an ADEQUATE podcast

an ADEQUATE podcast

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  • 2. “All wrong, still good” | Helen Bagnall interview
    In this episode, festival organiser Helen Bagnall says that speakers who have something worthwhile to say can do it "all wrong" and still be good - adding that the TED style talk isn't always right.
    Later in the episode, I share with you what I got back from the magazine after submitting the story I read aloud in Episode 1 - and what I did about it.
    Read about Helen by clicking here: Salon London.
    13 min
  • 1. My speaking disasters + Martin Pistorius interview
    "Most of us dread speaking, even to a small gathering of friends and family. I certainly did, until I had spoken publicly often enough for all my greatest fears to have come true..."
    I've written and submitted a story to a magazine about my greatest humiliations as a public speaker. I've read it aloud for this first episode, along with a short interview I did with an incredible man who lived trapped inside his body for 14 years, unable to communicate. I hope you find Martin Pistorius as inspiring as I do.
    We all have something to share, and self-expression is a gift. Whether you do it by writing, drawing or speaking, I hope this podcast will encourage you to do it more.
    Find out more about Martin.
    22 min
  • Grand Finale: Over To You.
    In our last group zoom call, participants on the 30 day course finally delivered a talk to each other. And what a variety there was.
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    1 hr 12 min
  • Group Zoom V | With special guest Steve Chapman
    In this episode, two days before participants are due to give their speeches, Steve Chapman popped in to do something I've never seen before: he watched back a TEDx he gave a few years ago, while we watched with him. 
    Before we showed that talk, Steve talked a bit about his preparation, and afterwards he answered questions and comments.
    For copyright reasons, I've had to cut out the main course - Steve's TEDx talk itself - but you can find it here:
    https://bit.ly/36j1UoT
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    59 min
  • On Copying Great Writing

    Great writers and speakers become great because they learn from those who went before them. In this episode, you'll hear about a writer who copy-typed whole books, just to see how it felt to write a masterpiece.

    And you'll hear some examples of much shorter works - mere sentences, but great sentences - that I copied out in order to internalise and re-use their structure for my own purposes.

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    7 min
  • Your Audience: Everyone is Interesting and Attractive
    How to overcome the dread of speaking? One way is simply to allow yourself to find something in your listeners that's appealing. Not to force it, but to allow yourself to notice it.
    This episode is taken from a recent one-to-one session, but cut so that you can only hear me speaking. If you find it helpful, please let me know. And if there's more I can add or explain - tell me that!
    Thank you.
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    10 min
  • Group Zoom II

    In which we discuss Arrangement, the second canon of rhetoric. 

    This hour-long session involved discussion in breakout rooms, which (with a few other little bits) has been removed to make a shorter, smoother podcast episode.

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    44 min
  • Delivery: Move hands, use emotion, ask the audience

    The picture that illustrates this episode shows what happens when you move your arms instead of being rigid, while talking. It's from the audio recording of a one-to-one session I did with David H.


    He  told me a story. Then I asked him to tell it again, but with hand movements. That's all: I didn't say anything about increasing the volume, or varying the tone, or speed.

    You can see that moving his hands quite naturally led him to do those things.

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    12 min

About an ADEQUATE podcast

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A podcast about speaking and performance. It's ADEQUATE, because I can't do perfect.