Yourself, French Style: Susan Hays' Inspiring Journey How To Please Yourself By Helping Others Welcome to the show, a show dedicated to providing a platform for people who are growing older in a positive and productive way to dispense their wisdom. You can find out more about our show by going to our website at www.GrowingOlderWithGusto.com. Our guest is a woman by the name of Susan Hays who has shown by example how to reinvent herself as she is growing older. She is coming to us from Southwestern France and talking to Susan about her life makes it clear she's like a controlled tornado. She grew up on a farm in Southern England loving outdoor adventures and a passion for horseback riding. She moved to London to work as an adult where she met her husband, Roddy, and they moved around a bit, floating among three different continents. Craving warm weather brought them back to France with their five kids where they tested the waters in Provence and Pyrenees. The past twelve years, they have settled into an area in Southwestern France. I think I'm pronouncing this right, Charente-Maritime, where Susan is happily engaged in a property search and relocation business, a guest cottage endeavor, and an online boutique business. I think I need a nap already.     Welcome to the show, Susan. Great to have you. It's an absolute honor to be here. Thank you for having me. In talking to your childhood experiences seem magical in themselves. I know that horses and physical activity seem to be the predominant theme. I was wondering, looking back on your formative years, how did they create a platform for you to continue Growing Older with Gusto? Get Up And Go: Embracing An Active Life I think I'm a great believer in just getting on and doing something. I think being a farmer's daughter, even though we had help on the farm, you learn just to get on and do things. If I want something done, just go for it. Always believe in yourself, and do your best. Also just to be outside as much as possible. I'm a great believer in outside doing physical activity as much as possible. Somebody once gave me some advice, actually quite recently, and it's when you get up in the morning, no matter what the weather, stand outside and just feel fresh air for five minutes. I now do that, whether it's rain or shine, and somehow it just sets you up for the day. When you get up in the morning, no matter what the weather is, stand out and just feel the fresh air for five minutes. That's a great idea. I'll try that. Now that I'm living in a warmer climate will help. That's true. Sometimes when it's cold, it's quite tough. I haven't gone the cold bath that route. I was just going to say, I don't think I'm going to be a candidate for a cold climate. Nonetheless, me neither. I just cannot, no. You moved from southern England to London where you received a pilot's license. How did that come about? I started working in London and I was actually terrified of flying and it was I would go on holiday and whenever I was on holiday, I would worry the whole time that I had to come back and get on that airplane again. I was sharing an apartment with a lady who was older than me but she also was a private pilot instructor. She said,

Joining me as my guests for this episode are Elin Heron and Callum James. Elin is returning to Some Other Sphere, having first been interviewed by me in the very early days of the podcast. She is a writer and musician, a talented tarot reader and a speaker of Welsh. Callum is a poet, artist, bookseller and magical practitioner. Both have long been close friends and 2024 saw them each publish new works - Jude by Elin, which is her debut novel and The South Downs: Paths of the Dead by Callum, which details his experience of completing the South Downs Way, an ancient walking route in Southern England. In Jude, Fifteen-year-old Nick has just finished his GSCEs and is stuck at home in the seaside village of Brexenham. What starts as a boring summer quickly transforms, as he meets Jude Fletcher, a wild and otherworldly boy. Nick is pulled into another world, but the disappearance of local girl, Jemma Cox, hangs over the community, and is something that runs farther back than anybody realises. The South Downs is partly a grimoire of the walk Callum undertook, partly a linear topography, and partly a treatise on necromancy. It recognises the folklore, spirits, and the magic of a place and Callum writes as one who does this magic, speaks to these spirits, and follows this lore. In the interview I talk with Elin and Callum about their writing and their friendship, how the ideas for their recent publications came about and how their approach to writing them developed. This leads into a wide-ranging discussion, covering themes such as the role of the imagination and imaginal thinking in otherworldly encounters, the connections between the dead and the landscape, and the nature of otherworldly entities such as The Green Man, a character who features prominently in Jude. I also get to share a couple of my own unusual experiences with them as part of our conversation. Further information about Elin can be found at her website https://www.elinheron.co.uk/ and you can order a copy of Jude from her publisher, Lucent Dreaming. Callum's website is https://www.mercurysbrother.com/ and you can order a copy of The South Downs: Paths of the Dead from Broken Sleep Books.  If you would like to support the upkeep of Some Other Sphere you can make a donation via Ko-fi. To buy the podcast a coffee go to https://ko-fi.com/someotherspherepodcast. Thank you!   The Some Other Sphere theme music is taken from 'Window Area', from the album 'Close Encounters of the Pennine Kind' by The Night Monitor. You can find out more about The Night Monitor's music at https://thenightmonitor.bandcamp.com/.  

THIS IS AN EPISODE FROM ONE OF OUR FAVORITE CREATORS, BRAD LAIL. WE REACHED OUT AND ASKED HIM TO AIR ONE OF HIS EPISODES TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF TO YOU GUYS. WELL, THE ONE HE SENT US IS A BANGER AND WE ARE EXCITED FOR YOU TO LISTEN.IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SHOOT OVER TO HIS CHANNEL AND GIVE HIM A FOLLOW! In this episode, I'm joined by photographer, researcher, artist, and former psychotherapist Karen Alexander to talk about crop circles. For the past three decades, Karen and her partner Steve have studied plant samples, geometry, earth energies, and the consciousness aspect of crop circles. We discussed what crop circles are, where they appear, the types of crops they appear in, how big they are, the ancient geometry connection, what season they occur in, how long they've been around and some historical background, the increase in crop circles from 1990 to 2012, the Led Zeppelin 1990 album connection, government interference with public knowledge, strange animal behavior around them, resonance and dissonance interactions with people and animals, orbs of light aka earth lights and the fairy connection (Willow the Wisp), piezoelectricity and electromagnetic earth energies, the underground water and chalk hills connection, the connection to ancient human megalithic structures such as Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles and the Hillforts in Southern England, astronomy and ancient geometry, non-human intelligence, the mowing devil, Uriel's Machine, geometric swallows, their healing properties, cymatics and frozen music, portals, the consciousness connection, geometric and symbolic curriculum, universal language, remembering who we are, societal cohesion, the thinning of the veil, the 2012 connection, the great astronomical year and the end of an age, and geometric art.Karen's LinksTemporary Temples Website: https://temporarytemples.co.uk/Crop Circle Photos: https://temporarytemples.co.uk/crop-circles/2023-crop-circlesCrop Circle Paintings by Karen Alexander: https://temporarytemples.co.uk/shop/karen-alexander-originalsAdditional LinksTanya Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfJj74OXhEUAgainst the Grain Podcast with Gary King: https://againstthegrain.site/The Awakened Podcast LinksWebsite: https://www.theawakenedpodcast.comAbout: https://www.theawakenedpodcast.com/aboutEpisodes: https://www.theawakenedpodcast.com/episodesAwakened Merch: https://www.theawakenedpodcast.com/awakened-merchRecommended Books: https://www.theawakenedpodcast.com/books-to-readAffiliates: https://www.theawakenedpodcast.com/affilliatesContact: https://www.theawakenedpodcast.com/contactMake a Donation: https://ko-fi.com/theawakenedpodcastSocial MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theawakenedpodcast33Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/theawakenedpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAwakenedPodPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/theawakenedpodPodcast PlatformsSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7sgD8qiEJORdwA7DZ0RxC4Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-awakened-podcast/id1737676305iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-awakened-podcast-187630087/Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/c41c3471-ef1a-4cdb-a3b8-268af150c4b8/the-awakened-podcastPodcast Music Outro Music: Standing at the Crossroads by Jebb Mac Band.Veteran LinksWatch the film Tribal: https://www.amazon.com/tribal-movieVeteran Crisis Line: https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/True Victory: https://www.truevictory.com/JOIN THE PATREON FOR AD FREE EPISODES BEFORE THEY DROP AND BECOME PART OF THE GROWING COMMUNITY OF DANGEROUS RTRDs ON TELEGRAM:https://www.patreon.com/NephilimDeathSquadFIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA:NEPHILIM DEATH SQUAD:Nephilim Death Squad / SpreakerNephilim Death Squad / YouTubeNephilimDeathSquad / Rumble(@NephilimDSquad) / X(@nephilimdeathsquad) / Instagram(@nephilimdeathsquad) | TikToknephilidsquad@gmail.comTOPLOBSTA:(@TopLobsta) / X(@TopLobsta) / InstagramTopLobsta.com / MerchRAVEN: (@DavidLCorbo) / X(@ravenofnds) / InstagramWEBSITES:Nephilim Death Squad | Merchnephilimdeathsquad.com OUR SPONSORS:VanMan's Shop: Natural Health & Wellness Products No ExceptionsPROMO CODE: NEPHILIM10 FOR 10% OFFNadeau Shave Co. - The Affordable, Sustainable, Heathly ShavePROMO CODE : NEPHILIM FOR 15% OFFRife Technology – Real Rife TechnologyPROMO CODE : NEPHILIM FOR 10% OFFParasiteMovie.com - Parasite Cleanse and Detox – Parasite MoviePROMO CODE: NEPHILIM 10% OFFEmergency Survival Food, Seed, & Supplies | Heaven's Harvest – Heaven's Harvest StorePROMO CODE: NEPHILIM 5% OFFBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nephilim-death-squad--6389018/support.

Adam is joined by a guest hypnotist and pioneer of the Swan Protocol Bob Burns. Bob Burns talks about how a chance hypnosis interaction while in a music band took him into a path of exploring hypnosis, and how a conversation with his hand led him to discover the powerful hypnotic protocol known as the swan.   Info about Bob: https://www.bobburnshypnotherapy.com/  About Bob Burns Bob is a highly skilled and world-renowned hypnotherapist from Scotland now in Southampton in Southern England. He is known for creating ‘The Swan' which is now used by hypnotherapists and psychotherapists in more than 85 countries around the world. BA Hons Clinical Hypnotist Based in the U.K. but accepting clients on a global level Bob's work is known and used in over 85 countries around the world   Bob's Background Bob is regarded by his peers as one the most seasoned trainers of hypnotherapy around the world, running workshops all over Europe, Canada, America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, Romania, Thailand and Japan. Since the Covid pandemic he now runs his workshops online.  Indeed, since Covid Bob now runs most of his therapy sessions online with clients from all around the globe. The amazing thing Bob has discovered, is that the success of these online sessions is absolutely IDENTICAL to face-to-face sessions. So now, anyone in the world can have a private session with Bob Burns… in their living room. As Bob says: “Most of the people I see get fixed almost immediately… they just don't KNOW they're fixed at that particular time. Getting them to understand that is my real job. We're human. We're here. And there's a reason for that. But… we're fine. All of us. We're just fine.”   Adam's course Hypnotic Wealth can be found here: https://www.adamcox.co.uk/hypnotic-wealth.html  Coming Soon - The Hypnotists's Secret Circle: Adam will soon be launching a new low-cost membership to access his entire hypnosis archive without the intro, outro, and explanation and an exclusive community only for members. In the meantime you can secure a free sleep download here: https://tr.ee/MCuZqKPnEg  Adam Cox is one of the world's most innovative hypnotists and is known for being the hypnotherapist of choice for Celebrities, CEO's and even Royalty. To book a free 30-minute consultation call to consider working with Adam go to: https://go.oncehub.com/AdamCox Adam's rates for hypnotherapy in pounds and US dollars are here: https://www.adamcox.co.uk/hypnotherapist.html  You can contact Adam at adam@adamcox.co.uk Further information on Adam is here: https://linktr.ee/AdamCoxOfficial  Tags: Adam Cox, the hypnotist, NLP, asmr, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnotist, stress, sleep, worry, meditation, guided meditation, hypnotism, anxiety, hypnosis for abundance, hypnosis for business success, Guet Hypnotist Bob Burns, Bob Burns The Swan, The Swan Hypnosis, Interview with Bob Burns Hypnotherapist, 

For this week's Haunting Season-themed Local Legends episode, the final of the four, Martin gathers round the Three Ravens campfire with folklorist Brice Stratford to chat all about his new book Halloween Folklore and Ghost Stories.This new collection is Brice's third book, following his first collection, Anglo Saxon Folklore: The Struggle for the Saxon Kingdoms, and New Forest Myths and Folklore, both of which were published in 2022.A storyteller, historian, actor and theatre director, Brice writes on heritage, art and architectural history for Apollo Magazine, the Spectator, and various trade publications, and for 12 years he ran the award-winning Owle Schreame theatre company which is currently on hiatus.Born and raised in the New Forest, he started his journey into folklore in the New Forest area of Southern England, engaging in folklore collecting and plenty of deep-dive research – skills which he brought to bear for his new Halloween Folklore and Ghost Stories collection.In August of this year Brice also launched a podcast, Finding Folklore, a storytelling series through which Brice and his co-host James Carney explore the legends, fairytales, ghost stories, songs and traditions of old England, with each Finding Folklore podcast episode also coming with a companion video on YouTube which expands on the themes and ideas of the main podcast episode.For now though, settle in for a chat which encompasses Halloween's origins, 'Blood Month' traditions, pig-faced spectral brides, Charles Dickens, the stunning Sedlec Ossuary and much more.To learn more about Brice, do follow him on social media, we hope you enjoy the episode, and we'll be back on Monday with our first County Episode for a while, all about Cambridgeshire!The Three Ravens is an English Myth and Folklore podcast hosted by award-winning writers Martin Vaux and Eleanor Conlon.Released on Mondays, each weekly episode focuses on one of England's 39 historic counties, exploring the history, folklore and traditions of the area, from ghosts and mermaids to mythical monsters, half-forgotten heroes, bloody legends, and much, much more. Then, and most importantly, the pair take turns to tell a new version of an ancient story from that county - all before discussing what that tale might mean, where it might have come from, and the truths it reveals about England's hidden past...Bonus Episodes are released on Thursdays (Magic and Medicines about folk remedies and arcane spells, Three Ravens Bestiary about cryptids and mythical creatures, Dying Arts about endangered heritage crafts, and Something Wicked about folkloric true crime from across history) plus Local Legends episodes on Saturdays - interviews with acclaimed authors, folklorists, podcasters and historians with unique perspectives on that week's county.With a range of exclusive content on Patreon, too, including audio ghost tours, the Three Ravens Newsletter, and monthly Three Ravens Film Club episodes about folk horror films from across the decades, why not join us around the campfire and listen in?Learn more at www.threeravenspodcast.com, join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/threeravenspodcast, and find links to our social media channels here: https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

rWotD Episode 2716: Girls' Nautical Training Corps Welcome to Random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia’s vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Thursday, 10 October 2024 is Girls' Nautical Training Corps.The Girls' Naval Training Corps was formed as part of the National Association of Training Corps for Girls in 1942, with units mainly in Southern England. Its objective was congruent with that of the Sea Cadet Corps, teaching girls aged 14 to 20 the same seamanship skills as the SCC taught the boys, in preparation for service with the Women's Royal Naval Service.The Girls' Naval Training Corps numbered 50 Units in 1952, and in the late 1950s changed their name to the Girls' Nautical Training Corps. Lady Pamela Mountbatten was Corps Commandant of the GNTC from around 1952 to around 1959.The GNTC became a colleague organisation with the Sea Cadet Corps in 1963, often sharing facilities such as Raven's Ait (then also known as TS Neptune). The GNTC became a full member of the Sea Cadet Organisation in March 1980, when the Ministry of Defence approved the admission of girls into the Sea Cadets, this led to a name change to Girls Nautical Training Contingent. This continued until 1992 when the organisation was absorbed, and all girls became members of the Sea Cadet Corps.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:14 UTC on Thursday, 10 October 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Girls' Nautical Training Corps on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Ivy.

Nihal Arthanayake presents his new Sunday evening show and podcast, featuring exclusive in-depth interviews with headline guests across entertainment, sport, culture and politics. His first guest in this brand new series is comedian Stewart Lee.Over the course of the conversation, Stewart touches on fatherhood and the joy of a profession that allows him to remain immature. He talks about the importance of an economy that supports creativity, finding a new audience via social media clips, and a premonition his 16-year-old self had in a field in Southern England.

The governor of Russia's Kursk region has told President Putin that one- hundred- and- eighty- thousand residents are being evacuated as Ukraine continues its surprise offensive. Mr Putin vowed that the enemy would be "kicked out."In the programme today we will be looking at some Russian reaction to the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk and in particular what Russian military bloggers are saying. Also in the programme: The fires in Greece getting nearer to Athens; and two male flamingos in a zoo in Southern England who have successfully nurtured an egg!(Photo: Residents in parts of the Kursk region have been warned to shelter in basements, and a growing number have been evacuated. Credit: Reuters)

Welcome to intermission 2, the second specially blended soundscape from the past year of Lento. This week's theme is waves and shorelines. There are four sections that blend effortlessly into each other. The sound-view into each watery place lasts around eleven minutes and enables you to compare and contrast the wide variations in aural detail from place to place, beach to beach, and at different times of the day  and night.  185 Onshore breeze on Chesil beach  Chesil beach has an astonishingly powerful aural presence. The Lento sound camera is pointing directly out too sea, about fifteen yards from the breaking waves, capturing the deep visceral sound feel of this steep and stark Beach. The heft of the receding waves, as they haul back huge quantities of heavy spherical shingle. The advancing waves, curling and then breaking into white sound walls of spray. And the ever flowing on-shore breeze. Through listening you can feel the weight, shape, and rhythm of this 18 mile long beach on the Jurassic coast of Southern England. 216 Sat on the sand of East Looe beach A perfect spot for an uninterrupted cinematic sound-view of crashing waves on East Looe beach in Cornwall. Waves in all their crisp textural detail. Can you hear which way the longshore drift goes? It can take a few minutes. The waves feel powerful in this spot on the sand. Sometimes thunderous. Thunderous, and yet calming at the same time. the presence of the seawall (behind) and pier (to right of scene) gives this beach an unusually enclosed sound feel.  188 Rock seat on Rye Harbour beach Near a limpet covered wall, beaten into shape by high tide waves and squally weather, are some rocks submerged in shingle. Rye Harbour shingle. Advancing waves keep rolling in. Splashing and breaking, as much onto each other as they do onto the smart grey contoured shingle. Rye Harbour feels as wild as it is panoramically empty. So enjoy some empty time, just listening to the crashing waves as the tide slowly goes out.   211 Nothe Fort at night - quiet swirling waves These are lazy waves. Rolling and slooping over half submerged rocks. Being the dead of night the quiet in this place is Pristine. The Lento box is recording from a tree looking out over the water beside Nothe Fort in Weymouth. The sound view of these waves, against such a perfect backdrop of solid nocturnal silence, is highly spatial and aurally clear. It's why we've travelled back to this precise location twice to capture their sound.

