Podcast appearances and mentions of Vera Chok

Hello! and Welcome to the next episode of Backstage Bants with Jay McGuiness & Vera Chok! [EPISODE 81: JAY MCGUINESS & VERA CHOK] https://222aghoststory.com/uk-tour-tickets/ If you enjoy this episode leave a like, and Subscribe to see the next one! Donate to Acting for Others: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/backstagebants SOCIAL MEDIAS https://www.instagram.com/robbiesbackstagebants https://twitter.com/BackstageBants https://www.facebook.com/robbiesbackstagebants https://robbiesbackstageba.wixsite.com/backstagebants PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/backstage-bants A Huge Thank You to Jay and Vera for coming in for this episode, I had a great time! Your Kindness is much appreciated x As always - open to PR, Just drop an email: robbiesbackstagebants@gmail.com

Vera Chok narrates An Yu's eerie novel full of dreams of talking mushrooms and heartbroken musicians. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Kendra Winchester discuss the story of Song Yan, who lives with her husband and mother-in-law in a Beijing apartment. Everyone tells her she should be happy, but she exists in a fog of loneliness. The mystery of the novel begins when a package of unusual mushrooms arrives at her home. Now Song must find out who sent them—which leads to the discovery of the home of a famous musician who went missing many years ago. Chok's performance skillfully evokes the rising gloom and desperation that Song experiences throughout the story. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Recorded Books. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for AudioFile's Behind the Mic comes from Rob White's THE MAESTRO MONOLOGUE from PUNCH AUDIO, creators of first-class audiobooks for independent authors the world over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vera Chok makes her triumphant 2023 return to Song by Song for fat driving beats, donated smooth jazz vocals and a moment of zen. This week we discuss the anger of an ageing codependent relationship, the nature (and futility) of advice, and the magic of anticipated nostalgia. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: All The Time, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) Little Man, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) Nirvana, Orphans: Brawlers Bawlers & Bastards, Tom Waits (2006) I'm Not Your Fool Anymore, Mississippi Lad, Teddy Edwards (1991) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

This week we are delighted to welcome the fantastic Vera Chok to the show. Vera is currently starring as Honour Chen-Williams in Hollyoaks, but when she isn't filming for the show you will often find her involved in improv in some way, shape or form. During this very varied chat Iain and Vera cover all sorts of topics from culture to comedy, and there's even an unexpected discovery of a mutual love of Australian soap 'Home & Away'! Vera started out as an actor who didn't think much of improv, but find out what happened to change that opinion and how it ended up becoming a true passion. It's time to sit back, relax and find out Vera's true story of making stuff up.

Welcome back! We're so happy to be back and regaling you with all sorts of nonsense as well as a few recommendations! Rhiannon tells us about the fight for uni degrees for women in the play ‘Blue Stockings' in a tangential discussion of her recent move. Alex divulges her obsession with the charming and sentimental ‘Anne with an ‘E'' after Rhiannon entertains us with Dawn French's warming novel ‘Because of You'. We touch on the Women's Prize and firmly assert that trans women are women in the wake of a recent and abhorrent open letter. We both talk about some of the cozy fiction we've been enjoying and we discuss the shame that can sometimes creep up when talking about comfort reads. Alex has been reaffirming her love for Dolly Alderton and ‘Sex in the City' in a new podcast whilst Rhiannon has been immersed in the true crime drama, ‘The Serpent'. Alex finishes on the brilliant essays of ‘The Good Immigrant', particularly focussing on essays by Darren Chetty, Vera Chok, Wei Ming Kam and Nish Kumar. We are an accessible podcast so find transcripts on our linktree in our instagram bio @thegrandthunk. Follow us on social media @thegrandthunk or email us - thegrandthunk@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you! Subscribe, rate, review and tell all your friends. See below for a full list of what we discuss: Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale Because of You by Dawn French Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Luster by Raven Leilani The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Anne with an E, Netflix Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery Sentimental Garbage podcast Caroline O'Donoghue Sentimental in the City, Dolly Alderton and Caroline O'Donoghue Thanks a Million podcast by Angela Scanlon I Weigh, Jameela Jamil The Multi Hyphen Method by Emma Gannon The Serpent, BBC and Netflix The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla The Grand Thunk, the podcast in which Alex Blanchard and Rhiannon Kearns discuss the books they've been reading, the films and TV shows they've been watching and the podcasts they've been listening to!

