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The Goldster Conversations PodcastGeorge Mehok with Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastGeorge Mehok is an exciting mix between thriller author, software designer and angel investor for new companies working on the edge of our technological revolution. His debut novel, Going Dark, skillfully keeps us on the edge of our seats. He weaves today’s most challenging issues with threads back to 1791 and a secret military unit tasked with delivering a secret message to Thomas Jefferson that altered the trajectory of the War of Independence against Britain.
In Going Dark, that same secret unit, generations later, is tasked with an equally pivotal mission. George feeds into his story-telling real-life experiences wo...2025-02-091h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastKim Lengling and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastWith great panache, Kim Lengling explains hope, kindness, fear and that slate of emotions that weave their way through all our lives. Her podcast is called Let Fear Bounce. Among her many books are Nuggets of Hope: Cultivate Kindness and Paw Prints on the Couch: How Pets Enrich Lives. Her office manager is called Dexter, a loyal hound who barks at squirrels and birds and remind the boss when to take a break. Very often that will be to appear as a guest on the Voices for Vets show of her local radio.
One of Kim’s missions is t...2025-01-121h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastAngela van Breemen and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastAngela van Breemen is a soprano soloist, a poet, a wildlife activist and she has just published her first novel. For those Goldster creative writers, how does that feel? Past Life’s Revenge is a crime thriller with a twist of surrealism. Since childhood, David Harris has suffered from debilitating nightmares. He has sought the advice of psychiatrists and other health professionals without obtaining any relief. When he meets an attractive young psychic, Emma Jackson, she encourages him to seek the help of her friend Anna Tungsten, a hypnotherapist. As the story unfolds from here, David realises he had to exa...2024-12-231h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastEva Hamilton and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster MagazineShow PodcastNo, the world is not broken. Gloom can be conquered. As for those headline stories about the young going astray, homelessness, prison overcrowding, come and meet Goldster’s light that shines through fog. The charity work of the magnificent and bubbly Eva Hamilton stretches from Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta when she was in her twenties to founding Key4Life which helps thousands serving time in some of Britain’s most dangerous prisons. Eva and her colleagues have turned around lives of the most vulnerable young men, many raised without a father and challenged by poor mental...2024-12-181h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastLaura Payne and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastOn 12 November, Lucinda Hawksley will be joined on the Goldster Magazine Show by Laura Payne, host of the highly-acclaimed The Dreamboat Podcast. Laura, a psychotherapist with a passion for uncovering the mysteries of our minds, has become one of the leading voices in dream research. The Dreamboat Podcast explores the fascinating world of dreams, delving deep into the science, psychology, and personal stories behind what happens when we close our eyes at night.
From lucid dreaming to recurring nightmares, The Dreamboat Podcast invites listeners to explore the deeper meanings of their nightly adventures, showing how dreams can be...2024-12-0844 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastLesley Downer and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine SHow Podcast“A terrific overview of Japan’s long and rich history that covers an astonishing amount of ground. A gem of a book that is as engaging as it is readable.” Peter Frankopan
This week on the Goldster Magazine Show, Lucinda Hawksley will be joined by author Lesley Downer who will take us on a captivating journey into the heart of one of Asia’s most enigmatic countries, via her latest book, The Shortest History of Japan.
Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games ... Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet...2024-11-1042 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastProfessor Lord Richard Layard and Humphrey Hawksely - The Goldster magazine Show PodcastHow do we place a value on happiness? Can we measure our sense of well-being and fulfilment through science? Richard Layard is founder and former director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He has been editor of the annual World Happiness Report which examines the state of happiness at various stages of life. Richard’s latest co-authored book is Wellbeing: Science and Policy which uses science to establish what matters most to us. The book shows how well-being can be scientifically measured, what creates it and how feeling good it can be made even bet...2024-10-2052 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastDr Jennifer Cox and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastPsychotherapist Jennifer Cox believes that women are never allowed to truly express their anger, and this is making them ill. After a lifetime of being told to repress it, to hide away and fear it, anger has begun to manifest in female bodies in myriad ways that cannot be controlled. Do you agree? Jennifer has drawn her conclusions from talking to women from all walks of life and ages in her work as a therapist. The tendency of women to shrug off anger and not make a fuss is dangerous because an autoimmune condition ravages and, she witnesses the devastation d...2024-10-1340 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastProfessor Alf Collins and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastUntil last year, Professor Alf Collins was NHS England’s Clinical Director for personalised care. His mission in health and well-being is to build around an individual’s needs bringing in shared decision-making, care planning, self-management support, social prescribing and that Goldster concept of ‘rethinking medicine.” Alf worked for a decade with the Health Foundation, helping lead applied research and implementation programmes in person-centred care.
He has researched and written widely on the changing the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals and he led on the NHS’s implementation of ‘Universal Personalised Care’ one of key initiatives to change thinking...2024-09-291h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastIain McGilchrist and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastIain McGilchrist is a leading psychiatrist with a vast body of work and connections around the world. In his latest book The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, Iain asks blunt questions that rattle around in many of our minds. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? Is the cosmos without purpose or value? Can we really neglect the sacred and divine? He knows how different sides of our brain work to feed into what is our character, our emotions and each of us...2024-09-1556 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastLiz Jensen and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show Podcast“My son’s death will never make sense to me. But it has taught me that it’s possible to find meaning, collectively and individually, in the loss of what we love.” Liz Jensen
On 3 September, Lucinda Hawksley was joined by Liz Jensen, the best-selling author of eight novels including The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, which was adapted by Hollywood into a box-office feature film starring Jamie Dornan. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Liz Jensen was a print and radio journalist in Hong Kong and Taiwan. She then spent four years as a freelance writer, translator and scul...2024-09-1044 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastBetsy Gall and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastWe rely on our doctors as a first port of call if we feel sick or down and, very often, the last port of call toward life’s end for ourselves or our loved ones. But what is really going through our doctors’ minds? How do they cope with the stress and trauma in their everyday working lives?