D-Day: The Last Voices brings together a rich collection of historical audio testimonies recorded with those who fought in the invasion of Normandy, alongside extraordinary new interviews with the last surviving veterans, to tell their story of D-Day as it unfolded. Presented by Paddy O'Connell, each programme charts a distinct chapter of the complex, visceral and moving story of the invasion, from subterfuge and secret planning, to the approach of H-Hour, the landings by air and sea, and on into the battles beyond the beaches. Commissioned as a collaboration with D-Day: The Unheard Tapes for BBC Two, and drawing on the same longitudinal access and research, the series tells the story of D-Day through the last voices of those who lived it, leading us through their personal experiences of the invasion. Supported by the historical recordings of those who were there with them – this is their story, told in their own words. The series begins in June 1944, as more than two million troops from over a dozen countries assemble across Southern England for a mission so secret, they don't yet know it will be D-Day, the start of Operation Overlord, to take France and attempt to push back the Nazi occupation of Europe. Allied soldiers train for top secret missions, by air and sea, and receive their mission objectives in sealed camps.This episode charts the story of the reveal of D-Day to Allied troops, as they learn they will be part of what will become the largest seaborne invasion in history. An operation of such complexity and risk, nothing of this scale had ever been attempted before, the stakes are unimaginably high.Paddy O'Connell, whose father took part in Operation Overlord as a Royal Marine Commando, interweaves the powerful and striking archive recordings of those who were there, with unique and extraordinary interviews with some of the last surviving veterans on the eve of the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Meeting two former WRENS - Christina Lamb who helped draw the D-Day maps in Whitehall, and Pat Owtram who spoke German and was based on the Dover Cliffs scanning for morse code from Occupied France, we are led through the enormous scale of the landings as 156,000 troops prepared for the impending invasion.In archive recordings of the past, we hear from those who were there too, on landing craft and on ships, driving tanks or learning they would be part of the first waves onto the beaches.As the hour of leaving for Normandy approached, commanders trusted in their training, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers set sail or took flight for the French coast under the cover of darkness. Featuring: Geoffrey Weaving Christian Lamb Pat Owtram Gordon Prime Warwick Nield-Siddall Ivan Lambert Ray Nance James Kelly Stanley Scott John Capon James Sink Roy Crane John Clegg William Dunn James Stagg Written and presented by Paddy O'Connell Produced by Paul Kobrak Technical production by Richard Courtice Sound design by Roy Noy, Tom Chilcot, Alex Short, Adam Palmer, Paul Donovan Music composed by Sam Hooper Production Executive – Anne-Marie Byrne Archive Assistant Producer – Hannah Mirsky Archive: BBC News, Fremantle, Paddy O'Connell, made in partnership with Imperial War Museums.Executive Producers - Morgana Pugh and Rami TzabarA Wall to Wall Media production for BBC Radio 4

Send me a messageExercise Tiger was a large-scale dress rehearsal for the D-Day landings in 1944 that went horribly wrong.A friendly fire incident was compounded when high-speed German torpedo boats intercepted an American convoy off the coast of Southern England. Over 700 men were killed, more than were killed on Utah beach on D-Day itself!Support my work by becoming a patron or simply get my free weekly newsletter.Click hereSupport the Show.

Mitle Southey is a former lawyer turned circle facilitator, a teacher and founder of Circle School - a wonderful training platform that helps teach and support wellbeing practitioners to hold inclusive and enriching circles and gatherings for their clients and communities online and in person.  Mitle believes in the power of Circle to offer us spaces of collective care and sacred activism, and to contribute meaningfully to our lives and businesses. I am happy to have experienced one of these powerful circles in person during a retreat that Mitle co-facilitated in Southern England, in 2023. Mitle is also a mother, a midlife woman living in the beautiful British countryside. I am so honored that you said yes to the Second Spring podcast.  Mitlé's website: https://www.mitlesouthey.com/ Mitlé's substack: https://mitle.substack.com/ Mitlé on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/circleschoolwithmitle/ Work with Kit: https://kityoon.com/work-with-me/  

This week I have another super exciting guest on the show, Alison Bladh. Alison and I discuss: What brought Alison on this journey How Alison empowers women when facing menopause The menopause transition Supporting your body during the menopause transition Healthy diets Skin changes with menopause Hair changes with menopause Benefits of collagen supplements Protecting brain health Recommended supplements Prioritizing your health Keeping a positive outlook on things One last piece of advice from Alison for listeners to take away and apply today And so much more!   More about Alison: Alison is a registered Nutritional Therapist BSc (hons), mBANT, mCNHC, mNWTF who is passionate about empowering women globally to reclaim their health during the menopause transition (perimenopause, menopause, post menopause and beyond) through realistic evidence-based nutrition, mindset and lifestyle modifications. She grew up on a farm in Southern England which gave her a great love for nature and the outdoor life and on top of that her mother was a professional chef who allowed her from a very young age to help and watch her in the kitchen. This was the beginning of her love for food. She has travelled extensively and lived in different parts of the world. This has given her the opportunity to experience different cultures, cuisines and lifestyles.   Having had a career in the health and beauty industry for over 30 years, she was always amazed to see how simple lifestyle and nutritional changes could improve not only women's health and well-being but also their happiness. Throughout her career journey, her underlying passion has always been about improving midlife women's health using the power of nutrition, lifestyle modifications and mindset. It gives her great pleasure to help midlife women overcome their health issues so that they can look and feel amazing. She truly believes that with good nutritious food, a positive mindset and health promoting lifestyle choices the body can heal itself and age healthily. Her aim is to focus on positive nutrition - it's not about restriction, it's about what we can include in our diet for maximum health.   She combines her understanding, enthusiasm and passion with her love of food to help people become the best versions of themselves.   When she's not at work she enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, being in the kitchen and experimenting with new recipe ideas.She is also a keen scuba diver, golfer, hiker, beekeeper and enjoy being in the great outdoors.   She is British but is living in Sweden at the moment.   Connect with Alison: Website: https://www.alisonbladh.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alisonbladhnutrition/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alisonbladh/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-bladh-b5178638/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.se/alisonbladhnutrition/_created/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alisonbladh Threads: https://www.threads.net/@alisonbladh Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alisonbladh Twitter: https://twitter.com/pinktearoom Alison's FREE e-book: 7- Day Menopause Reset Meal Plan: Energise your body and brain. Including delicious and easy one pan dinners.  https://www.alisonbladh.com/7-day-menopause-reset-meal-plan       Want to do Pilates with me? Join me for my quick 15 minute Daily Pilates Workout. It will help you build strength and flexibility and it's totally FREE.   Click here and I'll send the workout directly to your inbox!   I can't wait to see you on your mat J Haven't subscribed to the podcast yet? Subscribe HERE and never miss an episode.   Connect with Kate: Website: www.MindMovementHealth.com.au Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MindMovementHealth Instagram: http://instagram.com/MindMovementHealth      

Ever wondered why you should sign your work?  Well, in this, our 150th episode, we have chat about it. But before that, a quick catchup with Charlie Kaufman of Click Group at The Photography Show - head to https://www.clickliveexpo.co.uk/ to see details of one of the most exciting events in years! There is also news of the PMI Smoke Genie / Smoke Ninja competition - a fantastic opportunity to get creative and win some hefty prizes.  I'll share the link for this as soon as I have it. If you're interested in any of our workshops or masterclasses, you can find them at https://www.paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk/photography-workshops-and-training/    Enjoy (and sign your work!)   Cheers P. If you enjoy this podcast, please head over to Mastering Portrait Photography, for more articles and videos about this beautiful industry. You can also read a full transcript of this episode. PLEASE also subscribe and leave us a review - we'd love to hear what you think! If there are any topics, you would like to hear, have questions we could answer or would like to come and be interviewed on the podcast, please contact me at paul@paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk.    Transcript [00:00:00] OK there are one or two fruity words in this episode. If you're offended by swearing then I do apologise! [00:00:05] So I'm here at the photography show up in the NEC in Birmingham, have just bumped in to one of the big characters in the industry. So tell me a little bit about who you are. So, Charlie Kaufman, Honorary Fellow of the Societies, uh, been in the business for 35 years, professional, and I've run the Click Group for 30 years. [00:00:27] Started in 1994. And you've got several other letters after your name. I thought it was KFA, but you said it was No, it wasn't KFA. FKA, as my mum always says, fucking know all, uh, excuse my language, but no, a fellow of the societies, I was the youngest, uh, BIPP licensorship and MPA, uh, licentiate when I was just 17 years old, so two years into the industry, I'm also the CEO of Click Backdrops and Click Live, a new expo launching at Stoney Park, Coventry, this June. Tell me why you've come to the photography show. So it's all about brand awareness. Clip Backdrops, uh, exhibits at all of the major trade shows in the, in the world. [00:01:04] We do about 100, 000 miles with my partner in crime, Gary Hill. He's got more letters after his name than the alphabet, and Gary and I love doing the trade shows because it gets our British made, award winning product in the hands of creative photographers, so they can see the difference of why they're investing in a quality product. [00:01:23] Why do you love this photography industry of ours so much? I love it because it's changing. I love being in an industry where we make money from giving people creative memories for people, creating art. I love the fact that being the owner of a company, I'm in control and I can pivot in a heartbeat in which direction I want to take my company. [00:01:44] And that's one of the problems that a lot of British photographers don't do is pivot enough and change quickly enough. But being a small company, we're very quick at changing. We can actually have an idea to marketplace sometimes within a week. [00:01:57] And if there's one thing you could change about the photography industry that we know so well, what would it be? [00:02:03] Well, I'm going to hone in on the British photography industry, and what we need to change is we need to get British photographers getting more educated. Uh, as Big Dog Damien once said, the better, the easiest way to make more money as a photographer is to be a better photographer. I completely agree with that. Visiting ten U. S. expos a year, these expos sometimes start at 7am and these photographers are in classes and learning till midnight every single day. And that's one of the reasons that my team and I have launched Click Live, a brand new, uh, educational expo launching Stony Park, Coventry this June, where we've brought in the biggest educators from around the world. I mean, we've got Lindsay Adler, we've got Chris Knight, but we've also got other educators that have never even taught before in Europe, like Kimberly Smith, one of the world's best digital artists. So we want to give British photographers and European photographers, the opportunity to learn, hone in their craft and get better. Because the better you are, the more money you should make out of photography. It's as simple as that. [00:03:04] Brilliant. And I have to say, it's an honour and a privilege to be a very small part of that operation. I'm very... [00:03:09] ...an important part of that. Not a small part, an important Don't sell yourself short, Paul. You're an important part as we launch Clickmasters, a digital and print competition. And the nice thing about our print competition? Our educators at the show are not allowed to enter. So they're there to mentor and help and, and train, but they can't enter this year's competition. [00:03:33] Excellent. Well, I'll tell you what, I'm beyond excited about it. [00:03:36] Thanks for talking to me, Charlie. See you I'm Paul. And this is the mastering portrait photography podcast. [00:03:43] Can you believe it? 150. Episodes honestly. I never really thought about it when I set this thing going about six years ago and here we are. 150 episodes later. I thought, I think I thought it would just be somewhere where I could get things off my chest -a sort of passive therapist, I suppose, and let's face it, we all need one of those mine, well, mine, just happens to be a microphone. [00:04:29] Since then I've muttered about, oh, so many things, have interviewed all sorts of people and received well, many and varied emails. I've also been told I do have a face for radio, and that even happened again, today. [00:04:46] But I'll take those little wins when people tell me they find the podcast either interesting or at the very least, something that passes time on a journey. Anyway, that interview was with the wonderful Charlie Koufman, who not only is the owner of Click Backdrops, which are brilliant and British. I will put the link in the show notes, but it's also the inspiration behind the upcoming Click Live convention, Which you will all be hearing about. In the coming months and I cannot wait to see you there. [00:05:16] So here we are, it's April. And how are you? Did you have a good weekend? I hope you did. Sarah and I went down to Plymouth in Devon, Southern England. As well more almost as far south as you can get. In the UK with Harriet, our daughter and had a wonderful weekend with my in-laws. [00:05:36] We drank a little beer. We ate a little chocolate, actually, we ate a lot of chocolates. We bought some Devon fudge and we painted some pottery. Yep. You heard that right. We went pottery painting. It was Sarah's idea. She wanted to do something that was a little different, maybe a little creative pass a couple of hours. [00:05:55] The weather wasn't predictable. It wasn't bad. It wasn't good. It was just well crazy. And so we headed inside to do a little pottery painting. And apart from a very slight mismatch in how things were explained to us,- it turns out, I guess I've got a face that looks like a primary school child, as the explanations were to put it mildly a little basic, but I guess in the end, the heart and soul were very much where they should be. [00:06:26] And we had a blast. [00:06:29] Well, at least we did, as long as we dab-dab-dabbed, and we didn't wipe-wipe-wipe because if we were caught wipe-wipe-wiping There would be ter-ouble. We would be shown the error of our ways and instructed to get back to that dab-dab-dabbing. Anyway, it turns out I'm pretty good at dab-dab-dabbidy-dab-dabbing. [00:06:48] And I spent nearly two hours, literally dubbing black glaze onto a pot, on which I could then paint a wintery woods, kinda scene. [00:06:58] Harriet and Sarah. Well, they're a little more subtle with their craft with gentle blues and teals, little tiny flowers and spots of detail. Subtle understated, gloriously sophisticated. While mine was anything but that, but Hey, I need a new pen pot. As I have knocked my tin mug off the desk, yet again, today. And I really do need something that is seriously heavy, preferably black and well, it'd be nice if it was something that was a little unique. I'll get no points for subtlety, but I'll get plenty for the drama. [00:07:32] And since it's been a long, long bank holiday weekend, there isn't too much to report on the diary of a working pro front, at least not in terms of shoots because we took the weekend away, took the time off. And so we haven't been shooting that much. [00:07:48] We have had a couple of portrait sessions Hearing Dogs, just Hearing Dogs, brilliant, fun as always. And a one-to-one workshop here at our studio. And I love. Workshops. And I love this one in particular. A guy called Dave came down. And we spent the day creating, I think, well, I think. I think some magic, two of my clients now for models, we always use our clients. We don't usually use professional models because at the end of the day training photographers with models sets the sets an expectation that it's always going to be that easy. [00:08:24] And of course it's never that easy. So Charlene and Katie came in as our models for the day. And while they may not be professional models , they are both just splendidly, photogenic, and more importantly, incredible people to spend time, laughing with working with and playing with light around. [00:08:42] And I love, I do genuinely love these one to ones. Because they are entirely bespoke, they're entirely creative. We have the time to sit and answer any questions. We can explore ideas and let, well, let the client just guide us, which is exactly what we did. And the images that we finished up with well, everything I ever set out to do. Had such a blast. Dave was brilliant and I hope he went away with the same amount of energy that I've come away with. Just that idea that tomorrow, well tomorrow, we're going to create some magic. And as low, we haven't shot that much in the studio this week, well, next week is a whole different story. And there is going to be well busy, but while we haven't shot much this week, there is still a ton going on. [00:09:32] Today in particular had my kitlist through from Elinchrom, which is really exciting. I'm still sort of working out what we really need, but it looks like we have it almost nailed down. The big decision is around the Elinchrom Threes. Now I've sorted out the Fives, we're going to get four of those and they will be almost permanently in studio I think. But the Threes are really quite exciting though. There, there are about 250 Watt seconds, so about half that just a little over half that of the fives. But I think they'll be massively useful when I'm out on location. They are big enough to do some serious work and small enough that I can pop them in a bag and have them with me. [00:10:15] So. [00:10:15] I'll let you know, as soon as that kicks in, I'm sure there will be videos, a little bits and pieces going on and I can't wait to do it. [00:10:21] Another email that came in this morning. And it's one. I reacted to really quickly. Practical Magic and Innovations emailed in. Now you'll probably know them is P M I. And they're the guys who make the incredible Smoke Ninja and Smoke Genie smoke machines. The fog machines they've been in touch. And wanted us to help them get the word out about a competition they're running and I'll put the links to the competition in the show notes again. But basically it's an international competition, a photographic competition, but it must feature the use of either the Smoke Ninja. Oh, the Smoke Genie. [00:10:59] Now I'm already a fan, of course of the Smoke Ninja is the one that I bought as part of the Kickstarter agreement, so I'm already a big fan and I've spoken about this on the podcast before. I love the thing, I think it's genius. It should be called the Smoke Genius, but it's great. And I know one or two of you have already bought one of these based on my recommendation. It's great fun to play with. [00:11:21] It's not that expensive. The fog that it gives out is hugely controllable and incredibly photogenic. So given there's a few of you with these things, of course, I have agreed, to put the word out about the competition. Once again, show notes will be the place to go, but I'm going to even, I'm going to enter it this time. [00:11:38] You have to create some images and also show some behind the scenes. I'm guessing it's a great opportunity, for them to get both the finished pictures and pictures of their Smoke Genie or Smoked Ninja in use price is pretty big. There's about $10,000 of them and some big names involved. So why not head to them? [00:11:57] I'll put the link up why not head to them and have a look? [00:12:00] Not only that, but I got an email this morning. From data color, who've shipped some kit for me to review. That'll come up in some future episodes, our to use the Datacolor photo Checkr, which is brilliant. [00:12:12] It's part of our workflow anyway, but they're going to send me the updated version as well as the cube, which looks like to me, I haven't used this thing yet. I'll let you know once I actually use it properly, but it looks to me like it allows for backlight to be measured to white balance of backlight to be measured as well. Which looks like good, fun. Because we use a lot of mixed lighting. But not only that they are going to send me the video checker as well. Which allows us to color calibrate as part of our video workflow. [00:12:39] Now I'm not big in video yet, but we are having to learn how to do it, and one of the things that constantly frustrates me is I can't seem to get the colors, as I want them a lot of homework to do. I need to understand video color spaces air slog, and the like, but I'll have the video color checker from Datacolor in the toolkit, and that hopefully will be a small part of the puzzle. I've not only understanding but controlling it. The color. These, I think these products will appear properly in a future podcast once I've had a chance to play with them and understand, I understand quite what I'm talking about. Cause I'm not a video guy. I need to go and ask some video guys about the best way of using it. A quick update on ACDSee, just again, a reminder. I am not paid by any of these people ACDSee sent me a license to have a play with and I've kept my word. [00:13:32] I've used it. I still use it. I love it. I absolutely love it. I guess I'm not paid, but they have given me a license for. I think the license for the Apple. For the Mac, that is about 60, 70, quid. The speed of ACDSee is absolutely blistering and I love working with it. Haven't quite worked out how to get the very best out of it. [00:13:50] As it turns out 300,000 images with the facial recognition turned on, maybe pushing the upper limits of our network and my machine. But I still love having it there alongside everything else I do in Lightroom. It's so quick. It's so handy. I love the way it just works or interacts in with the file system, which means I can always have, I've always got access to files, to drag and drop, throw them up onto Facebook, throw them up onto Instagram, put them into designs. [00:14:18] It's just really useful. It's the kind of software you feel almost. Should be built into the operating system, but isn't, it's just so natural to use. Absolutely love it again. As I get my head around that I'll give you more, more updates. [00:14:31] Right. So where are we? Let's have a think about my thought for today. Now this one. Is about signing your work or singeing your work. As it was the first three times I wrote it down, signing, not singeing. [00:14:47] Don't singe your work. That is no good to anybody signing your work. I heard someone say a while ago this couple of years ago. That signing your work is pretentious. [00:15:00] And all I can say is what utter, utter, bullshit. [00:15:06] Sorry. I'm sorry. I know, I know. I shouldn't be emphatic in such a way. Everyone's got their own way of doing things and each to their own. But just occasionally something pops up that is purely, and simply, bullshit. This is one of them. [00:15:24] Sign your work. [00:15:26] If I could write a song called cite your work. It sounded a bit like Sunscreen. Maybe I should figure that out. Sign your work. [00:15:34] My dad taught me many years ago. That you should sign everything. Now my Dad was a wise guy is so many ways an idiot. It's so many others, but a wonderful human being. And this was one where I think he was absolutely right. He said, sign it. And when I said, why well he said, firstly, well, why not? But he also said you do it because you never quite know who might see it, in the future. Isn't that the truth. [00:16:03] So I was working at British Steel, in my early twenties as a work placement, my dad was working there. As well, he ran all of the competing and I got a work placement in their design office. And as part of that, they asked me to create some huge 3d visuals of the galvanizing plants that shot and steelworks British steel. [00:16:24] And there's this, they have these coatings lines where they take a coil of steel and they'd run it through the line and coat it with either a plastic coat or some paint coat, but the line I was really interested in coated it. With zinc. It was the hot dip galvanizing line. And this line was around about three quarters of a mile long. [00:16:43] It was huge. [00:16:45] And they wanted me to create some 3d drawings of it. Now this is going back before we would simply have done all of it in 3d CAD and rendered it. They wanted 3d drawings. But they were then going to go off to an airbrusher to go into British Steel's brochures. So my job was to create the line work, the art, the sort of the technical drawing work. [00:17:08] But the best way of doing that was is it happened to create a 3d model of it. But back then, we're talking about really early versions of AutoCAD and the output of AutoCAD. Wasn't very controllable and it certainly didn't create appealing visuals. What it did do though, is give me these huge, A0 printouts that I could then place a piece of tracing paper over the top and much the same way as a comic artist inks in over the pencil. From the original illustrator I then inked it. And that created these really beautiful. [00:17:40] I thought they were beautiful anyway - these really beautiful. Inked drawings of these vast lines that could be annotated and airbrushed by a graphic design team. And I signed them. And I signed him just in case somebody else saw them. Somebody did, and I got more work from it. I've got a lot of plaudits for my work as well, all because they saw my signature and asked who Paul was. [00:18:07] Now it doesn't work for everybody, I guess. But here at the studio we sign every frame and every album that goes out, it's got our brand on it. That signature. Is our brand just like Apple or Jaguar or Pepsi, Tiffany, Nikon or even the guys I worked with a little bit more regularly, like Elinchrom, or even PMI who've emailed today. It's their logo and that represents their brand. [00:18:38] Now, if you're putting work out there without your logo or your signature on it, not only are you missing an important opportunity, an important opportunity that might just lead to more work might just lead to a brand recognition, like we've built . But I also think you're quietly saying you're not really proud of what you do. The signature we put on our work says I am proud of it. Really proud of it. Every time. Every time we create something here. We ask ourselves the question. Are we happy to put the Paul Wilkinson photography signature -my signature. On it. And if the answer to that is not clear. [00:19:21] Cut. Yes, of course. Then that piece of work never goes near a client. Ever. The brand custodian side of our business is all about that signature and being proud. To put it on our work, being proud to say, yep, I've seen that. But at work. I think that warrants a signature and I'm very happy for other people to see it too. [00:19:42] Now is that pretentious? Well, I suppose you could argue it is, but I don't think it is. I think what it's saying is I'm really proud of what we've done. I'm really proud of the effort we've put into it. And I don't think that's pretentious. Pretentions come from almost the opposite from trying to be something you're not, that's not what your signature is, your signature or your logo represent you and they represent your values and they represent your brand. They're everything you stand by and you stand for. Now, if you think your logo screams pretentions, then, well, maybe you need to adjust quite what you believe in and what your brand stands for, but from where I'm sat. I think you should sign every single bit of your work. [00:20:32] Anyway, I'll get down off my soap box. Sorry about that just sometimes, you know, just sometimes there are things I think we have to just get off our chest. And when it comes to your signature sign, your work, people sign your work. [00:20:45] Don't listen to what anybody else says. Get that signature on there. You never know who might be watching. Anyway. 150 episodes. One or two of you have listened to all of them. One or two of you have listened to all of them in the past 60 days. I did have an email from someone this week. And it said they've been working their way through them at a rate of a little over two episodes a day. And they are 50 something days in and heading towards catching up. [00:21:15] I think that's absolutely, hilarious. Flattering and lovely, but well, slightly hilarious. Thank you for listening. Thank you for listening to the end of this particular episode. I hope as always there's something of use or if nothing else. It's got you to work in your car and you can now switch the radio off and go face the day knowing there are other people out there feeling and thinking the same things as you. Uh, if you'd like to hear more of these episodes, please do subscribe wherever it is that you get your podcasts. [00:21:49] Please hit that subscribe button. And then every time I hit publish, you get to hear it, which I think is a marvelous thing. Please do also. If you would like to leave us a review. And a five-star rating somewhere, wherever it is. You consume your podcasts, please. Do we love it when you do? And of course it helps get the word out there. [00:22:07] It helps get the podcast out there. It helps make some of this stuff possible. Also if you have any questions, please do email paul@paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk, that's paul@paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk If you're interested in our workshops or indeed one of our, one to one masterclasses, then please do head over to Paul Wilkinson Photography and look for the coaching section of the website. [00:22:33] Alternatively, just stick paulwilkinsonphotography.co.uk workshops into your Google-y Browsery thing and you will find us. [00:22:41] And if you fancy more content, that's all about the joy, the brands, the business, the creativity, of portrait photography, then why not head over to masteringportraitphotography.com, which is not only a vast resource of portrait photography stuff, but is also the spiritual home of this 'ere podcast. [00:23:01] But whatever else. whatever else. Until next time. Be kind to yourself. and stick yer signature on things. Take care. [00:23:14]