Lisa and Charles Adrian get into the Netflix-produced modern classic To All The Boys I've Loved Before.   Year: 2018 Writer: Sofia Alvarez Based on the novel by: Jenny Han Director: Susan Johnson Stars: Lara Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart, Andrew Bachelor, Trezzo Mahoro, Madeleine Arthur, Emilija Baranac, Israel Broussard, John Corbett   Show notes:   In this episode we get lost in the weeds of our synopsis, sail through the meet-cute, obstacles and happy ending, and land on the one thing that would make this film better.   We mention the TV show Pretty Little Liars (2010-2017), in which Janel Parrish played Mona Vanderwaal. You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Little_Liars and watch Charles Adrian talk to Vera Chok about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exrw-iaYTxk.   We also mention the TV shows Golden Girls (1985-1992) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Girls), Bridgerton (2020) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgerton) and Never Have I Ever (2020) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Have_I_Ever_(TV_series)), the film She's All That (1999) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_All_That) and the novel that sparked a thousand rom coms: Jane Austin's Pride And Prejudice (1813) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice).   In the previous episode of this podcast, we talked about the film 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Things_I_Hate_About_You).   Music in this episode is by Martin Zaltz Austwick (martinzaltzaustwick.com).   Thank you for listening!

As is, by now, firmly traditional, the first episode of the new season of the podcast finds Charles Adrian chatting to Vera Chok, who is neither fancy nor a storyteller. They talk relatable self-help, a book to make you cry and an early Renaissance guide to health. Clarification 1: The audio version of Brené Brown’s Rising Strong that Vera mentions having listened to is, in fact, a recording of a talk given by Brené Brown called Rising Strong As A Spiritual Practice. There is also an audio version of the book, Rising Strong, read by Brené Brown. Clarification 2: “The Tacuinum Sanitatis is a richly illustrated guide to health. Made in Padua in the 1450s, it contains 130 miniatures illustrating substances and activities conducive to health and happiness, ranging from food and drink to singing, sleep and sex. Its scribe and artists enjoyed the patronage of a circle of humanists who flourished in the Veneto in the 1450s and 1460s, including the Venetian governer of Padua, Jacopo Antionio Marcello, and his great friend King René of Anjou. A window into the everyday lives of affluent Italians in the fifteenth century, the Tacuinum Sanitatis brings to life the fascinating domestic arena of the early Renaissance.” (From the back cover of Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health by Alixe Bovey.) Episode image is a detail from the cover of Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide To Health by Alixe Bovey, published to accompany an exhibition of miniatures from the Liechtenstein Tacuinum Sanitatis at Sam Fogg, 15d Clifford Street, London, 1-29th July, 2005. podcast homepage: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book list: Rising Strong by Brené Brown A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health by Alixe Bovey

Season 6 of Page One is on its way. In fact, the first episode - Page One 149 featuring Vera Chok - will already be in your podcast feed by the time you finish listening to this. More information about the podcast and links to transcripts of all the season 6 episodes is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

Bookmark This! Ep 9: Reviewing global and Singapore audiobooks 24:18 mins Synopsis: A monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads When should an audiobook not sound too polished? Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li swap their bookmarks for headphones in this episode, in which they review audiobooks by the likes of David Sedaris, Neil Humphreys, Marlon James, Marie Kondo and more. They review the new Storytel app, which is also putting out original content based on Singapore literature: 2:50 David Sedaris, Children Playing Before A Statue Of Hercules 4:19 Neil Humphreys, Notes From An Even Smaller Island 6:16 George Saunders, Lincoln In The Bardo 8:02 Philip Pullman, The Book Of Dust #1: La Belle Sauvage (read by Michael Sheen) 10:30 Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (read by Dion Graham) 13:44 Lau Siew Mei, The Last Immigrant (read by Benjamin Chow) 16:28 Sharlene Teo, Ponti (read by Vera Chok) 18:03 Sebastian Sim, The Riot Act (read by Karen Tan)  20:21 Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up (read by Lucy Scott) Audiobook clips provided courtesy of Storytel Singapore. Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li, John Lui and Ernest Luis Edited by: John Lui Discover more Bookmark This! podcasts and rate us on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGg Apple Podcasts: http://str.sg/oeXN Google Podcasts: http://str.sg/oeLG Playlist: https://str.sg/JZnG Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Thank you for your support! ST & BT Podcasts picked up a silver medal for Best Digital Project to engage younger and/or millennial audiences at 2019 Asian Digital Media Awards by Wan-Ifra:  https://str.sg/Jw5T  Watch a video of Podcasts on the rise in Singapore: https://youtu.be/aGJ4cbch6eQ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bookmark This! Ep 9: Reviewing global and Singapore audiobooks 24:18 mins Synopsis: A monthly podcast by The Straits Times, where we talk about titles in the headlines and sizzling reads When should an audiobook not sound too polished? Life journalists Olivia Ho and Toh Wen Li swap their bookmarks for headphones in this episode, in which they review audiobooks by the likes of David Sedaris, Neil Humphreys, Marlon James, Marie Kondo and more. They review the new Storytel app, which is also putting out original content based on Singapore literature: 2:50 David Sedaris, Children Playing Before A Statue Of Hercules 4:19 Neil Humphreys, Notes From An Even Smaller Island 6:16 George Saunders, Lincoln In The Bardo 8:02 Philip Pullman, The Book Of Dust #1: La Belle Sauvage (read by Michael Sheen) 10:30 Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (read by Dion Graham) 13:44 Lau Siew Mei, The Last Immigrant (read by Benjamin Chow) 16:28 Sharlene Teo, Ponti (read by Vera Chok) 18:03 Sebastian Sim, The Riot Act (read by Karen Tan)  20:21 Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up (read by Lucy Scott) Audiobook clips provided courtesy of Storytel Singapore. Produced by: Olivia Ho, Toh Wen Li, John Lui and Ernest Luis Edited by: John Lui Discover more Bookmark This! podcasts and rate us on: Spotify: http://str.sg/oeGg Apple Podcasts: http://str.sg/oeXN Google Podcasts: http://str.sg/oeLG Playlist: https://str.sg/JZnG Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Thank you for your support! ST & BT Podcasts picked up a silver medal for Best Digital Project to engage younger and/or millennial audiences at 2019 Asian Digital Media Awards by Wan-Ifra:  https://str.sg/Jw5T  Watch a video of Podcasts on the rise in Singapore: https://youtu.be/aGJ4cbch6eQ

