Here's a rare opportunity for you - a chance to sit in on a conversation between me and my therapist Amadis Cammell where we discuss absent fathers (his was cult film director Donald Cammell, creator of  my favourite film of all time, the proto-gangster movie Performance, starring Mick Jagger) spirituality, ancestry, music, rock and roll, beatniks, mythology and dance.  What more could you ask for?
Amadis is a very cultured, eloquent, deep and fascinating man who solved the problem for me of who I could possibly turn to for guidance having myself been a therapist for over two decades at that time.
Like myself his approach is unconventional, as is his heritage and his way of looking at the world as you might expect from someone from such bohemian roots and it was a huge pleasure for me to spend an afternoon bouncing ideas around and finding out more about the man to whom I regularly entrust my spiritual and psychological wellbeing.
Enjoy... 

https://inspiritway.com/therapy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_(film)

Title track composed by Jerry Hyde and Nick Van Gelder, produced by Nick Van Gelder, keyboards by Kenny Dickenson, brass by Noel Langley, vocals by Sian O'Gorman. 

In what could possibly become a new feature, and in keeping with an occasional theme of inviting you inside the therapy room, I'm releasing this extra show where I share some thoughts and reflections from my work and what gets brought to my practice in these weirdest of times - I'll be looking at  domestic violence, lockdown, creativity and the general madness that threatens to overwhelm us all, and hopefully breaking some taboos and myths...

Let me know if you'd like more of these glimpses into my personal and professional world via my website https://www.jerryhyde.co.uk/contact1

The amazing and deeply important David Attenborough film I mentioned is called A Life On Our Planet, further details can be found at https://attenboroughfilm.com/

The short film, How To Contain and Manage your Violence, can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq8ayXvyPIo&t=9s, and more information about Eckhart Tolle's book A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Earth

If you've ever read anything about the Vietnam War you'll have heard the name Tim Page. 
A near mythical, larger than life figure, known not just for his extraordinary art but also for his equally extraordinary, death defying personality and spirit. 
Having driven overland at the age of 17 to Southeast Asia, Page is the man upon whom Dennis Hopper based his character in Apocalypse Now; the man who lived, perhaps too closely, by Robert Capa's adage 'if your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough'; the man who lost many of his closest friends (most notably Errol Flynn's son Sean) and part of his own brain in that nightmarish conflict, of whom Michael Herr wrote in his seminal book Dispatches as being 'the most extravagant of the wigged-out crazies running around Vietnam.'  
Wounded four times, declared dead on at least one occasion, Page lived on despite his significant injuries both psychological and physical to document the likes of Hunter S. Thompson and Jim Morrison, working for Rolling Stone magazine, writing numerous books and featuring in several documentaries.
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to have Tim Page on this show - I urge you to forgive the Whatsapp sound quality as he talks with me from his home in Australia and take the time to soak up the wisdom, emotion and lifeforce of a true, living legend. 

• Website - http://www.timpage.com.au/ 
• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Page_(photographer)      
• Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.co.uk/s00cnj/tim-page-photography/?autologin=true
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/timpagephoto/?hl=en
• Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tim-Page/e/B000AP5PVO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1602537395&sr=1-3

Title track composed by Jerry Hyde and Nick Van Gelder, produced by Nick Van Gelder, keyboards by Kenny Dickenson, brass by Noel Langley, vocals by Sian O'Gorman. 

It's one thing to go to war with a gun in your hand, a whole other thing to go armed only with a camera or a notepad.  My own great grandfather was a stretcher bearer in WW1, and I've always been a huge admirer of those brave enough to go into battle with the purpose of helping others, and my next guest, James Brabazon, went with the intention of bringing the truth to those of us fortunate enough never to have to face such horrors.
Name any war in the last 30 years and the chances are James covered it, perhaps most notably  in Liberia where he gave fellow war photographer Tim Hetherington his first chance to cover conflict.  James' poignant Oscar nominated homage to Tim - Which Way Is The Front Line From Here -  made following his friend's death in Libya is what first drew me to his work, and this episode covers many of his experiences in war, his relationship with Tim Hetherington, the impact of his work on his psyche, the influence our veteran grandfathers had on us both and his work as an author.
It's not easy listening but it's never macho and always sensitive and it was an honour to spend some time with this rare man who truly embodies the word integrity, something that is no longer a given in journalism.
His new thriller Arkhangel is out now.

