Sound of Silence

This episode's guest is Claire Genkai.
Recorded in Bromley, London.

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This episode's guest is Mr Bingo.  Mr Bingo is an illustrator, artist and speaker who achieved legendary status on the back of his 2011 "Hate Mail" project in which he sent hand-illustrated offensive postcards to strangers.  His kickstarter campaign to fund the subsequent book offered rewards to donors including being trolled by Mr Bingo, Mr Bingo doing your washing up and getting shit-faced on a train with Mr Bingo.   His hobbies include Scrabble, collecting postcards with one person on them and taking photos of children who look like things they're standing next to.   Recorded in the Tea Building, Shoreditch, London.

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This episode's guest is Simone Lia.  Simone is an artist, writer and creator of a weekly comic strip in the Observer newspaper.  Her work is an ongoing investigation into what it means to be human and has been exhibited around the world in such places as Tate Britain and the Home from Home gallery in Munich.  She has written and illustrated a number of children's books as well as graphic novels such as "Please god find me a husband" and "Fluffy".  Recorded in Brockley, London.

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This episode's guest is Ade Adeniji.  Ade is the founder of Walk With Me, an organisation the specialises in exploring what it means to be a whole-hearted, undivided human being.  He is an ordained inter-faith minister and spiritual counsellor and is a co-found of The Quest, a social enterprise that offers workshops, retreats and coaching for gay men to help them explore a way of living that is free of constraint.   

Recorded in The Great Room, Royal Society of Arts, London.

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This episode's guest is Kay Scorah.  Kay is an aggressively polite community activist who specialises in the power of neighbourhood banter as a potent force for change.  She is a dancer, an improviser and stand-up comedian performing shows such as "Never Look in the Mirror When You're Dancing" which she took to Dublin and New York and in 2017 her project "Essex Road Recipes" brought improvised recipes from local independent food shops to the wider world.

Recorded in Green Park, London

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This episode's guest is Mark Shayler.  Mark is a founding partner of the Do Lectures, one half of the award winning eco-innovation agency Ape and just wasn't quite good enough to play rugby for Leicester Tigers.  Recorded in the chapel at House of St Barnabas, London.

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This episode's guests are Heather Urquhart and Joe Samuel.  Heather is a member of the Oliver award winning improvised musical showstoppers and Joe is an internationally renowned musical improv director who has worked with the likes of Colin Mochrie and Mike McShane.  Together they are authors of the book "Sing it!" and are directors of the improv troupe The Maydays.  Recorded in the Nursery Training Centre, London Bridge.

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This episode's guest is Jim Moir, also known as Vic Reeves.  Jim is a comedian, actor, artist and TV presenter who is best known for his partnership with Bob Mortimer in classic TV shows such as Big Night Out, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and Shooting Stars.  Jim's unique brand of art has been exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Strand Gallery and the Saatchi Gallery.  He has published a number of books, including him memoirs, had a number one single and had three bands that had several hundred names.  Recorded in Ashford, Kent.

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This episodes guest is Maria Koripas.  Maria is an international movement director and choreographer who has worked with many opera groups and companies around the world.  She is herself an opera singer and a dancer who has performed at the Royal Opera Covent Garden and the English National Opera at the London Colleseum.  Her latest work for the new opera "Women at Point Zero" has received critical acclaim.  Recorded at Woburn Walk, London.

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This episode's guest is Lord Victor Adebowale CBE. Victor is a social entrepreneur and Chief Executive of Turning Point, a social enterprise providing social care for 77,000 people. He is the founding chair of collaborate, a "do tank" working on the future of public services and in 2001 he became a cross-bench peer as part of the so called People's Peer initiative. And in 2011 he was a guest on Desert Island Discs. Recorded at Turning Point, Aldgate, London.

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