Hosts Miranda York and Anna Sulan Masing look back to the second Voices At The Table event at The Drapers Arms, a beautiful pub in North London. This episode includes readings from the live event by actor, poet and writer Vera Chok, novelist Kit de Waal, and playwright and performer Iskandar Sharazuddin, while Miranda and Anna talk about the rituals of cooking, the history of British pubs, elitism in food, and sniffing sandwiches. Plus Anna tries Skips crisps for the first time! Voices At The Table is a fortnightly food podcast that brings together an eclectic mix of voices across the literary, performance and food worlds. An evolution of the popular Voices At The Table event series, it aims to look at food from a fresh perspective. Follow @__atthetable__ on Instagram and twitter, or head to atthetable.co.uk to find out more.

Returning from Heartattack & Vine, Vera Chok delivers her report for this live version of Ruby’s arms, angry at the recapitulation of the disconnected dismissive attitude Waits has towards Ruby. Meanwhile Martin struggles with the cognitive dissonance of critical analysis and Sam disses Ribot’s horn. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Ruby's Arms, Big Time, Tom Waits (1988) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

Joining Charles Adrian near West Kensington tube station in London for the 107th Second-Hand Book Factory is hungry actor, producer and writer Kevin Shen. They talk about empathy with uncomfortable protagonists, good deaths of bad guys and the relatable life of an everyday Egyptian family. Episode image is a detail from the cover of Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, published by Black Swan in 2004; cover illustration by Murray Zanoni. Vera Chok, mentioned by Kevin in this episode, is the most-interviewed guest on Page One. Two of her most recent episodes can be found here and here. More information about the episode, including book listings, is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

For the 105th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined in Peckham Rye by consultant and project manager James Bottomley. They talk about some classic, visceral, virtuosic poetry, some classic British comic writing and some terrifyingly topical American counterfactual writing. James is Vera Chok’s flatmate. Vera has been interviewed repeatedly on the podcast. Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, published by Vintage in 2005; book design by Robert Oberholzer. More information, including book listings, at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

This week on Song by Song, Vera Chok takes us all the way back to the beginning by questioning "this whole Tom Waits thing", as well as going through one of Waits's most hobo-centric songs in this lullaby for the down-and-out. We also revisit the perennial question of authenticity, as well as some of Larry Taylor's bass-playing excursions outside of his Heartattack work. Also: Martin has a cold. Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order. website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: On The Nickel, Heartattack And Vine, Tom Waits (1980) Fried Hockey Boogie, Boogie With Canned Heat, Canned Heat (1968) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.

