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OneTrackMinds PodcastMeganne Christian - Christmas EpisodeHello friends, Merry Christmas to you all! Here’s a very special bonus episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, with a very festive theme.Just one guest on today’s show, although her list of achievements is so long that its a wonder she could easily cover for two or more… She is Meganne Christian, a materials scientist, atmospheric physicist and a member of the European Space Agency, which means she’s a proper, bona-fide astronaut… Meganne told this story on stage at WOMAD festival in summer 2023, and we asked her back to tell it again a...
2024-12-2414 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastAlex Romeo and Nina GotuaHello Friends,It’s time for the penultimate episode of the first series of the OneTrackMinds podcast, and we’re featuring two stories from our Hidden Tracks workshops to round off the year. Our first guest is Alex Romeo, who spends most of her time in theatres, working to make shows accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences in her roles as a captioner and access consultant. She is an occasional scribbler, amateur photographer and professional redhead.And after the break, we hear from family therapist Nina Gotua. A native of Belgrade, Nina...
2024-12-2032 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastPeter Tatchell and Vanessa KisuuleHello friends, This week on the OneTrackMinds podcast, we feature two stories about the life-changing impact of songs by iconic black artists. Our first guest is the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Born in Australia, Peter’s incredible, selfless and tireless work has made him a veritable national treasure here in the UK, and his portrait now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. After the break, we hear from poet and author Vanessa Kisuule. A multi-time poetry slam winner, Vanessa is a former Bristol City Poet, Glastonbury Poet in Residence and TE...
2024-11-2928 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastSalena Godden and Doon MackichanHello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, featuring two very energetic stories about two classic rock songs. Our first guest is the poet and author Salena Godden. The author of six books, including the poetry collection Pessimism Is For Lightweights, and the novel Mrs. Death Misses Death, Salena is one of the country’s most vibrant and essential literary figures. Our second storyteller is actor, author and comedy legend Doon Mackichan. Best known for the groundbreaking sketch comedy show Smack The Pony, Doon has appeared in countless classic Brit...
2024-11-2227 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastStella Duffy and Rufus WrightHello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, featuring two very moving stories about loss and resilience. Our first guest is the novelist and campaigner Stella Duffy. Stella was born in London, but spent her childhood in New Zealand, and that country’s culture has had a big influence on her approach to life, as you’ll hear in her story. As well as publishing seventeen novels, she’s also the founder of the Fun Palaces campaign, an annual festival of culture designed to increase access to the arts. After th...
2024-11-1525 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastAlicia MacDonald and Kristian BrodieHello friends, **EDIT - an earlier version of this post went out with a faulty audio file. Thanks to Michael Hayes for pointing this out to us. Here it is again, but without an advert interrupting Alicia’s story. Thanks for bearing with us.**Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast. Over the past two weeks, we’ve featured stories about mothers, stories about fathers, and now, rounding off the trilogy, we present to you two stories about parenting in a slightly oblique manner… Our first guest is film and...
2024-11-0831 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastKatherine Parkinson and Alice MartinHello friends, Before we get into this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, a quick reminder to all of you in London that tonight is our Hidden Tracks show is taking place at 7:45pm tonight at the Purcell Room as part of the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival. Featuring five stories from graduates of our Hidden Tracks storytelling workshop, and one story from our special guest, comedian Sofie Hagen. There are only a handful of tickets left, so if you want to come along and witness an awe-inspiring night of music and storytelling, act now! Tick...
2024-11-0126 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastRichard McDougall and Dara McGarryHello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, which features two stories about the songs that remind our storytellers about their fathers. Our first guest is the magician, speaker and business coach Richard McDougall. Richard has told this story a couple of times for us at OneTrackMinds, including at one of our very special choir shows, where our guests’s chosen songs are reinterpreted and performed by the brilliant community choir Camden Voices. Richard’s story is one of our favourites, and it’s included in our first anthology of stories. Our...