The first wave of Crusaders left Southern England and consisted of a rough coalition of English, Norman, French, Flemish, and Germans. When the rough seas forced their fleet of 200 ships to find a safe harbor in Portugal, King Alfonso convinced the entire army of Crusaders to wait out the summer in Portugal and assist in the siege of Lisbon... the first Great Siege of the Second Crusade.The History of Modern Greece Podcast covers the Greek people's events from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Greek War of Independence in 1821-1832, through to the Greco-Turkish War from 1919 to 1922 to the present day.Website: www.moderngreecepodcast.comMusic by Mark Jungerman: www.marcjungermann.comCheck out our 2nd Podcast: www.antecedors.com

When Queen Eleanor makes a move to restore Plantagenet power, the barons launch into all out war. Simon de Montfort assembles a small but powerful army to take on Henry and his family on a hillside in Southern England. The future of the entire Plantagenet dynasty hangs in the balance.  A Sony Music Entertainment production.  Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts  To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com  Learn more about your ad choices.  Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices  Written and presented by Dan Jones Producer and Story Editor - Georgia Mills Executive Producer - Louisa Field Production Manager - Jen Mistri Composer -  Matt Acheson Sound Design and Mixing - Chris O'Shaughnessy  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Martin Higgins is managing director at MSP Capital, a company he developed with his father Ray in the late 90s. What was then a small operation has since grown into one of the leading providers of non-regulated commercial finance in Southern England.

It's dusk in a valley somewhere in Dorset. Plodcast regular Kevin Parr has joined a local deer stalker to talk about why – and how – he culls these large mammals. Join the Plodcast team later in the studio to discuss some of the issues raised. Contact the Plodcast team and send your sound recordings of the countryside to: editor@countryfile.com. If your letter, email or message is read out on the show, you could WIN a Plodcast Postbag prize of a wildlife- or countryside-themed book chosen by the team. Visit the Countryfile Magazine website: countryfile.com Write to us: Plodcast, Countryfile Magazine Eagle House Bristol BS1 4ST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On March 30, and 31, 1993, reports of a UFO over Southern England came in to the Ministry of Defense. Nick Pope was manning the “UFO desk” at the time, and he described that “the phones were ringing off the hook.” He posted a description of the most dramatic reports on February 20, 2007, on the Physics Forum website. He appeared in a 2009 7 News Spotlight (an Australian program) segment presented by Russ Coulthart and described himself as “broadly skeptical” and his investigation of this series of reports as “the turning point.” Pope described the case in his 1996 book, “Open Skies, Closed Minds,” which helped to make it a classic, but Jenny Randles of the British UFO Research Association suspected that some of the sightings were of a satellite rocket booster from Cosmos 2235 (sent up by the Commonwealth of Independent States) re-entering the atmosphere. One report from RAF Shawbury that was described by Pope was later reconsidered by the witness as also having a prosaic explanation. Because the file (Part 1, Part 2) on the case was released to the public by the MoD, the details of the case can be examined by anyone with an interest.Read more →This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5922140/advertisement

Is honesty the best policy? In Talking Flutes this week, Jean-Paul and Clare are sitting outside the coffee shop in the seaside town of Hove in Southern England answering more questions from listeners. They look at 'False Expectations' and the role of teachers in guiding, the inclusion of popular music in a recital performance and ask the question "Can you tell if a young flute player has the X factor?" 'Talking Flutes', 'Talking Flutes Extra' and 'Bitesize' are podcast productions by the TJ flute company.  For more information visit www.tjflutes.com 

Licoricia of Winchester was a Jewish woman who was a major financier in medieval England. There were Jewish settlements in England for only a brief window during the Middle Ages, marked with anti-Semitic violence and hostility. Research: Abrams, Rebecca. “Licoricia of Winchester.” Jewish Heritage in Southern England. Jewish Renaissance. Via YouTube. 6/8/2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC6hitEgiEc Abrams, Rebecca. “Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England.” 2022. Brown, Reva Berman and Sean McCartney. “David of Oxford and Licoricia of Winchester: glimpses into a Jewish family in thirteenth-century England.” Jewish Historical Studies , 2004, Vol. 39 (2004). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29780068 Butler, Sara M. “Who killed Licoricia of Winchester? A Medieval Murder Mystery.” Legal History Miscellany. 2/10/2023. https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/02/10/who-killed-licoricia-of-winchester-a-medieval-murder-mystery/ Carver, William. “A 13thC Jewish woman: Licoricia of Winchester.” One Big History Department. 9/14/2022. https://onebighistorydepartment.com/2022/09/14/a-13thc-jewish-woman-licoricia-of-winchester/ Cohen, Sarah. “The Oxford Jewry in the Thirteenth Century.” Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England) , 1932-1935, Vol. 13. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29777813 Goldy, Charlotte Newman. “Prosopography and Proximity.” Medieval Prosopography , 2018, Vol. 33. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26630013 Licoricia of Winchester Appeal. https://licoricia.org/ Lipman, Vivian D. “Jews and castles in medieval England.” Transactions & Miscellanies (Jewish Historical Society of England) , 1981-1982. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778916 Lubrich, Naomi. “The Wandering Hat: Iterations of the Medieval Jewish Pointed Cap.” Jewish History , December 2015, Vol. 29, No. 3/4 (December 2015). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24709777 Meyer, Hannah. "Licoricia of Winchester (d. 1277), financier." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. July 08, 2021. Oxford University Press. Date of access 16 Aug. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.369088 Meyer, Hannah. “Licoricia of Winchester.” Delivered at Winchester Open Days. 9/15/2018. https://licoricia.org/2018/09/18/hannah-meyers-talk-a-great-success/ Rokéaḥ, Zefira Entin. “Crime and Jews in Late Thirteenth-Century England: Some Cases and Comments.” Hebrew Union College Annual , 1984, Vol. 55 (1984). https://www.jstor.org/stable/23507612 Roth, Pinchas. “Jewish Courts in Medieval England.” Jewish History, December 2017, Vol. 31, No. 1/2. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/48698359 Snappy Dragon Studios. “This Jewish medieval woman just got a statue : Analyzing the Licoricia of Winchester statue's clothes.” https://www.snappydragonstudios.com/blog/licoricia-statue Stacey, Robert C. “Royal Taxation and the Social Structure of Medieval Anglo-Jewry: The Tallages of 1239-1242.” Hebrew Union College Annual, 1985, Vol. 56 (1985). https://www.jstor.org/stable/23507653 Stokes, Canon H.P. “A Jewish Family in Oxford in the 13th Century.” Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England), Vol. 10 (1921-1923). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29777709 Tallan, Cheryl and Suzanne Bartlet. “Licoricia of Winchester.” The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/licoricia-of-winchester Tallan, Cheryl. “Structures of Power Available to Two Jewish Women in Thirteenth-Century England.” Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1997. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23535849 Uscinski, Kristin. “Who Murdered Licoricia of Winchester?” Footnoting History Podcast. 10/8/2022. https://www.footnotinghistory.com/home/who-murdered-licoricia-of-winchester van Court, Elisa Narin. “Invisible in Oxford: Medieval Jewish History in Modern England.” Shofar , Spring 2008, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Spring 2008). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42944746 Waterman, Hillary. “Licoricia of Winchester, Jewish Widow and Medieval Financier.” JSTOR Daily. 10/28/2015. https://daily.jstor.org/licoricia-jewish-medieval-women-moneylenders/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Late in the 1980's, Southern England saw a rash of terrible assaults on women. And the killers were just getting started. John Duffy and David Mulcahy became friends in grade school and swore never to turn on each other. That oath would be put to the test when John Duffy was arrested for the assaults and murders of several women. Join us as we discuss this horrific case. TW/CW: SAPLEASE NOTE: Willow gets a couple dates turned around due to dyslexia. She corrects herself later in the episode, just a note so y'all can know what's up

Paleontology was still a new science in the early 19th Century. The largely male-dominated field yielded some truly fantastic studies, but of these, none were as spectacular as those made by a woman from Southern England. Tune in this week to find out all about the wondrous life and discoveries of Mary Anning! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historylovescompany/support

There are times when good things come in two's. Like chocolate and peanut butter. Cookies and milk. A big booty and a thong. There are also things that come in pairs that are not good... such as two assholes called John Duffy and David Mulcahy. This cockwomble combo terrorised Southern England 1980s, killing 3 woman and committing a series of brutal rapes. Buckle up, cos this one gets bumpy! . https://www.horrorhousetruecrime.com/ https://horrorhousetruecrimeandthemacabre.store/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hhpod Insta: @horrorhouse_pod . Promos from Twisted & Uncorked and Live, Laugh, Murder! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hark! A dark deed has been done and scurrilous work is afoot Give an ear as John Taylor entreats us with a discussion of English Curse by Frank Turner. The song is an instrument-less ballad from 2011's England Keep My Bones. The tune is brimming with Englishness and condemns William the Conqueror's exploits in 1st Century England. And more explicity the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of William's son William II (Rufus) while hunting in the New Forest are lauded. Join us for a big-brained discussion on Normans, Anglo-Saxons and the early history of Southern England. If you've been wondering where we stand on the latest Norman vs Anglo-Saxon issue, listen in and find out! Commoners won't want to this this one. Link to the song: https://youtu.be/F9bq_NDXUT4 Follow Scott and Sean on Twitter: Scott - @dotGiff Sean - @HashtagHeyBro If you've got a song you think we should talk about on the show, drop us a line on Twitter or send us an email: historyinmusicpodcast@gmail.com

The National Airsoft Festival - The biggest Airsoft event in the UK (if not Globally) held annually at Ground Zero in Southern England. With around 3,000 players in attendance as well as an amazing Social atmosphere outside of the gameplay, this is one of those events that you have to try at least once in your Airsoft life. I was joined by Rich, one of the amazing team behind the National Airsoft Festival, as we sat down and discussed this amazing event in depth. With food vendors, Airsoft Retail stands, entertainment all weekend, a shop provided by Zero One Airsoft as well as a fully stocked Bar for the evenings, there is always something going on at the National Airsoft Festival and we sat down and discussed all of this with Rich. If you've always considered going, then there's no time like the present is there? This year will be my 3rd attendance, and I'm hoping to see you guys there for this one. If you want to catch up on the Video, you can join us at the following: - Facebook.com/TheChairsofterShow - Twitch.tv/theChairsofterShow - youtube.com/channel/UCHyB9pkPPTRN5rkupCIhW_A Make sure to drop a like, subscribe to the show and set those reminders where possible so you can be a part of the discussion and don't miss out - have your say on The Chairsofter Show. Want to get in touch with the show? Contact me on Instagram @TheChairsofterShow, on Facebook at Facebook.Com/TheChairsofterShow or by email at Andy@TheChairsofterShow.Co.Uk and join in the discussion.

GUEST OVERVIEW: Born and raised in Southern England, Steven Ferry has been a US resident and then citizen since 1978. His eyes were first opened to the possibility that life was not all a bed of roses when he wrote his first but unpublished book in 1971 detailing his assessments of all humankind had to offer and realized too many subjects were fundamentally flawed because humanity itself was fundamentally flawed—there being a side to humanity that is irrational and which cuts across the ability to develop workable technologies in the humanities and even sciences, and so create lasting civilizations in which all can flourish and prosper. By 1973, Red Pilled by None Dare Call it Conspiracy, he added his weight as a writer and teacher to the freedom-fighter cause. He has two-dozen books and hundreds of articles published, including an extensive expose of the Covid program in Spring of 2020. He founded Defending Humanity to raise awareness of our rights as humans, show how these have all been violated with official Covid responses and the Globalist agenda; and urging citizens to mass civil disobedience as the only proven and possible antidote to tyranny and fascism (when criminals run society). 

