Intimate and compelling interviews about creativity and mental health hosted by photographer Naomi Woddis and poet Alba Frederick.
Originally aired on Reel Rebels Radio.
Jessica Horn talks about the importance of flourishing, how spending her childhood outdoors exploring nature has a particular resonance for her now.
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Rishi Dastidar chats about his relationship to London when working remotely and reads from his marvellous collection Saffron Jack.
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Karen Arthur talks to Naomi about her experience of depression and anxiety, and her subsequent recovery and why sewing for her, can be an act of prayer.
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Anna Sexton talks about collective experience, the relationship between play and creativity, and dissolving the boundaries between us and other living things.
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Producer, musician and educator Graham Silbiger talks about teaching music and production collaboratively online and how he processes complex feelings by writing music.
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Writer, performer and director Jamie Hale talks to Naomi about what it means to have a sense of service, having Quaker values and ways of maintaining consistency when the world feels unstable.
Alba interviews musician Gavin O'Brien (aka Citóg) about life during lockdown, making bread, and the release of his debut album, Nadir.
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Over Easter Naomi caught up with her friend Antonio Mattesini and his young son Lucas in his home in north Italy. They discussed the different approaches the UK and Italy have to preventing further s…
Writer and performer Gemma Weekes and her son Isaiah talk about their lockdown experience in St Lucia and read a beautiful life-affirming poem together.
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Naomi Woddis interviews podcaster supremo and writer Sara-Mae Tuson who shares her passion for Georgette Heyer and tells us why her podcast ‘Heyer Today’ may be just the well-written escapism we need…
Alba Frederick interviews London artist Will Reid who discusses the inspiration of the outside, not putting pressure on himself to make art and his use of painting and drawing to explore emotional st…
One from the archives from my previous show on Reel Rebels Radio, 'The Conversational'. A brilliant interview with TS Elliot 2020 prize winner Roger Robinson and writer/editor Nii Ayikwei Parkes.
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Therapist, healer, muse and workshop facilitator Laurence Sessou shares her wisdom on caring for one’s inner child, why listening to our body is so essential to our well-being and what alchemy means …
Writer, journalist, musician and podcaster Musa Okwonga shares his feelings about recklessness and shame and what it means to always be in a state of transition.
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Photographer Wasi Daniju shares her experience of living through the grieving process and what family means to her.
Show host - Naomi Woddis
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Poet and educator Dorothea Smartt talks about her identity as Zami. She reads from her new unpublished work which explores the anglophone caribbean contribution to the building of the Panama Canal.
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Poet Anne Erith Cooper talks frankly about her mental health, how she manages living with Bipolar Disorder and why naming her diagnosis in the public sphere is her way of countering stigma.
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Novelist Leone Ross talks about being happier than she's ever been, expressing the honest self through writing and reads from 'Come Let Us Sing Anyway'.
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Poet and academic Kate Potts shares her enthusiasm for running and how it’s really helped her mental health. She discusses her poetics and why giving voice to who has been silenced is so important to…
Naomi talks to poet, podcaster and carpenter David Turner. He discusses the idea of joinery and collaboration with his wife Lizzy Turner. David also talks about his experience as a service user, a di…