2024-10-2521 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastJack Garratt and Barry AdamsonHello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast. This week on the show, we have two bona fide musicians, sharing their stories about the song that changed their lives. Our first guest is Jack Garratt, a British singer-songwriter and former winner of the Critics Choice award at the Brit Awards. His story, which he told at Wilton’s Music Hall in February of this year, culminates in a quotation that we’ve borrowed as the motto of our show: You can listen passively, and have a good time. Or you ca...
2024-10-1827 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastNell Frizzell and Pauline EyreHello friends,This week on the OneTrackMinds podcast, we’ve got two stories that deal with disappointment and the self-confidence that comes from bouncing back from it. Our first story comes from journalist and author Nell Frizzell. Nell is very much a part of the OneTrackMinds touring party, having joined us on the road to tell her story on many occasions. She’s the author of several books, including the novel Cuckoo which was published in August. After the break, we hear from comedian Pauline Eyre. Over the years, Pauline has told many stor...
2024-10-1124 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastIan Bonar and Bec HillHello friends, Trigger warning! If you’re planning to listen to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast on a flight, and you struggle with the stress of flying at the best of times, maybe give this one a miss until you’re back on terra firma again… Yes, this week we feature two stories where our storytellers have found themselves in a bit of bother on an aeroplane, but found varying degrees of solace through the medium of music.Our first guest is the actor and writer Ian Bonar. His list of on-sc...
2024-10-0428 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastAndy Nyman and Haresh PatelHello friends, This week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds Podcast takes us back in time to experience the life-changing impact of the 1980s, and features two stories which wax poetically about the very specific cultural climate of that strangest of decades… Our first storyteller is the actor, writer, director and (*checks notes*) magician, Andy Nyman. You’ll have been him on your TV screens in such shows as Dead Set, Peaky Blinders, and Crooked House; or on the big screen in such films as Death At A Funeral, Severance, or the adaptation of his hugely succes...
2024-09-2728 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastKeiran Goddard and Michael CraggHello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, featuring two stories that celebrate the simple pleasure of pop music.Our first storyteller is journalist and author Keiran Goddard. Keiran is the author of four books, including the novels Hourglass and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning. He writes regularly for The Guardian. Our second guest today is music critic and author Michael Cragg. Michael’s book Reach For The Stars is a wonderful oral history of British Pop Music from The Spice Girls to Pop Idol - essential reading for...
2024-09-2030 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastDenise Gough and Steve ChapmanHello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, featuring two stories about life-changing songs from two artists who definitely broke the mould. Our first storyteller is two-time Olivier-Award-winning actress Denise Gough. Denise has recently been back on the London stage reprising her breakout role in the play People, Places, Things; and she’ll be appearing in the second season of the excellent Star Wars spin-off Andor when it’s released in early 2025. Our second guest is the artist and writer Steve Chapman, better known on Instagram as @stevexoh. Steve is one...
2024-09-1334 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastKatie Puckrik and Stacey CarrHello friends, This week on the show, two stories about dancing your way out of trouble.Katie Puckrik is our first storyteller. Katie burst on to British TV screens as one of the hosts of cult 1990s late-night music show The Word. She regularly appears in print in The Guardian, and as a stand-in DJ on BBC Radio 6Music. Her YouTube channel about perfume and fragrance is called, brilliantly, Katie Puckrick Smells. (https://www.youtube.com/user/katiepuckriksmells) Our second guest is creative executive and entertainment consultant Stacey Carr. Originally from Los Angeles...
2024-09-0631 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastAlan Johnson and Robert ElmsHello friends!This week on the show, we have two stories about growing up in London and the impact that music had on the young lives of two incredible storytellers. First up, we have a story from former Labour politician and Home Secretary, Alan Johnson. After retiring from politics, Alan published his memoir This Boy, described as ‘moving and unforgettable’ by the Sunday Times, and he’s since turned his hand to a best-selling series of crime novels, starting with The Late Train To Gipsy Hill. He’s also the only guest we’ve ever had on the...
