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Pennie Stuart
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Inside Forensic Science
Series 3: The Verdict
What did our experts and the jury of the day decide? How can people make a decision when experts disagree and who can be an expert in criminal cases? This episode covers all of the details and also answers the question of what happened to Scott and Monson after the trial. Join us on Facebook to see further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio Ltd production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the University of Dundee and was funded by The Le...
2024-08-01
38 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 3: The Experiments
Content warning: graphic descriptions of injury and death involving a gun and mention of suicide Accident or murder? To determine which is the most likely explanation for Hambrough’s death, experts in both 1893 and the present carry out experiments to test what distance the shot could have come from. What exactly can these experiments tell us about what happened on that fateful day and what are their limitations? Join us on Facebook to see further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio Ltd production for t...
2024-07-25
44 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 3: The Motive
Alfred John Monson is accused of the murder of young Dudley Cecil Hambrough. For over 3 years Monson had acted not only as Hambrough’s tutor and guardian, but as his friend. What motive could there have been for Monson to commit murder? The prosecution say money. Join us for this episode as we scrutinise personal accounts, financial documents and the arguments made by both the prosecution and defence regarding Monson’s motives for murder. View our Facebook page for further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Adve...
2024-07-18
32 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 3: The Postmortem and the Gun
Content warning: this episode contains graphic descriptions of the autopsy process. A young man has been shot dead on a hunting trip; his two hunting companions are suspected of murder. With Monson arrested and Scott on the run, attention turns to the body. What can an autopsy tell us about how someone died? Can the postmortem and knowledge of ballistics tell us whether this death was truly a murder or an accident? Join us on Facebook to see further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Ad...
2024-07-11
43 min
LUMP
Cancerversary
For loads of people, the first anniversary of their diagnosis is significant and Pen's no different but in considering how she feels about the looming 'cancerversary' she realises there are crumbs of comfort lurking in the shadows..."Of course I will always remember when I found out I had cancer, why would I forget, but I don’t need to do anything more than let myself acknowledge it and, if I do happen to allow myself to dip back into those indescribably painful weeks and months after my diagnosis, I need to make sure I don’t just...
2024-07-05
10 min
Inside Forensic Science
Bonus Episode for Series 3: VR and Forensic Science
This is a bonus episode designed to accompany Episode 2 of Series 3. It features an interview between Pennie Stuart and Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science Senior Research Engineer Vincenzo Rinaldi about the application of Virtual Reality in forensic science.
2024-07-05
19 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 3: The Scene
The police believe the death of Cecil Hambrough was no accident. His tutor Alfred John Monson is arrested for his murder 20 days after the incident. Scott, the last member of the hunting party has disappeared. Now it is up to the experts to gather what evidence they can from the scene. But after all that time, is there any evidence left to find? This episode discusses what evidence may have been lost from the Ardlamont scene and what steps we take today to preserve a crime scene. Join us on Facebook to see further resources an...
2024-07-04
43 min
LUMP
Bored with this now
Surely, surely, its time to stop banging on about cancer! Although Pen finds herself desperate to draw a line and move on, she can't. The physical and psychological ripples of cancer continue to cause shockwaves through her life as you'll hear in this utterly honest episode which captures her on going fury about what's happened.Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and Johnny at The Music Shed Recording StudiosSpecial thanks to Incredible Feet for their inspiration and...
2024-06-28
09 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 3: A Death
The early morning of Thursday 10 August 1893, a party of three men leave to hunt rabbits on the Ardlamont estate in Tighnabruaich—only two return. The youngest, Lieutenant Dudley Cecil Hambrough has died from a bullet to the back of his head. The local doctor decrees the death an accident, but is the story really so clear cut? In this episode, we question what evidence might have been lost following Hambrough’s death and what steps investigators take today to confirm whether a death was accidental or the result of a crime. Join us on Facebook to see...
2024-06-27
39 min
LUMP
Underwired!
The great bra throwaway is looming but Pen's feeling reluctant..."maybe that turn of the year, spring clean thing, is kicking in. It suddenly feels pressing. But it’s a spikey, gnarly, tear stain of a decision. I’ve never been one for fancy, expensive underwear but maybe that means the few nice bras I do have carry more significance. I need to throw away my old bras because they don’t fit, they won’t ever fit again and the thought of an underwire, albeit encased in fabric, insistent, pushing and rubbing against the creased flesh beneath my...
2024-06-21
10 min
LUMP
Snow Globe
"a shaken snow globe is exactly how a cancer diagnosis feels. Suddenly there you are, trapped inside your fragile bubble, desperately trying to remain upright while the soft petals of everything you ever took for granted and thought you knew, fly around your head. Everything unsettled, dislodged, the only certainty being that nothing will come to land in quite the same place ever again..."A year down the line, with Christmas looming, Pen reflects on how much has changed since the last festive season although she also comes to realise, somethings haven't changed at all.Se...
2024-06-14
09 min
Traveling with AAA
Great Drives: The Scottish North Coast 500, with Dan Holland and Pennie Stuart
The American road trip is a quintessential pastime. But if you’re looking for something a bit more international, there are spectacular drives all around the world that are just waiting to be explored. Although perhaps nothing else quite ticks all the boxes like the one we’re talking about today. Lush green forests, hills, mountains, steep cliffs that dramatically overlook the sea, plus lively pub culture, great seafood, and traditional music … the North Coast 500 has it all! Today, Angie Orth welcomes Dan Holland and Penni...
2024-06-13
28 min
LUMP
One Year On (The Art of Gingerbread!)