Betsy Gall is a widow who was once living the American dream. Married to an oncologist with three healthy children, she was living a great life. That all changed on Thanksgiving Day of 2019 when her husband took his own life. Dr Mat...2024-09-0859 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastSarah Stacey and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastSarah Stacey is one of the most knowledgeable and connected journalists in the field of health and well-being. Back in the 1990s, she detected a paradigm shift in healthcare toward lifestyle, nutrition and generally healthier living that prevented sickness rather than tackle it once it took grip. First at the Telegraph, as long-time health editor of the Mail-on-Sunday and at the Express, Sarah reported on how patients’ health concerns were often triggered by non-medical factors; housing, debt, loneliness, anxiety, lack of exercise, poor diet and as one doctor put it ‘joylessness’. In 1994, she became the first chair of the Guild of Heal...2024-08-2159 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJohn R. Miles and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show Podcast
Are you living intentionally, with purpose and passion? Are you embracing the flame that ignites within you, or are you evading it? Will your future self be proud of your story, or do you yearn for something more? John R. Miles is the creator of Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life, delving into the heart of what it means to live a life fuelled by passion and purpose. John runs the Passion Struck podcast, described by critics as a leading platform on debating alternative health initiatives, much centred around our...2024-08-1159 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastRobert L Kilpatrick and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastHealth and well-being specialist, Professor Robert L Kilpatrick, has spent a career working on the science around preventative healthcare and well-being. He is a founding partner at Technology Vision Group LLC which advises clients on strategic development issues. His two current projects are a book The Future of Human Care: Health Innovation and Social Impact and a six-part documentary film and book, Paradigm Shift: A Wellness Revolution. As a Strategic Development Advisor to Scientific American in New York City, Robert helped create a media project The New Science of Wellness, which was sponsored by Google and Phenome Health. He is now...2024-07-2145 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastSir Anthony Seldon and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastAs Britain's best-known headmaster, Sir Anthony Seldon famously introduced happiness, or well-being, lessons at his school, Wellington College. In 2011, he co-founded Action for Happiness, a body to raise awareness of the discovery of happiness and reduction of depression, whose influence is growing rapidly in Britain and across the world. He is the author of Beyond Happiness: How to find lasting meaning and joy in all that you have' where lays out the difference between pleasure, happiness and joy, and offers an original 8-step approach on how to make our lives far more meaningful and rewarding. The pursuit of happiness can a...2024-07-1445 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastGlenda Benevides and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastIf you are alive and breathing, you are growing no matter what you believe or what is happening. Embracing yourself as who you are is a key factor in being able to move anything forward, an empowered manifestation of the honest YOU. Such is the Goldster Conversation we will be having with the great Glenda Benevides, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter who has now written a book called Courage: Find Your Fire and Ignite Your Action in Life. Critics have described is a sweet step-by-step coaching book. It coaches you to find yourself and to be you.
This writer writes in...2024-07-0746 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastPeter Hacker and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastWhat does it mean to be human? Here is a question many of us ask ourselves and from it comes thoughts about morality, freedom, good and evil, ambition, passion, religion and more. Peter Hacker is a leading philosopher, unafraid at slaying myths. He has written four books about human nature, looking deeply into the neuroscience of how we all think and live. They deal with many of these issues that turn in our minds throughout our lives and are the culmination of half a century of studying and teaching philosophy.
His latest is simply called The Moral Powers: A...2024-06-2345 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastRebecca Tinsley and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastAll of us, at some stage, find ourselves faced with impossible choices or in some form of conflict from which there seems no way out. The choices we make affect our families, the people we love and our lives. Rebecca Tinsley understands these challenges first-hand from her life helping others in the developing world. Her passion for fairness and her personal mission to end suffering began as a teenager when she campaigned against South Africa’s apartheid. Sinc then she has worked as a journalist and lawyer on war and human rights drawing lessons that stretch from Auschwitz to Bosnia to...2024-06-1646 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastSir Julian Brazier and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastWe all see news headlines and wonder about our future -- war in Europe and the Middle East and the rise of China. Many worry or don’t watch it. But what can each of us do to help keep us as safe as can be. Sir Julian Brazier is a former government minister and a scholar in Maths and Philosophy from Oxford. He served for thirteen years as an officer in the Territorial Army, including five with the Special Forces. He is chairman of a security company, and a distinguished fellow of Royal United Services Institute. He is active in d...2024-06-1641 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastKendra Q. Dodd and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastBeing understood is a basic human need. We all have a right to express our voice. But conscious efforts are often needed to put over our viewpoint. Kendra Dodd specialises in removing barriers that divide us. In these current troubling times, we need to understand better our own inner core and perspective, as well as that of others who may think very differently. We need to work on unifying and learning how to step into the shoes of others. Kendra Q Dodd teaches how this can be done in our community, family and at work. Her new book Perspectives: Building m...2024-06-1548 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastLord Nigel Crisp and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Magazine Show PodcastExposing the Hospital Myth: NHS Boss on True Health. Insights from Lord Nigel Crisp, Former Head of the NHS
Are you feeling trapped in a cycle of hospital visits? Join us for a candid discussion with Lord Nigel Crisp, the former head of the NHS, as he sheds light on what it truly means to achieve optimal health. In this episode, we uncover the limitations of hospital-centric care and delve into often overlooked strategies for enhancing well-being from the comfort of your own home.
Join us to learn:
- Why hospitals may not always...2024-06-1446 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastHumphrey Hawksley and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastA very special Inside Story brings together Goldster Conversations’ two founding hosts Lucinda and Humphrey Hawksley in both a Zoom and in-person audience event at Kingfisher Wharf, Riverstone, Fulham. Three years ago, at the height of the pandemic, with millions isolated and alone, Goldster founder Mike Reid had a vision: What if he could deliver activities, social interaction, community and stimulus straight into people’s homes. With his experience in health and well-being, Mike did exactly that to make Goldster the brilliant success story it is today. His plan included a Book Club to encourage discussion and reading. This became Gold...2024-03-191h 03
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJuliet Campbell and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastJuliet Campbell was the first of Britain’s pioneering female ambassadors -- ‘An inspiration for those with ambition to make a difference in the world’, says diplomat, Karen Pierce, Britain’s current ambassador to the United States. In Playing Britannia Juliet tells her story through letters and diaries she kept at the time. Besieged in a chateau with the Queen, looping the loop in a jet and meeting top Chinese Generals in the Great Hall of the People became everyday stuff for Juliet, who rose to be Ambassador to Luxembourg and went on to be appointed Mistress of Girton College, Cambridg...2024-02-111h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastRachel Trethewey and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastVirginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors. In her new book, Rachel Trethewey tells the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped these amazing women, through first-hand testimony and rigorous research.
Julia Stephen, Clara Miller, and Aurelia Plath were fascinating women in their own rights, and their relationships with their daughters were exceptional; they profoundly influenced the writers’ lives, literature, and attitude to feminism. Mothers of the Mind charts their complex, often contradictory, bond and offers a new perspective.