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/james_brabazon
• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brabazon
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/james_brabazon/?hl=en
• Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/James-Brabazon/e/B004O8TF5U?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1602776330&sr=8-1 
• IMDb - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1766370/
• Carry On Up The Khyber - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaUEwiz3MzM

Title track composed by Jerry Hyde and Nick Van Gelder, produced by Nick Van Gelder, keyboards by Kenny Dickenson, brass by Noel Langley, vocals by Sian O'Gorman. 

The Who, Jimi Hendrix, the Jefferson Airplane, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Hunter S Thompson, the DEA, the FBI, Her Majesty's Prison Service and The Rolling Stones all in 90 minutes?  
All in one lifetime?  
How can this be possible?
I don't know, but Kevin Barron is here to tell you how he lived through some of the wildest and most colourful times in all human history and lived to tell some very exotic tales...
One of a kind, a true raconteur, a bon viveur and a man of wealth (at least spiritual) and taste - you may not have heard of him, but you certainly won't forget him.

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eleusis2/

Title track composed by Jerry Hyde and Nick Van Gelder, produced by Nick Van Gelder, keyboards by Kenny Dickenson, brass by Noel Langley, vocals by Sian O'Gorman. 

Philippa Perry is the best selling author of Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy, How To Stay Sane: The School of Life and The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did).  
A respected psychotherapist, journalist and TV presenter, she is married to the artist Grayson Perry.
A dear old friend and colleague, I thoroughly enjoyed spending the morning with just her and her cat Kevin, with a special guest appearance by her cleaner Lilly, and the resulting show gives you a rare glimpse of what happens when two shrinks get together for a good, old fashioned natter.  
She's a laugh, she's clever and she's very wise - enjoy.  

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/Philippa_Perry
• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Perry
• Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philippa-Perry

Title track composed by Jerry Hyde and Nick Van Gelder, produced by Nick Van Gelder, keyboards by Kenny Dickenson, brass by Noel Langley, vocals by Sian O'Gorman. 

Mai Hua is the French Vietnamese film director of Les Rivieres and Meetings With Remarkable Men (soon to be released under the new title Make Me A Man).  
An established and highly influential beauty blogger, colour designer, artist and feminist author, she also happens to be my partner, confidante, collaborator and muse.
Here's a little glimpse into an average evening with me and her on my couch where we discuss her work, relational conflict, how French teenagers are fighting back against institutional sexism and the difference between nonces and nuns. 

• Blog  - http://www.maihua.fr/en/ 
• Facebook fan page - https://www.facebook.com/maihua.fr
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mai_hua/?hl=en
• Les Rivieres - http://lesrivieres.maihua.fr/

Title track composed by Jerry Hyde and Nick Van Gelder, produced by Nick Van Gelder, keyboards by Kenny Dickenson, brass by Noel Langley, vocals by Sian O'Gorman. 

Sam Roddick - fearless truth seeker and enemy of all things corrupt, I can't think of a better first ever guest to launch this podcast. Recorded in her garden on the cusp of lockdown join us as we discuss a multitude of subjects from Covid, sex, drugs, the food chain, misogyny, government and the perversion of power...  
Sam comes from good knife-thrower stock, the daughter of Body Shop guru Anita Roddick, Sam went a step further to create the world's first ever ethical sex shop, Coco de Mer.  If you don't know Sam and her radical, refreshing and acutely enlightened feminist philosophy, make yourself a cuppa, turn your phone off and cancel everything for the next 90 minutes - you're in for something really special.

• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Roddick
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/samroddick

Title track composed by Jerry Hyde and Nick Van Gelder, produced by Nick Van Gelder, keyboards by Kenny Dickenson, brass by Noel Langley, vocals by Sian O'Gorman.