In this episode Debbie Steer shares her story of leaving Manchester and emigrating to Australia - almost on a whim.

She talks about starting from the bottom as an intern / production assistant and working her way up to become one of the most accomplished producers working in animation today.

This is special two-part episode which includes a separate conversation recorded a year earlier as we dive into more details about Debbie's journey.

In this episode, Liam Croker, lead singer of WINACHI, talks about:

- when he thinks new artists can call themselves professional musicians

In this episode, language consultant and film festival co-founder Paul Fletcher speaks to me from his home in (what some might describe as) the hippest part of East London!

I have such a strong interest in both of those topics - language and film festivals - I decided that I needed two separate episodes to hear Paul's stories.

So here in this first episode, we talk about how Paul co-founded (together with wife Liza) the Walthamstow International Film Festival eleven years ago.

In this episode my guest is an old friend, Georja Calvin Smith who is a TV journalist and producer currently based in Paris, France.

Here she talks about:

- her relationship with and favourite memories of Manchester