Rachel Trethewey read History at Oxford University, where she won th...2024-02-0758 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMichael Muthukrishna and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastMichael Muthukrishna is a psychological and behavioural science specialist at the London School of Economics. Drawing on the most recent research across the sciences, humanities, and the emerging field of cultural evolution, Michael paints a panoramic picture of who we are and exactly what makes human beings different from all other forms of life on the planet. He argues that it is our unique ability to create culture, a shared body of knowledge, skills, and experience passed on from generation to generation that has enabled our current dominance.But it is only by understanding and applying the laws of life...2024-02-041h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastRoger Leslie and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations Podcast“Quite early, I came to terms with the fact that I was gay,” explains Goldster Purpose, Passion and Grit guest, Roger Leslie. “But as a spiritual person, I assumed that my sexual orientation meant that I was fundamentally flawed and would have to live without love. That terrifying revelation directed me toward an unprecedented journey that opened my life and elevated my destiny. My determination to live— and love—lit my path on the journey that redefined my life, showed me what mettle I was made of, and revealed to me my soul.”
Roger Leslie, a highly acclaimed author and int...2024-01-091h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastPhillipa Ashley and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastPhillipa Ashley was one of the first authors to come onto the Goldster Book Club, and she is making a welcome return to talk about the art of seasonal writing. Phillipa is a Sunday Times, Amazon and Audible best-selling author of uplifting romantic fiction, and on 15 December, she’ll be talking to Lucinda about her Christmas-themed novels.
After studying English at Oxford University, Phillipa worked as a copywriter and journalist before turning her hand to writing. Her debut novel, Decent Exposure, won the Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writers Award and was filmed as a Lifetime TV movie, 12 Men of C...2023-12-251h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastK.T Anglehart and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastGoldster Conversation delves into the fascinating world and minds of teenagers and young adults with author K. T. Anglehart. She weaves a captivating blend of witchy fantasy, ancient Irish tales, and real-world intrigue in her debut novel The Wise One and her November 2023 sequel The Twin Flame. Drawing on the imagination of C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series, she explores landscapes and folklore of Ireland and Scotland in a genre known as Young Adult Urban Fantasy.
How does this genre influence our culture? We have to remember that J. R. R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings and J. K. R...2023-12-111h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastBilly Kenber and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastBilly Kenber is an award-winning investigative journalist at The Times who has taken the lid of a section of the health care industry. In his explosive book Sick Money, The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry, Billy maintains that medicines have become nothing more than financial assets and that how drugs are priced and who has access to them is now dictated by shareholder value. He cites the example of an American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an HIV AIDS pill from $17.50 to $750 overnight and of a children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish b...2023-12-0359 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastBonnie Greer and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastJoin us, either in person or online, for what promises to be one of our most exciting Goldster Conversations so far. On 16 November, the legendary Bonnie Greer OBE FRSL will be joining Lucinda Hawksley for a Goldster Live event at Riverstone Kensington, London!
Bonnie is an author, playwright, journalist, critic and former Deputy Chair of the British Museum. An advocate of free speech and higher education, Greer is passionate about both the arts and sciences and is determined to see that the voices of women and minorities are heard in both realms.
Greer has been awarded...2023-11-2359 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJ. R. Seeger and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastJohn R. Seeger is a retired Senior Intelligence Service officer who was with the CIA for more than twenty years, leading small teams on many dangerous operations. In 2001, he went in Afghanistan after the Nine Eleven attacks on the United States in an operation captured in the Netflix documentary Spy Ops. On his final 3-year assignment at CIA headquarters, he worked as a chief of operations for a geographic division in the Directorate of Operations and then as a deputy director and deputy chief of the CIA Counterterrorism Centre. Since retirement, J. R. Seeger, as he is known, has set...2023-11-161h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastFrancesca Wade and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastJoin the Goldster conversation with Lucinda Hawksley as she chats to the author Francesca Wade about her fascinating debut book, Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London between the Wars. It looks at the lives of five extraordinary women, including Virginia Woolf and Dorothy L Sayers, all of whom lived in the same square in London. Square Haunting was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Francesca is now working on her second book, about Gertrude Stein. Her work proposes a form of biography centered on women’s lives, on collectivity and co...2023-11-1354 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastGreg Jenner and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastWhy is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino heist? Who was the richest person of all time? When was the first Monday? What were history's weirdest medical procedures that actually worked? How much horse manure was splattered on the streets of Tudor London? How fast was the medieval Chinese postal system? What did the Flintstones get right about the Stone Age? Who gets to name historical eras, and what will ours be called in 100 years' time? How do we know how people sounded in the past? How old is...2023-10-281h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastAdrian Magson and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastAdrian Magson is the author of hundreds of short stories and 29 books and an acclaimed expert in creating fictional characters. In his crime-thriller series we meet private detectives partners Ruth Gonzales and Andy Vaslik; deep cover specialist, Marc Portman; spy Harry Tate; French 1960s crime fighter Lucas Rocco, and others. He is so prolific that he has not one, but two most recently published books, Death at the Old Asylum in which Inspector Rocco becomes enveloped in a case of cold-blooded execution and Killing Waters, a stand-alone murder investigation set on the Oxford Canal in the Midlands.
Adrian’s wo...2023-10-241h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastAustin S. Camacho and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastHannibal Jones is a trouble shooter, fighter of evil and a dogged investigator who finds himself up against organised crime and city corruption helping victims who are mostly the sick and most vulnerable. Hannibal’s creator is Austin S Camacho who returns to Goldster Inside Story on the publication week of his latest in the series, Subtle Felonies, a captivating mystery that takes us deep into Americana. A retired basketball star, Xander Brown, goes missing. His wife calls Hannibal for help and we delve into a world of money, music, sport and murkiness. Austin, himself, is a fascinating character. He ha...2023-10-221h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastA.J Chambers and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastThe Vicar is a debut thriller written under the pseudonym of A. J Chambers, a British army veteran deployed to Northern Ireland for much of his military career. Chambers introduces Terry Nolan, a British intelligence officer, who discovers that his cover is blown, and millions of lives are at stake. Officially, Terry Nolan has been dead for the past thirty years. But when Nolan is attacked in Boston, the chilling reality sets in that both Nolan and his network of spies known as his Parishioners are compromised. There begins a race to save lives and stop a dreadful terror attack...2023-10-121h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastRory Cellan-Jones and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastRory Cellan-Jones became a much-loved household name as the BBC Technology Correspondent. Since being diagnosed with Parkinson in 2019, he has pioneered a greater understanding of the disease among all of us with his articles and the illuminating and moving podcast Movers and Shakers. Fellow Parkinson colleagues such as Jeremy Paxman, Mark Mardell and Sir Nicholas Mostyn show how different personalities face up to setbacks. Rory is the best-selling author of Always On – Hope and Fear in the Smartphone Era and his new book, Ruskin Park; Sylvia, Me and the BBC, tells his own tender and troubling story. After his mother’s de...2023-10-101h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastSarah Bax Horton and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastIn early 2017, Sarah Bax Horton made the chance discovery through family history research that her great-great grandfather was a Metropolitan Police sergeant who worked on the Jack the Ripper case. This discovery inspired her to write a book in his honour, based on a theory dating from the time of the murders.