Its a year to the day since Pen first found the lump in her left breast. The moment has her paused, ruminating on just how much life has changed since that singular moment in the shower...Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.Re...
2024-06-07
09 min
LUMP
A Uniform to Conform
In the aftermath of another point of friction with her daughter, Pen takes a long hard look at herself and comes up with some uncomfortable conclusions about her attitude to conformity.Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.Read more hereWr...
2024-05-31
13 min
LUMP
Live With
"As time stretches out between me and the shock of those early diagnosis days, I’m spending more and more time with cancer as a back note, a gentle hum to my day. I cook, I write, I read, I see friends, we laugh, alot. All of these things I do with a body that doesn’t work as well as it did and probably never will again. All of these things I do with a body which is significantly scarred and changed. It’s the physicality of cancer that will be my personal tinnitus. But I am livi...
2024-05-24
08 min
LUMP
Jealous
This was one of the hardest episodes for Pen to write and then read back. None of us likes to admit when we're being a bit of a dick but its only by being honest about ourselves, how we're feeling and perhaps our less appealing qualities, that we get to go to work on feeling a bit better. So here Pen wrestles with the notion that she's jealous, something she hates to admit.Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and...
2024-05-17
13 min
LUMP
Chosen
One of the hardest things about cancer is that it rips away the sense of having choice over your life, you lose control. In this episode Pen wrestles back control by choosing to take a walk up the hill above the house in search of understanding as to why she still feels so angry at cancer for stealing choice from her. Powerful, insightful and inspiring, writing which takes you way beyond the subject of cancer and ploughs into the human condition.Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener It was...
2024-05-10
12 min
LUMP
The want to be known...
A call from an old friend prompts Pen to mull over what we give of ourselves to others. Should she worry about how honest she's been in writing her blog (and by association in this podcast), should she be fearful of the message that being so brutally honest sends out? "We want to be known. And we do. But we want to carefully curate what is known about us. Look at facebook, twitter, in fact all social media and you get a distilled concentrate of how each and every participant wants to be known. Facebook doesn’t paint...
2024-05-03
10 min
LUMP
What do you do?!
After making her exit from 25 years at the BBC, Pen ruminates on what on earth she'll say if she's asked "what do you do?". We're so hung up on labelling each other and ourselves but what label do you choose as an ex-BBC ex-Radio producing ex-cycling cancer warrior?Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever ha...
2024-04-26
07 min
LUMP
Exit!
Time to leave the BBC and push 25 years of her life to one side, but leaving a workplace during lockdown over zoom is distinctly weird..."It feels ever so slightly like attending my own wake. People say lovely, generous, heartfelt things which make me squirm with embarrassment. I’m deeply suspicious I tell them, people always say nice things after someone dies, always sing their praises, this has the distinct whiff of being buried alive, tomorrow you’ll be slagging me off something rotten I laugh at them, you’ll be having an o-bitch-uary! I talk too much, soa...
2024-04-19
08 min
LUMP
Back in the Saddle
E-bike at the ready, Pen contemplates the significance of getting back in the saddle and the cycling alongside David once more. For some reason the associated fear and anxiety prompts memories of a terrifying moment from years earlier..."We flew down the hill in pairs, spreading out, a distance opening up between myself at the back and the front group where David was, I was further up the hill, laughing and shouting, not looking when it happened. The first I knew of David’s hitting the car was the realisation that everything had stopped up ahead, time see...
2024-04-12
10 min
LUMP
Half Life
Like loads of other people facing the fallout from cancer, Pen has taken some radical decisions about her career, but as the time to leave the BBC draws closer, she contemplates all the years she's spent there, half her life, with mixed emotions..."even though I know this story is finished, there’s that curious thing that happens with a great book or adventure. Part of you wants to hurtle to the end and throw yourself at the empty space beyond, the other part of you wants to drag your feet, take time to savour all the best...
2024-04-05
09 min
LUMP
Cheat!
Pen finds a new way of getting active again but she's torn up with the notion that she might be somehow cheating..."Tears pour down my face as David drives us to the shop. I should be excited, elated and a small quiet corner of me is but right now, right at this very second, I’m broken hearted about what this trip and this purchase represents."Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cance...
2024-03-29
10 min
LUMP
Love Song to the Lost
Pen's in a reflective mood, mulling over her response to cancer in her writing..."As human beings we’re better at expressing the difficult, chewy stuff perhaps, than we are at emoting about how great life is and how happy we are. But all those songs aren’t about love, they’re about lost love, they’re like a reverse print of the thing you should actually be looking at. Flip the heartache on its head and of course the root of it all is the amazing thing that love is. I feel the same way about w...
2024-03-22
05 min
LUMP
I'm Here, I Hear, I Know
Pen discovers a good friend has been diagnosed with cancer and it flings her back to when she learned of her own diagnosis..."What did I want when I found out? Who did I turn to? What did I need in those first desperate days and weeks? So when he calls and stutters out his shock and fear and sheer disbelief at the path he’s being pushed down, I don’t tell him it will all be alright and I don’t say he’s strong enough to beat this, because who am I to know what he’s u...
2024-03-15
08 min
LUMP
Scattered
Pen's daughter asks her one of the toughest of questions and the mental journey it takes us on is both profound and profoundly moving..."‘Where do you want to be scattered when you die?’ B asks out of the blue. It trips me up in more ways than one and I’m rendered speechless. I don’t know why I should be so surprised at the idea of B considering my death – after all there isn’t a day that passes without my testing the thought against the back of my teeth – and the parent in me feels duty bound...
