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Lockdown Conversations
Lockdown Conversations episodes
- Day 16: Work-life balance is tough in lockdown
Star journalist Rochelle Barrand chats to us about working from her living room, missing family, and how Zoom and Amazon are sponsoring her 2020 Christmas.
20 min - Day 15: We supplied milk to 1,000 Sheffield doorsteps a day
Why 'Our Cow Molly' family business was busier than ever in lockdown.
Eddie also talks about having extra hands on deck in the family business, with his older children home from school during lockdown, and how the farm’s new ‘vending machine room’ is a game-changer.
20 min - Day 14: Realities of running a corner shop in lockdown
Heather Tingle, postmistress at Flask End & Bradfield Post Office, talks about the realities of running a small shop, looking after a community, and supporting local suppliers throughout lockdown.
14 min - Day 13: I wrote Paddy Kenny's autobiography - and I'm missing my grandmother!
Sheffield United reporter Danny Hall on 'Lockdown Conversations'.
18 min - Day 12: How to maintain mental health in lockdown
Abhi Shetty - a consultant psychiatrist with Sheffield Health and Social Care – talks all things lockdown and mental health.
15 min - Day 11: I got the last plane out of San Diego when UK lockdown was announced
Mark Asquith – CEO and co-founder of podcast tech company Rebel Base Media - chats about abandoning his trolley in Walmart and jumping on the last flight home out of San Diego when UK lockdown was announced back in March.
33 min - Day 10: Bringing celebrations to homes in lockdown
Sarah McKeown – founder of ‘Just JimJams Sleepovers’ – chats to us about how her ‘hobby business’ has helped people to keep celebrating in lockdown.
The Sheffield mum-of-two started the year with a side business – that quickly became a full-time, booming business in lockdown, as families hired her to come and set up her themed sleepover tents in their homes and gardens.
16 min - Day 9: How I found love in lockdown!
In the midst of a global pandemic - and while we’ve all spent far too much of the year shut away at home - the mum-of-two, vlogger, health and wellbeing influencer, and belly-dancing beauty – originally from Pitsmoor – managed, against all the odds, to find happiness with her partner, Mike.
17 min - Day 8: A house renovation and two toddlers - in lockdown!
On today’s ‘Lockdown Conversations’ podcast, Katy Middleton, of Sheffield, chats to us about how she and her husband fared in lockdown, juggling a massive house renovation, and their two toddlers – who were aged just two and four at the time.
16 min - Day 7: Community is so important in lockdown
On today’s ‘Lockdown Conversations’ podcast, Charlotte Williams chats to us about how she kept community spirit going in lockdown – resulting in her being chosen for a Spirit of Barnsley award.
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About Lockdown Conversations
From the publisher's feed
'Lockdown Conversations' will be running each and every day throughout lockdown, sharing your Sheffield lockdown stories and experiences bought to you by The Sheffield Star and hosted by Nik Farah.