In the early 20th century, CID Chief Robert Anderson went public with a declaration that the police had identified the Ripper but failed a build a firm prosecution case against him. Anderson provided specific information about a Polish Jewish man, who was a true East Ender a...2023-10-0459 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMichael Arditti and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastPlaywright, critic and literary novelist, Michael Arditti, tackles deep moral issues in his latest book The Choice which revolves around the rector of an ancient country church in Chesire. She chances upon the chief bell-ringer and husband of her closest friend, fondling a fifteen-year-old boy. Will she choose friendship or conscience, sympathy or her official duty of care? What will drive her decision and what will be the impact? Praised by Philip Pullman for iots important and pertinent themes and by former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, for testing the reader’s own moral alertness for rigour, realism and generosity. Th...2023-10-011h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJulie Summers and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastJulie Summers is a bestselling writer, researcher and historian. Her books include Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine; a biography of her grandfather, the man who built the 'real' bridge over the River Kwai, The Colonel of Tamarkan, Stranger in the House and When the Children Came Home, a social history of servicemen returning to their families from the Second World War. On 3 February, Julie returns to Goldster to talk about Jambusters, the story of the Women’s Institute in WW2.
This was the W.I.’s finest hour. The whole of its previous history – two decades...2023-09-271h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastHarry Bucknall and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastHarry Bucknall’s love of travel blossomed in early childhood exploring the creeks, islands and inlets of Poole harbour in a mirror dinghy. He served in the army and is now a writer in the tradition of great adventurers chronicling his long walks in stories laced with humour, inspiration and sheer grit. In The Dolphin’s Wake, Harry’s first book, told the story of his 5,500 mile journey from Venice to Istanbul through the Greek Archipelago in the summer of 2006. Like a Tramp, Like a Pilgrim took us on a vivid 94-day, 1,411-mile pilgrimage following the ancient Via Francigena through Englan...2023-09-241h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastDr Emma Byrne and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastDr Emma Byrne is an honest-to-goodness robot scientist who, when she’s not developing intelligent systems, writes popular science books and has contributed to the Financial Times, the Guardian, Elle, and Therapy Today. She frequently appears on Sky News and the BBC talking about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics – and about swearing. Emma’s interest in neuroscience led to her first book, Swearing is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language, she argues that swearing is both big and clever. It’s likely to have been one of the first forms of language that we developed and, sin...2023-09-151h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastRoger Moorhouse and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastAcclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse brings us a gripping Second World War story of forgers whose documents saved the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. Under the leadership of the Aleksander Lados, the Polish Ambassador to Switzerland, they undertook a systematic programme of forging identity documents for Latin American countries, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe -- the painful uncertainty over whether they will be granted protection from the Nazis' murderous fury. The Forgers has been praised for being gripping, remarkable and fascinating, with individual stories of quiet heroism that became the single largest rescue operation...2023-09-101h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastDr Ben Cave and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastFor over thirty years, Dr Ben Cave has been working in prisons and secure hospitals diagnosing and treating some of the most troubled men and women in society. A lifetime of care takes us from delusional disorders to schizophrenia, steroid abuse to drug dependency, personality disorders to paedophilia, and depression so severe a mother can kill her own baby. In his first book, What We Fear Most, Ben gives us the human stories behind the headlines, those tragic and often frightening tales of the conversations he has had behind closed doors. Here is the reality of a life working with...2023-09-0346 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMaggy Pigott and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastMaggy Pigott is the vice-chair of Open Age, Life’s Just Begun and has published the critically-acclaimed How to Age Joyfully, Eight Steps to a Happier, Fuller Life. Dame Judi Dench commends the book to everyone of all ages and Giles Brandreth describes it as ‘full of wit, wisdom – and hope’. Here is Maggy’s nub thoughts. We’re living longer – let’s live better! Getting older should be something to enjoy and celebrate.
And it can be. Research shows that we can make a big difference to how well we age. From staying active to connecting with others, Mag...2023-08-2559 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastSean Wensley and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastOur lives are intrinsically linked to those of animals – whether that’s the animals we farm for food, those living in the wild, those we use for sport or the ones we choose to keep as pets. We all have a responsibility to consider our impact, and even small changes in our own lives could significantly improve the quality of theirs.
Dr Sean Wensley is an award-winning vet, lifelong naturalist and a former President of the British Veterinary Association, advocating animal wellbeing around the world. Fusing keen scientific insight with tender meditations on the natural world, his new book...2023-08-211h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastDr. Elizabeth Eckstrom and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastThe Gift of Aging blends frontline science with inspirational stories and insights from wise elders for aging with health, joy, and purpose. Here is a compelling explanation of how our bodies and brains age, defining what can be expected with aging and what is unusual. The authors Elizabeth Eckstrom and Marcy Houle demonstrate ways we can significantly increase our chances for a positive aging experience into our 80s, 90s and 100s. At some stage of our lives, all of us will have to face the challenges of aging, whether for ourselves, our family or both.
The Gift...2023-08-181h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastSophie Hannah and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastHow can any writer today follow in the footsteps of Agatha Christie? Join Lucinda Hawksley, as she chats to Sophie Hannah, and find out just what it was like to resurrect the world-famous detective Hercule Poirot. Sophie Hannah’s psychological thriller The Carrier won the Specsavers National Book Award in 2013 and, since that time, her career has never looked back – except when she was commissioned to go back in time and conjure up new mysteries for Hercule Poirot to solve.
Although best known today as a crime writer, Sophie’s literary career actually began as a poet. She publishe...2023-08-1054 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastEllen Cheshire and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastEllen Cheshire spent her childhood reading books, visiting art galleries, watching films and going to the theatre. She began her career as a box office assistant. It was only natural that she would go on to work in the creative arts and is now a specialist in the cinema, and specifically great directors. She has written books on Ang Lee, the Taiwanese director who broke into Hollywood with films like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi and New Zealand director, Jane Campion, whose work includes The Piano with which she was the first woman to win t...2023-08-061h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastKatharine Quarmby and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastKatharine has written non-fiction, short stories and books for children. The Low Road is her first novel. Her non-fiction works include Scapegoat: Why We Are Failing Disabled People and No Place to Call Home: Inside The Real Lives Of Gypsies And Travellers. Katharine also works as an investigative journalist and editor, with particular interests in disability, the environment, race and ethnicity and the care system.