He's here, he's there; Dr. Hillman brings drug safety everywhere! So given the rules and regulations he needs to follow, the title “vigilante” could be nothing but ironic.We chart David's progress through choosing pharmacology as a subject to study, and settling on pharmacovigilance as a career to pursue. Listen: The Bollywood beats come courtesy of Cambridge-based artist Anish Kumar whose music you can also find on Bandcamp: anishkumarmusic.bandcamp.com, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.Watch:Subscribe to our YouTube channel now for all future recordings. Episode transcript[Background intro music playing is "Nazia" by Anish Kumar]Parmvir: Hello everyone. And welcome to another episode of the 2Scientists podcast, where inspiring scientists share their work with you, wherever you like to listen. Today we come to you from a rather unique spot, rather than a cafe or bar we are camped out in Kensington Gardens in London, because it's a glorious day and our podcasting equipment allows us to do that. But enough about me and us, we are here today, of course I am your host Parmvir Bahia here and we're here with David Basanta, but we also have with us another David who is very special to me, he is an old friend of mine from my PhD program, and we shared much time and much swearing over experiments together at University college London. How are you David Hillman? David: I'm doing well. Thank you. It's, as you say, it's a, it's a lovely day and, it's nice to be back with old friends. Parmvir: Yes, yes. Of course everything rotates background to COVID and whereas we would normally see each other once a year. It's been three, four, possibly? David: Three, I think that's yeah.Parmvir: Miserable. David: Yeah. Sad times we shall have to make up for it. Parmvir: We will, we will. There's a bottle of Cava with our name on it. Once we've done with this. David: And onion rings. Parmvir: And onion rings. Yes. Fancy Marks and Spencer's one's though. So let's start at the beginning. I'm not talking about like, where were you born kind of thing. Although you can mention Kidderminster if you'd like. So as I understand it, we had a relatively similar track as undergraduates. So you did a bachelor's in pharmacology, correct? David: Yeah, that's right. Parmvir: So tell us why, why pharmacology? David: So this is gonna age me, age us.So I, for my A levels, so for my senior school exams, I, studied chemistry, biology, and maths, and I wanted to study something at university that combined chemistry and biology. And so this is the bit that will age us. So back in the day, if you remember, you would go to the, career advice department who were trying to help people to steer people towards what options they might want to pick at university.And they had this huge telephone directory effectively, which, mapped together people's different, combinations of A level courses and then gave you a list of options that you could, study at university. So I was sat in this little tiny room with this career advisor person, and they were basically running through this list of different courses.And when they came to pharmacology, they'd already mentioned pharmacy, which, you know, most people know what it is, but then they said pharmacology and I stopped them and said, well, what's, what's the difference? And they actually gave a pretty good summary. They said, it's more the biology of medicine. It's more the, the research and development of new medicines. They said it's potentially a controversial topic because it's the pharmaceutical industry is itself sometimes controversial and there's other aspects to the industry, which are, challenging sometimes. But yeah, that's how it started. So I picked a few different pharmacology courses, one of which was King's College London. I was always very practical, so I liked the idea of doing a year in industry at some point. So I chose a sandwich course like you and yeah, so that took me to KCL all that time ago. Parmvir: Mm. So I didn't realize how similar our tracks had been, because I also did biology, chemistry and maths, and I wanted to do something with the chemistry and the biology.And I got put in that direction by David: did you pick it out of the phone book as well? Parmvir: I did. What was it called? There was a name for it. David: It was pretty like a UCAS publication. Parmvir: Yes. It was just, it was enormous. David: Yeah. Parmvir: But yeah, in any case, I also, I did a sandwich year and I got to go and hang out in Germany for a year, which was fun.But yeah. So obviously after that you came to do a PhD at UCL where we were, well, I was a year ahead of you, I think. David: Yeah. You were. Parmvir: Why? Why did you do a PhD? David: So well for the reasons that I guess a lot of people do them, which is that I wasn't sure what to do next [both laugh] and a PhD seemed like a good way to string it out for another few years before I figured that out.But the reason I landed on UCL was that when I did go and do my year in industry, which like you was for a large pharma company, I worked in a lab looking at some non-clinical safety models. And we were using electrophysiology techniques at the time that was sharp electrode electrophysiology.Parmvir: You're gonna have to explain what electrophysiology means. David: Oh, don't make me do that. It's been 20 years [Parmvir laughs]. Oh, it's basically where you take either isolated cells or tissues and you put tiny, tiny electrodes into them and measure the changing currents across cell membranes. And as you put different drugs on, you can look at different effects of those drugs how they affect the electrical signals that you can measure.And really it's ions moving back and forward across membranes by little things called ion channels. So yeah, so I'd done sharp electrode electrophysiology there. I went back to university to finish my last year, and then the question came up about what to pick for a PhD. And I thought, well, although I hadn't enjoyed electrophysiology, it's something that I had started to, I guess, gain an interest in. Plus I had some skills that in that area. So, yeah, so I found a course, rather a PhD studentship at UCL, which seemed to fit the bill. It was looking at using a slightly different electrophysiology technique, so patch, clamping in a different area, but I thought it was something that I could use what I'd learnt in my year in industry Parmvir: I gave you some of these questions beforehand. David: Yes, because I'm incapable of spontaneous reaction to questions [Parmvir laughs]. Parmvir: Actually, I loved it so much that I have to read out your description of what your memory is like. David: I was quite proud of that. I coined that yesterday. I used to think of my memory as a lobster pot. Parmvir: All right. So you said I've just come up with a good analogy for my recall memory. It's like a reference library. You have to put in a request and then go away for a bit. When you come back, I'll have retrieved something from the vaults. Hopefully. David: Yeah, exactly. Parmvir: But aside from that I wanted to say this might be something of a loaded question, but what did you think of your PhD experience?David: You know, I really, I look back on those years with fond memory. Now it's partly because looking back, you edit out all of the stress and anxiety associated with doing a research project like that. I remember at the time when I first started UCL ran some induction courses where they pulled together PhD students and other postgraduate students from all sorts of backgrounds and John Foreman who you'll remember who was the Dean of students at the time, he gave a little introduction to UCL, but also gave some interesting advice let's say and pointers.And one of the things he pointed out in that session was the high degree of mental illness that is encountered by students in general taking these types of courses because they are stressful. And you often feel like you are kind of on your own. Driving your own research project forward. Sometimes through difficult times. So I do remember that in particular, but you know, what I remember mostly is just how impressed I was with all of the people that surrounded me because our department was not particularly flashy in its kind of presentation, but there were some seriously impressive people there.So I always like to think of our lab in the sense of, you know, it was run by effectively by Dennis and, and Guy when we got there. But before then it had been run by Don and before then it had been run by Bernard Katz who was a Nobel laureate. So it felt like we were the either grandchildren or great grandchildren of a Nobel Laureate and the whole department was a bit like that. It had a lot of very understated people who were world experts in their, in their field. And I always felt like the dumbest person in the department. But that didn't bother me too much because you know, being surrounded by all this greatness and even just, you know, the little glimpses of things you would see at the kind of coffee breaks and in the corridors, some of those memories still live with me, you know. Bearing in mind, this was back in what, between 2001 and 2005.So very, very early days of smartphones, things like trios and things like that, which seem antiquated now. But I remember coming across two old professors, so probably in their seventies or eighties comparing their smartphones and that like little microcosm, are the things that I loved about the department.Parmvir: Actually, I mean, I think you're, you're definitely selling yourself short. Like nobody would say that you weren't smart enough to be there. And I think one of the things that kind of ties into the, the mental health aspect is that we all felt that way. David: Yeah. Parmvir: Except we didn't express it to anyone else. It's, it's utterly ridiculous. How can we all be the least smart person in the room that's just not possible. David: Yeah. Parmvir: And after that, we all got our PhDs anyway, so, you know yeah. David: I certainly have no regrets about it. And I look back on those times with, with very fond memories, for sure. Parmvir: Yeah. Just talk briefly about what you did for your project and what the difficulties were.David: So the lab that I joined, so which, which you were a part of as well, their specialty was calcium activated potassium channels. And over time, the lab had looked at these ion channels in various different settings. The project that I was given was looking at these channels in vascular endothelial cells, which was a cell type that no one in the lab had ever studied before.Parmvir: Mm. David: So one of the biggest challenges that we were hit with straight away was that no one in the lab could really help that much with firsthand experience of how to obtain these cells, how to isolate them, how to culture them, how to grow them and really how to manage those cell types. So you might well remember that, the first, probably nine months of my PhD was just spent trying to culture these cells. Parmvir: Mm-hmm David: and it started with you know, available tissue from rats and other small mammals.But then eventually we were not having success with culturing cells from those models. So I switched onto pigs and, you know, I'd done a bit of reading that, you know, these vessels, because they were much larger the blood vessels, it was easier effectively to culture cells from, so I looked in the phone book and I found the address of an abattoir out in the middle of Essex.And there began my weekly trip for getting on for two and a half years to the deepest, darkest corners of Essex to go and retrieve pig, coronary artery cells once a week. Parmvir: Yeah. And essentially you suffered because these things were so flat. [David laughs] And when you're trying to, so you, for anyone who's listening, you have to picture trying to get a very, very fine tube onto something that is incredibly flat, and essentially you need this thing to form a vacuum seal and that just wasn't gonna happen. David: No, so, you know, vascular endothelial cells, they're the cells that line blood vessels, which is why they're, they're very flat. They're like tiles almost on the inside of veins and arteries.And you know, with other cells in the lab that were being looked at like the ones that you were looking at, like DRGs and like neurons and things like that, you know, you were basically putting the, the electrode down onto like a ball. Parmvir: Yeah. David: So the gap between the bottom of the dish and the top of the cell was who knows, 10, 20 microns, something like that. The cells that we were looking at, they flattened themselves out so much, they were about one micron, I think we estimated and therefore the tiniest vibration in the room would destroy the cell. And yeah, so the first stage was trying to culture, the damn things, and that was extremely challenging. It took a long time, but nine months of the way through managed it, and then began the whole pain of trying to get electrical recordings from them, which turned out to be as difficult. Parmvir: Yeah. So one of the things, I don't know if we ever talked about this, but what did you aspire to do after you'd done your PhD originally?Like, did you have any kind of idea? David: I mean, I think I was always headed into the pharmaceutical industry, which is where I landed up. In my undergrad degree in, I think my either first or second year, I did a very nice course, which was a kind of practical introduction to the pharmaceutical industry and from very top level, how drugs are developed and how pharma companies are organized internally and how the research progresses. And that, I'd always found that interesting. I mean, I find the entire pharmaceutical industry absolutely fascinating. And still do to this day. It's such an amazingly complex industry. And so, yeah, so I think I'd always been heading in that direction. Sure enough, the PhD certainly made me decide I was done with bench science [Parmvir laughs]. So, you know, by the time you've spent three plus years plodding along with these experiments that have a success rate of one in 50 sometimes. Parmvir: Yeah. David: You know, days and weeks without getting any data, and towards the end, still being in the lab at three o'clock in the morning, trying to get something to work and breaking more and more glassware as time goes on [Parmvir laughs]Yeah, I decided I was done with bench science, although I loved being in the labs, I loved playing in the labs. But I was never that into the kind of reading of the scientific papers and that sort of thing. Once it came down to maths and things like that, I wasn't so engaged. I needed to see practical things. Parmvir: Yeah. I feel like at some point we realized we were both some kind of engineer at heart rather than David: Yeah. Maybe Parmvir: scientist, David: maybe. Parmvir: It's more like, how does this work rather than trying to answer a bigger scientific question. David: Yeah. Parmvir: But obviously you were, you were a little bit scarred by your experience there, and you ended up going off in, I guess, a very different track from what the standard academic education leads you towards. So I think at this point this might be a good place to put your disclaimer in. David: Yes. So I work in the pharmaceutical industry and over time I've worked for, and with a variety of different companies.Any of the content that I describe today are my opinions and my opinions alone, and often they're really based off things which are in the public domain. In fact it's all based off things that were in the public domain and also some of the education that I've received, because actually, even after I finished my PhD, I then years later went on to study a, another academic course specifically in pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology.Parmvir: Oh, where did you do that? David: London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Parmvir: Oh. David: And it's interesting because it's a short course and I felt was a very valuable course. It's a course where regulatory authorities also send their people to learn too. Parmvir: So there's a lot of questions I can ask next.But one of the things that your job description throws up is this word "pharmacovigilance". What does that mean? David: Okay. So somewhere because I'm not gonna do it justice from memory, I'm going to read out the WHO definition of pharmacovigilance. It doesn't roll off the tongue, unfortunately, which is why it's never quite there in my head.So per the WHO: pharmacovigilance is the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects, or any other medicine, or vaccine-related problem. So essentially it is the process and the science relating to drug side effects. Now as you'll remember from pharmacology days, very early on, you're taught that all pharmacologically active substances, if it applies to the human body have side effects. The same side effects are not encountered by every person.And you know, some of the side effects might have obvious clinical manifestations. Some might not, you might get side effects, never know you've had them. And of course they vary massively in severity. So when you are looking at a medicine, particularly one that you're introducing to kind of general use in humans, you have a trade-off to make because you have an expected therapeutic benefit, but you also have to be mindful of potential side effects, particularly serious side effects and how much tolerance you have for those versus the good that the drug is supposed to do.And achieving that balance is one of the big challenges that's faced in drug development.Parmvir: So what you do really, it kind of comes at the end of the whole process of clinical trials and so on for given products, right? David: It actually starts right at the beginning of clinical development.So. Parmvir: Oh, hang on, I have to ask David's question: does that make you a Pharmacovigilante? David: [David and Parmvir laugh] I've often wondered the same thing myself. But yeah, so pharmacovigilance takes off really where toxicology leaves. So before you can put a drug into clinical development, by which I mean development in humans, drugs first have to go through preclinical development and that's where all the various toxicology studies are run.Parmvir: Can you quickly define toxicology for us? David: Sure. It is really focusing on the well, the potentially toxic side of medicines. So before you put a drug anywhere near a human, you want to be absolutely certain that it doesn't cause various catastrophic side effects in humans.So, for example, you need to be confident that it doesn't cause cancer. You need to be confident that it's not gonna cause a heart attack immediately, or cause a stroke immediately or things like that. So as per regulations in pretty much every country in the world, before you put a drug anywhere near a human in a clinical trial, it has to go through a standard set of tests.And there's various ways to achieve that. You know, sometimes those are tests using computer simulated models. Sometimes they are using individual cells or cultured cells or tissues. And sometimes as is well known in the industry they're using animal models and these are legally required tests.So every drug that goes through the process has to go through these. So that's done before it gets to clinical development. And then you start with phase one clinical trials which are studies on, usually on healthy volunteers and they're very small trials. They involve perhaps a few tens of patients. And the only purpose of those trials is to look at the safety and tolerability of the drug. So this is the first time you're putting the drug into humans. There is a bit of an exception to that. So although these are usually conducted on healthy volunteers, for some drugs, including, for example oncology drugs. Those drugs are usually along the more kind of toxic end of agents, so it's not ethical to put those into healthy volunteers. So sometimes those studies are conducted in a patient population. So once a drug moves into human studies into phase one, from that point, really for the rest of the lifetime of that drug as a human medicine pharmacovigilance is involved. So all the way through the phase one, two and three studies and then once the drug goes onto the market, pharmacovigilance continues.So the companies or the pharmaceutical or biotech companies that are developing these assets have a legal requirement to collect and analyze this data on an ongoing basis pretty much forever. Until that drug is eventually, perhaps if it's lucky enough to get to the market, until it's withdrawn from the market, perhaps many decades later.Parmvir: Very good. And I think that there are probably some very topical things that have come up recently as a result of COVID 19, which is important to consider when we're talking about these things, in that we are not just relying on these clinical trials that have gone out to ensure that these things are safe, but once they're out there that you have to continue to get feedback from people who are taking these to ensure that they continue to be safe in the long term, right?David: That's true. So, you know, ordinarily in clinical development, once you get through phase 1, 2, 3, and if you are lucky enough to have a drug, which is sufficiently efficacious, tolerable to go to market, then yes, you know, the drug's released to market and you continue to monitor for this stuff.Vaccines are in a particularly special category because they are drugs that are given to healthy people. Mm yes. And so therefore the benefit risk balance is more complicated in some ways, because , you know, it's, it's hard to consider the benefit to the individual of taking a product when they don't yet have that disease.So now there are other drugs that are in a similar category, other drugs that are given to healthy people. This is where I can ask you some questions. So what, what do you think those other drugs include? Parmvir: Oh, goodness. Um, I'm trying to think off the top of my head, what they might be. David: Yeah. It's very unfair. Parmvir: All I can think of at the moment are the other vaccines. David: Okay. So, Parmvir: but there are lots of prophylactic things. Yeah. Yeah. I can't think of anything David: Contraceptives. Parmvir: The obvious prophylactic. Yes. David: Drugs used for travel. So things like anti-malaria tablets. Parmvir: Oh yeah. David: Drugs used for things like smoking cessation Parmvir: mm-hmmDavid: stuff like that.So again, these are all drugs that are generally given to healthy people. So, you know, and this is where benefit risk balance comes into sharp focus, because if you have a drug that has been developed to treat a very hard to treat cancer, let's say, then when you consider benefit risk balance you know, if these patients are effectively going to die without a treatment, and this is the only treatment available, you might be able to accept that a drug has a one in a hundred chance of causing a fatal stroke. Particularly if that drug is given in hospital and these things can be, can be managed. If however, you are developing a cough medicine, then your tolerance for any type of dangerous side effects is basically zero, and of course, many drugs elsewhere on that scale. So yeah, benefit risk balance is a key part of what has to be looked at during drug development. And yeah, as we say, vaccines are particularly challenging. Often these days when a new drug is developed the clinical development and the studies don't stop necessarily when the drug is released for marketing. So, often as a condition of the marketing authorizations that are granted for these drugs, there have to be continuing studies to look at safety. These are called post-authorization safety studies. And so there's ongoing collection of data in a rigorous way to keep monitoring for various things. Either new things that we didn't know about the drug before, because of course when you're in clinical development, your number of patients is normally quite small Parmvir: mm-hmm David: so you're less likely to spot very rare side effects. You wouldn't usually detect a one in 50,000 probability side effect in a clinical trial cohort. Parmvir: Yeah. David: But sometimes these post authorization safety studies allow you to pick up more of that and enable you to characterize some of the side effects that you do know about more in detail.Parmvir: Yeah. So David B here asks essentially how long do these things go on after the drug's been on the market? For example, is there still pharmacovigilance for aspirin? David: Yes. Every single drug that has a marketing authorization out there it is the law in pretty much every country in the world that all safety data that becomes available to the marketing authorization holders, that's the company that owns the rights to the drug and effectively sells the drug, they're required by law to collect process, analyze and report this data. Now as drugs age, the natural reporting rate for some of these drugs drops so the probability of a physician or a pharmacist or a nurse, or even a patient reporting a side effect probably drops over time because theses are not new medicines anymore, but even so, any data that is collected has to go through that process, which is the pharmacovigilance that we were referring to earlier. In addition to that, all companies with marketing authorizations have to look at scientific and medical literature. It all has to be reviewed, so in European requirements, including the UK on a weekly basis, companies have to trawl some of the big literature databases, such as PubMed and M base, they have to trawl that information for any articles on their drugs. And any indication of side effects or other similar challenges. Parmvir: So how is this information collected and processed? Cause you've said obviously doctors, nurses, patients, they will all report certain things. Mm-hmm how do you kind of get them to a central place and cataloged and how do you decide what are actual side effects versus David: So if we think about the front end of the process, most pharma companies out there will have medical information help lines. So these are help lines that are set out there so that healthcare professionals. So that's the physicians, the, the pharmacists, the nurses and others but also consumers can contact the company for more information about the medicine and also potentially report adverse events, side effects. In parallel to that the same thing's going on with the regulators. So in the UK, for example, we have the yellow card scheme, which these days is a web portal system where anyone can go in and report side effects of medicines they're taking. In the us, you have the MedWatch scheme, which is very similar. Most companies around the world have similar things. Plus you've also got ongoing clinical trials, clinical studies, so data is coming in that way too. We've got data coming in from literature that I've mentioned. The regulators, when they receive stuff directly, they often pass that information over to the pharma company.So essentially all this information is coming towards the pharma company. It all gets directed to a pharmacovigilance department. And then we go through the process of processing that data. And so that data comes in from everywhere around the world where the drug is available for patients to take both in clinical trials and on the market.So the process basically consists of firstly translating the data, if it needs to be translated that gets captured into a safety database and there are various commercial safe databases out there. This is where companies collate all the information received on their drugs. And it goes through a process whereby data is kind of standardized it's put into standard terminology in a way that is compatible with the regulatory requirements. A narrative is constructed. So we write a story of what's happened to the patient from beginning to end. We look at various things like if the information is available to us, you know, what other medications were the patients taking? What's their medical history? What was the sequence of events? So what was the time to onset if possible, if we have that information between the patient taking the drug and them reporting the side effect, what the clinical course of the side effect was, so did the patient recover? Was any adjustment made to the the, the dosing or any treatments given? And so all that gets written up, we then decide what other information do we need to know?And then there's a feedback loop to go and ask the reporter if they'll provide additional information. Usually we ask for more information on more serious adverse events. We don't wanna overburden the reporters. Now reporters in clinical trials, so physicians involved in those, they're legally obliged to help with that process. Spontaneous reporters that we refer to, which is just where any healthcare professional or consumer contacts, the company, that's a voluntary reporting system, so we can ask them for additional information, they don't have to provide it, but we have to ask the questions anyway. So the information gets pulled together. It then goes, usually goes through a medical review, so we have kind of scientists pulling the data together. And then we have physicians reviewing the case, making sure it makes medical sense. And then depending on the seriousness of the case and other attributes, that case might have to be reported out to regulators worldwide.And a lot of the reports which are serious, have to be reported out within 15 days of what we call day zero, which is the first day anyone in the company became aware of the report. Parmvir: Mm-hmm. David: But to give you an idea, the large pharma companies are dealing with potentially tens of thousands of reports a week that are coming in on all of their products. So these are vast systems that are set up and they have to be set up to be able to meet all of the regulatory requirements in terms of timelines, for reporting. So the data's coming in, the expedited reports are going out in the format that the regulators require. We also have to pull together what we call aggregate reports. So these aggregated analyses of data over time for newer drugs, for example, those are submitted in Europe every six months. And then over time as the drug gets older, the gap between reports gets longer. And then also we're doing something, what we call signal section, which is where we are analyzing the data. And we're looking for trends in the data. Where we think we've got patterns we're starting to then look into researching those patterns a little bit more, you know, if we start to see, for example that I don't know that we are getting what appears to be a disproportionate number of nose bleeds, let's say, in a patient cohort, we would, you know, do background research on, well, you know, is there a plausible biological mechanism that we know about through the development of the drug? Was there stuff seen in the animal studies or even the human studies that might indicate that there's a, there's a root cause here.We'll look into confounding effects. Are all these patients on other drugs, which actually are likely causing that? And yeah, so kind of an appraisal is done: what's going on? Is it likely to be caused by something else? And if not, you know, we, keep on looking and those conversations then have to be shared with the regulatory authorities.And over time, what you'll see is the labeling of the product, the professional labeling which in Europe, including the UK, is the SMPC, the summary of product characteristics, which is a bit like the instruction manual for the product, which is available to healthcare professionals and the simplified version of that PIL those little leaflets you find inside of packs, those eventually get revised on an ongoing basis to accommodate the new knowledge that we are gaining on the side effect profile of the drug. So this is an ongoing process and it happens throughout the entire lifetime of the, of the drug. Parmvir: But yeah, so here's a subject that no one's talked about for a little while. COVID 19 David: mm-hmm Parmvir: [laughs] Obviously I know there's probably a collective groan from people listening right now, but it seems like a relevant subject, given the conversations around safety that people are having with regard to the vaccine. So do you know if there's been like a major uptick in these reports by individuals, of side effects from the vaccines, or do you take account of the fact that so many billions of people essentially at this point have received at least one shot of the vaccine versus how many reports you get coming in?David: Yeah. So this is one of the big challenges, and one of the things I should have said about drugs like vaccines is because they're given to such vast numbers of people, it becomes a particular challenge to differentiate between things which are being caused potentially by the vaccine and other things, which unfortunately are just bad luck of being a human being.And by that, I mean, so years ago when I was doing one of the academic courses we were being taught about the vast amounts of research that had to be done in terms of epidemiology before the HPV vaccines were released. So these vaccines were being released for use in teenage girls, and at the time it was felt that there was perhaps an insufficient understanding of the general health of that population, including things like what is the probability of a freak occurrence that a teenage girl is going to have a stroke or something like that? Things which we think of as of course, they're exceptionally rare, but they do happen.Parmvir: Mm-hmm David: and I'm talking about in untreated populations. Parmvir: Yep. David: But of course, you know, some of these patients are also on birth control and things like that, that also have other risk factors associated with them so my understanding is before the HPV vaccines were released, a huge amount of epidemiology research was done so that when the new vaccines were released, we knew that we would expect, and I'm just gonna make up a number here that, you know, one in 500,000 teenage girls would have, I don't know, some kind of fatal event which would just naturally occur, you know, even without them having the vaccine. And so that's similar for other vaccine rollouts as well. There has to be a good understanding of the background events of other things that, people will have happen to them, which have nothing to do with the medicine that you are giving.So, you know, that data is kept available and kept an eye on by the regulatory authorities and also the pharma companies. We don't have background rates for everything, so being prepared for what might come and then, you know, there perhaps isn't so much panic when the first case comes in of a patient that has one of these catastrophic events but if you start to see more than that, that's when you start to perhaps get more interested in: is this really being caused by the vaccine or the drug of interest. So, yeah, a lot of upfront work has to be done before you even put the drug out there. I mean, in terms of the COVID vaccines and the treatments, because of the high degree of public interest and scrutiny a lot of these drugs when they were first given and the vaccines were first given, so adverse events, side effects were tracked through post-authorization safety studies. So actually a lot of people, when they got their first doses, consented to have maybe a follow up call from an investigator who would ask them about various side effects that happened. So in addition to all of the natural spontaneous reporting that was coming in, there were very large cohorts of past study data coming in which is a robust way to look at these things. I know as well, there were legitimate questions about, you know, the COVID vaccines in particular were produced fairly quickly compared to the usual 10 to 15 years in development of, of a product. But you know, there are various reasons for this. So vaccines are perhaps one of the medicines where it's more possible to template out the product and therefore switch out components. But they still have a product which is similar to other products that have previously been used. But also, the COVID era in terms of vaccine development and treatment development was, in my opinion at least a completely unique event in terms of drug development so far. If you think of drug development as a kind of universe, or I'm gonna use some wonky analogies here, but let's say as galaxies, which have solar systems within them that have planets within them.So if you think of the galaxy of drug development you have all of these different stakeholders involved. You have the pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies and the service companies that support them, that's one area. You have the regulatory authorities but you have many other stakeholders.You have patients, of course they're the most important. For chronic diseases you might have patient advocacy groups. But also, you know, you guys are part of this universe as well, because you are the ones doing basic research, which is the foundation on which all, you know, all of this is, is ultimately built. So you have universities and other research organizations. You have the funding bodies that sit behind those that decide where the research money goes. And then out the other end of the process you have ethics committees that are involved in approving clinical trials. You have payers. So these are the organizations that ultimately pay for medicinal products in the UK, for example, that's the NHS. Parmvir: Yep. David: In the US, that would be insurance companies. Parmvir: Yeah. David: You have many other stakeholders. So you have obviously healthcare professionals at the end of the day, new drugs have to be woven into the fabric of medicine. And so you have to bring HCPs along with you. There are the learning bodies as well in relation to HCPs, the kind of professional bodies.So that's really at a kind of galaxy level, these are all the different solar systems. And then within them, if you look at the pharmaceutical biotechnology and service provider solar system, within those you have an incredibly complicated set of different skills departments, functions, you have the functions that are doing discovery.So these are the early days of, development where, you know, biologists and chemists are working out, you know, what are the new therapeutic targets we can look at? Then you have the clinical development division. You have the patent divisions, you have the regulatory affairs functions. You have the pharmacovigilance functions. You have the medical affairs functions, you have the medical information functions [Parmvir cackles]. There are, and I'm going to miss out many, many. You have the, the bio stats folks, you have the medical writers. And then of course you have the manufacturing, which is in itself a completely different, you know, specialized world.So yeah, you're dealing with a very complicated process with lots of things which are interlinked. But for me, if you think of all these things, like if you use layout or different compass, let's say, and I'm talking about the compass you use to check direction, not the ones you used to draw circles [Parmvir laughs] and if you scatter them all out they'll all be pointing at different directions. You know, all of these different entities have their own priorities. Because of course the industry as a whole is developing many different medicinal products for different reasons. I think when COVID came along, it was like drawing a magnet across the top of all those compasses and it got all the needles to point in the same direction.So you had governments who had a clear incentive to try and support the development of treatments. So you had governments putting up money, which was perhaps slightly unusual. They were putting money into basic research, such as the type of stuff that you guys do. They were putting money into diagnostics, which are critical for things like COVID.They were putting money into the development of vaccines and into treatments. And then of course, you know, you have the pharma companies where there was a scramble to try and develop something, to help humanity in its hour of need. You had the regulators with a lot of focus on them you know, and everyone watching their, every move and trying to ensure that you know, as many processes that often might take months, or perhaps even years were made as efficient as possible.Parmvir: Mm-hmm David: And it was a unique point in time because everyone was lined up with the same objective. So it meant, for example, that, you know, parts of the industry, which are normally a nine to five job, became a 24/7 job. Parmvir: Yeah. David: For a short period of time.And there was a huge amount of collaboration, which happened between the different stakeholder groups, you know regulatory authorities offered perhaps free scientific advice to companies that were developing this stuff. They met very regularly with companies that were in development. They gave a lot of advice as to what their expectations were when the data was received by them. They shortened some administrative pathways let's say which usually take a lot of time. They prioritized resource. So there's resource specifically waiting for this data to come in. And so, yeah, a lot of normal processes were adapted so that things could be done as efficiently as possible.And the outcome was that, you know, these drugs went through the entire process in a much more efficient way than would usually be encountered. I think another thing as well is with things like vaccines, the side effects that we anticipate to see, including the rare unusual ones ordinarily these manifest within, you know, days or weeks.It's not something that usually we anticipate things to occur years later. So there was that aspect too, but yeah, it was a, it was a unique time. Parmvir: Yeah. And actually this is a good throwback to Dr. Carina Rodriguez's podcast because she ran one of the clinical trials for the vaccine in children at USF where I work.David: Oh, fascinating. Parmvir: Yeah, so she talked about some of the things that you mentioned as well. David: I should say I was not involved sadly in any of the COVID vaccine development, but you know, it was fascinating to watch and actually to see my profession become a talking point in the news every day. Parmvir: Yes. David: It was very interesting to see all of this play out.Parmvir: Yeah. So actually, that's probably a good point to pause and ask you, what do you actually do? David: Okay. So [everyone laughs]. So as I've kind of indicated the process of pulling in adverse event data of coding it, which is the term we use for tidying up all of the data, putting it into a safety database, writing those narratives, getting the medical review, getting the important cases out the other end to the regulators, writing the reports, doing the signal section.These are very complicated processes and every company will develop them slightly differently. You know, small biotech companies, they might only have one product. It might only be approved in one or two countries. A top five pharma company will have hundreds of products authorized in many countries around the world. But all of these processes are put together in compliance with extremely strict regulations. Regulations that as I said exist in almost every country in the world and actually the regulations kind of cross over in the sense of, if you have a product that's authorized for marketing in the UK and the US, for example you know, the UK requires you to collect all the data and analyze it as does the US.They also require you to collect the data from each other's territories so companies are in the middle of the very complicated regulatory framework, which is a little bit different in each country, but fortunately is harmonized through some international bodies and international terminology. But building pharmacovigilance systems is complicated and it has to be done right. Firstly, for the obvious reason that we want to protect patients it's in no one's interest that that that patients are not protected. But also, you know, the penalties for not complying with these complex regulatory requirements are severe. And so my job really, as a, let's say senior leader within a pharmacovigilance department is to make sure that we build the right structures.And for these companies that we that we keep an eye out on all the areas, which are potential challenges and that companies are being compliant with the legislation to which we're all held. And so, so yeah, so building pharmacovigilance systems, I think is the simplest way I can describe it.Parmvir: It sounds pretty heavy and pretty complicated. David: Yeah. I mean, if you look at the larger pharma companies, if you add up all of the resource that they put into pharmacovigilance that they're legally required to put into pharmacovigilance, to service the needs of their products. A lot of things are outsourced these days, if you the count everything that comes from the outsourcing organizations as well, the big pharma companies have thousands of people like me involved in the processing and analysis of this data. So it is a big area, and that is all we do. You know, we are not involved in any other aspect of the drug. Not involved in the sales and marketing, for example, with the product, that's almost the complete opposite side of the company to us, all we do is you know, work in this very professionalized, very standardized discipline, which is pharmacovigilance. Parmvir: So David has a couple of questions. So first one should be relatively quick, which is that, is there a regulatory authority that is the gold standard? David: [David laughs] This is a very politically sensitive one.There are certainly some regulatory authorities who, particularly in some of the larger markets who are let's say more prominent. So examples would be the US FDA, the food and drug administration that is the drug regulatory authority for the United States. In the UK, we also have an extremely prominent regulator, the MHRA they're one of the oldest regulators, I believe in the world. So that's the UK medicines and healthcare products, regulatory agency. But you know, every country has its own regulator and whilst there are some who put themselves out there, perhaps as world leading regulators, there are just as many others that are doing the same important job for their countries. The European Union and European Economic Area has a slightly more complicated system because they have a coordinating regulatory authority, which is the European Medicines agency, the EMA, who many of you all have heard about in news reports, particularly during the COVID situation. But at a national level, you also have all of the national regulators who are working in tandem with the EMA. Parmvir: Okay. So this sounds quite different from, obviously it's very different from what you were doing during your PhD. David: Yes. Parmvir: He also wants to know, how did your PhD work, prepare you to do what you do now. David: If I could sum it up in one phrase, and this is a phrase which is overused, but I think in this case, it is really true: problem solving.Parmvir: Mm-hmm David: because it's interesting, you mentioned earlier that you and I we're almost engineers. Well, I went from becoming a physical engineer, at least in a lab environment to a process engineer. And, you know, I always used to think very naively when I was doing the basic research with you, I used to think, look, we are solving problems that no one knows the answer to. This must be the hardest job in the world. [Parmvir laughs] We're not solving manmade problems. Manmade problems must be so easy to solve. But no manmade problems [Parmvir laughs] are also particularly challenging. And when I say manmade problems, you know, I'm not talking about problems that someone is deliberately created, it's just, you know, logistical challenges, and just the challenges caused by working in, you know, different regulatory envionments with different sets of requirements and how to build processes that meet all of the requirements at the same time. And react to events, of course, because it might well be that you've had a product that has been ticking along nicely for a long time. And then suddenly there is a safety concern with the product. And if that safety concern is in the public domain, you will be deluged with reports in relation to that product called stimulated reporting. And you know, of course sometimes companies will be subject to class action lawsuits particularly in the US. So they might also receive large volumes of reports all in one go. All of those reports have to meet the same legal timelines, but now suddenly you've got 10,000 reports landed on your desk. Each one takes four hours to process and they're all due to the regulators in 15 days. So yeah, it is challenging working in a hyper regulated environment. Parmvir: Essentially these are problems that come about because we are humans. David: Exactly. Yeah. Parmvir: And we have to somehow live together. David: Yeah. Parmvir: So I had a couple of questions from my little sister and these might not be directly related to your work, but they are related to the fact that you work within an environment that involves clinical trials and patients and so on.And so Sukhy wants to know are side effects from drugs, usually the same for healthy people versus patients. David: This is a great question and cause me a little bit of head scratching. I think, I mean, the answer is it depends, I think by and large. Yes. But there will be some exceptions and those exceptions include things like some of the oncology treatments, because obviously there is an interaction often between the drug and the tumor, for example, so in a healthy person you can't emulate that because there is no tumor. So an example would be a phenomenon called tumorlysis syndrome which can only occur when there's a tumor to react to the particular drug. But by and large, yes, we extrapolate safety data from healthy individuals initially, which is why the earlier phases of studies are done often in healthy volunteers with some exceptions. But yeah. Then when we move on to phase two and then phase three, phase two and three are conducted in patients that have the indication of interest, I have the disease that we're trying to treat.Parmvir: So another question she had: how do you know people who are not healthy will be able to tolerate the drugs given that initially that they're tested on healthy people?David: So the first thing I would say is I'm not an expert in the design of clinical trials, but as I said, as you go through phase one which are the trials that are normally on healthy patients, you actually start out with a tiny, tiny dose. So you have an idea of dosing from your animal studies, but the data isn't always transferrable. But you take the maximum tolerable dose in animals, including in the most sensitive animals. And you then cut that by huge factor by perhaps 500 fold. Parmvir: Right. David: So you start out with a tiny amount and then you escalate up the doses to see how the patients are tolerating the drug, not the patients subject, I should say. So these are healthy volunteers usually. Parmvir: Yep. David: So that's phase one, but yeah, then of course, when you go into phase two, you're dealing with a different patient population. I don't know exactly how that's always done, but of course, you know, trials are put together by experts in the field. And they involve, you clinicians whose expertise is this particular area of medicine.Parmvir: Yeah. David: And of course it's not just the physicians at the pharmaceutical company and the biopharma company and the scientists, I should say as well. Also, this stuff is going to regulatory authorities, it's going to ethics committees, all of whom will have their own areas of expertise. So, you know, protocols are designed around the patient and to ensure the patients are not put at unnecessary risk.Parmvir: Ah, sometimes David sends me one of those questions that really makes me giggle. And this is if regulations are so important and onerous, how do I start my own biotech in the garage? David: [David laughs] Well, it's interesting, you know, companies don't necessarily have to be that big themselves to get started, but what they will need is a lot of help.Parmvir: Yeah. David: So what you'll see these days is you know, new biotechs starting up. But they rely very heavily on outsourcing. So they will partner with service providers with contract research organizations, with contract manufacturing organizations, all sorts of other parties that have the expertise that perhaps they aren't able to pull together themselves.But yeah, there are some companies out there, particularly smaller companies in earlier development that are, you know, pretty small might have 20 people in the company. Parmvir: Yeah. David: But they will need to rely on the help of many others, because going back to the kind of universe description that I gave, you know, there are so many specialized areas that you need to have covered in order to pull together everything you need, both to run a clinical trial. and also to submit a marketing authorization application. And then also keep your product compliant with all of the legal requirements that are out there.Parmvir: It's a lot.David: It is a lot, and you know this is why drug development is so costly because it needs a truly vast number of specialists involved. And, you know, quite a lot of physicians as well. And also, you know, most drugs that enter drug development don't make it all the way through the other end, so the end costs of medicinal products also have to cover the cost of the drugs that didn't make it.And plus companies only have a certain period of exclusivity before their drug becomes generic, i.e., other companies can start making it. Parmvir: So this is purely from a personal perspective, from your point of view: what do you think about the fact that obviously you have these companies who have put so much money developing these things, which were designed to treat a global pandemic. And yet we found that for example, like entire continents, like Africa still don't have a lot of people vaccinated against COVID 19, and those companies will refuse to open up the patents to allow them to be able to get people to stay healthy. David: Yeah, it's an area that really I'm not really sufficiently qualified to talk on. And I'm not just saying that, you know, through not wanting to put my foot in my mouth, but particularly with some of the vaccine technologies that were used, they were not simple medicines to manufacture. So not simple to manufacture, not simple to store, not simple to distribute. And sometimes I guess, it is perhaps a legitimate concern of a company that if other companies start making their same drug to a lower quality, that can have ramifications elsewhere. Now I'm not saying that that was the reason behind some of what you mentioned. Now there was a vaccine that was developed the UK vaccine which was specifically developed from the outset to be made available in developing world countries, let's say, and specifically to be made available at cost. And even the way that product was designed, it can be manufactured and stored at fridge temperature Parmvir: mm-hmm, which is a big deal. David: Exactly. It is a big deal, you know, those are all very important components to consider. A vaccine that could be used in those environments. But even, I remember because I vacuumed up all of the documentaries I think on television, Netflix, everywhere else about all of the challenges that were being faced. And, you know, there were even things that you just wouldn't think about, which was, you know, because the mRNA vaccines had to be stored at -80 [degrees Celsius], there wasn't enough minus 80 freezers in the developed countries, let alone figuring out how to develop and ship these to other countries with different climatic conditions.And so you even had the manufacturers of that type of equipment, having to up their game and suddenly churn out much more equipment than they previously had. So, yeah, there's no simple answer. I mean, historically there've been other challenges in the past with other types of drugs, such as the HIV medications. In the end access to those drugs was resolved through very careful dialogue between companies, regulators others. Access issues, I believe to those drugs, and again, this is just basically what I see on documentaries and other things; where are access problems these days, they're not in relation to the drug supply chain they're in relation to other things like people not wanting to come forward and receive treatment because of the stigma associated with things like that.Parmvir: So in short, do you enjoy your work? David: I do. I mean, I can honestly say that in my work every day is different. I'm very privileged in my job to support a number of different companies that are developing different products with a very wide variety of indications. And also, you know, just when you think you've seen it all worked with a wide variety of medicinal products, suddenly something completely new will come along. For example, we are now on the precipice of many commercial gene therapies coming out. Parmvir: Ooh. David: And you know, those products have some different considerations. Perhaps some of these interventions are irreversible Parmvir: mm-hmm.David: So, you know, what happens if patients do start developing something rare and unexpected. You have patients surviving a lot longer than was originally envisaged so, you know, are there other things which come about you know, as a result of the underlying disease that just no one had ever seen before. And yeah, many other types of technologies and the regulations are always having to evolve to take into account of these new therapies and the challenges associated with them.Parmvir: Well, it sounds like you will continue to live in interesting times. David: Yeah. I don't think I'm going anywhere anytime soon . Parmvir: Well, thank you so much for your time today, David. That was fantastic. And yeah, as I say, we kind of thought of you as soon as we started thinking about the safety surrounding things like COVID vaccines and knew that was your jam.So yes, we very much appreciate your time today. David: Okay. Thank you very much. [musical interlude]David: So I mentioned earlier that at an early point in my PhD, I switched to studying vascular endothelial cells that were harvested from pigs. So essentially these were pigs that were being slaughtered for the meat industry. And so I had to look through a phone book and identify an abattoir that I could go to and get the tissue that I needed to do my experiments so obviously this all had to start somewhere. So I put in a call to an abattoir in deepest, darkest Essex. And I gingerly made my way on the train to this place, which of course was in the middle of rural nowhere. And unfortunately the first day that I picked to go, it was snowing. Now we don't get vast amounts of snow in Southern England, but this was a decent sprinkling of snow. So I arrived in this quiet rural destination and I walked across various fields. I think I'd perhaps just got GPS on my phone, but it was very early days. And I was lost in fields of white in no time at all. So I ended up putting in a call to, the guys, to, come and pick me up, which they very kindly did. So then, you know, at that time I really didn't know what a coronary artery looked like so what I decided to do for that first trip was I just collected the fresh hearts that they were able to bring out the processing facility. So these were kind of warm pig hearts, freshly harvested from animals. I think I had three hearts or something like that. And so I had a large polystyrene box with me with some ice in it. And I think they were kind enough to give me the ice, as I put these hearts inside bags and put them in the box and then started making my way back to London. And of course, you know, this being a cold day, the heating was on, on the train, and so as I was sat on the train, in fact, I think it was when I got onto the tube, I suddenly became horrified that my polystyrene box was starting to leak water. And of course I knew, but no one else knew on the tube that within that water were bags, perhaps not secured, very tightly containing hearts and containing probably a fair amount of blood.And I suddenly started sweating that this puddle that was starting to pull around my polystyrene box on the floor of the tube would suddenly start to go pink and then red. And then before I knew it, I would be in serious trouble. So it was just one of those situations where the tube journey seemed to get longer and longer, and I was sweating more and more and then it got to the point where I felt that I couldn't wait any longer, so I kind of dashed outta the tube at the next station went up what was perhaps one of the longest escalators on the underground and managed to just get out the other side before I caused perhaps a fake terrorist incident or something like that. I was trying to think about how I would explain that I'd got three hearts in my polystyrene box and a set of scalpels bearing in mind that pig's hearts are very similar size to human hearts as well. So, yes, I managed just about to get to the lab. I clearly looked quite distressed, I suppose when I got back to the lab. So I started telling this story to my PhD supervisor, Dennis, and uh a retired professor that had come into the department, Don. And before too long, the two of them were crying with laughter at my story.So, um, so yeah, so that was my very first trip and yes, never, never forgotten.[musical outro]David: Our lab, when we first joined, it was quite old and a bit dog eared. And there was one particular chair in the office, which was, I mean, it was like a typical office swivel chair, but it had definitely seen better days and it was extremely uncomfortable. And when we had lab meetings, no one wanted to sit on this chair. And so Parmvir and I nicknamed it, Beelzebub's stool.

