Team Talk

Team Talk

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Team Talk episodes

  • 11. Keeping your relationship on track when you’re married to the military

    Louise from Little Troopers talks to Verity about becoming a military spouse and adapting to forces life.

    Chris Leahy, a senior social work practitioner from British Forces Cyprus, explains how to maintain a happy relationship and why counselling might be useful for some couples.
    We celebrate a Little Victory with Izzy who developed a very rare inflammatory disease just months before starting secondary school.
    And there’s more from Mark “Billy” Billingham from SAS: Who Dares Wins. This time he talks about how BFBS kept his morale up as a young soldier in Belize.
    Team Talk is presented by Charlie Fife and Jill Misson and is a TBI Media production for BFBS.

    30 min
  • 12. A sense of belonging: from forces daughter to forces wife

    Louise from Little Troopers talks to Ceri about growing up as a child in the forces to becoming a military wife.

    Chris Leahy, a senior social work practitioner from British Forces Cyprus, talks about how to prepare your children for an overseas posting.
    We celebrate a Little Victory with Delilah who copes brilliantly while her dad is deployed on his submarine.
    And there’s more from WO1 Glenn Haughton OBE, who talks about negative social media and how it’s affected his mental health.
    Team Talk is presented by Charlie Fife and Jill Misson and is a TBI Media production for BFBS.

    30 min
  • 13. Engaged, married, deployed

    Louise from Little Troopers talks to Sian who explains how she coped when her Royal Navy husband set sail the day after their wedding.

    Sara Scott, a trustee from the Military Wives Choir, explains why the choirs are about so much more than just singing.
    We celebrate a Little Victory with Mano in Brunei who cycled 500 km in South Korea to raise money for SSAFA.
    And there’s more from soldier and magician Lance Corporal Richard Jones who talks about his work with the military charity Scotty’s Little Soldiers.
    Team Talk is presented by Charlie Fife and Jill Misson and is a TBI Media production for BFBS.

    30 min
  • 14. Job worries, rainbow babies and Cassidy Little’s lockdown

    Employment anxiety. Many people have lost their jobs during the Coronavirus pandemic but if you’re a former member of the armed forces and have job worries, can you re-join the services? Nicky Smith speaks to Squadron Leader Gordon Ferguson who has re-joined the RAF after going on furlough from his civilian job at Heathrow Airport. Flight Lieutenant Chris Thornton from RAF Cranwell explains how it’s done.

    Chris Keen talks to military spouse Emma Henderson who founded Project Wingman, a way of supporting NHS workers during the crisis.
    In Family Time Louise from Little Troopers talks to army wife Emma about her experience giving birth during the pandemic and Jill talks to Katy McGarry from Mum Born Every Minute.
    Former Royal Marine and actor Cassidy Little talks about his lockdown experience.
    Team Talk is presented by Charlie Fife and Jill Misson and is a TBI Media production for BFBS with support from The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust.

    30 min
  • 15. Coronavirus and the Gurkhas, one cadet’s lockdown victory and Laura Aikman from Bluestone 42

    What’s life been like for Gurkha soldiers and their families during the pandemic? Binod Khadka from BFBS Gurkha Radio brings us stories from Brunei, the UK and Nepal.

    Adam Powney talks to Cadet Ben Hall who spent lockdown by building and then sleeping in an Anderson shelter in his garden to raise money for his local Air Ambulance Service.
    Louise Fetigan from Little Troopers talks to forces teenager Megan about the difficulties of family life in the RAF and starting a podcast during lockdown.
    Jill talks to Jenna Richardson the employment and training specialist at the Army Families Federation about help for forces school-leavers planning their next steps.
    Chris Keen talks to actress Laura Aikman from Bluestone 42 about her life in lockdown.
    Team Talk is presented by Charlie Fife and Jill Misson and is a TBI Media production with support from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust for BFBS.

    30 min
  • 17. Pandemic support from military spouses, extended deployment and lockdown baking

    Jill Misson explores the many ways in which military spouses have been getting through the pandemic, together.

    Amy Casey talks to army veteran Douglas Morgan about how he lifted morale in his local community by volunteering as a gardener at a care home.
    Louise Fetigan from Little Troopers talks to Jayne who shares the heartache of getting through her husband’s extended deployment during lockdown.
    Alison Baverstock from Reading Force tells Jill about the extra work the charity has been doing for forces families.
    And Jess Bracey talks to the Queen of military cooking Beca Lyne-Perkis about her lockdown bakes.
    Team Talk is presented by Charlie Fife and Jill Misson and is a TBI Media production for BFBS with support from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust.

    30 min
  • 18. Stress, anxiety and loneliness: mental health in a pandemic

    How are forces charities helping people with mental health issues during the coronavirus pandemic? Jill Misson’s been finding out and hears from one serviceman who got help.

    11 year old Imogen tells Amy Casey about winning a Pride of Britain Lockdown Award for her Keepie Uppie Challenge.
    Louise from Little Troopers talks to Edd, a military spouse from a same-sex couple about life behind the wire during lockdown.
    Sergeant Alastair Smith-Weston is from the Army LGBT+ Network and explains the support it can offer.
    And Chris Keen talks to TV presenter Chris Kamara about how he got through lockdown.
    Team Talk is presented by Charlie Fife and Jill Misson and is a TBI Media production for BFBS with support from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust.

    30 min
  • 19. Isolation in The Falklands, a home school hero and former SAS soldier Jay Morton

    Charlie Fife talks to the military community in The Falkland Islands about what lockdown has been like in one of the most isolated places in the world.

    Adam Powney talks to a veteran who got kids out in the fresh air this summer, by making sure the annual Hells Fells adventure training festival went ahead.
    Louise from Little Troopers talks to army wife Lianne and her teenage daughter Mai about how they tackled home-schooling during lockdown.
    Louise Briggs from the RAF Families Federation explains how difficult missing school has been for some forces families.
    And Jess Bracey talks to SAS: Who Dares Wins star Jay Morton.
    Team Talk is presented by Charlie Fife and Jill Misson and is a TBI Media production for BFBS with support from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust.

    30 min

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