The Low Road is set in rural England, London and Australia in the early nineteenth century. It is based on a true story Katharine found whilst visiting her parents in the Waveney Valley...2023-08-0155 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJen Nash and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastHow much can a good relationship improve your home life and make your work and social life more fulfilling? Best-selling author and communicator, Jen Nash will reveal all about the power of relationships with inspiring zippy true life stories taken from her best-seller The Big Power of Tiny Connections—How Small Interactions Spark Awesome Outcomes. Over the past twenty years, Jen has coached top executives from a range of multi-national corporations on how to retain information, boost confidence, inject employee satisfaction and aim for greater productivity and long-term happiness.
The surprise is that the techniques Jen teaches at that...2023-07-311h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMike Gayle and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastMike Gayle was born and raised in Birmingham. After graduating from Salford University with a degree in Sociology, he moved to London to pursue a career in journalism and worked as a features editor and agony uncle. He has written for a variety of publications including The Sunday Times, the Guardian and Cosmopolitan. He lives in Birmingham with his wife, kids and greyhound.
Mike became a full-time novelist in 1997 following the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller My Legendary Girlfriend, which was hailed by the Independent as 'full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations', and...2023-07-2745 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastEssie Fox and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastEssie Fox was born and raised in rural Herefordshire. After studying English Literature at the University of Sheffield she moved to London, working on newspapers and in publishing – before she changed direction, becoming an illustrator in the world of art and design.
Always an avid reader, Essie now writes Victorian gothic novels. Her debut, The Somnambulist, was shortlisted for the National Book Awards, and featured on Channel 4’s TV Book Club. The Last Days of Leda Grey, set in the early years of silent film, was selected as The Times Historical Book of the Month. Her latest novel, The F...2023-07-251h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJames Clarke and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastJames Clarke specialises in writing about cinema. He has worked with Iconic Images in London on a series of books about movie stars and their collaborations with particular photographers. The latest in this series of books is entitled Being Bardot and has just been published in the UK and the US. James also teaches screenwriting and works for the BFI as a Script Reader. James’s other books include: The Virgin Books Film Guide: War Films and Bond: Photographed by Terry O’Neill. James studied Film and Literature at the University of Warwick.
Brigitte Bardot stepped out of Frenc...2023-07-231h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastNathalie Plamondon and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations Podcast“It’s never going to work. You’re not good enough!” Are you tired of hearing that nagging voice inside your head? And what if you could do something about it? Do you have a dream or a project that’s been on the back burner for too long? Even with all your accomplishments, do you still doubt yourself sometimes? Statistics show that eight-five per cent of people suffer from a lack of self confidence in at least one area of their lives. Draining negative self-talk creates procrastination, stress, anxiety, and burnout. People know what they want or need to do, and ye...2023-07-191h 03
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMandy Preece and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastMandy Preece is an award-winning communications trainer, author and a soul midwife – also known as a ‘holistic end-of-life practitioner’. Mandy gives motivational talks on the art of 'being alongside' other people, in life and at the end of life. Heartfelt, honest, funny and poignant, Mandy inspires us to find new ways to support each other. Her book Being Rock (which redefines listening) was published in 2020.
After losing her parents and a close friend, Mandy switched careers from being a legal editor to sitting with people at the end of their life to ensure that someone is there at all ti...2023-07-141h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMark Everglade and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastHow much does fiction act as a safety release to the pressures building up inside us? How much to stories help in dealing with trauma and upheaval? In its continual search for the new, fun and unexpected, Goldster Inside story brings you Mark Everglade, author of dystopian fiction and an expert in the sub-genre of CyberPunk.
Goldster members, unfamiliar with CyberPunk, check it out with your children and grandchildren. This is a type of fiction first categorized through films like the 1982 box office hit Blade Runner where synthetic humans are bio-engineered by a powerful corporation, and it plays arou...2023-07-1243 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastFelice Hardy and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations Podcast
The Tennis Champion Who Escaped The Nazis is a family memoir. Felice Hardy’s grandparents fled to London with their daughter, escaping from Nazi-occupied Vienna. This book explores their new lives in England, as well as the terrible fate of those loved ones they were forced to leave behind in the Holocaust.
Felice’s grandmother, Liesl Herbst, was the 1930 Tennis Champion of Austria and later beat Tim Henman’s grandmother at Wimbledon. She and her daughter also played doubles at Wimbledon – the only mother and daughter ever to do so. Woven throughout this book is the search for the auth...2023-07-0954 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastFrances Evesham and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastFrances Evesham’s advice to those thinking of retiring is ‘to do something you truly love, whether it's travel, growing orchids or painting - the days just fly past." So, after stopping work as a speech therapist after thirty years, Frances tried her hand at something she really loved, and had been nagging her for years. "I thought I'd get to put my feet up when I retired, but I was wrong,” she says. She started writing mystery and crime and is now a best-selling author. She really loves it, saying "It takes over your life so that you forget aches...2023-07-041h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastShrabani Basu and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations Podcast
Victoria & Abdul is the story of the controversial relationship between Queen Victoria and a young Indian servant called Abdul Karim who arrived in court as a special present for her Golden Jubilee. Soon he became the Queen’s favourite, was promoted to being her Munshi or teacher, taught the Queen Urdu and introduced her to curries. Based on previously unseen journals and letters, Shrabani Basu uncovered this hidden story that rocked the establishment. Her book has since been made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Dame Judi Dench.
Shrabani Basu is a journalist and Sunday Times best-selling author. Her boo...2023-06-3058 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastDr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastIn The Kitchen Prescription, Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed draws on her love of good food and her expertise in gut health to create 101 recipes that are easy to make, incredibly delicious to eat and will effortlessly keep your gut and digestion in tip-top condition. Eating well doesn't need to be dull food and deprivation - it should be eating a wonderfully varied, vibrant and exciting range of foods. The more diversely we eat, the lower our risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression, and the more enhanced our immunity.
What sets Saliha and her recipes apart from other f...2023-06-2757 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastGerald Dickens and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastGerald Dickens is a great great grandson of the author, Charles Dickens. He has been working as an actor, director and producer for many years. In 1993 he created his first one-man show, a theatrical performance of A Christmas Carolinspired by Charles’ own energetic readings of the 1860s.
