Chesney Hawkes is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. He started his career at the age of 19 when he appeared in the film Buddy's Song, which featured his best-known single "The One and Only", which topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks and reached the Top 10 in the United States. Follow-up single "I'm a Man Not a Boy" peaked at 27 in the UK, with subsequent singles including "What's Wrong With This Picture?", "Stay Away Baby Jane" (a collaboration with Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne) and "Another Fine Mess" also charting in the top 100.Aside from music, he appeared on Channel 4's The Games in 2005, winning a Bronze Medal. Hawkes appeared on the shows Hit Me Baby One More Time, Let's Dance For Comic Relief, and Sing If You Can. Hawkes also appeared in the musical Can't Smile Without You, as the role of Tony Lowiman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pure Zillion is a German rock band formed on Joshua Neckenig on vocals and drums, Emilian Zyrull on guitar, Fynn Gattermann on guitar and Jonas Tyb'l on bass. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For a long time, Judy Abualhassan has been a part of the creative community. She first realised she wanted to be a writer when she had a piece of paper and a pencil in her hands. She started painting and kept drawing till she felt ready to advance in her creative abilities. She began writing because she was inspired by the works of Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, and Edgar Allan Poe. She began writing short stories and unfinished novels when she was ten years old to satisfy her desire for motivation, but when she was twelve, her first poetry stanzas fully captivated her attention. The strength she observed while repairing the letters was something she cherished in order to fulfil her fundamental hunger. It also whispered the souls of Oscar, William, and Keats. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

HAPPINESS POWER – How to Unleash Your Power and Live a More Joyful Life, the third in a series of ‘Power’ books written by Robert Gill Jr., one of several pen names Ed McCormick uses via his publishing company, Teaching Press.During a pandemic when many are struggling emotionally and financially, the timing of the book wasn’t a coincidence.‘’My whole purpose was to give some hope to people because it’s such a dark time,’’ he said during a wide-ranging interview on Thursday, Feb. 4. “What can people do?’’McCormick explores the origins and definition of happiness and tries to provide readers with simple step-by-step suggestions on how to achieve it.The back of the book cover describes it as a “guidebook to the secrets of living a life of happiness and fulfilment.’’ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joey O'Connor is an award-winning author of 21 books and screenplays. Joey served for eighteen years as the founder and executive director of The Grove Center for the Arts & Media, a Southern California arts organization. He is also the founder of the new Congo Reform Association, a non-profit that uses story, film, and social media to help end the Congo Conflict. His most recent book is the historical fiction novel, Among Kings. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rachel Wheeley is a comedian and MC. She has written for Newsjack, The News Quiz and Listen Against. She has appeared on the BBC’s Podcast Radio Hour as well as Reasons to be Cheerful, Worst Foot Forward and Thank Book For podcasts. Rach makes a daily walking podcast, Walk the Pod. As heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds.Rach has chaired for the Royal Institution, performed for the British Film Institute’s ‘Comedy Genius’ tour and performed at Glastonbury festival with the Ugly Animal Preservation Society.In 2018 she was shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Award.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/tobyonathursday. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With the number of independent companies rapidly growing, and in order to assist this new start-up era, the less you deal with IT, the more you can focus on your business and succeed.Cyrus Consulting has the network, knowledge and masters Cloud technology that will suit your needs to save your time and money.We cover a wide range of industries, such as medical, sport, events and transport. Our clientele ranges from corporate to independent organizations, including private and public sector businesses.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/tobyonathursday. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Morris is a professional whistling artist. He performs as a soloist with orchestra, concert and brass band and has won the title of Grand Master World Whistling Champion at the global event in the USA.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/tobyonathursday. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Everybody proclaims disgust with the political system, yet the system continues to get more disgusting. Is the hard-nosed partisanship in politics today the result of a fl aw in the design of our system of government? Did our forefathers overlook something important when they were writing the Constitution?Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/tobyonathursday. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sir Vince Cable is a British politician who was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Twickenham from 1997 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills from 2010 to 2015.Cable studied Economics at Cambridge and Glasgow, before working as an economic adviser to the Government of Kenya in the 1960s, and for the Commonwealth Secretariat in the 1970s and 1980s. During this period, he also lectured in economics at Glasgow. He later served as Chief Economist for Shell in the 1990s. Initially active in the Labour Party, Cable became a Labour councillor in Glasgow in the 1970s, during which time he also served as a special adviser to then-Trade Secretary John Smith. In 1982, however, he defected to the newly formed Social Democratic Party, which later amalgamated with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats.After standing unsuccessfully for Parliament four times, Cable was elected for Twickenham in 1997. He was quickly appointed the Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman and was later elected as Deputy Leader in 2006. Cable resigned from both of these positions in May 2010 after being appointed as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the coalition government. He lost his seat in 2015, although later regained it in 2017. Cable subsequently stood in the leadership election to replace Tim Farron and was elected unopposed.In May 2019, Cable led the Liberal Democrats to their best national electoral performance since the 2010 election, gaining fifteen seats in the European Parliament election. This followed a campaign in which the party ran on an anti-Brexit platform. He subsequently announced his intention to retire from politics, and stood down as leader on 22 July 2019, upon the election of Jo Swinson; he stood down from Parliament at the 2019 general election.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/tobyonathursday. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.