Shed Talks is a good humoured show about well being, 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 ...
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23: SIMON WOODROFFE'S LIFEJACKETS -MOUNTAINEERING, SAILING, SPINAL TAP, THE CROWN, CLARKSON ON THE FARM, TOUCHING THE VOID, ACTION, MEDITATION, IAN DURY, FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY
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22: Simon Woodroffe talks about being badly bullied, abused at boarding school aged 7. How self esteem, anger, bravado led to drink, drugs, loneliness. Then recovery via 12 Step Groups. Hope! Stage design ...
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Simon Woodroffe. OBE is an original Dragon on Dagon's Den and founder of the Yo Sushi restaurant chain. He believes in people doing things that are outside of their comfort zone. He talks about abandonment, being sent to boarding school aged seven, and being bullied and abused by the the Headmaster. The subsequent fear, low self esteem and anger he…
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21: SHED CHAT WITH RACHEL JONES, EDITOR OF TOES IN THE WATER, SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHER, TALKS ABOUT THE POWERFUL EFFECTS WILD WATER SWIMMING HAS HAD ON SELF ESTEEM , AUTO IMMUNE DISEASE, RAISING TWO KIDS ...
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Rachel Jones is the editor of Toes in the Water: Stories of lives changed by wild swimming talks about the good and the bad times and how swimming in cold wild water has transformed her and other people's lives for the better. https://bit.ly/4bLFpbn She highlights a sense of community, trauma, divorce, self-discipline, self-regulation, resilience, …
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20: PAUL UNWIN TALKS TRAUMA,, SURVIVOR'S GUILT, CASUALTY, GRATITUDE, GRIEF, FEAR, DRUMMING,GRATEFUL DEAD, STEELY DAN, BEDALES EMDR, ARTHUR MILLER, DWELLING ON MENTAL HEALTH NOT REGRET.
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Paul Unwin is the co-creator of huge hit TV show 'Casualty' with best friend Jeremy Brock, was the artistic director of the Bristol Old Vic, and collaborator and good friend of playwright Arthur Miller, to name a few accolades. He talks about the traumatic turning point of his life at the young age of 19, therapy and later EMDR, survivor's guilt. H…
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19: A SHED CHAT HARVEY LISBERG-INTO SOMETHING GOOD. MANAGER OF HERMAN'S HERMITS, GRAHAM GOULDMAN ,I'M NOT IN LOVE, 10CC, GORDON GILTRAP, SAD CAFE, JIMMY WHITE. TALKING ABOUT MICK JAGGER BEING BASHED BY ...
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New to 2024: SHED CHATS Shed Chats are briefer conversations with interesting people - not specifically to do with mental health, but fascinating topics nonetheless. Self-effacing Harvey Lisberg talks about making his own luck, His wild life in the music business, meeting Elvis, Colonel Parker, playing on the same bill as the Stones. What it was li…
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18: MARY RYAN: DOCTOR, SCHOLAR, WIFE, MOTHER, SURVIVOR, DOG LOVER, COLD WATER SWIMMER TALKS . PERSONALITY DISORDER, GOOD & BAD PRIESTS, BEING A G.P. POWER, VIOLENCE, NOT BEING BELIEVED, LOVE
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17: RICHARD MORTON JACK TALKS IN-DEPTH ON NICK DRAKE: THE ‘FIVE LEAVES LEFT’ ‘PINK MOON’ SINGER-SONGWRITER’, HIS LYRICS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, ISLAND RECORDS, EXPECTATIONS, FEAR, DISSAPOINTMENT, DEPRESSION ...
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Music biographer, reviewer, and co-founder of elvinyl.com Richard Morton Jack joins host Jeremy Thomas to discuss 'Nick Drake: The Life' and much more.Many people thought that Nick Drake was going to be hugely successful in the 1970s. His three albums were all critically acclaimed, yet did not sell. Tragically, he took his own life when he was 26. …
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16: Top impressionist of BBC Radio 4's Dead Ringers, talks about growing up in a house dominated by Liverpool FC and her father's Schizophrenia. Her love of Thora Hird's certainty. Spitting Image, winning ...
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Jan Ravens did not enjoy her childhood, did not like being teased about her father . Did not like feeling such a powerless child. Jan talks about how being ill, causing a serious weight loss and his made her the most popular gal down at the disco. How this and impersonating teachers to her fellow pupils gave her some much needed power. She talks of…
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Nicky Chinn talks about having ECT aged 16. How he coped with severe bipolar throughout his life, while-writing over 50 hits with Mike Chapman. Songs like Tiger Feet, Blockbuster, Devil Gate Drive, Hey ...
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Ambassador to Bipolar UK, animal lover, Nicky Chinn waited nearly many years to discover the best ways to stay sane. Alongside his songwriter partner Mike Chapman, Nicky enjoyed huge success around he world, including wining three Ivor Novello awards. Acts like Sweet, Mud, Racey, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Toni Basil, Tina Turner and Huey Lewis. Nicky al…
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14: IAN RANKIN TALKS WITH JT ABOUT THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE AND MUSIC...
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We are currently refurbishing the Shed but will be back on the air mid May. Meanwhile do listen to this Ian Rank post shed talk interview or any eps you may have missed or want to listen again!By Blue Baltic Entertainment Ltd
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All 13 episodes of Shed Talks have been recorded by Jeremy Thomas in his own private shed. The site IS undergoing some repairs but will be back with a bang in themiddel of May.By Blue Baltic Entertainment Ltd
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13: LORD BROOKE talks of a father who wanted a daughter, not him. How finding his feminine side, helped him succeed in running trade unions. How addiction to sex & booze nearly killed his marriage and ...
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12: DANNY EVANS - talks about the fast lane of the music business, the power of Rachmaninov, working with Lang Lang, channelling John Ogden, driving on the hard shoulder and accelerating onto Bipolar ...
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Although not an actor like Geoffrey Rush, Danny Evans has several things in common with the movie Shine.. A child prodigy, student of The Royal College of Music he was set to become a concert pianist, performing all over the world. That is until his violent father and a serious back injury caused him to stop. Danny talks about disappointment, then …
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Tim Lott talks about taking a train journey with David Bowie, severe depression, the ups and downs of growing up in a working class family, medication, bad trips, how ADHD made sense of some of his past actions, tennis, the music of Gillian Welch, being a father to four daughters, why he thought Mike Leigh was faking it, and his passion for cheesy …
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10: AL Kennedy talks brain fog, her bare knuckle boxer grandfather, baking her own bread, card sharks, a toxic head, chaos engineers, what writing means to her health and the power of Nature.
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A successful broadcaster, stand up, Guardian blogger, A. L. Kennedy is best known for her dark, emotionally intelligent award winning novels, She is famous 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 paddled from Essex to Somerset and …
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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 - talks panic attacks, growing up in gangs, secret diaries, family tragedy. How three things stopped 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.
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Gordon a multilingual journalist talks about Autism, Withnail & I, Scotland, Hiroshi Murakami, loneliness, James Joyce, meeting the 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 Order. What happened when his wife, aged …
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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.By Blue Baltic Entertainment Ltd
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3: 3. ROMA HOOPER talks about fly fishing, Audrey Hepburn, the film Love Actually and how to recover from the suicide of someone you love.
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Just like her great aunt, Audrey Hepburn, Roma 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 the OBE in 2017.…
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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 inspired Tim Clark and David Enthoven to offer Robbie Williams a serious management contract. It's written by Robbie Williams about a former schoolteacher of Robbie's and is not complementary. Check out Episode one and hear 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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Here is what the show is all about.By Blue Baltic Entertainment Ltd
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