2024-03-08
09 min
LUMP
FW = Future Wife
Romance is on the cards this ep when Pen suddenly becomes what David calls his 'FW', Future Wife. Pen turns into a veritable bridezilla and starts a whirlwind of planning, that bit's easy, the struggle comes when she has to find a suitable dress..."so one Thursday morning shortly after, we find ourselves in a land so utterly feminine and sparkly and girlie that I’m struck dumb. Never in my 50 years on the planet have I dropped into somewhere quite so completely and overwhelmingly alien. Mine is a world of jeans and fleeces, hoodies and lycra cycl...
2024-03-01
10 min
LUMP
Get to the Spare Room!
The easing of lockdown brings a rush of visitors which finds Pen collapsed in a heap only days before the inevitable return to work but the transition from recovery to the real world isn't smooth... "Work. But not the work I was used to 6 months earlier before my operation. My return to work means I sit in the spare room and stare at an endless series of other people’s spare rooms in an endless sequence of zoom meetings, none of which seem to mean much to me. I feel utterly disconnected. Strategy meetings centring around pandemic health...
2024-02-23
08 min
LUMP
Skinny Dipping with a Bestie!
With lockdown loosening Pen gets a visit from one of her oldest and closest friends. Its emotional, magical and medicinal all at the same time - a bit like a dram but in human form, the form of Ali!Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and sponsored by The Head Gardener It was recorded by the legends who are Dave and Johnny at The Music Shed Recording StudiosSpecial thanks to Incredible Feet for their inspiration and belief in the importance of LUMP and for constantly reminding us that while every cancer journey...
2024-02-16
05 min
LUMP
Hard to Kill!
This week Pen's ruminating on what to say when people keep on insisting on asking her how she is. "David’s niece came to visit the other week and instead of asking me how I was she told me how she’d passed David as she came up the track. They’d stopped and wound down their respective car windows, ‘how’s Pen?’ she’d asked, ‘hard to kill’ came David’s reply. It was perfect and I snatched at it like a long sought, odd-shaped jigsaw piece. If you reply ‘hard to kill’ each time someone asks how you are you provide t...
2024-02-09
08 min
LUMP
Mrs Grumpypants
Pen becomes concerned about the impact her own moodiness is starting to have on those around her, particularly her daughter, B, but how does Pen bottle and hide all the anger and frustration she's feeling. How does she find a way back to feeling more like her old self or is that impossible?Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyon...
2024-02-02
09 min
LUMP
The Art of Not Dying (just yet!)
"What are you most looking forward to?", the question stumps me. I pause midway through de-seeding a pepper, rooting around for an answer but every time I cast ahead into the future I draw a blank. Even trying to slot events and possibilities into my mental calendar makes me flinch and I’m puzzled by it. Later that evening, driving with David to a favourite fishing spot on the loch shore, I guiltily fess up. Tears pouring down my face I tell him I can’t cast ahead because I can’t get past the idea that I’m going to die...
2024-01-26
08 min
LUMP
Time for a reset
With cycling still very much out of the picture, Pen goes in search of a new physical pursuit to help her combat the consequences of surgery..."The wild swimming planted itself in my life quite by surprise. One evening sitting by the loch the desire the wade in was overwhelming. I could feel my body leaning into the idea of icy water soothing the angry tangled muscles on my back and breast. Having taken root the idea became a clean and simple need. I needed to swim in the loch..."Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and l...
2024-01-12
07 min
LUMP
Mind vs Body...but which will win?
As Pen continues to inch forward through her recovery she realises that 'strength' isn't necessary a useful characteristic when it comes to listening to your body..."A perpetual mantra that has accompanied me this past few weeks has been everyone telling me how strong I am. That seems to be how people see me, strong, and people define strength as the ability to push yourself..."and when Pen pushes herself too far the consequences feel catastrophic.Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride thr...
2024-01-12
11 min
LUMP
Fragile
"I’m becoming increasingly aware of my tendency to weep. I try to pin down what the problem is. We live in the most extraordinary place, surrounded by a landscape which fills me up in every way. This is our dream. We live in paradise and I’m surrounded by people I love who love me back. What’s wrong with me?"Pen starts to try and figure out while she's still feeling so fragile and overwhelmed with life. Surely she should be feeling better by now?Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny...
2023-12-29
09 min
LUMP
After Life
"I had intended to stop writing once I left hospital, figured this story had reached its natural and neat end, but increasingly I’ve realised each day throws up new struggled and frustrations and maybe I need to write in order to file all these mismatched and complicated feelings away somewhere. So here I am again, filing..."Pen starts to come to terms with the massive changes cancer surgery has imposed on her life and her body and it hurts, both mentally and physically. How does she come to terms with what's happened, what will life look lik...
2023-12-22
10 min
LUMP
Cancer, Covid and let's chuck in a house move for good measure!
"2 week’s after my surgery and we’re due to move house on Friday. We have nothing packed and the removal firm have just called to cancel on us because last night Scotland went into lockdown and Covid-19 has moved from background noise to centre stage...I keep having moments when I drift off only to suddenly snap-to and the memory of my diagnosis and everything which has subsequently happened comes flooding back into my consciousness and I’m breathless with the shock of it all. Each time it feels like waking up to realise the nightmare is real. I still d...
2023-12-15
07 min
LUMP
Get a Life!
So the surgery is over and the cancer is gone, it's all plain sailing now, right? Wrong! Pen picks her way through the post-surgery pain and trauma only to discover that while she's been in hospital the world has dramatically changed...Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changin...
