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Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIBBoswell Book Festival Interview SpecialAs I'm off recording at Dumfries House at the moment, here's selection of interviews from past Boswell Book Festival events including Lady Anne Glenconner, founder of Private Eye Richard Ingrams, biographer Ben McIntyre, Winston Churchill's granddaughter Emma Soames, Andrew Cotter with Olive and Mabel, and we're Cloistered with Catherine Coldstream.
2025-05-0957 min
Arts & IdeasIsolationAs Radio 4 marks the 5th anniversary of the first COVID lockdown, Free Thinking investigates one of the defining experiences of that period for many people: isolation. It's a word that entered the English language in the 18th century, and arguably its emergence as a concept marked a change in the way people saw their relationships with other people and the wider community, towards a more individualistic society. And yet there's a long history of religious mystics seeking solitude. From Robinson Crusoe to the crew of the International Space Station, via monasticism and Romanticism, Matthew Sweet investigates the histories of...
2025-03-2156 min
Lament of HopeCloistered: My Years as a Nun-Catherine ColdstreamCatherine Coldstream's memoir, My Years as a Nun, was published last year, and details Catherine's over a decade-long experience in a silent, Carmelite monastery in Northumberland. Catherine sat down with me to talk about how she came to live in the monastery, what the day-to-day looked like, and how her experience impacted her faith and the way she views monastic orders now.
2025-03-141h 18
Long Overdue: A Franklin Public Library Podcast2024 Year End Episode2024 is nearly over and in this episode Librarians Andy, Keri, and Sam talk about their favorite reads from the past year and their reading goals for 2025.
In this episode we talked about:
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream
The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack
Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America by Harry N. MacLean
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Deliver...
2024-12-2641 min
RN Drive - Separate stories podcastOut of the habit: What its like to join and leave a monastic lifeWhat possesses a woman in her twenties to become a nun? And what is it like to run away and give up the monastic life? Catherine Coldstream did both.
2024-11-2519 minThe Drawing RoomOut of the habit: What its like to join and leave a monastic lifeWhat possesses a woman in her twenties to become a nun? And what is it like to run away and give up the monastic life? Catherine Coldstream did both.
2024-11-2519 min
Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIBDonna Ashworth, Jackie Kay, Catherine Coldstream and Joseph Coelho - Boswell Book FestivalMore authors from the Boswell Book Festival this week including Catherine Coldstream on her book Cloistered: My Years As a Nun and two great but very different poetry collections with Jackie Kay's Mayday and Donna Ashworth's Wild Hope.
Plus, away from the festival, we get the books of your life from Yoto Carnegie Medal Winner Joseph Coelho and find new books available in the RNIB Library.
2024-06-2857 min
Call for Convent ReformReal Life 'Mean Girls:' Living in A Carmelite MonasteryCatherine Coldstream came out in April with a book about her 12-year experience of living in a Carmelite order in England. In this episode I break down my own thoughts about her experiences.
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2024-06-1838 min
The Clearing with Katherine MayCatherine Coldstream on life as a nunJoin my conversation with Catherine Coldstream as we relax into a questing, rambling chat about the deep pull that many of us feel towards the quiet and gentle rhythms of the monastic life, and the risks of submitting so completely.Katherine's new book, Enchantment, is available now: US/CAN and UKLinks from the episode:Catherine’s websiteCatherine’s book, CloisteredJoin Katherine's SubstackFind show notes and transcripts for every episode by visiting Katherine's website.Follow Katherine on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
2024-05-241h 13
Unsolicited Book ReviewsEpisode 45 | A WTF BookIn this episode, Scott and KP talk about the books that made them go WTF recently as they discuss their thoughts on their last, current, and next reads. Make sure you have your Goodreads app open as they play a thrilling game of Buy, Borrow, Boot! Taking inspiration from the classic game "fuck, marry, kill,". Expect laughter, unexpected choices, and perhaps a few friendly jabs along the way. They decide which books to buy, borrow, or boot, so you don’t have to. It's a game of bookish matchmaking like no other! Join Scott and KP for a whirlwind of...
2024-05-2151 min
John and Heidi Show05-11-24-Catherine Coldstream - CloisteredJohn & Heidi share funny stories of people doing weird things... plus John chats with a guest. We visit with Catherine Coldstream - CloisteredLearn more about our radio program, podcast & blog at www.JohnAndHeidiShow.com
2024-05-1422 min
Saturday LiveSteven Knight, Ruth Goodman, Catherine Coldstream, Vernon KayBirmingham’s unofficial global ambassador, Steven Knight, who did as much for flat caps as he did for Brum by creating Peaky Blinders and he’s now taking us back to the West Midlands of the 1980’s with his latest TV series This Town. Catherine Coldstream had a bohemian upbringing in London, lived in Paris and fell in love with "unsuitable propositions in dark polo necks" and then, spent twelve years cloistered, as a Carmelite nun.The social and domestic historian Ruth Goodman, famous for her hit TV series taking us back to Tudor, Victorian and Ed...
2024-04-271h 01
2024-04-1606 min
5x15Catherine Coldstream On Cloistered5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each.
Catherine Coldstream grew up in London and converted to Catholicism in her early twenties. She was a Carmelite nun for twelve years. Since leaving the monastery, she took an undergraduate degree as a mature student, at the University of Oxford, and taught theology, philosophy and ethics for ten years. She has never stopped thinking about her life as a nun and wrote about it as a way of understanding the experiences that shaped her...
2024-04-1513 min
Write About NowA Former Nun Tells the Story of Her Escape from a MonasteryCatherine Coldstream shares the extraordinary tale of joining an ancient and secretive Carmelite monastery in the UK, surrendering completely to a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. But years into leading this sheltered and isolated life of a silent nun, she started to realize the complexities and dangers of the life she vowed to live. Her experience is captured beautifully in a new memoir called Cloistered: My Years as a Nun. She joins host Jonathan Small to talk about why she gave up her carefree, bohemian life to become a cloistered nun, what life was like inside the monastery, he...
2024-04-091h 05
Power-Up With A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Captivating.Cloistered by Catherine ColdstreamPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/6156to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Cloistered
Author: Catherine Coldstream
Narrator: Catherine Coldstream
Format: mp3
Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
Release date: 03-12-24
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 55 ratings
Genres: Religious
Publisher's Summary:
Cloistered takes the listener deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, in Northumberland, Catherine trusts herself to a group of twenty silent women, believing she...
2024-03-1211h 23
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Title: Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
Author: Catherine Coldstream
Narrator: Catherine Coldstream
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 7, 2024
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect...
2024-03-0711h 23Press Play On This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine ColdstreamPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693594to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
Author: Catherine Coldstream
Narrator: Catherine Coldstream
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 7, 2024
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect...
2024-03-0711h 23
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Title: Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
Author: Catherine Coldstream
Narrator: Catherine Coldstream
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 7, 2024
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect...
2024-03-0711h 23Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Religion & Spirituality, ChristianityCloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine ColdstreamPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693594to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
Author: Catherine Coldstream
Narrator: Catherine Coldstream
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 7, 2024
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect...
2024-03-0711h 23