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The Podgoblins Hat Episode Episode 23: Cedric 1:17:53

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This is the 23rd episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.And just like that, it's the end of the season! We're going out on a story that actually shows us what happens when someone has a problem and wonders "What would Snufkin do?"Sniff is inconsolable over the loss of his …

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The Podgoblins Hat Episode Episode 22: The Secret Of The Hattifateners 1:22:12

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This is the 22rd episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.How many times has Moominpappa gone off with the Hattifatteners? Are they really as wicked as they're cracked up to be? What does the birch bark scroll mean? Hop along and find out none of the answers to these questio…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Bonus Episode 8: Ali Baker 43:12

6h ago43:12

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This is the 8th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Our guest Ali Baker is a researcher in children's literature with a particular interest in children's voice and children's rights, so it's no surprise she chose to come on and talk to us about The Invisible Child…

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The Podgoblins Hat Episode Episode 21: The Invisible Child 1:34:16

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This is the twenty-first episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading one of Tove's most famous short stories: The Invisible Child. It's a pretty bright and funny story with very dark themes. We both like it, but it doesn't quite live up to the hype, for …

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The Podgoblins Hat Bonus 7: Lou Sutcliffe 51:32

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This is the 7th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Our guest Lou has been a Moomin fan since childhood, and the character ey relate to is the Groke (iconic).This chat is lots of things, and one of the things is a couple of autistics marvelling over the Hemulen Wh…

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The Podgoblins Hat Episode Episode 20: The Hemulen Who Loved Silence 1:23:35

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This is the twentieth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Is this the underrated best story in this collection? We really think it might be.What can a Hemulen tell us about work under capitalism? Will any of us ever get to be pensioned off? This is a beautiful story abo…

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The Podgoblins Hat Episode 19: The Last Dragon In The World 1:19:48

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This is the nineteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This story's title promises so much in terms of dragon content! In actuality there is hardly any dragon in this story, but what there is, is very good. Nina likes this story a lot anyway, Dave's more on the fenc…

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The Podgoblins Hat Bonus 6: Ruby Miller 50:44

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This is the 6th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.There's so much to say about The Fillyjonk Who Believed in Disasters that we invited Ruby on to say some of it for us! We ponder on the exquisite combo that is cosy and creepy, lament the missed connection betwee…

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The Podgoblins Hat Episode 18: The Fillyjonk Who Was Afraid Of Disasters 1:07:49

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This is the eighteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading The Fillyjonk Who Believed in disasters, certified banger no matter who you ask! It's a melancholy, funny, poignant story that feels almost too real.Join us as we relate a little too clos…

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The Podgoblins Hat Episode Episode 17: A Tale Of Horror 1:09:14

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This is the seventeenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Carrying on with our read-through of Tales from Moomin Valley, our story this week is A Tale of Horror! But don't get too excited. The scariest thing about it is the Whomper's daddy.This story, despite not bein…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Bonus Episode 5: Matt Miller 40:53

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This is the 5th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.To round off our spring miniseason we've got a final (for now) look at The Spring Tune, with special guest Matt Miller, a poet and theatre maker. Matt's take on this story is fairly different from all the other t…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Bonus Episode 4: Martin Zaltz Austwick 1:07:21

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This is the 4th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we've got a special guest in to talk all about the music of Tove Jansson, and the game we talked about last week (Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley) AND the short story that kicked off this miniseason (th…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Bonus Episode 3: Melody of Moominvalley 58:02

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This is the 3rd bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're popping in with something a little different for you this week, it's a video game review! That's right, we're almost topical!Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is a beautiful, relaxing, not quite open world ex…

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The Podgoblins Hat Episode 16: The Spring Tune 1:06:39

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This is the sixteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.The crocuses are up, the cherry trees are in bloom, and Snufkin is tramping back to Moomin Valley - it must be time for our spring miniseries!We're kicking off with this beautiful, perfectly formed gem of a short…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 15: The Fir Tree 1:15:19

11M ago1:15:19

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This is the fifteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're wrapping up this year on the Podgoblin's Hat with Tove's Christmas offering: The Fir Tree.It's got everything you want from a Christmas story: the light and the dark, the fear and the wonder. There's even a…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 14: Moominland Midwinter (part 2) 1:37:32

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This is the fourteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're wrapping up Moominland Midwinter this week, and despite being only three chapters, it's 70% of the words in this book, so do strap in for a mammoth episode.There's a whole raft of new characters: the lonel…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 13: Moominland Midwinter (part 1) 1:25:13

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This is the thirteenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Welcome to series 3! We're back with a banger: Moominland Midwinter. Nina has had this book hyped up by everyone who knows she's doing this podcast, and despite all the hype it doesn't disappoint.In this first h…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 12: The Dangerous Journey & Villain In The Moominhouse 1:06:18