2023-12-08
08 min
Parklands Carecast
A Year to Remember
In the series finale, producer Pennie Latin Stuart catches up with Parklands’ MD Ron Taylor to reflect on the year. It was a year with low points such as the decision to closure Parklands’ smallest care home in Ullapool amid spiralling costs – “the hardest decision I’ve made in 30 years in care.” But 2023 also saw Parklands save two under threat care homes in its Moray heartland, safeguarding 80 jobs and ensuring continuity of care for 70 residents. And as hundreds of residents, staff (past and present) and friends gathered in Buckie to celebrate Parklands’ 30th anniversary, Ron Taylor reflects on what his grandfathe...
2023-12-02
29 min
LUMP
Lump Extra: The utterly brilliant Dr Liz O'Riordan - the Breast Surgeon with Breast Cancer
In this Lump Extra Pen talks to Dr Liz O'Riordan and its all a bit poacher turned gamekeeper because Liz was a breast surgeon. Then in 2015, at the age of 40, she was diagnosed with breast cancer herself and, a bit further down the line, was forced to retire because of it. Since then she has made it her mission to write and talk about her experiences in a bid to help others and to open up the conversation about the really chewy, difficult, dark stuff of life. To talk about all the really shitty stuff that comes with cancer in...
2023-12-01
37 min
LUMP
Surgery
"I walk to the operating theatre. Is that odd? In my mind I always think surgery has to involve being delivered on a bed but no, I pop on my fit-flops and walk with Dora, a student nurse, round from the ward to the Vanguard Operating Theatre...We go through star trek style sliding doors and I’m greeted by at least half a dozen people, all in scrubs, through another door I glimpse even more of them together with my surgeon. So many people, all here for me. And now I’m actually here, at the point of no retur...
2023-11-24
10 min
LUMP
No one would know you have cancer!
"Even if no one knows I have cancer from the outside I sense more and more it is eating me up from within, not just the tissue of my left breast but nibbling away at who I am, its consuming the content of my life. Each day is now shaped by cancer, each conversation curves itself back around the subject, each message on social media is about how I am. And I feel guilty for giving in to it, for letting it infect every cell of my life."Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud fu...
2023-11-17
09 min
LUMP
A Wake
The brutal reality of what lies ahead is starting to sink in and Pennie's feeling the panic..."I feel like I’m in a slow motion car crash and I can’t unbuckle my belt to step out. Everyone I know, all the people I love, with the best of intentions, are bunched together pushing the car at the wall, egging it on and although I’m leaning back, straining in my seat, pumping the break with my foot as hard as I can, nothing will stop the inevitable carnage. On Tuesday my surgeon will cut away my breas...
2023-11-10
08 min
LUMP
Define 'Good'
"I’ve come to a fork in the road. Both paths that now lie ahead are gnarly, gruelling, painful and psychologically demanding, both are hard on the body but from where I stand one path seems infinitely shorter than the other, infinitely more appealing. They both end up at the same place, with me alive and living and loving long into the future. If I don’t step forward then I die, sooner rather than later. So I have no choice but to put one foot in front of the other and plough on. But which path?"Searing...
2023-11-03
09 min
LUMP
Lump extra: Finding your cancer community
Cancer brings with it many positives, one of them being some amazing connections and friends, but Pennie finds it difficult to weigh up the idea that she may never be able to push cancer to the back of her mind when so many of her and her closest friends have cancer in common. Following on from the themes of the This Tribe episode, Pennie gathers friends Rebecca, Amanda and Alison from the Incredible Feet jogging club to share thoughts and reflections on the value of finding 'your tribe' when you've had a cancer diagnosis. Among the subjects...
2023-10-27
38 min
LUMP
This Tribe
"None of my cancer tribe will tell me ‘you’ll be fine’ or constantly share stories of people they know who’ve come through it. My cancer tribe just know. Know what it is to see your life flash before your eyes; know what it is to see the pain you put everyone else through; know the exquisite agony of waiting on results and the sense that you’re careering out of control; know what it’s like to wake up and silently scream your way into another day; know how fucking beautiful life is when you’re suddenly standing on the...
2023-10-20
10 min
LUMP
Chemo Fear
"It’s been sitting in the background for weeks, a soft drone or buzz, like tinnitus but now it’s getting louder and its starting to provide the soundtrack to each day – chemo".Pennie pauses to reflect on the imminent test results from the lymph node biopsy which will indicate whether she'll need chemotherapy."Chemo. Just writing the word forces bile up my throat. I’m trying to work out why I feel so rooted to the spot with fear about it, I don’t know but I am."Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and...
2023-10-13
05 min
Parklands Carecast
The Parklands Journey
Parklands Care Homes is celebrating its 30th anniversary and in episode one of Carecast, series producer Pennie Latin Stuart meets its founder and managing director Ron Taylor. In a deeply personal and often emotional interview, he recalls his own experiences as a carer for his grandfather and how it led him to create a care organisation committed to the highest standards of person-centred care. We meet some of Parklands’ residents along the way and find out how Parklands has evolved over three decades, while still holding true to the values on which it was founded.
2023-10-07
30 min
LUMP
Be Like Maureen
The cancer conveyor belt is moving along again and Pennie finds herself back at the hospital undergoing a general anaesthetic so she can have some lymph nodes removed to check whether her cancer has spread. Its yet another procedure which feels full of fear but as she recovers in the ward after waking up, Pennie discovers some welcome relief from all the worrying in the form of 'Maureen', 85 years old, with a boarding school bark to match her bite, she proves to be a beacon of light in the darkest of times... Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary...