Menopause.  Something we don't want to talk about, but when it hits us, it's hard not to!  In this episode, I welcome Nutritional Therapist Alison Bladh (https://www.alisonbladh.com/)  to talk to us about how to naturally minimize peri menopause symptoms with lifestyle changes.  A fascinating and mindset shifting episode to help you ease into menopause a little less uncomfortably, so listen in!We talk aboutWhat is menopause?  Perimenopause?  And what happens during the stagesFoods to help reduce menopause symptomsLifestyle changes rather than dietingWhat times should I eatHow much should I eatand some fun facts about the Mediterranean diet vs the Standard American Diet.  Want more?  Check out these links.website https://www.alisonbladh.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/pinktearoom Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alisonbladh/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alisonbladhnutrition/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-bladh-b5178638/ Pinterest https://www.pinterest.se/AlisonBladhNutrition/_created/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/ @alisonbladhAbout AlisonI am a registered Nutritional Therapist BSc (hons), mBANT, mCNHC, mNWTF who is passionate about empowering women globally to reclaim their health during the menopause transition (perimenopause, menopause, post menopause and beyond) through realistic evidence-based nutrition, mindset and lifestyle modifications. I was lucky enough to grow up on a farm in Southern England which gave me a great love for nature and the outdoor life and on top of that my mother was a professional chef who allowed me from a very young age to help and watch her in the kitchen. This was the beginning of my love for food. I have travelled extensively and lived in different parts of the world. This has given me the opportunity to experience different cultures, cuisines and lifestyles.Having had a career in the health and beauty industry for over 30 years, I was always amazed to see how simple lifestyle and nutritional changes could improve not only women's health and well-being but also their happiness. Throughout my career journey, my underlying passion has always been about improving midlife women's health using the power of nutrition, lifestyle modifications and mindset. It gives me great pleasure to help midlife women overcome their health issues so that they can look and feel amazing. I truly believe that with good nutritious food, a positive mindset and health promoting lifestyle choices the body can heal itself and age healthily. My aim is to focus on positive nutrition - it's not about restriction, it's about what we can include in our diet for maximum health.I combine my understanding, enthusiasm and passion with my love of food to help people become the best versions of themselves.When I'm not at work I enjoy spending time with my family, cooking, being in the kitchen and experimenting with new recipe ideas. I am also a keen scuba diver, golfer, hiker, beekeeper and enjoy being in the great outdoors.  I am British but am living in Swe

