AarBalls

AarBalls

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AarBalls episodes

  • The Rhino Runner

    Top good egg Lizzie Simmonds talks to us about her incredible achievements in fund raising, through marathon and ultra-marathon running and epic walks often while dressed as a rhino! We also hear of Lizzie’s other work for charity and worthy causes and about an extraordinarily altruistic decision she made. To support Liz on her latest epic feat of fundraising please visit https://www.justgiving.com/page/lizziedoesthewall?utm_term=Q5PV76qvd


    Thank you very much to all the support, especially from our new listeners from Luke's English Podcast from around the world. Please help us by following us at https://www.instagram.com/aarballs/ and subscribing at https://www.youtube.com/@Aarballs


    If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes please get in touch at [email protected]



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    52 min
  • The Library Music Composer
    Diogo talks to us about getting started in Dave Stewart’s kitchen, the correct music for penis-shaped pasta, prising royalties out of Italy, being urban (but not that urban), forays into gangsta rap with Spoonface, recording orchestras in Budapest and Prague, the pecking order of composing, marrying into rock royalty, and hanging out with some Beatles, doing backing vocals for U2, and failing at washing up.
    Please help us by following us on https://www.instagram.com/aarballs/or subscribing to https://www.youtube.com/@Aarballs
    Email us at [email protected] with your questions, comments and suggestions! Do you know anyone with an interesting job/life who'd be a good guest? Let us know!

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    50 min
  • The Rugby Player
    Sacha Harding talks about breaking into professional rugby, the highs and lows of his career and the skills gained from sport that have been useful in establishing his physical training company. We also talk about how the sport of rugby has or hasn’t changed, both in terms of its surrounding culture and in the way the game is played. We also hear his thoughts on who should captain the British Lions and on Owen Farrell. 

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    47 min
  • The TV Producer
    Jane Lloyd talks about rising from runner to be a top award-winning TV producer. She chats about working with documentary-maker Asif Kapadia, trying to hide Roger Moore, being pestered by U2 and The Coors, supermodel seaweed, Noemi Campbell being lovely, accidents in remote Portugal,  working with Taylor Swift, chasing Madonna down a beach in a golf buggy, and the Bulgarian New York.


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    52 min
  • The English Language Podcaster

    For 15 years Luke's English Podcast has been helping people from around the globe learn English, and currently has over 1,000 episodes. The talent Luke has for teaching English in a funny and engaging manner is reflected in the huge number of devoted followers he has around the world; at the time of recording this in early May 2024, his YouTube channel has 1.13 million subscribers.

    Luke talks to us about the phenomena of his podcast, about not setting up his own sports centre, about why he still teaches English classes in Paris, and about his stand up-comedy career (and the wonderful joke that nobody gets). Even if you're from the south of England and can speak English perfectly, Luke's podcast is still very entertaining, https://teacherluke.co.uk/ so do check it out and help him reach 2 million subscribers! https://www.youtube.com/@LukesEnglishPodcast. You can see some clips of our chat with Luke at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvMQuNk8nE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr_O9ZWXUl8. The whole episode minus intro and jingles is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp0hWif8yPE


    Language learners can also click on this free worksheet https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z8lwhTQ6NpJCitk8ZEApGkp1zNNK9gix/view?usp=drive_link which looks at some of the vocabulary Luke uses in the interview.


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    54 min
  • The Stunt Performer

    Lucy Allen has worked as a stunt artiste for 34 years appearing in over a hundred films and TV shows, including Titanic, The World Is Not Enough, Skyfall, the Harry Potter series, Game of Thrones, Dr Who, The Batman, The Crown, Robin Hood, Hot Fuzz, and Braveheart. She talks to us about early days of striptease in Istanbul and becoming a circus performer, before getting her first stunt role on Casualty. She talks to us of her greatest stunts, the stars she’s worked with, working on her favourite TV shows, and the day a high fall went wrong. 


    If you'd like to find out more about Lucy's public speaking and hear more action-packed stories of her incredible career please visit https://talks4groups.uk/


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    58 min
  • The A&R Veteran

    Mike Smith, A&R man extraordinaire, was head of A&R for EMI music publishing before becoming Managing Director of Columbia Records, then Warner Chappell. Over this extraordinary career he signed an incredible roster of acts including Blur, Smashing Pumpkins, PJ Harvey, Supergrass, Arcade Fire, Manic Street Preachers, The White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Mark Ronson, Calvin Harris, Chemical Brothers and dozens more massive acts.

    Mike talks of his rise from post boy at MCA, giving fascinating insights into the acts he signed (and some he didn't!) - talking at length about Damon Albarn and Blur, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Elastica, Julian Cope - and still keeping a record under your arm in later age.


    This is a much abridged version of a longer chat (2hrs 20 mins!), the full version will be appearing on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Aarballs/videos very soon.

    Please also check out and follow Mike's fabulous project on Instagram - an album a day - at https://www.instagram.com/65mikesmith


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    Many thanks to Mike for being so generous with his time - for music fans this is a real treat.

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    1 hr 20 min
  • The Sheep Farmer

    Ayrshire sheep farmer and YouTube superstar Cammy Wilson talks to us about joining the Police in Glasgow before moving home to start farming sheep, and the subsequent huge popularity of his two YouTube channels – The Sheep Game and The Shearing Season, and his podcast Fed By Farmers. 


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    44 min
  • The Lifeboat Helm

    Lorraine Galvin has served as an RNLI volunteer for 25 years at Wexford, Ireland, and she gives a fascinating account of her incredible service. She tells us of how a near-death experience at sea inspired her to help set up the lifeboat service at Wexford, of the scariest rescue and the confusion of too many Kellys, of dolphin rescue, of an invitation to Westminster Abbey, of her grandfather’s bravery medals, and of dropping everything and running out the door whenever the alarm goes off, If you enjoy this episode please consider making a donation to support these fantastic people and the amazing work they do:


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    52 min
  • The Interior Architect
    Bev talks to us about his native Sicily, being Italian and staying calm, the 1980s – were they really so bad? –, the sexual specifications of a certain client, Japan, and delicious pasta recipes. 

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    57 min

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