1y ago1:06:18

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This is the twelth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.To wrap up season two we are bringing you the last two picture books set in the Moomin universe written by Tove Jansson.Both of these books are a bit difficult and inaccessible! They're very interesting to Moomin fa…

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The Podgoblins Hat Episode 11: The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My & Who Will Comfort Toffle 1:13:59

1y ago1:13:59

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This is the eleventh episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're breaking from our normal format for these next two episodes to bring you Tove Jansson's picture books.The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My is really ahead of its time in terms of interactivity and the…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 10: Moominsummer Madness (part 2) 1:12:41

1y ago1:12:41

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This is the tenth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.Content note: discussion of suicidal thoughts in the What Would Snufkin do part of the podcast This book splits three ways on Midsummer Eve: Snufkin is enacting revenge on a Park Keeper, Moomintroll and the Snork Mai…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 9: Moominsummer Madness (part 1) 1:04:02

1y ago1:04:02

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This is the ninth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.It's summer in Moominvalley and this book truly hits the ground running. There's a volcano casually going off in the background, and another flood, and the Moomin family has to relocate to a strange floating house. A…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 8: The Exploits (or Memoirs) of Moominpappa (part 2) 1:13:29

1y ago1:13:29

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This is the eighth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We're back with the second half of Moominpappa's memoirs, in which our brave hero becomes the subject of a country run by an Autocrat, starts a colony and meets his wife.Moomintroll has some very sensible notes for …

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 7: The Exploits (or Memoirs) of Moominpappa (part 1) 1:16:18

1y ago1:16:18

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This is the seventh episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to a new season of the Podgoblin's Hat! This week, Nina is reading the Exploits of Moominpappa and Dave is reading the Memoirs of Moominpappa. Our theme for these books is Memoir. This episode is all …

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode Bonus #2 Dr Eleanor Janega 43:08

1+ y ago43:08

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Our special guest for this episode is Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega. Eleanor joins us to shout about how much she loves Comet in Moominland, share her Moomin memes of choice and talk about how Tove Jansson draws on medieval storytelling tropes like weird little guys you find in the woods, comets, and really good food writing. There is a case…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode Bonus #1: Heidi the translator 28:26

1+ y ago28:26

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This a bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts. It's also the last episode of the first series of the show.In this first guest episode, we're talking to Heidi Gilhooly, a lifelong Moomin fan and translator. Heidi did a comparative study of three versions of the Trollk…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 6: Finn Family Moomintroll (part 2) 1:12:51

1+ y ago1:12:51

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This is the sixth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts. It's also the last episode of the first series of the show.It's the end of Finn Family Moomintroll, and the end of series 1!The Hattifatteners have their barometer back, Snufkin gets around to telling the others abo…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 5: Finn Family Moomintroll (part 1) 1:01:41

1+ y ago1:01:41

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This is the fifth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading the first half of Finn Family Moomintroll. Spring has sprung and the children have discovered a very interesting hat on top of a hill. The hat starts to transform everything that sits inside i…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 4: Comet in Moominland (part 2) 57:03

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This is the fourth episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading the second half of Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson, and what a rip roaring adventure it is! Moomintroll meets the fabled Snorkmaiden and falls in love on the spot, our brave adventurers a…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 3: Comet In Moominland (part 1) 54:36

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This is the third episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week we're reading Comet in Moominland, the first fully fledged chapter book. There's lots of to discuss! The Little Creature from last week has become Sniff, a full member of the Moomin family by adoption. A ph…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 2: The Moomins and the Great Flood 50:22

2y ago50:22

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This is the second episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.It's our first read-along and we're reading The Moomins and the Great Flood.We summarise this fairytale of Tove Jansson's, chat about her influences and make a first attempt at a taxonomy of the broader Moomin besti…

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The Podgoblin's Hat Episode 1: Introductions 26:28

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This is the first episode of the Podgoblin's hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts.We will be introducing ourselves, our relationship with each other, and our relationships with the Moomins.Check out our twitter @ThePodgoblin and our Instagram @thepodgoblin to see pictures of the tattoos, cuddly to…

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GBA Extra - Podcasting On A Shoestring 58:15

3+ y ago58:15

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This is a talk I put together for the Maker Weekend at the London Podcast Festival and was recorded at the on 14th September 2019 at King's Place.This was the powerpoint I used for the talk: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g9zwoh6tqw7e533/Podcasting%20on%20a%20shoestring.pptx?dl=0Av Getting Better Acquainted

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GBA Extra - The Possibilities Of Podcasting 51:00