A fascination in the life and works of his subject led him to write and direct further one-man shows including Mr Dickens is Coming!, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, as well as some of the short stories, including the supernatural tale ‘The Signalman’. It was while researc...2023-06-2558 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJohn Hands and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastJohn Hands is a scientist, novelist, creative writing tutor and the author of substantive and much-lauded non-fiction works Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe and The Future of Humankind: Why We Should be Optimistic.After teaching physics for Britain’s Open University devoted more than ten years to evaluating scientific theories about how we evolved from the origin of the universe. The result was Cosmosapiens chosen by two reviewers as Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement and selected as one of the Best Science Books of the year by The Telegraph. Here, John argues tak...2023-06-191h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastLouise Minchin and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastLouise Minchin went from presenting BBC Breakfast to competing for the GB Team in Triathlon in the World and European Championship. In her new book Fearless she set out to push herself even further. Over 17 chapters, Louise embarked on terrifying, exhilarating adventures across the UK and the world to be able to tell extraordinary women's stories – and to test herself. She free dived under the ice in the dark in Finland with the first female to swim a mile in the Antarctic Circle; she cycled across Argentina with one of the world’s most famous female endurance runners; she swam in t...2023-06-1159 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastDanièle Cybulskie and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastDanièle Cybulskie has been making the Middle Ages fun, entertaining, and accessible for over a decade. She is the author of four books and hundreds of articles on medieval history. The creator and host of The Medieval Podcast, Danièle brings expertise and a sense of humour to the airwaves to dispel common myths about the medieval period and enrich our understanding about the people of the past. In 2020, Danièle built The Medieval Masterclass for Creators, an online course designed to provide novelists, game developers, and other fiction creators with expert information in a visual format to help them...2023-06-081h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastSareeta Domingo and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastSareeta Domingo is the author of The Three of Us (previously published as The Nearness of You), and the editor and contributing writer of the romantic fiction anthology Who's Loving You. Her novel If I Don't Have You was shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2021. She has also written books for Young Adults, published under the name S.A. Domingo; these include Love on the Main Stage, which was shortlisted for the Lancashire Book of the Year 2021. Sareeta is also the Fiction Editorial Director at Trapeze Books.
Sareeta was born in London but spent her formative years in...2023-06-0156 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJack Barsky and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastJack Barsky grew up in the old East Germany and became a Soviet spy living undercover in the United States. No, this is not the plot of a fictional thriller movie. Jack Barsky’s book Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America gives us a picture of his austere, but stable childhood in the 1950s in a backward corner of East Germany where summer camps were fun, and the Bible forbidden. Jack was smart and started a career as a university chemistry and maths teacher. Then, he was recruited by the KGB and, in...2023-05-291h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastEva Rice and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastIt’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a fifteen-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of The Face magazine, and Julia Roberts wears thigh-boots for the poster of a new movie called Pretty Woman. February Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. Then one evening in May, she finds an escaped canary in her kitchen and it sparks a glimmer of hope in her. With the help of the bird called Yellow, Feb starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness, just as her aunt embarks on a pa...2023-05-251h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMalcolm Brabant and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastMalcolm Brabant is a larger-than-life figure in the worlds of filmmaking, war and medicine. In 2011, he had a routine yellow fever shot at a clinic near his home in Athens where he was then living as a foreign correspondent.
He was due to travel to the Ivory Coast in West Africa to shoot a series of films about child soldiers. Within eighteen hours, he was burning up with violent fever that lasted for thirteen days. From there, he descended into madness. Hallucinations convinced him he is the new Messiah and his Second Coming had to be broadcast on t...2023-05-231h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJessica Fellowes and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastJessica Fellowes is the author of the crime series, The Mitford Murders, which has been published in eighteen territories worldwide and nominated for awards in England, Germany, Italy and France. Her first standalone novel, The Best Friend, was published this year in the UK and US.
Jessica started her career in journalism, working as the deputy editor of Country Life magazine and as a columnist on the Mail on Sunday. Her first books were the five official companion books to the TV series Downton Abbey, several of which have appeared in the New York Times and Sunday Times b...2023-05-1454 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastPeter Popham and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastIndia Be Damned is an epic thriller set during the last days of Britain’s colonial rule of India and the first dreadful, blood-ridden months of independence. The author is legendary foreign correspondent, Peter Popham, who has turned his forensic journalist’s eye to fiction in a work that both vividly entertains while prompting us to think more closely about Britain’s role in India’s modern history.
Coming out seventy-five years after those events, it illuminates how the panicked slicing of India into three territories of Pakistan, India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) made war in the subco...2023-05-091h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastPaul Chronnell and Sarah-Louise Young and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastIn 1985, 24 young people from around the world had their RSVP pen pal requests (and their full postal addresses!) published in the bestselling music magazine of the day, Smash Hits. 35 years later, a couple from South London decided to reply – to all of them.
Paul Chronnell and Sarah-Louise Young then wrote a unique, funny and touching book (think Danny Wallace & Dave Gorman meet Nora Ephron and Richard Curtis) about their quest to first find, and then reunite 24 pen pal seekers with their teenage selves. The result was The RSVPeople. Paul is a feature-film screenwriter, playwright, author. He has written TV...2023-05-0559 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJane Thynne and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations PodcastWidowland and Queen High are a publishing phenomenon and among the most critically-acclaimed novels of recent years. Widowland, set in 1953, has been described as the most important feminist novel for decades and tells of an alternate history where instead of Nazi defeat, there has been a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany. The much-awaited sequel is Queen High, set in 1955. President Eisenhower is about to make a state visit and a paranoid Queen Wallis Simpson summons fearless, plucky protagonist Rose Ransom to Buckingham Palace for a briefing.
Queen High has already been listed as Book of...2023-04-271h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJoe Treasure and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story Podcast
The Male Gaze, Joe Treasure’s first novel, was inspired by his experiences in Los Angeles during the early years of George W Bush's "war on terror". In his second novel, Besotted he drew on his memories of growing up in a large, eccentric family and his close bond with a troubled but brilliant brother. This is a theme on which Joe is now working more directly, as he is currently writing a memoir.
