The Wind Thieved Hat

This time I talk creativity with someone Stephen Fry has described as funny, frank, intelligent & enchantingly entertaining: Tourette’s Hero Jess Thom. Jess and I cover a lot of ground … from the neurodiversity movement, and how Jess ended up in the only seat in the house she wouldn’t be asked to leave - on the stage; to the crazy language generating machine that is Tourette’s.

You can find out more about Jess and what she’s up to, as well as read her brilliant blog at www.touretteshero.com.

I think I can safely say that this is the probably going to be the only ever episode of The Wind Thieved Hat to finish with the words ‘fuck a goat’.

Enjoy.

In this episode, recorded above a pub in Leyton, I chat to writer, artist and performer Rob Auton. He’s funny, frank and very honest about what creativity and performing mean to him. To Paddy Considine he’s ‘a very funny man’; to Vanessa Feltz he’s ‘just sad’. I’m with Paddy.

An honest and personal discussion about creativity and process with photographer Siân Davey. Despite having only been photographing for six years, since her early forties, Siân has built up an incredible body of work.

During our conversation, recorded in her garden in Devon, we discuss at length her project Looking for Alice, in which she came to make sense of her relationship with her daughter Alice, who has Down’s Syndrome, through photography.

Siân says that photography began for her when she stopped using her thinking mind and simply photographed her world.

In this inspiring and amusing conversation on creativity Richard talks to his old mate Tony Pipes. Their conversation ranges from hip hop, to ADHD, to how it was that Tony’s band the Space Monkeys killed the infamous Factory record label …