Whitney Scharer's historical novel The Age of Light takes us from the glamor of Paris in the 1920s to the horror of World War II battlefields in a startlingly modern love story based on the true life of fashion model and gifted photographer. Lee Miller. Hi there. I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler. And today we have a treat. Whitney Scharer's debut novel. I know we usually do series, but this is a little bit special. It's a great mesmerizing portrait of a true woman, Lee Miller as she transforms from muse to artist. She's the girl who in her twenties, the former Vogue cover girl, who said, ‘I'd rather take a photograph than be in one.' Author Paula McLain called it "rapturous and razor sharp." As usual we've got free book treats for you. this week it's historical freebies, which we can down load here: DOWNLOAD HISTORIC FREEBIES And don't forget, you can encourage my endeavors on the show. We reaching nearly 250 episodes now, and it does cost time and money for me to put these on every week. By becoming a Patreon supporter for less than a cup of coffee a month, you'll receive exclusive bonus content like here in Whitney, answer the, getting to know you. Five quickfire questions. That's. Part of the exclusive content on Patrion that's P a T R E O n.com. Forward slash the joys have been dreading. If you can't see your way there to doing that, then how about just supporting one episode@buymeacoffee.com/jennywheel/X BUY ME A COFFEE Links to points discussed in the show: The Age of Light: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/whitney-scharer/the-age-of-light/9780316524094/ Lee Miller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Miller Man Ray: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray Lee Miller's famous picture of herself in Hitler's bathtub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK1KUYTluTU Man Ray, Solarization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QITcY3W0mto The Lee Miller Archive:  https://www.leemiller.co.uk/ Anthony Penrose:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Penrose# Lee Miller's cookbook: https://www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk/product/lee-miller-a-life-with-food-friends-recipes-2/ Books Whitney is reading: Emily St John  Mandel, Sea Of Tranquility:      https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Tranquility-Emily-John-Mandel/dp/0593321448 Jennifer Egan, The Candy House:  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Candy-House/Jennifer-Egan/9781476716763 Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad: https://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307477479 Ann Leary, The Foundling; https://annleary.com/ Where to find Whitney online: Where to find Whitney Scharer online: Website: http://www.whitneyscharer.com Twitter: @wscharer Instagram: @wscharer Facebook: facebook.com/whitneyscharerwriter/ Things you will learn in Whitney and The Age of Light How and why Whitney came to write the book How Lee Miller and May Ray met. Their innovative photographic collaboration in Paris The love affair that turned toxic Lee Miller's wartime career. Parisian art world of the 20s and 30s What historical fiction authors choose to leave in or leave out of their story Lee Miller's son's work in maintaining her artistic legacy Lee Miller's later role as the ‘Julia Child of Southern England' If you like Whitney you might also like... Gill Paul on Lady Eve Herbert and the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb.. another bio- fictional story where truth was almost stranger than fiction... https://thejoysofbingereading.com/gill-paul-on-encore/ LISTEN TO GILL ON ENCORE Next Week: Encore On Binge Reading

A registered Nutritional Therapist who is passionate about empowering women to reclaim their health through realistic evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle modifications. I live and work in Sweden and the UK. "I was lucky enough to grow up on a farm in Southern England which gave me a great love for nature and the outdoor life and on top of that my mother was a professional chef who allowed me from a very young age to help and watch her in the kitchen. This was the beginning of my love for food. I have travelled extensively and lived in different parts of the world. This has given me the opportunity to experience different cultures, cuisines and lifestyles. Having had a career in the health and beauty industry for many years, I was always amazed to see how simple lifestyle and nutritional changes could improve not only people's health and well-being but also their happiness. Throughout my career journey, my underlying passion has always been about health and nutrition. It gives me great pleasure to help people overcome their health issues so that they can look and feel better. I truly believe that with good nutritious food and lifestyle choices the body can heal itself and age healthily. My aim is to focus on positive nutrition - it's not about restriction, it's about what we can include in our diet for maximum health. Having overcome my own health issues, I really do understand how my clients feel when they first come to see me. I work very closely with my clients to ensure that they take positive steps to a healthier life. Clients often lack confidence and may often feel very daunted at the prospect of making changes. As a nutritional therapist, I support and give my clients the tools to be able to maintain long-term health with renewed confidence and enthusiasm. I combine my understanding, enthusiasm and passion with my love of food to help people become the best versions of themselves. When I'm not at work I enjoy spending time with my family, cooking, being in the kitchen, and experimenting with new recipe ideas. I am also a keen scuba diver, golfer, hiker, and beekeeper and enjoy being in the great outdoors." https://www.alisonbladh.com/

A registered Nutritional Therapist who is passionate about empowering women to reclaim their health through realistic evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle modifications. I live and work in Sweden and the UK. "I was lucky enough to grow up on a farm in Southern England which gave me a great love for nature and the outdoor life and on top of that my mother was a professional chef who allowed me from a very young age to help and watch her in the kitchen. This was the beginning of my love for food. I have travelled extensively and lived in different parts of the world. This has given me the opportunity to experience different cultures, cuisines and lifestyles. Having had a career in the health and beauty industry for many years, I was always amazed to see how simple lifestyle and nutritional changes could improve not only people's health and well-being but also their happiness. Throughout my career journey, my underlying passion has always been about health and nutrition. It gives me great pleasure to help people overcome their health issues so that they can look and feel better. I truly believe that with good nutritious food and lifestyle choices the body can heal itself and age healthily. My aim is to focus on positive nutrition - it's not about restriction, it's about what we can include in our diet for maximum health. Having overcome my own health issues, I really do understand how my clients feel when they first come to see me. I work very closely with my clients to ensure that they take positive steps to a healthier life. Clients often lack confidence and may often feel very daunted at the prospect of making changes. As a nutritional therapist, I support and give my clients the tools to be able to maintain long-term health with renewed confidence and enthusiasm. I combine my understanding, enthusiasm and passion with my love of food to help people become the best versions of themselves. When I'm not at work I enjoy spending time with my family, cooking, being in the kitchen, and experimenting with new recipe ideas. I am also a keen scuba diver, golfer, hiker, and beekeeper and enjoy being in the great outdoors." https://www.alisonbladh.com/

Today, Dr. Georgia Purdom of Answers in Genesis finishes her talk on how science supports the flood...and while there is slightly more actual science in this one, there's still not really much.Sources:Discovering Our Distant Ancestors | Out of Africa: https://bit.ly/3zCPTI7Problems with a Global Flood: https://bit.ly/3BKl1IGThe Imperative Of Non-stationary Natural Law In Relation To Noah's Flood (CRSQ Volume 27, 1990): https://bit.ly/3IKbh2wEvidence for a Flood - Sediment layers suggest that 7,500 years ago Mediterranean water roared into the Black Sea: https://bit.ly/3c8IOCbYes, Noah's Flood May Have Happened, But Not Over the Whole Earth: https://bit.ly/3d8Bz2OIgneous Rocks: https://bit.ly/3vJJutDHow do lava flows cool and how long does it take?: https://on.doi.gov/3SsVPw8Sedimentary Rocks: https://bit.ly/3zzHiWNFormation of Chalk Beds: http://bit.ly/2CN9RnUWhat is chalk and how does it form? http://bit.ly/2CN9RnUThe Cretaceous Chalk in Southern England: http://bit.ly/31aRBPwMount St Helens As A Model For The Grand Canyon?: https://bit.ly/3dg8mD1Talk Origins - Claim CH581.1: https://bit.ly/3bE4ET6Still Life In Amber: Creatures That Met A Sticky End In Tree Resin Have Become Assets For Jewellers And Researchers Alike: https://bit.ly/3Q8gLahThe Oldest Known Well-Preserved Leather Shoe, from the Cave of Areni-1, Armenia: https://bit.ly/3dekF2JDazhdbog in Russian mythology: https://bit.ly/3PcRY3fWorldwide Waters: Laurasian Flood Myths and Their Connections: https://bit.ly/3p2oAlPTranslating Genesis 3:15: https://bit.ly/3zFX42pOriginal Video: https://bit.ly/3PSWh4wCards:Noah Left the Insects Behind

A registered Nutritional Therapist who is passionate about empowering women to reclaim their health through realistic evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle modifications. I live and work in Sweden and the UK. "I was lucky enough to grow up on a farm in Southern England which gave me a great love for nature and the outdoor life and on top of that my mother was a professional chef who allowed me from a very young age to help and watch her in the kitchen. This was the beginning of my love for food. I have travelled extensively and lived in different parts of the world. This has given me the opportunity to experience different cultures, cuisines and lifestyles. Having had a career in the health and beauty industry for many years, I was always amazed to see how simple lifestyle and nutritional changes could improve not only people's health and well-being but also their happiness. Throughout my career journey, my underlying passion has always been about health and nutrition. It gives me great pleasure to help people overcome their health issues so that they can look and feel better. I truly believe that with good nutritious food and lifestyle choices the body can heal itself and age healthily. My aim is to focus on positive nutrition - it's not about restriction, it's about what we can include in our diet for maximum health. Having overcome my own health issues, I really do understand how my clients feel when they first come to see me. I work very closely with my clients to ensure that they take positive steps to a healthier life. Clients often lack confidence and may often feel very daunted at the prospect of making changes. As a nutritional therapist, I support and give my clients the tools to be able to maintain long-term health with renewed confidence and enthusiasm. I combine my understanding, enthusiasm and passion with my love of food to help people become the best versions of themselves. When I'm not at work I enjoy spending time with my family, cooking, being in the kitchen, and experimenting with new recipe ideas. I am also a keen scuba diver, golfer, hiker, and beekeeper and enjoy being in the great outdoors." https://www.alisonbladh.com/

SharpHR Career Corner had a fascinating conversation with Tracey Howes about functional breathwork.  If you never heard of it Tracey will explain what it is and how it is used to help so many people with a multitude of issues.  Tracey comes to us from the Greater Bournemouth Area, Southern England.  She tells her career story and how functional breathwork has had such a positive impact on her life and career.   Tracey Howes -  https://linktr.ee/traceyhowes Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter Introduction by David Bittner, Independent Producer - David Bittner, LLC - Music provided by: Konstantin Kasyanov - Relaxed Inspiring Corporate, Scott Holmes - Upbeat Party

On today's episode of the Craft Industry Alliance podcast, we're talking about building a craft kit business with my guest Stephanie Carswell. Stephanie is the Founder and Creative Director of Hawthorn Handmade, a textile craft kit design company based in Dorset in Southern England. Hawthorn Handmade began in 2013 with a small range of needle felting kits, and over the last 9 years has developed from a small side business started in the back room of Stephanie's previous business, a gallery and haberdashery/workshop space, to a well-known creative company selling their embroidery, cross stitch, needle felting, weaving and felt craft kits through almost 600 stores around the world including over 250 in the US. Stephanie lives in a rural village nearby to their business unit with her rescue lurcher Clodagh and partner Owen, who is also Hawthorn's website developer. When she's not busy with the business she loves playing tennis, pottering in her garden, and crashing on the sofa in front of Netflix. +++++ This episode is sponsored by WARP+WEFT TEXTILES, an online fabric store operating on Coast Salish land. WARP+WEFT is a plastics-free business offering woven fabrics and independent patterns. As one of the few stockists of TAUKO Magazine, WARP+WEFT shares the quarterly sewing publication's emphasis on climate, culture, and community.  +++++ To get the full show notes for this episode visit Craft Industry Alliance where you can learn more about becoming a member of our supportive trade association. Strengthen your creative business, stay up to date on industry news, and build connections with forward-thinking craft professionals. Join today.  