2024-08-3029 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastLeon Ockenden and Rhik SamadderHello friends!In this episode of the podcast, we present two stories about songs that have really and truly acted as a solace and a salve through difficult times. And though the times described in these stories were unquestionably difficult, the stories themselves are utterly joyous - and very, very funny. Your first storyteller is actor, writer and director Leon Ockenden. You may know Leon from his role as Will Chatterton on Coronation Street, or from his regular appearances on This Morning. This week’s second storyteller is author and journalist Rhik Samadder. Rh...
2024-08-2329 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastOneTrackMinds Podcast - s.1 e.3 Charlie Gilmour and Roxana SilbertHello Friends,Episode Three of the OneTrackMinds podcast features two stories about love, death and some creative ways of utilising cremains… The first is from writer Charlie Gilmour, and explores his relationship with his childhood dog John. Charlie’s wonderful memoir Featherhood is absolutely gorgeous. Neil Gaiman called it “the most powerful work of biography I’ve read in years”, and he’s not wrong. You can get a copy from the OneTrackMinds Bookshop. Our second story is from theatre director Roxana Silbert. When we first met Roxana, she told us that she was...
2024-08-1626 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastOneTrackMinds Podcast - s.1 e.2 - Michael Pedersen and Jen BarleyHello Friends!It’s Podcast Launch Day at OneTrackMinds HQ, so, as promised, here’s our second episode, featuring two stories about friendship. The first, from Scottish poet and author Michael Pedersen, celebrates his friendship with Scott Hutchison, lead singer of Frightened Rabbit, who died by suicide in May 2018. Michael’s book Boy Friends explores this powerful, creative friendship in more detail and is genuinely one of the best books I’ve read in years. You can get a copy from the OneTrackMinds Bookshop. Our second story is from our lovely friend Jen Barley...
2024-08-1632 min
OneTrackMinds PodcastOneTrackMinds Podcast s.1 e.1 - Kristian Brodie and Adam ShakinovskyHello friends!Well, we’ve finally gone and done it. After eight years of procrastination, fart-arsing and general titting about, we’ve finally got our act together and sorted out the OneTrackMinds podcast. Today, we present to you the first episode - a pilot of sorts - in which Adam and I look back on the very first stories we’ve told on the show, which felt like an apt place to start. Unfortunately, we couldn’t include the music tracks in the audio of the podcast, but thanks to the wonders of modern t...
2024-08-1625 min
Making it After 40Adam Shakinovsky - Bru Productions and OneTrackMindsSend us a textIn this first episode of 2023, Lisa chats with long time friend and Adam Shakinovksy of Bru Productions. Adam is a film maker, story teller and most definitely a creative spirit. Adam and Lisa discuss finding the harmony between making art that feeds their souls and making art that feeds their families. They also get into the importance of staying in alignment with your collaborate and client, maintaining integrity and operating with your values in mind, even when that means you might have to say no to a project. This episodes features the two...
2023-01-031h 03
Sound of SilenceSPECIAL: A collection of silences from ep. 71-80Sound of Silence is the world's first silent podcast featuring special guests. Each episode is recorded face to face with a special guest and captures the silence that arises between the guest and podcast host Steve Chapman. The podcast began in the summer of 2018 and will feature a total of 100 episodes.This episode features the collected silence from episodes 71-80 recorded in a variety of locations.Guests on this compilation.00:09 Charlie Gladstone02:06 Marella Campagna04:05 Laurence Shorter05:59 Caroline Casey07:58 Kristian Brodie & Adam Shakinovsky09:53 Maria Oshodi11:05 Remi Rough13:46 Lesley Gr...
2020-07-1420 min
Sound of SilenceEpisode 75: Adam Shakinovsky & Kristian BrodieThis episodes guests are Adam Shakinovsky & Kristian Brodie. Adam is a writer and storyteller who has made short films with the likes of John Malkovic and Anjelica Huston. Kristian is an award winning film producer whose films include the BAFTA winning Beast and the BIFA award winning next goal wins. Together they curate and co-host the live storytelling show One Track Minds which invites special guests to tell the story of a song that changed their lives. Recorded in the garden of House of St Barnabus, Soho.Support the show
2019-12-3102 min
2019-08-2122 min