2023-10-06
12 min
LUMP
Lump extra: Catwalk for a Cause memories
What's the value in sharing all this stuff? This ep Pennie swaps stories and experiences with Ali, Rohaise and Shireen about Ali's mega fundraiser for the Highland Hospice, Catwalk for a Cause, an annual event which mixes highly emotive and punch-packing story telling with strutting your stuff on the catwalk. It sounds like a bonkers mix and it probably is, but it works. In the wake of her cancer battle, Pennie swore blind she'd never take part but Ali did some serious arm-twisting and, along with Rohaise, Shireen and a whole host of other models with a story to...
2023-09-29
42 min
LUMP
Not a Pissing Contest
No one wins a prize for having the most shitty cancer prognosis, as she listens to other people's stories, Pennie realises that she wants to lose this particular pissing contest, hands down...Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.Read more here
2023-09-22
08 min
LUMP
Time to Tell 'B'
With surgery looming Pennie battles to find the right time, place and way to tell her daughter, B, about her cancer. Pen's desperate to control how the information gets to B but time is running out...Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.Re...
2023-09-15
12 min
LUMP
Weight - a tumour is surprisingly heavy!
A short n sweet ep for you this week - Pennie reflects on the weight of carrying cancer.Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.Read more hereWritten and narrated by Pennie Latin-StuartLump is produced by Adve...
2023-09-08
03 min
LUMP
Vanity or Sanity?
With mastectomy now a certainty the question of a breast reconstruction arises. Is it vanity to want to feel more 'complete'? Pennie wrestles with some difficult decisions ...Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.Read more hereWritten and narrate...
2023-09-01
20 min
LUMP
Not Jugs or Puppies but Deflated Balloons
With the prospect of a mastectomy now looming, Pennie considers her relationship with her 'jugs' and decides she's ready to part company with the left (never her favourite one!)...Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.Read more hereWritten...
2023-08-25
07 min
LUMP
Wonder Woman to the Rescue
Pennie calls on Wonder Woman to give her a hand as she heads back for more tests and biopsies. The MRI has found evidence that the cancer has spread but how far and how much and what does this mean for the next steps...Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a...
2023-08-18
06 min
LUMP
WC = "With Cancer"
Pennie reflects on the shit storm which has hit their lives as a result of her diagnosis and the guilt which comes from having pebble-dashed her partner's life with the messy stuff of cancer.Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.Read mo...
2023-08-11
06 min
LUMP
The Gift
Cancer comes with a free gift, no seriously, it does, but its up to you when and if you want to unwrap it...Pennie reflects on the super power she feels she's been handed along with her diagnosis.Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their l...
2023-08-11
06 min
LUMP
Welcome to the Club!
Scared and out of sorts, Pennie goes in search of solace at the Maggies Centre but what she really wants is an answer as to how she's going to tell her daughter, B.Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. Utterly human and compelling, it’s a unique story which will resonate with anyone and everyone who’s ever had a battle with a life changing event in their lives.Read more he...
2023-08-11
06 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 2: Episode 6 The Verdict
It's now time to put all the pieces of this puzzle together. Do you believe Madeleine Smith is guilty of poisoning her lover? Only Scotland has a ‘not proven’ verdict. What does this mean for a jury and for those who receive this judgement? Join our Facebook group to see further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio Ltd production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the University of Dundee and was funded by The Leverhulme Trust. The series is narrat...
2023-07-19
44 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 2: Episode 5 The Poison
Content warning: this episode discusses suicide. There are unanswered questions around the circumstances of Emile's death. What can the forensic toxicology evidence tell us? Was everything carried out at the time that could have been and how would that differ with an investigation today? Join us in our Facebook group to see further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio Ltd production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the University of Dundee and was funded by The Leverhulme Trust. T...
2023-07-12
38 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 2: Episode 4 The Autopsy
Content warning: this episode dicusses suicide Pierre Emile L'angelier is dead. What happened next and how did this lead to Madeleine Smith being accused of murder? Discover the next piece of this mystery and learn about what tales the body can tell after death. Join our Facebook group to see further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio Ltd production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the University of Dundee and was funded by The Leverhulme Trust. The se...
2023-07-05
28 min
LUMP
One Little Lump
Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh out loud funny, LUMP is one woman’s rollercoaster ride through the mind meltdown which comes with learning you have breast cancer. From dealing with diagnosis, the endless tests and mind-numbing fear to how and when to tell your child, coping with physical changes and the impact on your self-esteem and self-confidence together with the sudden realisation life will never be quite the same ever again. LUMP is a deep dive into the power of storytelling to help us heal and just get your head round the stuff of life. Utterly...
2023-06-28
03 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 2: Episode 3 The Context of Evidence
To understand the case of Madeleine Smith, we must first understand what life was like in the past. How can forensic scientists bring to life what happened previously? Join us in our Facebook group to see further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio Ltd production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the University of Dundee and was funded by The Leverhulme Trust. The series is narrated by Pennie Stuart.
2023-06-28
31 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 2: Episode 2 The Letters
Madeleine Smith's private letters to her deceased lover were presented as evidence in court of her motive for murder. What can letters and handwriting reveal to forensic scientists? What did the letters in the Madeleine Smith trial tell the jury and what do they reveal to us today? Join us in our Facebook group to see further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio Ltd production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the University of Dundee and was funded by The Leverhulme...