Joe’s most recent novel, The Book of Air, envisaged a deadly airborne virus that destroyed society and gave rise to a community of survi...2023-04-2756 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMonique Roffey and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastMonique Roffey is a writer, lecturer, professor of contemporary fiction and founding member of Writers Rebel which combats climate change. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Monique has had life-long links to the Caribbean region and has set four of her six novels there. Her latest The Mermaid of Black Conch won the 2020 Costa Book of the Year Award with a myriad of praises from her peers. Set on an imaginary Caribbean island, Monique unfolds a tantalising tale in a mythical love story between a fisherman and a mermaid. “Sensuous, beguiling,” says The Sunday Times. “Roffey's tale convincingly transplants a mythical...2023-04-171h 03
The Goldster Conversations PodcastAnni Domingo and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story Podcast
Breaking the Maafa Chain takes the reader back to the nineteenth century. Two sisters, Fatmata and Salimatu, are captured and sold separately into slavery. Forced to change their names to Faith and Sarah, they end up in two different countries with opposite slavery laws. Faith ends up in America, where slavery is still legal and slaves don't have any rights; Sarah ends up in a Victorian England and as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. Can the two sisters reclaim their freedom and identity in a world that is trying to break them down and mould them to its coloniser's will?2023-04-1459 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastLucinda Hawksley and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastIn this special hybrid PPG, Humphrey Hawksley will be joined by his fellow presenter – and very distant cousin! – Lucinda Hawksley. He’ll be interviewing Lucinda about the difficulties she faced when researching her biography, The Mystery of Princess Louise (Vintage Books).
As an art historian, Lucinda was interested in Princess Louise as a sculptor and part of the Aesthetic art world of late 19th-century London, but it soon became apparent that this was going to be a very different research journey from that of her two previous biographies (of the artists Lizzie Siddal and Kate Perugini). Many months after...2023-04-071h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastNatalie Jenner and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastNatalie Jenner is the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls, which were both instant national bestsellers, Amazon Best Books of the Month, and People Magazine Books of the Week.
The Jane Austen Society has now been published in more than twenty languages and has been optioned for film and television. Natalie's third novel, Every Time We Say Goodbye, is scheduled for release in early 2024.
Natalie was born in England and raised in Canada. She has been a corporate lawyer and career coach, and once owned an independent bookstore in Oakville, Ontario, w...2023-03-3055 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastRobin Dreeke and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastRobin Dreeke is a people person. He knows how to judge, win over, recruit and build relationships that are less transactional and more collaborative. For many years he worked for America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, better known as the FBI and became head of its elite Behavioral Analysis Program, a Counterintelligence Division tasked with uncovering threats within the United States. He has combined law enforcement systems with his own techniques to build a tool-kit for networking and communication that show you how to win the day whether you are in a corporate board meeting or untangling thorny issues on the...2023-03-281h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastPhilip Clark and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastPhilip Clark is an author and music journalist who spent twenty years writing about classical music, modern composition, jazz, free improvisation and rock music for many leading publications, including The Wire, Gramophone, The Guardian and London Review of Books.
He trained as a composer (and in that capacity worked with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the percussionist Orphy Robinson), but has more recently preferred to produce his own sounds playing piano as part of a weekly free improvisation workshop.
His biography of Dave Brubeck – A Life In Time – was published in 2020, and he worked with...2023-03-1258 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastLena Sisco and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story Podcast
Goldster Inside Story is thrilled to welcome back former American naval interrogator Lena Sisco with her new book Honest Answers: Interview and Negotiation Skills to Get the Truth. No matter the conversation, whether with friends, family, the community or colleagues, cementing trust, detecting honesty and persuading others, to be honest are some of the most valuable skills you can possess. Goldster is passionate about coaxing people to interact and socialise, thus contributing to their healthy living.
It is important not to feel unheard and to have the confidence to ask questions and for yourself to be an en...2023-03-031h 05
The Goldster Conversations PodcastRosie Stancer and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastLast October we interviewed our own PPG Presenter, the world-renowned explorer Rosie Stancer, as she introduced her plans to cross the Sinai desert to gather scientific evidence on the depredation of climate change on the lives of the Bedu nomads of the Sinai Peninsula and her intention to report to the COP 26 Conference at the end of their 160 mile journey. (see map below of their proposed camel trek).
Unfortunate security concerns in Egypt prevented the expedition from going at their chosen time – but the good news is that the wait is over, the trip is on again, and...2023-02-2155 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastChristina & Ryan Hillsberg and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastGoldster Inside Story gives you a story of love, spies and parenting with a rare double-act interview and a ground-breaking book for frazzled families -- License to Parent: How My Career as a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids. Christina and Ryan Hillsberg both spied for America’s Central Intelligence Agency before Christina turned her skills to becoming a stay-at-home-mom sharing fresh, ingenious and fascinating secrets on child-rearing, and putting an insightful and entertaining spin on some of the most challenging years of our lives. In conversation with Humphrey Hawksley, the Hillsbergs will explain their CIA day jobs. As a c...2023-02-191h 03
The Goldster Conversations PodcastKatherine May and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastKatherine May is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster living in Whitstable, UK. Her hybrid memoir Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times became a New York Times, Sunday Times and Der Spiegel bestseller. It was also was adapted for BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and was shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year.
The Electricity of Every Living Thing, her memoir of a midlife autism diagnosis, is currently being adapted as an audio drama by Audible. Her other titles include novels such as The Whitstable High Tide...2023-02-1552 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastGregg Hurwitz and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastGregg Hurwitz is the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Orphan X series -- Evan Smoak is a man with a dangerous past who has skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. Gregg has also published poetry, academic, political, and cultural articles, screenplays and is a bestselling comic book writer. In short, Gregg is a non-stop creative machine and even helped write the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. He has a reputation for dogged research leading to action-packed adventures, including sneaking onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALS, s...2023-02-101h 04
The Goldster Conversations PodcastLaura Payne and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastLaura Payne began her career as a journalist and has a background in international media and marketing. She has advised and mentored some of the world’s leading businesses and organisations – and then, in her 50s, she decided to change her life and career. She made the decision to go back into academia and train as a psychotherapist.
Her book Nine Steps to a Mindful Life (Without Meditating) grew out of her new way of life. The book contains simple exercises with which Laura believes you can turn your life around. It is for anyone looking for a fresh...2023-02-031h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastGillian Carrick and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story Podcast - 2nd December 2022Animal-lover Gillian Carrick is the author health guides for pets which includes tips for their healthy ageing. Gillian’s early career took her far away from her passion. With a degree in politics, she became a researcher in the House of Commons and a feature writer on the House magazine. She then moved to BBC Radio with stints as a producer/presenter of travel programmes for Radio Four and Five Live, before heading off to be a television producer. Gillian’s first books were Hidden Suffolk and The Essential Guide to Arthritis.
