Shed Talks is a good humoured show about mental health and coping with life – what happens when things go wrong, and what you can do to get better and stay well. Shed Talks is hosted by Jeremy Thomas – a funny guy with experience of serious mental illness, and an advocate of good mental health. Jeremy is going to be in conversation with interesting people drawn from the world of Film, TV, Music, Books, Crime, Gardening, and Business. Interesting people who have achieved something in their li ...
Tim Lott talks flexi pop, a train journey with David Bowie, severe depression, growing up in a working class family, the ups and downs of medication, how ADHD made sense of past actions, bad acid trips, the importance of tennis, the music of Gillian Welch, the challenge of being a parent to four daughters, why he thought Mike Leigh was faking it, a…
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10: AL Kennedy talks about the Lockdown months, brain fog, her bare knuckle boxer grandfather, baking her own bread, lessons learnt from card sharks, a toxic head, chaos engineers, what writing means ...
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AL Kennedy is a successful playwright, broadcaster, stand up, Guardian blogger but best known for her nine undisputedly dark, emotionally intelligent award winning novels, She is well known for not suffering fools, However, in person, wearing her bright yellow lifejacket, Alison Kennedy is less frightening to meet than you might think. She kindly p…
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9: NATHAN HORROCKS- Super honest, super cheerful, ex Jockey turned Film Director talks abandonment, dyslexia, riding sixty winners, anorexia, social media, one day not wishing to wake up, and how one horse ...
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Nathan Horrocks has jumped many fences in his life, both literal and metaphorical. Raised in Yorkshire and Kenya, he talks candidly about traumatic events including being separated from his mother while a small child and then reconciling with her 25 years later. He lifts the lid on what it is really like to be a professional jockey. How he loves th…
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8: IAN RANKIN - Multi million selling crime writer, talks panic attacks, growing up in tough gangs, secret diaries, family tragedy. How three things saved him from veering off the cliff.
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Ian Rankin spills the beans about his mental health and allows us to see behind the creator of those 23 Inspector Rebus crime novels. Born on the tough side of Fife, he came up the hard way but credits his elder sister for encouraging him to write his thoughts into diaries. To understand him, you need to know that Edinburgh is his capital, and sinc…
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7: GORDON DARROCH - ALL THE TIME WE THOUGHT WE HAD. A MEMOIR DISCUSSED.
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Gordon a multilingual journalist talks about being an only child, Autism, Withnail & I, Scotland, the great Hiroshi Murakami, loneliness, James Joyce, meeting the Dutch love of his life aged 18, getting married, Stress, Bladerunner, having two kids diagnosed with autism, the healing power of running, Breaking Bad, Our Friends in the North, New Orde…
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6: 6. DICK MOORE- Poacher, turned gamekeeper talks about bullying, love, anxiety, top class rugby, depression and a fatal teenage obsession that ended in tragedy.
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Dick Moore hated school so badly, he faked appendicitis. At odds with a sadistic headteacher, his depression and anxiety were very real. An immense ability n the rugby field kept him afloat. Fast forward to university, Dick became a teacher. He then married and within 5 years was the youngest prep school headmaster in the country. He occupied that …
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5: 5. Karen Cowan talks Harrods, and Heroin. Bipolar, Alcohol, Forbidden Love. Fear and Chaos of growing up unparented.
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Shed Talks’ very own psychologist Karen Cowan, switches to the hot seat and bears all for this extended edition. She talks candidly about growing up with aristocratic heroin and alcohol addicted parents, amidst great wealth but amidst fear, anxiety and bad asthma- never feeling safe. How protecting her younger sister helped her deal with her father…
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4: EXPLODE OR BURY? MIKE FISHER- ANGER MANAGEMENT IN THE UK
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Mike Fisher, the brains behind BAAM and one of the leading experts in anger management. Mike talks about growing up under the Apartheid system in South Africa. rage, cats, imploding, heartbreak and betrayal, supporting Arsenal and Barcelona FC simultaneously.Av SHED TALKS (Jeremy Thomas)
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3: 3. ROMA HOOPER talks about fly fishing, Audrey Hepburn, people nearly drowning, the film Love Actually and how to recover from the suicide of someone you love.
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Charming as her famous great aunt, Audrey Hepburn, Roma Hooper has spent her life helping others. A tragedy in her childhood had a lasting effect on her mental health. She has used this experience to support many others and, in particular, young offenders in prison. Which led her to set up the highly successful Prison Radio Service. She received th…
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Please Sir - a poem written by Robbie Williams and read by Shed Talks host Jeremy Thomas
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This poem helped Tim Clark and David Enthoven decide to offer Robbie Williams a serious management contract. It's written by Robbie Williams about a former schoolteacher of Robbie's and is definetely not complementary. Check out what Tim Clark has to say about the scene that unfolded the first time they visited Robbie's flat.…
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2: 2. Bad boy, Charlie Mortimer, subject of best selling memoir 'Dear Lupin', talks heroin addiction, shopping, HIV, walking, alcoholism, fast cars and finding happiness later in life.
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Disgruntled old Etonian, international HGV driver, serial depressive, officer in the Coldstream Guards, oil rig worker and latterly fine art collector, Charlie Mortimer has considerable life experience. Being addicted to heroin, cocaine, dexedrine, painkillers and alcohol, deep down he led a largely unhappy life until his mid fifties when things to…
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1: ROBBIE WILLIAMS' MANAGER, TIM CLARK TALKS MENTAL HEALTH, ISLAND RECORDS, HOW TO STAY SANE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS.
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Veteran music biz manager, Tim Clark spills the beans to JT about growing up in Africa with his missionary parents. Running Island Records, King Crimson, Nick Drake, Paul Kossoff, Bob Marley, Bryan Ferry. Insight into his legendary partner, David Enthoven's recovery from heroin, cocaine, and alcohol addiction. How they took Robbie to the top and ho…
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