2023-06-21
41 min
Inside Forensic Science
Series 2: Episode 1 Madeleine Smith on trial
A scandalous case that rocked Victorian Scotland. A middle-class young woman is on trial for the murder of her lover. What was the case of Madeleine Smith all about? In this episode, we provide an overview of the case and the evidence presented. Join us on Facebook to see further resources and discuss the podcast or visit our website. Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio Ltd production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the University of Dundee and was funded by The Leverhulme Trust. The series is narrated...
2023-06-14
25 min
A Life More Wild
Banjo Beale on drunk botanists, interior design and carrying an antique apothecary cabinet up a coast path
Most of us probably feel pretty proud of ourselves if we manage to put up a shelf that's reasonably straight. So imagine how great it would feel to refurbish a lighthouse at the end of a narrow cliffside path on the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. Interior designer Banjo Beale, whom you may remember as the winner of the show Interior Design Masters, or his own programme Designing the Hebrides, knows exactly how great that felt. At least once all the heavy lifting was done. Join him on the lighthouse path on Mull, w...
2023-06-08
18 min
Inside Forensic Science
Inside Forensic Science Season 2: Trailer
The second season of Inside Forensic Science is here. A new historical case is in focus where we ask forensic scientists and experts from the criminal justice system ‘What would you do differently today?’ In this series we take a look at a case that rocked Victorian Scotland in 1857, the trial of Madeleine Smith. The podcast was commissioned by the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the University of Dundee. LRCFS works to disrupt conventional thinking, embrace new opportunities, and drive innovation that enables reliable science to be used in the delivery of justice. Jo...
2023-05-11
01 min
Seriously...
All Work and No Homes
Communities in the Scottish Highlands are facing a housing crisis so bad, it’s been described as a clearance for the 21st century. According to the Convenor of the Highland Council, Bill Lobban, “the species most under threat in the Cairngorms National Park isn’t the Capercaillie but the young family trying to find a home”. Ironically one key cause of the problem is also what brings most into the local economy – tourism.Across the region the growth of the tourism and hospitality industry is driving the demand for 2nd homes and many houses are now used for short...
2023-04-06
29 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
The Clearance
In this poignant and moving final episode we’re joined by leading historian, Professor Sir Tom Devine, to learn about the history of the clearances and how Inverlael was cleared of its people. We follow sheriff’s officer Hugh Ross as he goes from house to house serving notice for the residents to leave their home in Balblair for good.In this series of drama-documentaries with the help of Ullapool Museum, archaeologists and historical experts we’re bringing the people and stories of Balblair and Inverlael back to life. 8 snapshots, re-imagined moments in Highland history which have, until r...
2023-03-06
16 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
George Steuart MacKenzie
One of Scotland’s most popular actors, David Hayman, brings the character of George Steuart Mackenzie of Coul vividly back to life in this compelling performance as the landlord responsible for the Inverlael clearances. Not a hero but is he a villain, he says not but you decide.In this series of drama-documentaries with the help of Ullapool Museum, archaeologists and historical experts we’re bringing the people and stories of Balblair and Inverlael back to life. 8 snapshots, re-imagined moments in Highland history which have, until recently, been HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.Writer: Chris DolanA...
2023-02-27
16 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
Illicit whisky
In this episode we join Grizzel up in the shieling where she’s busy making illicit whisky. While we learn about the importance of whisky to Highland culture, Grizzel learns about just how potent homebrew can be. A funny, engaging and delightful delve into history!In this series of drama-documentaries with the help of Ullapool Museum, archaeologists and historical experts we’re bringing the people and stories of Balblair and Inverlael back to life. 8 snapshots, re-imagined moments in Highland history which have, until recently, been HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.Writer: Chris DolanActor: Fiona M...
2023-02-20
16 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
Reverend Thomas Ross
It's 1819 and Reverend Ross from Clachan Church is a conflicted man, torn between what he sees as his duty to God and the knowledge that in the morning his parishioners will be cleared from the lands of Inverlael. Dark, brooding and thought provoking, Minister Ross makes his case for his history to be re-written.In this series of drama-documentaries with the help of Ullapool Museum, archaeologists and historical experts we’re bringing the people and stories of Balblair and Inverlael back to life. 8 snapshots, re-imagined moments in Highland history which have, until recently, been HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGH...
2023-02-13
16 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
Anna Fraser
In this episode we revisit the late 16th century and the marriage day of a young, innocent 14 year old girl, Anna Fraser, to a man twice her age. She’s a political pawn in the ongoing battle to secure the future of Inverlael. A powerful and haunting story. In this series of drama-documentaries with the help of Ullapool Museum, archaeologists and historical experts we’re bringing the people and stories of Balblair and Inverlael back to life. 8 snapshots, re-imagined moments in Highland history which have, until recently, been HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.Writer: Chris DolanAct...
2023-02-06
16 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
Linn nan Creach
In this episode we head for the 1570s. There’s a violent and vicious feud going on between the Munro and Mackenzie clans, and Archie Munro is called to arms.In this series of drama-documentaries with the help of Ullapool Museum, archaeologists and historical experts we’re bringing the people and stories of Balblair and Inverlael back to life. 8 snapshots, re-imagined moments in Highland history which have, until recently, been HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.Writer: Chris DolanActor: Hamish MacdonaldTheme music is The Ghosts of Balblair, written and performed by Ruairi...