She was then commissioned to write...2023-02-021h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMidge Gillies and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastThere’s nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus. From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into an intoxicating thoroughfare, with the power to propel an individual onwards to adventure, romance, or something more sinister. Ever since its iconic Eros statue appeared in 1893, the junction has been a vibrant meeting place, attracting visitors and pleasure-seekers from all walks of life: political plans and theatrical careers were hatched at its restaurant and café tables, lovers met below the statue of Eros, and to this day tourists pour out...2023-01-3045 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMaxim Jakubowski and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastWhat do Erotica and Sherlock Holmes have in common? Find out in Goldster’s amazing end of year Inside Story with the legendary Maxim Jakubowski, the mastermind of The Mammoth Book of Erotica, the creator of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the compiler of numerous anthologies and currently chair of the Crime Writers’ Association with its Red Herrings magazine and array of Dagger awards. And that is far from all in Maxim Jakubowski’s incredible career. For many years he was a top book publishing editor dealing with titles by authors as diverse as William Golding, Peter Ustinov and Sophie Grigson...2023-01-231h 03
The Goldster Conversations PodcastHenrietta Heald and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastHenrietta Heald is the author of Magician of the North, a biography of William Armstrong, the dazzling Victorian inventor, engineer and industrialist who created Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. The book was shortlisted for two literary prizes and, since first publication in 2010, has generated huge interest in Armstrong, with Henrietta making many appearances on TV and radio and in various publications to elucidate his life and work. Earlier this year, she appeared in ‘Diggers’, an episode of BBC2’s Inside the Factory, when she was interviewed about Armstrong’s invention of the hydr...2023-01-2254 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastJoanne Harris and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastWe have a very special Goldster Book Club event to welcome in the new year. Lucinda Hawksley will be chatting online to Joanne Harris, the award-winning author of 19 novels, including Chocolat, Blackberry Wine and The Strawberry Thief. Her novels also include four psychological thrillers, including Gentlemen & Players and Different Class. Chocolat was turned into an Oscar-nominated movie, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.
Joanne was born to a French mother and an English father, and in addition to having written several novels set in France, she has also written books on French cookery, including – of course! – a book on co...2023-01-1559 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastSir Muir Gray and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastProfessor Sir Muir Gray is reframing the public conversation about getting old. He is the co-author of two hilarious but insightful books aptly named Sod 60 and Sod 70, both subtitled, The Guide to Living Well. . His other books include Midlife: Look Younger, Live Longer, Feel Better, Antidote to Ageing and Sod Sitting, Get Moving!: Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond. No spring chicken himself, Sir Muir identified elements of the ageing process way back in 1985 when, as a younger man, he wrote his perceptive book Prevention of Disease in Old Age. Whether dealing with dementia, apathy or physical frailty, Sir...2023-01-151h 00
The Goldster Conversations PodcastAdele Parks and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastJoin Lucinda Hawksley as she chats with Adele Parks about her amazing writing career.
Adele Parks MBE was born in North Yorkshire and has become one of Britain’s best-loved novelists. She is the author of 22 bestselling novels, including the Sunday Times and eBook Number One bestseller, Both Of You.
Over four and a half million UK editions of Adele’s work have been sold, and her books have been translated into 31 different languages. Her recent Sunday Times Number One bestsellers, Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck were shortlisted for the British Book Awards and have...2022-12-1559 min
The Goldster Conversations PodcastMaggy Pigott and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastJoin Humphrey Hawksley with Maggy Piggot on this uplifting Goldster Inside Story
Maggy Pigott is the vice-chair of Open Age, Life’s Just Begun and has published the critically-acclaimed How to Age Joyfully, Eight Steps to a Happier, Fuller Life. Dame Judi Dench commends the book to everyone of all ages and Giles Brandreth describes it as ‘full of wit, wisdom – and hope’. Here are Maggy’s nub thoughts. We’re living longer – let’s live better! Getting older should be something to enjoy and celebrate. And it can be. Research shows that we can make a big difference to how we...2022-12-151h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastElly Griffiths and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastElly Griffiths wrote four novels under her own name (Domenica de Rosa) before turning to crime with The Crossing Places. This was her first novel featuring forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway – since then her name has entered into the elite of fictional detectives, with The Times commenting “Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse’.
The Crossing Places won the Mary Higgins Clark award and several novels in the series have been shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year. The 14th novel in the series, The Locked Room, was published in February 2022 and Elly is curren...2022-12-151h 01
The Goldster Conversations PodcastLeonid Volkov and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastJoin Humphrey Hawksley to hear Leonid Volkov’s story in his own words and ask him how he thinks he can create a new Russia.
Born into Soviet Jewish intelligentsia, leading Russian opposition figure, Leonid Volkov, is now in exile in Lithuania. Through lawyers, he liaises with his jailed friend Alexei Navalny who is serving nine years in a maximum-security Russian prison. Both became Internet bloggers with massive followings, Leonid was Navalny’s chief-of-staff for his Moscow mayoral campaign in 2013 and his presidential campaign against Vladimir Putin in 2018. From exile and prison, the two friends and others are prepa...2022-12-151h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastDamian Le Bas and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastDamian Le Bas was brought up by Romany Traveller parents, who had lived a life of hardship and adventure on the road. Because his family had largely settled down by the time he was born, Damian always felt that he had missed out on a vital part of his culture. While he was working as a journalist defending Romany people and other Travellers, he realised that few people really saw ‘Gypsies’ as belonging on the cultural and geographical maps of Britain. So he decided to spend a year living in a Ford Transit van, staying in places with an historical atta...2022-12-151h 02
The Goldster Conversations PodcastParag Khanna and Humphrey Hawksley - The Goldster Inside Story PodcastDr Parag Khanna is a bestselling author of books that explain where our world is heading and why. Parag, who has been named by Esquire magazine as one of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, will be talking to Humphrey about his latest book Move: The Forces Uprooting Us. It’s a thought-provoking eye-opener that cuts through the clutter and predicts what lies ahead for our children and grandchildren. In short, as climate change tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments destabilize, and technology disrupts, we’re entering a new age of mass migrations – one that will scatter both t...2022-12-151h 03
The Goldster Conversations PodcastThe Goldster Inside Story Podcast - Introduction EpisodeOn the Goldster Book Club podcast you hear captivating interviews with best-selling authors, intrepid explorers, former spies and international sports people. We have different shows – Inside Story, Purpose, Passion and Grit, and Author to Author. By joining Goldster you can be part of the live conversation asking our guests directly any question you want -- about their failures, successes and what drives them. So far we have talked to best-selling authors, Ian Rankin, Ely Griffiths and Adele Parks; acclaimed historians, adventurers and travel writers Roger Morehouse, Justin Marozzi and Odd Harald Hague; eagle-eyed commentators, Parag Khanna, Tim Marshall and Geoff Payn...2022-12-0923 min