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Stand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksEpisode 8 : Compilation TapeThe final episode of the Stand By Your Nan podcast is a short compilation of stories sent in to me, including Maggy Whitehouse, Craig Deeley and more. Thank you so much to the participants and to everyone for listening.
www.rachelsambrooks.com to sign up to my mailing list or to contact me. 2021-07-3115 minStand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksEpisode 7: Nandy Warhol with Holborn Community AssociationStories and sharing grandmother stories with writer Rachel Sambrooks. The final part of my Nan's story looks at life long learning, with guests from a storytelling workshop I ran with Holborn Community Association.
Thanks to Hazel East from Holborn Community Association and all the participants.
Stand By Your Nan is funded by Project Grants from the National Lottery and Arts Council England. Thank you for listening!
Sign up to my mailing list at www.rachelsambrooks.com2021-07-2919 minStand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksEpisode 6: Granny Yoda with Ishi Khan-JacksonThis episode is all about the wise women in our lives, my Nan's spooky stories and a guest interview with comedian and laughter yoga practitioner Ishi Khan-Jackson.
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Stand By Your Nan was written and performed by Rachel Sambrooks, with music by Lewis Barfoot and co-produced with Steve Keyworth. Supported by Arts Council England with a National Lottery Project Grant. 2021-07-2145 minStand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksEpisode 5: Gran British Bake OffDid you learn to cook with your Gran? I'm keeping it in the family this episode as my artist cousin Jacqui Calladine joins me to bake Shrewsbury Cakes and talk about my Nan Eve, creating art, moving with the seasons and how to value being wild and creative.
Bake along with the recipe from Great Step Gran Alice's recipe book!
Shrewsbury Cakes
1/4lb butter, 1 egg, 1/4lb caster sugar, 1/2 lb flour, flavouring.
Cream butter and sugar, add beaten egg, warm flour and add. Roll out thinly and cut out with fancy cutter. Bak...2021-07-1436 minStand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksEpisode 4: Frosty the Snow Nan with Craig DeeleyWith special guest Craig Deeley. Nostalgia for Christmas is high on my list of Nan memories, in this episode we learn all about walnuts and how I became a Christmas man. Enjoy a Christmas jolly in the middle of the summer, because there's always time for a bit of peace, love and goodwill to all grans.
Contains alcohol references and quite a lot of 1980s references too.
Stand By Your Nan was written and performed by Rachel Sambrooks, with music by Lewis Barfoot and co-produced with Steve Keyworth. Supported by Arts Council England with a Nati...2021-07-0632 minStand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksEpisode 3: Who Do You Think You Are Arr Rach?Episode 3 features an interview with special guest comedian Steve Day. Talking about legacies, memoir, who you think you are and the extraordinary lengths we go to, to avoid being ordinary. What do we leave when we go?
The interview was recorded during lockdown over Zoom and there may be some audio distortion.
Stand By Your Nan was written and performed by Rachel Sambrooks, with music by Lewis Barfoot and co-produced with Steve Keyworth. Supported by Arts Council England with a National Lottery Project Grant. 2021-06-2643 minStand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksEpisode 3 : Who Do You Think You Are Arr Rach?Episode 3 with special guest comedian Steve Day
Talking about legacies, memoir and who you think you are, this episode covers family stories with stories of my Nan and the extraordinary lengths we go to to avoid being ordinary.
The interview was recorded during lockdown over Zoom.
Stand By Your Nan was written and performed by Rachel Sambrooks with music by Lewis Barfoot, co produced with Steve Keyworth and funded by Arts Council England. 2021-06-2344 minStand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksEpisode 2: Nan of Steel with Sarah KeyworthWhat was the origin story of your grandmother? This episode is all about the beginnings of my Nan's story, how she survived childhood and an interview with award winning comedian and brilliantly entertaining Sarah Keyworth
P.S. This episode does contain some swearing. 2021-06-1647 minStand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksEpisode 1 - The Invisible NanWas your gran an Invisible Nan? How are older women changing today? This episode asks what we can do about the disappearance of our matriarchs. With stories from Rachel Sambrooks and an interview with special guest, internationally renowned spoken word artist Francesca Beard expect laughs, nostalgia and interesting discussion about our collective personal histories. Join the mailing list to get first listens, more news from Rachel Sambrooks and to share your Nan-ecdotes!
2021-06-0841 minStand by Your Nan with Rachel SambrooksStand By Your Nan - trailer 1Trailer for Stand By Your Nan. What's your Nanecdote? Did your Nan have Gran Designs? Was she more a Nandoes? Stand By Your Nan is part discussion, part show, all Super Nan!
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The series is written and performed by Rachel Sambrooks, funded by Arts Council England and is a Gerty Words Production. 2021-04-3001 min
The Poetry SocietyThe Poem-A-Thon Part 4On Saturday 18 May 2019, The Poetry Society hosted an all day poetry fundraising extravaganza, including a 10 hour sponsored poetry reading from a line-up of 60 poets. This is part 4, comprising hours 7-8 of the event.
See below for the timings of featured poets' sets, and remember that you can still donate to the fundraising campaign via bit.ly/poemdonate.
FEATURED POETS
00:30 : Leo Boix
11:00 : Matthew Caley
19:30 : Julia Bird
30:20 : Maggie Sawkins
39:50 : Stella Meadows
48:00 : Katrina Naomi
1:01:00 : Fawzia Kane
1:10:00 : Shanta Acharya
1:17:30 : Judy Brown
1:26:00 : Rachel Sambrooks
1:38:00 : Chrys Salt
1:41:00: Emma Gordon
1:57:00 Alice Hiller (CONTENT WARNING: the final reading in this podcast contains subject matter that some listeners may...2019-06-282h 05
Faking LitEpisode 49 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (with Rachel Sambrooks!)In which the Idiots record a special Mother's Day episode on Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic "Little Women" - explore the reasons behind Elvis Presley faking his own death - gush about the hip hop musical based on the life and times of Ernest Hemingway - get a lesson in braille - Haran continues to spiral into the outer reaches acceptable podcast banter.
Featuring Special Guest Experts Rachel Sambrooks and Danish town planner Billiam Chillitree.
Come to our live show on 29th March at Waterstones on Tottenham Court Road! Tickets are £4!
https://www.waterstones.com/events/faking-lit-podcast-presents-the-da-vinci-code/london-tottenham-court-road
Outro Music: G...2018-03-121h 20