Queen Elizabeth was crowned and buried in 1603 at Westminster Abbey, a large twin-towered Gothic church with a vast interior. Founded over a millennium ago, it is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Many royal marriages and national commemorative events have also been held within its walls. This episode concludes the recounting of my excursion to Southern England in search of the glorious era of Tudor England that helped shape the early exploration and colonization of the North American Continent. Check out the YouTube version of this episode at https://youtu.be/8vOAsYqUzbA which has accompanying visuals including maps, charts, timelines, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. Support our channel by watching and clicking on the ads in this video. It costs you nothing and by doing so gives us extra credit and encourages, supports & helps us to create more quality content. Thanks! Visit our sponsor https://athleticgreens.com/EMERGING to take ownership over your health and get a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D and 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase! Get exclusive access to Bonus episodes, Ad-Free content, and Extra materials when joining our growing community on Patreon at https://patreon.com/markvinet or Donate on PayPal at https://bit.ly/3cx9OOL and receive an eBook welcome GIFT by Mark Vinet. Denary Novels by Mark Vinet are available at https://amzn.to/33evMUj Mark Vinet's TIMELINE video channel at https://youtube.com/c/TIMELINE_MarkVinet Website: https://markvinet.com/podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denarynovels Twitter: https://twitter.com/TIMELINEchannel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.vinet.9 YouTube Podcast Playlist: https://www.bit.ly/34tBizu Podcast: https://anchor.fm/mark-vinet Linktree: https://linktr.ee/WadeOrganization

In this episode, we tell the story of D-Day on its 78th anniversary through a historical narrative where Tim also talks about his family's connection to one of the most pivotal events in our history. The June 6, 1944, allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France through Operation Overlord was one of the biggest military undertakings in world history. This event marked the beginning of the end for Hitler and Nazi Germany. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shapingopinion/D-Day_-_A_Podcast_Essay_auphonic.mp3 It's June 5th 1944. The night before the most massive military invasion ever mounted in the history of the world. Hundreds of thousands of troops are amassed in Southern England. They are from the United States, Great Britain, France, Canada and other nations. They are about to board boats of all sizes to cross the English Channel and land on the beaches of Normandy in the North of France. It will be the largest armada ever. There are 4,000 ships from America, Britain and Canada.  1,200 planes are fueled and ready to drop paratroopers behind German lines. They are prepared to attack the German anti-aircraft guns and the artillery that will be aimed at landing forces. This massive operation is called Operation Overlord.  The allied commander is U.S. General Dwight David Eisenhower. And all of their focus will be on landing zones in Normandy. They code-named the beaches Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword. PFC Francis O'Brien The American troops will land at Utah and Omaha beaches. The British troops will land on Gold and Sword beaches. The Canadian troops will land on Juno beach. Today, we will tell the story of how events unfolded, but before that, you need to get to know Private First Class Francis O'Brien. He was better known to his brothers, his family and friends, and now to you as Fats O'Brien.  That's how I knew him. He was my uncle. Fats is a tough kid from a rough neighborhood in Pittsburgh. He's barely 19 years old. He comes from a big Irish Catholic family that has just struggled through the Great Depression. He and six of his brothers serve in the Army and Navy in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War 2. Fats was assigned to General Omar Bradley's First Army. Company E 38th Infantry Regiment. He was part of the second wave that landed on Omaha Beach. He saw action practically immediately and was awarded a Bronze Star for his efforts. Links D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, by Stephen Ambrose (Amazon) World War II: D-Day, The Invasion of Normandy, Eisenhower Museum D-Day Timeline, Military History D-Day, June 6, 1944, U.S. Army Band of Brothers, IMDB Normandy American Cemetery, American Battle Monuments Commission Pointe du Hoc Ranger Monument, American Battle Monuments Commission So, what was D-Day? It was officially known as the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 6th 1944 through August of that year. It represented the Allied invasion and liberation of Western Europe from German control. Again, it was called Operation Overlord. June 6th would become known as D-Day, the first day of the operation. 156,000 allied forces landed on those five beaches that stretched 50 miles wide. But a lot had to happen for D-Day to happen, and that's what we cover in this episode.

The history of Britain begins with Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument that stands in an open field in Southern England. For centuries, this site has captivated the British public's imagination and curiosity, inspiring several myths and legends as to its construction. But what was its actual purpose? Who exactly built it? And just how long has it been standing? Tune in to this week's episode to learn all about Stonehenge! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historylovescompany/support

This week William, Scott and Anthony Zenhauser put forward a theory linking the civil rights movement and the intelligence community to the Mods and Rockers subculture in Southern England in the Early 1960's. Follow Anthony on Twitter and Instagram @thezencomic and check out his show Late Again on youtube and follow it @lateagainzen Don't forget to join our Telegram channel at T.me/historyhomos and to join our group chat at T.me/historyhomoschat The video version of the show is available on Youtube, bitchute, odysee and our telegram channel and all of those can be reached through the link in any of our social media bios. For weekly premium episodes or to contribute to the show subscribe to our channel at www.rokfin.com/historyhomos Any questions comments concerns or T-shirt/sticker requests can be leveled at historyhomos@gmail.com Later homos --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historyhomos/support

We're excited to share our recent conversation with Welsh musician, songwriter, and record producer Karl Wallinger, best known for his band, World Party. We caught up with Karl from the control room of his new studio in Hastings in Southern England, where he's overlooking the sea – the English Channel, to be exact. In the 80s and 90s, Karl released a series of chart-topping albums, his first being the critically lauded Private Revolution. It featured the MTV darling doing nearly everything: singing, writing, producing, and playing most instruments. He escaped the sophomore slump with the release of the majestic Goodbye Jumbo. Rolling Stone said that "Goodbye Jumbo displays an ambition as broad as the emotional range of its music." More genius records followed until 2000, when all came to a crashing halt as Karl fell victim to a brain aneurysm. It took some time, but he picked up the pieces and began writing and recording again. This past year found Karl releasing vinyl reissues of his all the albums in his catalog. We're excited to find out what Karl's next move will be. World Party fans – now's the time so stay tuned.Part of Pantheon Podcasts

Episode 79 The Werewolf of Southern England and Annabelle: Holly develops canine fever when barking at the moon while Carol plays with a harmless Raggedy Ann doll. Credits: SEEKERS: The WEREWOLF OF LONDON! The case of Bill Ramsey from London, England! | The Bizarre True Story of the Southend Werewolf |  Sightings ... The Southend Werewolf (1992) | True or False ... The Southend Werewolf (1990) | Bill Ramsey: The Southend Werewolf | Ed Warren tells the real story of “ ANNABELLE” MUST WATCH! | The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren (The Paranormal Investigators Featured in the Film | The True Story Of Annabelle The Demonic Doll | The Story of the Real ANNABELLE Doll | 

