Sound of Silence

This episode's guest is Jo Hunter.  Jo is a change maker who is passionate about supporting people to make change in their lives through connecting with their creativity.  She is co-founder and CEO of 64 Million Artists a social enterprise that is a catalyst for the creativity of everyone in the UK.  She has worked in the circus, co-lead a programme to get every child in school singing every day and started life as a presenter of the legendary BBC TV series Why Don't You? and still aims to get people to turn off their TV set and do something less boring instead.  Recorded in Old Street, London.

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This episode's guest is Adam Wilder.  Adam is the founder of the Togetherness movement and a champion of intimacy and human connection.   He has been a stand-up comedian and trained as a professional fool.  In 2012 he started Shhhhhh dating a non-verbal speed dating company where dates take place in silence.  He is also the co-founder of Clowning in Nature, an organisation dedicated to immersive poetical idiocy.  Recorded at the House of Togetherness, London.

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This episode's guest is Vicki Amedume.  Vicki initially trained as a research scientist but entered the circus world in 1997.  She worked as an aerialist across many circus contexts from large scale outdoor spaces to traditional tented touring circuses, to intimate indoor venues.  She is a circus and aerial director who has worked with the likes of the RSC and National Theatre of Scotland and in 2006 founded Upswing, a charitable contemporary circus company that brings together people from different backgrounds to creative diverse and powerful temporary communities.  Recorded in the chapel at House of St Barnabus, London.

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This episode's guest is Ahir Shah.  Ahir is a stand-up comedian whose brand of philosophical inquiry, political vigour and sweet gags has seen him described as one of his generation's most eloquent voices.  He has twice been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award and has appeared on Live at the Apollo, Have I got News for You and Radio 4's the Now Show.  He is currently writing his new stand-up show "Dots" that will debut at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival.  Recorded in the chapel at House of St Barnabus, London.

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This episode's guest is Lucie Sheridan.  Lucie is an illustrator and screen-printer who is interested in making bold, direct and immediate marks.  She graduated from UWE with a first-class honours degree in illustration and her latest project "Rubbish Portraits" is a unique portable live art booth in which human beings can have their portrait painted in 4 minutes.  Recorded at Centrespace Studio, Bristol, UK.

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This episode's guest is Ben Bidwell (aka the Naked Professor).  Ben is a writer, speaker, coach and mental wellness advocate who is interested in stripping back the mask of masculinity.  He is co-host of the popular podcast "The Naked Professors" that invites well-known guests into a deep and vulnerable conversation about what's most important in life and how we actually feel.  Recorded in Clapham, London.

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This episode's guest is Pippa Evans.  Pippa is an Olivier award winning improviser, comedian and creative director of Perspectiva.  She has made numerous guest appearances on Radio 4 shows such as Just a Minute, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and The Now Show and performed silly songs on ITV's Tonight at the London Palladium.  Pippa has taught improvisation techniques to anyone from lawyers to footballers, co-founded a church for people who don't believe in God and is currently the voice of the crab on the Zoopla TV adverts.  Recorded at the House of St Barnabus, London.

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This episode's guest is Pete Spurrier.  Pete is an author, a publisher and an adventurer, best known for his hiking books of Hong Kong.  His own adventure began in 1991 when, equipped with a backpack and a tent, he boarded a ferry at Folkestone and 2.5 years later arrived at the South China Sea.  He followed the Silk Road from West to East during the collapse of the Soviet Union, supported himself by braiding hair, picking oranges and becoming a film extra and once spent a night in an abandoned village populated only by hand-sized Nephila spiders.  Recorded in Green Park, London.

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This episode's guest is Sophia Thakur.  Sophia is an internationally acclaimed poet and speaker who has performed around the world at prestigious places such as Glastonbury, TED and on MTV.  Her work is an intimate expression of the experience of growing up in London as a mixed heritage girl and explores themes of heartbreak, joy, fear and ambition.  Her first book "Somebody give this heart a pen" comes out in autumn 2019 and encourages young people to look outside themselves and explore their own heart's journey through poetry.  Recorded in the garden of House of St Barnabus, London.

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This episode's guest is Darryl Edwards. Darryl loves to play and as the founder of Primal Play he has played in many countries and taught many people about the mental and physical benefits of play.  He is a popular speaker who has been featured in a number of documentaries about health and wellbeing and is the author of several books including the best seller "Animal Moves."  Recorded in Ravenscourt Park, London.

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