Joining Charles Adrian for the first episode of the fifth season (!), aka the 101st Second-Hand Book Factory, is writer, actor and performance maker Vera Chok. They talk food and carcinogens, unapologetic feminism, the sexy lamp theory and a young sexual awakening. Episode is marked as explicit on iTunes because of light sexual content. Episode image is a detail from the cover of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler, published in 2010 by Grand Central Publishing; cover design by Anne Twomey; cover photograph of author © Jack Guy/ Corbis Outline. More information, including book listing at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Vera Chok is an actress, writer, and performance maker. Her poetic text has been published in Rising and The Brautigan Free Press and performed at the inaugural BareLit Festival for writers of colour. Vera's thoughts on being "yellow" will appear inThe Good Immigrant, a collection of essays on race in the UK, out in Sept 2016. As well as acting for the National Theatre, The Kenneth Branagh Company, in the West End and on screen, Vera founded experimental theatre company saltpeter and international creative society The Brautigan Book Club. She makes work that investigates connection. Vera used to think that she would be valued as a human being if was always achieving something. She was so achieved focus to the point she was burnt out. A series of breakdowns gave the wake up call she needed to become a more confident woman regardless of her achievements. Tune into the episode to listen to her story. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of Vera's episode, Vera's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Episode 33 – Two interviews this week. One with Karissa Singh at Post Ref Racism and one with writer and actor Vera Chok, both on the past week’s xenophobic government policies and the rising post Brexit racism in the UK. Also more Brexit stuff and Tiernan has a sexy croaky jazz voice.Follow us on Twitter @parpolbro, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParPolBro/ and our webpage at http://www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In GBA 241 we get better acquainted with Vera Chok. We struggle through a little bit of social awkwardness to get into a great conversation about acting, writing, performance, identity, race and sex. The conversation grapples with perception, the self, image, shame and the body which makes it sound a bit worthy and pretentious which it very much is not! Vera plugs: The Good Immigrant: https://unbound.co.uk/books/the-good-immigrant Short Story coming up (in the future) on The Toast: http://the-toast.net/ Charles Adrian Gillot: http://charlesadrian.typepad.com/ Page One: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ Muselings: http://muselings.uk/ I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk We mention: PBH Spoken Word Album: https://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/a-maze-of-breaths-spoken-word-at-pbhs-free-fringe Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/ Peter Buckley Hill's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-8-peter-buckley-hill LAMDA: https://www.lamda.org.uk/ Enid Blyton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton Samantha Mann: http://mssamanthamann.com/ Arts Admin: http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/ People Show Studios: http://www.run-riot.com/venue/people-show-studios Adrian's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-162-adrian Stacey Makishi: http://www.stacymakishi.com/ Bryony Kimmings: http://www.bryonykimmings.com/ Greg Woehead: https://gregwohead.com/ The New Year Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-new-focus Peter Morris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Morris_(playwright) Wikipedia entry on Vera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Chok Wallace Shawn's The Fever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Shawn Krystian Godlewski: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5395388/ Cameryn Moore's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-215-cameryn-moore Brautigan Bookclub: https://thebrautiganbookclub.wordpress.com/ Richard Brautigan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan Chimerica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimerica_(play) Diverse December: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/07/diverse-december-creators-expand-social-media-campaign-readdiverse2016 Kin Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/kin-podcast Vera and Anna on Kin: https://soundcloud.com/kin-podcast/kin-3-oh-shit-im-not-white Nikesh Shukla: http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/ Sense 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense8 Samantha's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-16-ms-samantha-mann I Love Being Asked About My Sexual Desires — But I Just Can’t Answer: http://www.theestablishment.co/2015/12/30/why-cant-i-ask-for-what-i-want-in-bed/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

For the 81st Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by long-time friend and unofficial agent Vera Chok, who describes herself here as an actress, writer, performance-maker and dork. “I was so happy,” she says, “when I finally discovered that I didn’t have to dance like a cool kid.” They talk new perspectives on writers of colour, a novel to fill you up and questions of green dye. Info about The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla, which Vera has contributed to is here. Website: pageonepodcast.com

The fourth season of Page One will kick off on the 16th of February with the 107th Page One featuring long-time collaborator Vera Chok. For more information about the podcast, please visit pageonepodcast.com. Episodes from this season will be available via iTunes (look for Page One Podcast) and Soundcloud (look for charldrian).

  Charles Adrian is joined for the 70th Second-Hand Book Factory by failed mathematician and failed actuary Colin Bartlett. They talk about semi-autobiography, Duke Ellington, clouds and one of the best books of the 20th century. [The Vera mentioned is, of course, Vera Chok, whose latest Page One is here.]

  Opening another season of Page One, Charles Adrian is joined by long-time collaborator Vera Chok to talk about reproduction, the ‘discovery’ of the clitoris and sex as prose poetry. Incidentally, Charles Adrian talks a certain amount of rubbish about the discovery of the clitoris and the controversy surrounding female souls as well as about the history and use of syllogisms; please click links for more accurate information.