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This is a version of a talk I often give about podcasting. It was recorded at the Thirsk Podcast Festival - Podcast Social Club on 23rd November 2019 at Rural Arts.This was the powerpoint I used for the talk: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cc0eccn7pmmswl0/The%20Possibilities%20of%20Podcasting%202019.pptx?dl=0…

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GBA Extra - In the dark times there will also be singing 1:05:50

4y ago1:05:50

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On the 31st of Decemeber 2020 I sat down to record a reflection on this strange and terrible year in personal and political terms. Which makes it sound like a downer but I did try to focus on good things as well as bad and all the rest of the things that don't fit the good/bad binary. Then I listened back to it and did some light editing. Then I mi…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 18: Legacy 1:11:21

4+ y ago1:11:21

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: sex, assisted dying, war This episode is the last episode of the first (and possibly last) season of this show, and it's about legacy.I’ve been planning this show for years. The earliest recording I’ve used was recorded by my dad on cassette …

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 17: The Box And The Jar 46:43

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: grief, suicide, terminal illness, abuse, bereavementIn the final full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to counselor and psychotherapist Karen Pollock MBACP about grief and deat…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 16: Waves 38:07

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: euthanasia/suicideBut no matter what he forgets, it can’t take away the love we have shared, that existed, and will always have existed, even when he has forgotten it; even when he is no longer alive to remember it; even when I have forgotten…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 15: Death is not something that can be kept at a distance 45:19

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: bereavement, pain, terminal illness (including cancer) and the caste systemIn the seventh full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to Khyati Tripathi about studying death. This is…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 14: André Gorz Tweet 51:04

4+ y ago51:04

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: euthanasia/suicideI realised that maybe our positions aren’t that different after all. And I wondered if, in the moments that I manage to believe in hope, I seem as inspiring and naïve as he does. It made me wonder if maybe the spark I see in…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 13: New answers to old questions 51:20

4+ y ago51:20

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: operations, medical procedures, assisted dying, euthanasiaIn the sixth full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to sociologist Dr Gill Haddow about embodiment, replaceable hearts,…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 12: Hearts Breaking 48:20

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: war, medical operations, suicidal ideationI’m still pretty terrified of my dad stopping existing. He has been such a part of my life that it feels like a world without him in it is impossible. But ever since I was a child, I have been imagini…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 11 - Drink Sangria in the park 49:42

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: PTSD, dependency/addiction, rape (touched on lightly, no descriptions)In the fifth full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to psychologist and epidemiologist Dr Suzi Gage from th…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 10: Friendship Part 2 47:08

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesThis episode is about creating things: imaginary worlds, homes and friendship. It's also about walls: drawing on walls, putting up boundaries, and pulling down the walls inside your mind and heart.Artwork by my brother Tony Pickering: http://www.pick-art.co.uk/The BP…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 9: We're not in uncharted territory 1:29:36

4+ y ago1:29:36

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: Suicide, self-harm, bereavement, war, antisemitism, the Nazis, COVID-19 In the fourth full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to health psychologist Professor Rory O'Connor about…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 8: Chivalry 44:47

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note: sexism, misogyny, questionable behavior, power dynamics and age gaps within romantic and sexual situations.When I made a show about my relationship with masculinity, I talked a lot about my mum and my stepdad, but my dad hardly featured at al…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 7: Friendship Part 1 36:35

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesIt’s important to keep in mind that the story of my relationship with my dad is only one part of his life. It’s only one of the ways he has been a father: the context of my childhood has been very different from the context of my siblings’ childhoods. While he was re…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 6: I don't want to die, but I'm dying 1:28:40

4+ y ago1:28:40

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesExtra content note: Bereavement, suicide, disability, abortion, terminal illnessIn the third full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to three doctors with different perspectives and experiences that…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 5: Desire Paths 40:08

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesMemories are like desire paths: when you first walk down them, they are overgrown and full of details. The more you walk them, the more eroded they become; they are smoothed out and set. You get to what you remember more quickly, but what you remember has become some…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 4: Old people are people 1:15:30

4+ y ago1:15:30

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesIn the second full episode of the podcast using content funded by the British Podcast Awards and the Wellcome Trust I talk to Dr Jonathan Huntley about the work he is doing looking into awareness in people living with advanced dementia. And to Dr Daniel Davis about t…

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Down to a sunless sea: Episode 3: We are all time travellers 45:54

4+ y ago45:54

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General content note for the series: death, dementia, old age, mental health issuesAdditional content note for this episode: Euthanasia, suicideTime is the longest distance between two places.Even when we are no longer here, we are always in time.This episode is about time travel, death, dementia and love.Artwork by my brother Tony Pickering: http:…

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