Martyn Clark is the CEO of Gadfly Consulting and author of the new book, “Love Incorporated.” In this fun and exhilarating conversation you can learn about: How Martyn had to reframe his mind and his life following a debilitating illness. Adversity in his early life became foundations for success in his career. Why laughing helps your employees become more addicted to your organization. How incorporating “love” into your business creates more purpose and meaning. Join our Tribe at https://leadership-hacker.com Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA Transcript: Thanks to Jermaine Pinto at JRP Transcribing for being our Partner. Contact Jermaine via LinkedIn or via his site JRP Transcribing Services Find out more about Martyn below: Martyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martynclark/ Gadfly Website: http://gadflyconsulting.com Martyn's site: http://www.martynclark.com Martyn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martynclark Full Transcript Below ----more---- Steve Rush: Some call me Steve, dad, husband or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker.   Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors and development experts so that I can assist you developing your understanding and awareness of leadership. I am Steve Rush and I am your host today. I am the author of Leadership Cake. I am a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I cannot wait to start sharing all things leadership with you   Martyn Clark is a special guest on today's show. He's a CEO of Gadfly Consulting and author of the new book Love Incorporated: The Future of Business, but before we get a chance to speak with Martyn, it's The Leadership Hacker News. The Leadership Hacker News Steve Rush: Throughout the world there are a number of football or soccer tournaments happening. You have Copa America, and of course you have the Euros. Some of the world's biggest and most influential players and managers come together to showcase their skills and capabilities. So, I wanted to explore what can we learn from some of the best football and soccer managers in the world? Jose Mourinho is one of the best and most successful managers of his time. He has a theory of aligning personal ambition to team objectives. He offers each payer a deal. If they commit to his philosophy, which will bring them success as a team, he'll do everything in his power to make sure he brings success to the individual. So, by aligning the individual ambition to the team's objectives, Jose Mourinho creates a clear line of motivation, which enables him to create the ideal environment for team success, which is a combination of high stakes and high belief. Pep Guardiola had conquered every league he's ever led to teams in. At both Barcelona and by Munich, Pep Guardiola didn't in this case buy players into the mission, but into a particular way of playing. Barcelona always had a reputation for their flare and Bayern Munich had a reputation for their domestic success. Yet for both clubs, winning was no longer enough. They had to win a certain style, a certain way, and pep Guardiola focused on why and that why was the enabler articulation so that all the players would get behind and buying into the belief system that was driving passion and energy into football. So, the Y in his belief system established loyalty, trust between the players and the manager. Claudio Ranieri has managed clubs in the U.S. as well as across Europe. But whilst as manager of Leicester City in the UK Premier League, he achieved the seemingly impossible by winning the premier league in a league that's traditionally dominated by money. Leicester City wage bill was a snippet of the other teams around them. And what Claudio Ranieri area achieved was to make each player play with a level of passion that money couldn't buy and a commitment to fight for each other. Wes Morgan, the teams captain described Claudio Ranieri creating a brotherhood. Claudia Ranieri said that the secret of getting people to put others ahead of themselves is in fact, a selfish endeavor, and this may seem paradoxical, but the strongest human instinct is the instinct for self-preservation. We're all wired to survive, and we survive by being a pack. We are drawn to be part of packs in order to ensure survival, especially if that pack provides us with a level of significance and security. So once established, Claudia Ranieri pack or brotherhood established a real fight to remain together as a pack and to work together. Jurgen Klopp joined Liverpool football club, a club full of rich history and tradition that had waned for many years. His successful mental approach was demonstrated in the quarter final of the European Cup. Liverpool were playing Borussia Dortmund and at halftime Liverpool were 2-0 down and needed three goals in the second half in order to win. During his halftime team talk Jurgen Klopp turned a negative situation into a highly positive one by focusing on opportunity. He urged his players to create a moment to tell their grandchildren about. A night to make fans that they would never forget. The team went out in that second half and ended up winning the match 4-3 and booked a place in the semi-finals. Klopp understood the psychology of leadership here and understood that high performance occurred when people were in a positive state and not in a negative state and turn the negative two, nil into an opportunity for positive outcomes. So, whether you're a football or a soccer fan or any sports fan, there's always opportunity for us to learn from leaders and managers in other walks of life. That's been The Leadership Hacker News. If you have any news, insights or stories, please get in touch with us.   Start of Podcast Steve Rush: Joining me on the show today is Martyn Clark, he's a CEO at Gadfly. Gadfly creative studio and leadership consultancy that uses creativity and design to transform the way people work and live. Martyn is also the author of the book, Love Incorporated: The Future of Business. Martyn welcome to The Leadership Hacker Podcast. Martyn Clark: Hi, Steve. Steve Rush: So, when we worked together last year, it was about eight or nine years ago, and we reconnected at the beginning of this year. And what I learned is you've been on a really incredible journey that I hadn't even known about. So, for our listeners, perhaps it would be really useful if you could just give us a potted career history and then explain a little bit about your most recent personal journey? Martyn Clark: Yeah, sure. I'm laughing at the introduction because I recognize all the words, but hearing it coming back at me, I'm like, you know, sometimes when you write things or say things or explain yourself, it's like. Steve Rush: I don't know, that's what I do. Martyn Clark: Yeah, thanks Steve. And I love that that about conversation. We can clarify things for each other, so I come looking forward to this, this opportunity to do that. Steve Rush: Me too. Martyn Clark: My story to another, to know the easy answers. I have a tendency to start with what I studied, physics and music. But the more difficult story is the more personal one. And I think those more difficult stories have value. So, I grew up in a fundamentalist household, very, very, very, very, very straight. Like I wasn't allowed to dance or listen to music that had to beat. I wasn't allowed to do karate because that's violent and evil. There a was list, like as long as you can imagine of stuff that I wasn't allowed to do. So, I grew up in Switzerland, in Southern England, watching people who had freedom to do whatever they wanted to do from inside this tiny little box where I was allowed to do almost nothing of what I wanted to do. And I just sat with that tension as a child. And I knew it from age five, six, I was aware of this, like really aware of it. And I was a naturally very, very curious, very eager to explore the world kind of kid, still am. And I just wanted to explore everything. So, I would find ways to explore things without exploring them, without anyone seeing, because I was a part of this fundamentalist community where everyone was watching me. So not only was I in a fundamentalist community, but my dad was the minister. Steve Rush: Right. Martyn Clark: And that meant everyone was watching me, and I was meant to be an example. And I knew this from age six that I was the minister's son and therefore expected to be good, I already didn't care. Like I really just didn't care about being good, but I knew what would cause problems for me. And I knew what get me rejected by everybody. Steve Rush: So, did you start to notice that there was an opportunity to exploit and how you might do that rather than being in cognitive, but how you could do that more publicly? Martyn Clark: Well, right. So, I explored the community that I was in. I explored what I was allowed to explore, like right to the very, very, very edge. So, I learned a lot about where the edge was and learnt a lot about people and how they work. And like one of the elders in the church was a chief executive and other was a chairman of an international corporation. And I hung out at their houses and they weren't as narrow as my parents were. So, I lived in this tiny little box, they live in a much, much bigger box. So, it was constantly darting in and out of different boxes, as I called it in my head. In a one day spent driving the personal tank collection of this CEO, another day spent with his son and his motorbike collection, knowing I wasn't allowed to drive tanks, knowing I wasn't allowed to ride motorbikes. And just kind of going, how far can I go without getting in so much trouble? My whole life will be wrecked. So, I became very, very aware of boundaries and edges and people's limitations. So, people's emotional limitations and very, very, very, very curious about all of that. And I guess that's why and how I ended up studying physics and music and how I just ended up exploring people and how they communicate and systems and how they work and how people communicate within systems. And I mean, when I was basically seven, I decided I wanted to fly in Concord to New York to have cool meetings, to do cool stuff, to travel the world, to influence things, to change the world. I had this idea of how the world worked, because I saw these guys who had this freedom that I didn't have. And I just wanted that freedom really, that's what I wanted. And of course, 30 years later after meandering my way through studying music and physics, and I did a bit of neuro-psychology, earth science, and did degree in rocket science and like I just meandered through life and then found myself in a position where I was flying around the world, working with leaders, doing cool stuff in cool places, realizing that it felt kind of shallow to me. Steve Rush: Isn't that kind of ironic after that early experience of having now created that personal freedom for you then feeling still a little empty? Martyn Clark: Yeah, absolutely. Well, I don't want to get too deeply into my own self, but there were two aspects. One I was looking for freedom outside myself rather than inside. And two, I realize that this system was as trapped as I was, and these people were as trapped as I was. And at the core of capitalism as it is currently structured and companies, as they currently are run is a form of ideological fundamentalism, just like what I grow up with. Steve Rush: Did you come to that conclusion? Where did that sense of realization for you come from? Martyn Clark: Well, particularly coming up to the crash in 2007 to 2010, I was doing like incredible projects where I was just given free rein to flow around organizations, talking to people and basically untapping the potential of organizations. Like trying to work out, what is the thing that is sticking them and that's stopping them from changing in very big way? So, I was working on retainer for some of the largest banks in the world and many other companies as well, but the banks are the ones that just, really, really, really struck me. Because like I knew the crash was coming because I felt like I understood how people were talking. I saw the numbers in the boardroom. I was working with a number of boards at the time, and everyone was trying to avoid it, avoid talking about it, avoid thinking about it, avoid the consequences of it. And I was looking at this thinking, these are some of the most powerful, influential people in the world. These are the equivalent of those guys that I grew up with. Chairman and CEOs of international financial organizations and all they really care about in terms of how they make choices, right? Not in terms of how they talk, not in terms of what they feel, but in terms of how they make choices. Steve Rush: Right. Martyn Clark: All they care about when it actually comes down to the value system, all they care about is money. The only thing that matters in that boardroom is money. The only thing that matters in that system is money. And it doesn't matter how many initiatives you do or change programs or how much leadership training you do. If the fundamental philosophical building block of the system is, what do we do to get more money? The behaviors all flow from that. Steve Rush: Right. Martyn Clark: So, like in that period, I had freedom to roam basic, and I roamed the whole organization to try and get an answer to this question. I talked to janitors, I talked to security guards, I talked to the people who worked in audit and financial crime. I was in group services, HR, in the boardrooms, in the retail side, in the backend site, in the money collection side and debt. I covered basically the whole of financial services. And in three years, every aspect of the system, trying to understand what is the driving force and how can that be changed. Banks being really at the core of how we structure society, like your credit rating tells other people, whether you are a good person or not. And I just wanted to understand this. I remember sitting in, I think it was the NatWest, the old NatWest boardroom in London. At one point, it's like the boardroom that's in Mary Poppins. It may actually be the boardroom in there. It's an Oak paneled leather desk boardroom. And I remember sitting there like looking at the care with which that place was put together. Because it's like maybe 120 years old, that particular room. And I was sitting thinking, this is not what the people who built this organization initially intended, what's gone wrong? They cared about something more than money. So, what's happened? How did they accidentally build a structure that has turned into something that only cares about profit? Sitting in that boardroom, I was waiting for an executive, right. I was getting paid a full day rate and I'd flown down from Scotland where I was living to London, sitting, waiting for a whole day, doing a half hour session. And I got paid for a full day. And I remember sitting thinking, I'd completely forgotten about this, actually, Steve. Really interesting, I remember sitting thinking, do you know what? When I grew up around Mr. Williams and Mr. Ide dreaming of flying on Concorde. I had a different idea of how these organizations ran and it was a Christian idea because they were coming at it from a fundamentalist Christian. Well, they weren't so fundamentalist, but they were coming at it from a deeply Christian perspective. And I started thinking of experiences that I'd had in other organizations, like in the Royal Bank of Scotland, in Edinburgh, sitting in the boardroom there and looking at the pictures of the old directors who were elders in the free church of Scotland and the church of Scotland. And I was like, oh, okay. So, what we've done is we've taken, what was a relatively neutral frame, a legal frame for these organizations, which is as directors, you have to do your best. Legally, you're obligated to do your best for the organization to grow the organization, to provide. And the rest is up to you as an individual. And the rest is up to you as an individual. What moral or ethical frame you choose to put over the top of that? Because the people who founded these organizations, didn't think for a moment that anyone would ever get to be a director who didn't have their own personal ethical frame, that was about how the world should be or how we should behave or how people should be treated. So, there was an implicit assumption that companies would have a human aspect to them. And that there would be a strong value system that meshed together with the corporate value system to create something that was socially beneficial to all. Steve Rush: We've seen quite a lot of that shift and certainly the last five years or so, where that human centric approach is becoming much more prevalent, but there's still a bunch of work to be done, right? Martyn Clark: I would say in the last five years, we're starting to have the conversations. Steve Rush: Yeah. Martyn Clark: Even if I just think about that comparison, think about the directors who started these UK banks, just as an example, most of the directors who started the UK banks also had poor houses. Steve Rush: That's right, yeah. Martyn Clark: So, they had their own charities that they paid for out of their own pockets to keep thousands of people in basic work, in homes, so they might've been getting paid 20 times what the average was getting paid, but most of the money actually went to the community. So, they saw it as their duty to use that money to benefit community. And they saw their capacity to make decisions and their capacity to make sense of the complexity of the world as a responsibility, not just about whether they can get a second home in the south of France, Steve Rush: Lots of the experiences that you've had, particularly in transitioning from your corporate careers through consultancy has been the foundations of the book that you wrote, Love Incorporated. But before we get into that, and we'd love to dive into that with you. It'd be really interesting if you could also maybe share for our listeners some of the recent challenges and how you've applied some of the similar thinking in order for you to take the next steps in your personal journey? Martyn Clark: Yeah, that journey through corporations ended very abruptly for me, not because of the crash. I was actually doing fine during the crash. I had plenty of work, lots of exciting opportunities, but I ended up moving house and I wanted to rent for a while to have the freedom to move. Like I was really questioning lifestyle, questioning choices, ended up renting an apartment. It turned out three years later, I discovered that it had mold in the walls and in the ceiling, toxic mold. But I didn't know that at the time, so I moved into this apartment and within a month I was just not feeling right. I had asthma my whole life, my asthma suddenly got worse. This happens sometimes, like a mild asthma. I was a hill runner, an athlete, and it never stopped me from doing anything, but there are moments in life and periods where it's just worse. And I was like, okay, it's a little bit worse. So, I'll just cancel some of my work and give myself a break and stay at home a bit more. And it just got worse, and I was put on oral steroids for the first time in my life. It's like the scariest ride, I think it's possible chemically that I can imagine. Anyway, it's like a near death experience in a pill for me at least. It's extraordinary, it's like fear in a pill and I deal very well with fear and high pressure, but then my goodness. So, I was on steroids for just a few weeks and then came off and then got sick again and on steroids and off and sick again. And I ended up on steroids for almost a year. Done scans, to check that my bones were okay. Because steroids can leave bone density getting worse. But when you're taking fear in a pill every day, it's a real challenge. My meditation practice basically disappeared because I couldn't do it anymore. Steve Rush: Wow. Martyn Clark: Not possible, not taking steroids, but needed to breathe. Breathing comes first before meditation. Steve Rush: Not a huge choice to take when you're that poorly right? Martyn Clark: You need to be able to breathe to be able to meditate. It turns out, try doing it without. Steve Rush: Yeah, it brings a whole new meaning to focus on your breath, right? Martyn Clark: Exactly, I ended up with mycoplasma pneumonia, which is nursing home pneumonia. It's like what old people whose immune systems are dead get. I had it twice, ended up being allergic to the, oh my God, I'm glad I can laugh about it. Because it's like telling the story. This isn't even half of it. The antibiotics I took, turns out I'm allergic to, and that took me months to recover from. And of course, I needed steroids to recover from that. So, just can't in this whirlpool of pain, fear and drugs. And it turns out that it was all because of mold in the apartment. And as soon as I discovered, we moved out and my health immediately started to recover. But the journey of recovery it's taken me four years, my goodness, it's four years and two weeks. Steve Rush: And when we last spoke, I recall you telling me that, that four years and two weeks, so it's still really important to you. You time it, you know, you have a measure of this, but that took probably your biggest gig of your life. Martyn Clark: Well, the biggest gig of my life was walking in the mountains. Like I had to walk in the mountains for my health for three years, every day. There was no medicine that I could take. I had become basically allergic to everything that would help me through having too many steroids. And my liver was damaged, like just in a really bad place from this toxic mold. And the only thing that helped me to recover was walking in the mountains, like pure air exercise. And it's like an antidote to chemical fear that steroids lead to. So, I had to get myself out of that rut. And that led me, you know, walking in the mountains, moved to Italy, to the north of Italy and ended up walking in the mountains, just looking down on the planes below that are polluted and have Milan in the middle, thinking about and reflecting on all of those experiences I had in corporations. And I'd taken notes, I'd taken notes about all of my thoughts about this stuff and had decided I wanted to write a book about it at some point, but thinking about it from the top of a mountain is a very different thing to thinking about it while flying to meetings in the city. Steve Rush: And you can almost feel that journey, feel that clarity of thought you have when you read your book, because you tell it in such a vivid story about the experiences and the thoughts that you were having at that time, you can always bounce around the different stories as to how they were happening for you at that time. Is that where kind of the real inspiration for Love Incorporated came from? Martyn Clark: The inspiration came from frustration, really, which is like, it shouldn't be that hard to build organizations that are okay for people to work in. It shouldn't be that hard. Like we're amazing, amazing creatures. We've built incredible civilizations. How is it that like 60 to 70% of people who work in large corporations have no motivation, like they're literally flogging themselves into work. I can't think of any single client that I worked with who was actually, or would I say living a life that felt integrated. Steve Rush: That's probably a good word for actually, isn't it? Martyn Clark: So that lack of integration, I mean, disintegration. They're all interesting complex concepts, but ultimately, I think it's about psychological splitting and the splitting comes from the split in the system, which is it's fundamentally dehumanizing because it's missing half of what it is to be human. The mystery, the unknown, the spiritual, the empathy and the stuff that religion has tried to capture for thousands of years and it was stripped out of organizations and were needing to find new ways to put it in. So, I just decided, I'd been trying to write this book for a number of years and I just made a choice to write it. And I was like, okay, where do I need to go to write? Oh, you know, I'll write in a cafe. So that was the beginning of it. I decided to go and write in a cafe in Lugano while Brendan, my son was on work experience. And that was the beginning of a three-week experience that I've tried to capture in the book. I just decided to do it until I finished it. And as you know, the beginning of the book is actually about my own personal experience of trying to write about something so deep in places that feel like there's no room for feeling that. Steve Rush: Yeah, there are many paradox that you go through in the book, aren't there? In terms of that whole kind of Ying and Yang and trying to establish a sense of reality almost of what's happening for you at that time. Martyn Clark: Yeah, trying to be really, really deeply honest about my own experience of trying to write about stuff that is very subtle, like it's right at the edge of my own awareness internally. And what does it take to have that wholeness, you know, to try to honor that wholeness inside myself? What would it take to build a company that honors that wholeness? What would it take to build a team that honors that wholeness? What would it take to build a whole system that honors that wholeness? Is like, starting from that simple experience, it's a really simple experience. How can I find the peace that I need to write about this very deep stuff in a meaningful way as a metaphor for what it is to build a corporation that has space for people to be human? Steve Rush: So, did you have that you needed to kind of close off these questions for yourself first, before you then started to think of others? Martyn Clark: Yes, no. I think it works both ways, right. I think through contact with others, I can experience more of myself and through contact with myself. I can experience more of others as well. So what matters is doing something right. I chose to do the go insight path for the book. I could have done the opposite. I could have interviewed all of my clients. And I think it would have led to the same place just differently. That would be an interesting follow-up, won't it?  Steve Rush: Book number two? Martyn Clark: Okay. Steve Rush: So, how do you incorporate love and why do you see this as the future of business? Martyn Clark: The title is Love Incorporated. It's interesting to me, I've wrestled with it as, you know, from reading the book. But to me, it's about my internal wrestling to incorporate love into my life. I grew up in environments that talk about love all the time and don't show much. Steve Rush: Right. Martyn Clark: So, my journey in life was about learning to show love and talk about it less. And here I have a book, that have word love on it, and I'm talking about it. Steve Rush: The Irony behind this Martyn, is that the word love, you just don't see it in business because it has this real strange notion that it's bagged with lots of other things that go on and in its simplistic sense, how would you describe love in business? Martyn Clark: Caring about anything other than money. Steve Rush: Right, yeah. Martyn Clark: Caring about money is like a motorbike mechanic caring about a spanner. It's like, it's just not interesting, right? You don't, you know, some spanners are really cool, I'll give you that. There are special spanners that have special purposes, but caring about money is just a tool. We can build things with it; we use it to shift value around. Money is just not that interesting. Steve Rush: It's very true. Martyn Clark: You know, even preparing for talking to you today. And I was thinking, oh, what is my motivation for making money? What is my own personal motivation? And I've never really thought about it before, but my own motivation is one thing, I hate detail. So, I want a life where I have no detail to deal with. And that means I need an assistant. That means I need someone to manage the stuff around the house because I am basically allergic to detail. If someone sticks some detail on my desk, I just whitter. Like I'm detailed, fragile, it's like an allergy. So, let's solve the system, the problems of a whole system. Because that's not detailed, and money is just a way for me to get away from details. Steve Rush: Yeah, it's interesting. Isn't it? And I guess the opposite side of that is you are Uber creative? Martyn Clark: Yeah, which involves lots of detail. Steve Rush: And you often find that Uber creative people just don't have that same attention to detail and vice versa. Martyn Clark: Yeah, and I've had to work to have it, to be able to put out there the things I want to, the details. Reading the book, you'll see some of the details that I went through about, well, you know, wanting the size of it to fit in a pocket. And while I'm walking in the mountains, thinking about what I'm writing, trying to design that experience so that people have an attachment experience to the book itself and I've designed books for many years. And I love watching people pick them up. I try to design books where people's thumbs, don't get in the way of things. And when they pick them up, it feels a certain way because that's the relationship that people have with an object. Very often affects how they, Steve Rush: Yeah, what's really interesting is ergonomically your book feels very different as well in your hand to other books. So, did you spend time thinking about that as well? Martyn Clark: Oh yeah. The whole thing is designed super, super, super detailed. Turns out, in order to avoid detail completely, you have to embrace it. Steve Rush: Another paradox. Martyn Clark: Maybe that's all it's about. Maybe Love Incorporated, incorporating love is a paradox. Steve Rush: Yeah, absolutely. Martyn Clark: Because when you incorporate love, you have to be willing to say no to people and you have to push people away and you have to have strong boundaries and you have to know what you're about as a business. So, as we try to integrate the more human into business, we have to say, you know, this is what we're about. These are our values. This is what matters to us. This is what's meaningful to us. And I'm really sorry if you don't see that, but that's what we're about. And that's exclusionary, that is discriminatory, it will offend people, people won't like it. There are people who hate my book. Steve Rush: And what's the reason for that? Martyn Clark: It's all about me. They didn't get to the bit where I write about, maybe our personal stories. Our metaphors, that's all. Steve Rush: Yes, exactly. And you wrapped many of those and what you call the gadfly principles. Martyn Clark: Yes. Steve Rush: Sadly, we haven't got time to get into all of the gadfly principles, maybe that's another show. Maybe you could summarize for us what they are? And if I was reading the book or using those principles, how might use them? Martyn Clark: I guess they're my attempt to humanize my own company. That is my attempt to capture the principle by which I have worked and the people who've worked with me have worked over the years to promote change in organizations. And like it's an imperfect attempt, but it's a bit bit like, you know, the 10 commandments of gadfly, they're just happened to be, how many of them are there? They used to be 87. I know I edited them down to 35 now, 35 commandments. And the purpose of the principles, it's really internal. Like it's an internal document. It's for myself. It's for people who work with me, it's for clients, it's for people who want to engage with us as a company. But as the book is about how can we humanize companies? I've framed it as well. This is how we came up with these principles. And if you, you know, the aphorisms, the quotes that adopted through the book and the principles, the quotes are my attempt to summarize each section. Steve Rush: Yeah. Martyn Clark: I wanted to wait to find things more easily for myself Steve Rush: And make sense, simplistically, I guess, of them. Is what I read from them. Martyn Clark: Yeah, just to try to understand what I was writing about. Steve Rush: Yeah. Martyn Clark: What was the essence of what I was trying to say? And the principles actually started out as a list of what I was trying to highlight in the entire book about how we work as an organization. And it turns out these principles are really quite generalizable to any organization. There are some very specific things, but they are quite general principles based on the human condition in the workplace. Because they have to be to do the work that I do, so that makes them generalizable useful, I guess, to other people, the principles that all of the people who've commented to me about the book, that's the section that they comment on. They say, oh, the stories were amazing, but you know, those principles, I'm just still thinking about them. And I'm still thinking about them. Steve Rush: The benefit in having them as principals. They are just there as nudges to get you to think about you and how you and your teams are behaving and performing. They're not rules to follow, they're just principles. And they will always evolve I suspect. Martyn Clark: And I number them for a reason. I number them, so people would take them more seriously and people do take them more seriously, because the numbered. Like it was just a list of stuff, but it looked silly as a list of stuff. But the numbers actually have left me taking them more seriously and realizing that there is a real depth in them that I wasn't aware of when it wrote them Steve Rush: And throughout the book as well Martyn. And you've got these quotes that you alluded to, and they're kind of dotted throughout the book and appear to be kind of almost reflections that you had at some point, either writing it or reflecting on what you'd written. And there were some belters in there by the way. Some really thought-provoking ones. My favorite I'm going to tell you is, the more grateful we are for the things that we have, the more easily we can see the harm we caused by having them. And that got me really thinking around. So, I'm really grateful having these things and then being really thoughtful around, are they serving me well or are they serving a purpose? And it's just really thought-provoking nudge. Do you have a favorite yourself? Martyn Clark: I have a number of favorites, but the one I can't ever forget is rain on windows connects us to nature, but the glass separates. Steve Rush: I like that. Martyn Clark: And I can't forget it for two reasons. One is because I remember that storm hitting the windows and feeling so isolated from nature after walking in the mountains for a week and being really grateful, I was isolated from nature. And the other is that my kids who are teenagers always make fun of me using that one because they're like, oh, you think you're some Buddha or something. So, it's like keeping me humble. Steve Rush: Kids do that wonderful thing of pulling you back into reality, you know. I often think of myself as a bit of a Sage to my kids sometimes. And then I just get the dad look and then realize I should just maybe make a cup of tea or something else. Martyn Clark: It's like having a daily reminder, you know, other people may call dad, but we know you're not. Steve Rush: Oh dear. Martyn Clark: The other one I like to end with here which is I think a summary of what I'm trying to do with my work with, with Gadfly, with the book, with everything which has power and status come with responsibility. And if we ignore that, we cause harm. Steve Rush: Very powerful. Martyn Clark: That stares me in the face every day. Every time I pick up this book, it's like, oh, easy to get caught up in stuff, in money and in getting places and success and all sorts of stuff that really doesn't matter, but that actually causes harm if we forget other things. Steve Rush: Yeah, so what's next for Gadfly and for you? Martyn Clark: I think just getting out and doing more of this, I'm currently creating a framework for doing organizational interventions based on all this stuff. So individual team, divisional, whole organizational interventions that are based on the Gadfly leading change framework, which is quite exciting. And we're calling it alchemy, so, it's alchemy. Personal alchemy, team alchemy, divisional alchemy, organizational alchemy, systemic alchemy. To this idea that if we take lots of inputs from lots of different directions, pick the system apart in all sorts of different ways, in human ways and analytical ways. And we really allow ourselves to be whole, everything that we are, we create the conditions in which magic happen, and that can lead to very, very, very fast, very deep, very profound, very impactful change in organizations, not just human stuff in terms of how organizations structure themselves operate. Very, very powerful way of working Steve Rush: How exciting, look forward to seeing some of that work as it starts to evolve Martyn Clark: Me too. Me too. Steve Rush: So, this is the part of the show our listeners have come to affectionately known as our close out cadence or whatever it is that they label it as, but we get to spin the lens around and hack into your great leadership mind. The first place I'd like to go is to hack into your top three leadership hacksC Martyn Clark: I was thinking about this last night. Talking, listening, and laughing, every intervention that I have done, every piece of work, the book, every everything I do. I talked to people and I talk with an intention to listen, to hear, to connect. And it almost always leads to laughter and I won't talk and listen and not laugh and I won't listen and laugh and not talk. And won't talk and laugh without listening. So, like the three, just, maybe it's just being Irish. So, I if you can all just be Irish, everything will be fine. Banter is part of how organizations work and it doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter where you are. All of the work gets done through human connection. Steve Rush: And of course, the more you laugh, the more crappy chemicals you release along the way, of course. And that only helps aid productivity. Martyn Clark: Yeah, it helps your employees to become more addicted to the organization, right? Steve Rush: It does. Yeah, definitely so. Martyn Clark: We're just creating a different kind of addiction. People enjoy themselves. Steve Rush: So, Hack to Attack is the next place we're going to go to now, you've already described and shared a whacking great attack that came from a time in your life, which was really tough for you, but from a corporate perspective, is there something maybe else in your life or work where that learning experience is now a core driver in what you do? Martyn Clark: Yeah, I did a giant project. It was a billion-dollar project that I was coordinating the human aspects of bringing 10 corporations together into a co-creative space. It's a giant, giant, giant, giant project. And I basically proposed these corporations, scrap their legal frameworks for choosing suppliers and try something new, which was basically human centered corporate collaboration. And I'm laughing, I'm laughing because there was a certain naivety about how I did it, but it was an incredible project, just incredible. Brought 10 very powerful teams together from around the world. And 10 corporations started to work differently together until the moment that I used one offensive word with one team in one meeting that triggered blackmail, a 200 million blackmail of withdrawal of business from one company from the other in a giant power move. That destabilized basically the whole industry. Steve Rush: Wow. Martyn Clark: Because it was a very high-profile project. And the whole project collapsed basically because I used one word that someone found offensive. Of course, I don't think it was real offensive. I think it was just an excuse to trigger a power move. But what I learned that following on everyone in the industry heard about that project and everyone heard about what we were trying to achieve. And everyone heard that it was actually working and everyone heard some of the outcomes of the project in terms of decisions that were made. And it turns out that the best thing that could ever happen was that project failing because it left so many people inspired to try something similar and to make it work. And that led to industry-wide change, that wouldn't have happened if the project had been successful. Steve Rush: Often the case, isn't it? Martyn Clark: Absolutely. Plus, there's more to laugh about because it failed Steve Rush: That's so ironic, isn't it? Martyn Clark: Yeah, right. Steve Rush: Only when sometimes things do screw up that they provide us with that level of learning. Martyn Clark: Well, I can talk to people and say, do you know what? Even if this fails. Steve Rush: Yeah. Martyn Clark: I know that it'll have an impact because I know we're doing something that's meaningful here. And I know that for these reasons, you know, and being able to have that confidence, it reassures people, you know, the worst that can happen is I personally will get removed from the project and blamed for everything. So, I'll take the hit. Steve Rush: Some more dinner party stories as well. Awesome learning, awesome learning. So, the last thing we get to do is give you a chance of some time travel, get to bump into Martyn at 21 and give them some advice. So, what would your advice to Martyn at 21 be? Martyn Clark: I was trying to think of a serious thing to say, something related to business. Steve Rush: But you got stuck then I thought now I've been fighting serious now. Martyn Clark: When I was 21, I had a girlfriend and I really, really loved her. She loved me, but we knew it just couldn't work. It was a very innocent kind of, not really heading anywhere, anywhere fast. And we hadn't kissed, and I decided to not kiss her because I didn't want to hurt her because I knew it wasn't going to go anywhere. And my advice to my past self is just kiss her, come on. Steve Rush: Kiss the girls, yeah. Martyn Clark: And I think the lesson from that is actually about living with abandon. So, there's a deep lesson in it which is to know that we will cause harm. And like, it goes back to the power and status and responsibility thing. We know that we will hurt people, whatever choice we make. We know that will cause harm no matter what we do, but actually life is just a bit of a ride and it's okay to enjoy it and it's okay to mess up and it's okay to make mistakes. And as long as we're paying attention to that responsibility and paying attention to how we are and our impact in the world, it'll all be okay. Steve Rush: Very nice words, well said. Martyn Clark: Thank you. Steve Rush: If our listeners, wanted to get a copy of Love Incorporated Martyn, and learn a bit more about what you do. Where's the best place for us to send them? Martyn Clark: Amazon, any large online retailer has it. If you want an eBook, if you're not sure you want to commit to the, you know, to buying it, just send me a message on Instagram. I can send you an eBook free course, undermining my sales of eBooks. Steve Rush: Missed out on the economics feeling, generally it's the best feel of a book I ever had. That sounds really crazy as I'm saying it now. Martyn Clark: No, no, it feels amazing. Steve Rush: Yeah. Martyn Clark: And the paper smells very good as well. It's a full experience. It was designed as an immersiveexperience. And I thought very carefully about that because of the environmental impact. But I think some things are worth it. I tried to use that as a benchmark to make a book that's worth the paper, worth the destruction that has value that it can add. And I believe it does Steve Rush: Add more value than it does destruction. How about that? Martyn Clark: Yes, exactly. Buy online or get in touch. I'm more interested in conversation and having coffee with people than I am in books sales. Steve Rush: And we'll make sure we put some links in the show notes so people can carry on those conversations with you when we're done. Martyn Clark: Cool. Steve Rush: I just want to say, thank you, Martyn. I love chatting with you, always do. We always have a bit of a laugh and you always come from a completely different direction than anticipated in our conversations. And I love that about the work that you do as well. Martyn Clark: I like that you avoided using the word crazy, it's good. Steve Rush: I've said it unconsciously with some other language you probably picked up on. Martyn Clark: Thank you. Steve Rush: So, on behalf of our tribe, thank you for being part of our community and thanks for being on The Leadership Hacker Podcast. Martyn Clark: Thanks for the opportunities too. Steve Rush: Thanks Martyn. Closing   Steve Rush: I genuinely want to say heartfelt thanks for taking time out of your day to listen in too. 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