THE TESSA WILLIAMS Podcast

This Book Could Save your Life charts the aftermath of the suicide of Ben's younger brother Sam who took his own life. 

Ben West is a pioneering campaigner,  who works  to help people suffering from mental health issues.

If your life has ever been touched by suicide - you will know the horrific sense of loss, and shock that goes  through you and your family and all those around them.

After reading Ben West's Book - "This Book Could Save your Life" I felt  inspired and motivated. 

I Had been hit by the full  tragedy earlier this year, when  I  had lost my nephew, Lucas,  who  took his own life in February 2022,

After speaking with young author Ben West, I have been endlessly inspired and felt better equipped to deal with this

"If one family can be spared the heartbreak of losing someone from suicide then I am happy my book can help make a  change"

THANK YOU BEN WEST!

Thanks to Floor Tom for sound production.

Carol Drinkwater is an Actor and Author whose career has spanned decades, from having parts in the iconic A Clockwork Orange to filming with Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman in an Awfully Big Adventure, Carol has entertained us from an early age.

Her seminal role was as Helen Herriot in the all time classic BBC series All Creatures Great and Small which made her a household name.

More recently Carol has carved out a successful career as a  best selling writer

She’s  also subject of the Channel 5 Series  “ A Year in Provence with Carol Drinkwater “ about life at her beautiful Home, an Olive Farm outside of Cannes where many of her books are set.

Tessa Williams chats with Carol about her beautiful life in the South of France and her inspirations for writing,

High in the hills of Gstaad where billionaires rustle their fortunes, sits a dreamlike fairy tale palace

beloved by jetsetters and the glitterati.

The Gstaad Palace has been entertaining the creme de la creme for over 100 years. 

Michael Jackson loved it so much when he visited with Elizabeth Taylor, he wanted to buy it. Roger Moore used to play cards there and The Pink Panther was filmed there. Every star has stayed  from Elton John to John Travolta.

Hear how every Guest is a King and every King A Guest from one of the finest independent Hoteliers in the world, 

Andrea Scherz, who has lived at Gstaad all his life and whose  own family have run the Hotel for over four generations has turned hospitality into an art form.

Thanks to Floor Tom for sound production 

Devon based author Tina Orr Munro spent several years working as a Crime Scene Investigator in her  20s

She dealt with all sorts of crimes and misdemeanours, now her first book , Breakneck Point has just been published

The book harnesses some of her  real life experiences  in the form of  CSI  Ally Dymond, also a single mother.

 Tina has  worked as a journalist and teacher.

She took her  now agents' Curtis Brown Creative online six-month novel writing course in 2017 

before delving into the world of fiction.

A great read - and a fascinating author, Breakneck Point is sure to deliver on adrenaline. Listen out for Tina's interesting tips on becoming a writer.

Thanks to Floor Tom for Sound production.

From working as a charity worker in London to being a Hollywood blockbusting screen writer is no

mean feat, yet author Sarah Alderson makes it sounds  extraordinarily straightforward.

 Hear her fascinating tale of how she travelled round the world, writing books from the beach, 

living in Bali with her family for 5 years and now based  in Los Angeles, 

If fairytales exist, then this one is real.

Her latest Book, The Weekend Away , published by Avon/ Harper Collins has been made into a Movie and is a Netflix Number One.

Listen to Sarah's top tips - including how the hardest thing of being a writer - is believing in yourself, and how one Hollywood insider told

her you gotta throw 1000 things at the wall before one sticks ! Dont give up !

Thank you Sarah for such an insightful interview, and thanks to Floor tom for sound production.

From supermodel travelling the globe from Australia to Japan , to being a Winner on 

Come Dine with Me,  hear how Highland born Sonia and her own Talent Agency became the star of

 a new Documentary programme

on BBC  called TALENT, all about the world of Movies, Acting and Modelling and the personalities that make it.

Thank you Floor Tom for Sound production.

She's been a Model, a PR for a Champagne Co, and ran her own Fashion Boutique in London, 

but how did Merryn Corcoran turn her life around to become a best selling Author?

Hear her fascinating tale of travel and tribulations and also how she worked with leading Actors Jack Davenport and as a film producer.

Thanks to Floor Tom for sound production.

Funniest stand up - Phil Kay is back on Tour and talks to Tessa Williams about random journeys on 

the Night Bus - CCTV show reels of shopping at the Co-op , and his love for writing, music and Travel.

Thanks to FLOORTOM for sound production.

With just a few days left of the Copt 26 conference in Glasgow, you wonder what difference it will have made on 

our Climate and what of our Energy Consumption ?

Hear Off Grid Pioneer Nick Rosen on ways anyone can start their Life off Grid - from solar panels, micro grids, 

conserving batteries and how most of life can be lived outdoors, with the right clothes and a bit of tarpaulin

Thanks to FLOOR TOM for sound production.

Coming soon to New York in late 2021, Osman Baig's "Fake News" has been a  sell-out show at the last Edinburgh Fringe, and listed as a Must-See by The Guardian and Telegraph,

 Fake News is the story of our time from journalist turned actor and playwright Osman.

Its the story of A budding young journalist who lands a dream internship at the country’s biggest online news organisation. There, he stumbles on an earth- shattering story and – against better judgement – decides to click publish.

There’s just one problem: the story is completely untrue.

Whatever you think about the news or those who make it, prepare to think again – in this one-man show that will force you to ask if there really is such a thing as bad publicity. If you think Fake News is over just because the Trump presidency is, maybe you were following the wrong story all along?

Hear how Osman started his acting journey how he got the idea for FAKE NEWS

and his plans for the future in this fascinating interview with Tessa Williams

THANKS TO FLOORTOM productions for Sound.