2023-01-30
16 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
The Shielings
In this episode we head for the hills, high above Loch Broom, to the shieling where a young woman composes a love poem instead of herding the cattle!In this series of drama-documentaries with the help of Ullapool Museum, archaeologists and historical experts we’re bringing the people and stories of Balblair and Inverlael back to life. 8 snapshots, re-imagined moments in Highland history which have, until recently, been HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.Writer: Chris DolanActor: Lisa MacdonaldTheme music is The Ghosts of Balblair, written and performed by Ruairidh MacLean
2023-01-23
16 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
Lady Fowler
In this first episode we head for 1913 to meet Lady Fowler and learn how this popular and colourful character helped unearth evidence that Inverlael was a significant gathering place right back into Neolithic times.In this series of drama-documentaries with the help of Ullapool Museum, archaeologists and historical experts we’re bringing the people and stories of Balblair and Inverlael back to life. 8 snapshots, re-imagined moments in Highland history which have, until recently, been HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.Writer: Chris DolanActor: Juliet KellyTheme music is The Ghosts of Balblair, wri...
2023-01-16
16 min
Hidden in Plain Sight
Lost Inverlael: A' Lorg Baile Bhlàir
Coming in January 2023...Balblair is a lost township. Tucked away in the trees, just a stone’s throw from the road between Ullapool and Inverness at Inverlael, centuries of history lie buried and forgotten. In this series of drama-documentaries with the help of Ullapool Museum, archaeologists and historical experts we’re bringing the people and stories of Balblair and Inverlael back to life. 8 snapshots, re-imagined moments in Highland history which have, until recently, been HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.Theme music is The Ghosts of Balblair, written and performed by Ruaridh MacLeanProduced and Directe...
2022-12-21
00 min
The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Photographic Memories
“What’s the best photo that either of you have taken?” Stuart and William discuss what are the best photos they have ever taken. This discussion was sparked by the above question which was sent in by Iris in Wetley Rocks, Staffordshire, England. They talk about the various photos they’ve taken over the years that they particularly like. As a photographer William in particular has a few photos which he feels are his best. They go on to talk about photography in general, introducing a particular image that William thinks as one of the best, of...
2022-11-27
10 min
Speaking of Suicide
John Gibson - The Canmore Trust
In June 2022 John Gibson started walking the length of Great Britain, 1200 miles from Land’s End to John O' Groats, with the aim of starting a national conversation around suicide. His walk was in response to the moment in 2019, when John’s son, Cameron, took his life without warning. Left reeling and feeling utterly helpless in the aftermath of this devastating event John found walking a huge part of his finding his feet again so, along with founding The Canmore Trust charity, John decided to walk and talk about suicide with the mission of better understanding what can be done t...
2022-10-06
46 min
Heart of Arabia Expedition
In the footsteps of Philby
The Heart of Arabia Expedition is a two-stage 1,300km journey across Saudi Arabia, loosely following the route of the remarkable and pioneering explorer Harry St John (Abdullah) Philby. Here, Expedition Leader Mark Evans and podcast producers Dan Holland and Pennie Stuart from Adventurous Audio outline the background to the expedition and how the story of the journey will be captured by Mark through audio postcards and podcasts. Expedition website: The Heart of Arabia Expedition Follow the Expedition on social: Twitter Instagram Facebook The Heart of Arabia Expedition p...
2022-08-24
07 min
Speaking of Suicide
Matt Wallace of Clarity Walk
A real story of hope this episode as Pennie Stuart and Matt Wallace, founder of Clarity Walk, take a walk and talk through Reelig Glen. Matt talks about how a move to Glasgow left him isolated and increasingly depressed, so much so he became suicidal. His mental health started to impact on his physical health, and he became locked in a circle of misery. Thankfully Matt realised in time that he needed to make some dramatic changes, so he went on a digital detox, limiting his time on the phone and reconnecting with nature through walking. The impact was huge...
2022-02-09
34 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 12 ”Self As the Watcher”
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Today Shona encourages us to stand back and observe ourselves with more distance, watching our thoughts and emotions coming and going while learning to accept them and live with them, instead of seeing ourselves as defined by them. Hopefully you’ll find some of these ideas helpful but they’re not a substitute for professional help so i...
2022-01-05
08 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 11 ”Our Future Self”
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Shona talks us through an intriguing idea of standing in the future so we can look back at ourselves and how we solve today’s problems and struggles. Hopefully you’ll find some of these ideas helpful but they’re not a substitute for professional help so if you’re struggling, please seek support. Always remember its...
2022-01-04
05 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 10 ”Be Here Now” Part 2
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Following on from yesterday’s episode, today Shona and Pennie explore the senses of touch and sound as a way of being in the moment and unhooking ourselves from unhelpful thoughts. Hopefully you’ll find some of these ideas helpful but they’re not a substitute for professional help so if you’re struggling, please seek support...
2022-01-03
07 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 9 ”Be Here Now” Part 1
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. When we’re in distress its really easy to be hooked by unhelpful thoughts, we’re often advised to be “in the present” but how do we do that in practice? Today Shona talks Pennie through how to use her senses of sight to be in the moment. Hopefully you’ll find some of these ideas helpful bu...
2022-01-02
07 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 8 “The Self-Compassion Break” Part 2
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Having encouraged us to recall a difficult situation in the previous episode and acknowledge that it hurts, in this episode Shona talks us through how to think about being kinder to ourselves in response to emotional pain and practice the art of self-compassion. She offers up some great tips on how to remember that we’re not alone in...
2022-01-01
06 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 7 “The Self-Compassion Break” Part 1
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Today Shona talks us through the importance of self-compassion. It’s not always easy to feel compassionate to ourselves so Shona shows us some ways to explore painful or difficult emotions and realise that we’re not alone in suffering them. In this first part the aim is simply to recall a difficult situation and acknowledge that it hurts. D...
2021-12-31
03 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 6 “Noticing, Naming and Allowing Emotion”
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Today Shona encourages Pennie to explore an emotion and takes her through an exercise which helps her to think about how a particular emotion feels in the body. Hopefully you’ll find some of these ideas helpful but they’re not a substitute for professional help so if you’re struggling, please seek support. Always remember it...
2021-12-30
11 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 5 ”Emotions As Allies”
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Today Shona talks about our emotions, what they are, what their purpose is and how we respond to them across our whole body. She explains how emotions are calls to action but that we don’t always have to act on them. She encourages us not to think about emotions as the bad guy and suggests we can change...
2021-12-29
07 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 4 ”Unhooking From Unhelpful Thoughts” Part 2
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Today Shona continues her tips on how to tackle unhelpful thoughts by guiding Pennie through how to deal with a particularly painful thought – the idea that she thinks she might not be a good enough mum. Using a simple technique Shona shows Pennie how to put the thought into a much better context and stop having the thought...
2021-12-28
08 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 3 ”Unhooking From Unhelpful Thoughts” Part 1
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. We have thousands of thoughts each day, many of them the same ones and lots of them negative, so today Shona explains the value of learning how to unhook ourselves from unhelpful thoughts. She talks Pennie through how to unhook herself from her concerns about the festive season and put her negative thoughts into a better place and ta...
2021-12-27
09 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 2 ”Eavesdropping On Your Mind”
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Today Shona explains the value of paying attention to the chatter going on in our minds and provides some tips on how we can eavesdrop on our thinking so we can better recognise and understand some of the thoughts spinning round our heads. Hopefully you’ll find some of these ideas helpful but they’re not a sub...
2021-12-26
04 min
Speaking of Suicide
SoS 12 Days of Christmas. Day 1 ”Just Press Pause”
Each day across the 12 Days of Christmas Counsellor Shona Macpherson is joining Pennie Stuart, in collaboration with Mikeysline, to share some mental health skills, practical tips you can try which might just help when you’re finding life a struggle. Shona’s kicking off the series by suggesting we give ourselves permission to press the pause button more often, taking stock before we respond to the world around us, and explains some of the science behind why pressing the pause button can be really helpful. Hopefully you’ll find some of these ideas helpful but they’re n...
2021-12-25
05 min
Speaking of Suicide
Steve Phillip
Jordan was a son, a brother, a stepson, a stepbrother, a loving boyfriend, a grandson, an uncle, a cousin and a best friend. He was tall and handsome and turned many a head, male and female. His friends both loved and envied him. At his funeral they described Jordan as; well-mannered, a great listener, kind and considerate, intelligent, cool but humble, ridiculously handsome, a true gentleman, humorous, “being a friend with him was never a chore”, “he was the person I would usually turn to at difficult times like this”, “he was the best and most loyal friend I ever had”...
2021-12-03
51 min
Speaking of Suicide
Alice Hendy - The R;pple Tool
In this powerful and moving podcast Alice Hendy shares with Pennie Stuart how she still battles on a daily basis with the repercussions of losing her brother, Josh, to suicide just a year ago. Alice admits it has been an emotional rollercoaster and at times she’s almost wanted to follow her brother, her loss has been so painful, but she’s turned her grief and desperate sadness into determination to help others. Using her knowledge as an IT and cyber security expert Alice has developed a download, a practical and powerful intervention called ‘R;pple’ which steps in to offer a...
2021-11-24
39 min
MMA UK Podcast
Lewis Pennie | Evolution of Combat 9 | Dundee Martial Arts | MMA UK
Lewis Pennie (Wise) of Dundee Martial Arts talks with MMA UK's Stuart 'Stoomboy' Henderson about his upcoming grappling fight against Barry Munro of SMAC/Mandala BJJ School at Evolution of Combat 9 #EoC9
2021-09-07
11 min
MMA UK Podcast
Barry Munro | Evolution of Combat 9 | SMAC | Mandala BJJ | MMA UK
Barry Munro of SMAC/Mandala BJJ School talks to MMA UK's Stuart 'Stoomboy' Henderson about his upcoming grappling fight against Lewis Pennie at Evolution of Combat 9 #EoC9
2021-09-07
13 min
Talk Media
The Sun, Culture Streaming and Israel’s Use of Mobile Data / with Pennie Taylor
Stuart and Eamonn are joined by Pennie Taylor (journalist and broadcaster) to discuss The Sun's losses, a recent surge in culture streaming (amid the cancellation of concerts and events as a result of COVID-19), and Israel’s controversial use of mobile phone data. Stuart, Eamonn and Pennie also share their media recommendations. Pennie’s recommendations: (1) Bill Gates TEDx Talk, ‘The Next Outbreak? We’re Not Ready.’ www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready?language=e (2) ‘Netflix Party’ www.netflixparty.com (3) The Financial Times www.ft.c...
2020-03-19
46 min
Brainwaves
Episode 8
Professor Stuart Cunningham is the principal investigator in Physical Oceanography at the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban. In 2014 he was named as oceanographer of the year for his "outstanding" contribution to the field. He talks to presenter Pennie Latin about sea gliders, sailing around the west coast of Scotland, ocean currents and climate change.
2015-02-23
28 min