Nigel is a former chief learning officer and now teaches, consults and writes books on leadership, learning and people development. Martin is a journalist, editor, curator and publisher.
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Nigel Write DELIVERS proof that "The gift is in the giving and the reciprocity is in the recipient paying it forward" Each week this writer entrepreneur uses TRANSPARENCY as a weapon of poetic justice against CONVENIENT TRUTH revealing what works for those who seek self-actualization and agree that IGNORANCE SERVES NO ONE. Join this fellow rabble-rouser on a journey to LEARN TEACH BUILD GROW TOGETHER. Whatever you BELIEVE will manifest. If you are reading, DO NOT SEE THIS AS COINCIDENCE and ...
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Going beyond the book with a wide range of authors to discover the story behind the books we love.
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Are you struggling to turn your idea into a great documentary story? This podcast takes you through the steps that world-class documentary makers use to create compelling documentaries from real-life ideas. Whether it's for Netflix, The BBC, or Amazon, or you are just starting out, great storytelling is what your audience craves - it's the foundation of every successful documentary. Award-winning documentary maker Nigel Levy goes behind the scenes to discuss the key story skills behind some ...
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Nigel Warburton interviews a range of authors about their books about thinking
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Interesting Conversations with Interesting People featuring Interviews with Award Winning Authors, Therapists, Relationship/Life Coaches and a wide variety of people with intriguing stories to share. All Podcasts Available @ Website: https://www.authornigelbecklespodcasts.com/ Thanks
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THE BIBLIO FILE is a podcast about "the book," and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging, long-form conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and many others inside the book trade and out - from writer to reader.
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STOP WASTING TIME Done Beats Perfect Digital Marketing Tips WRITERS VOICE Paper Bag Publishing is social media made simple. How to convert content in conversation and deliver value in 10 minutes or less? You found us at @writevoice so STOP GUESSING what the gurus are doing and START WINNING with the right answers. PAPER BAG PODCAST provides actionable advice for skeptical small business owners and DIY Local Brands who are looking for digital marketing question and answer support without a se ...
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Stranger Than... a series of 15 non-fiction classics, coming to a bookseller near you. To mark the collection?s launch, Perennial, Foyles and 5th Estate organised a collaborative day-long celebration, where a host of published writers and book industry folk discussed how non-fiction works, how to write non-fiction and why the format is so successful.
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Where Music Does The Talking
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This photography podcast takes you ‘beyond the lens,’ exploring the arts, travel, conservation, entrepreneurship, creative culture, and more through deep-dive interviews with some of the world's most influential and inspiring people. Host Richard Bernabe is a renowned photographer, intrepid world traveller, explorer, author, and champion of wildlife and endangered species. He’s been hailed as one of the "Top 30 Influential Photographers on the Web" by the Huffington Post and Influence Digest ...
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Brought to you by IBM Design, and hosted by Nigel Prentice, It’s about time, explores the experiences that unite us as creatives and divide us by race across the design industry so that together we can make sense of where we are, how we got here, and what we’re going to do about it.
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We’ve spent years writing screenplays that nobody wanted to make into reality, we couldn’t even find anyone to read them! So we decided to review amateur screenplays to figure out what makes a bad screenplay. Hopefully by the end of this journey we’ll be able to write a good one. Probably not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Willie Nelson’s granddaughter, Raelyn Nelson, and her bandmate/producer, Jonathan Bright interview top comedians about the similarities and differences between the comedy and music “business”. Road stories, bad gigs, shady promoters/etc, you get it all with Music Is Funny.
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SRE LIVE is an interview series of creators who stand out. From video producers to YouTubers and journalists. You’ll understand what makes their style unique, how they think, how they produce. You'll get to observe their mindset...and that is much more than a conventional “how to” advice.
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75. Nigel Danson: Lessons From a Self-Imposed Photographic Exile to Luskentyre, Simplicity, and Guiding Principles for Making Landscape Images
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Nigel Danson is a renowned landscape photographer and YouTube creator from the United Kingdom. Best known for his atmospheric images that capture the rugged beauty and drama of Great Britain and across the world, Danson’s work showcases his commitment to conservation and environmental awareness. His work often emphasizes the fleeting and powerful m…
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In this episode, Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins take a look at MIT Sloan Management Review research that shows only 51% of the top team can list their organisation's top three priorities, dropping to 13% of frontline supervisors.Από τον From Scratch
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Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, the creative minds behind "Superman, the Documentary," shed light on their inventive storytelling techniques and the profound life of Christopher Reeve. Together, we explore their decision to weave Reeve's action-packed past with his advocacy-driven present, crafting a narrative that is as compelling as it is emotion…
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On Boxing Day 2022, whilst in Rome, Hanif Kureishi fell after feeling faint. When he awoke, he realised he couldn't move his limbs, and life changed profoundly for him and those around him. What hadn't changed was his desire to write, and Shattered brings together the blogs that he began just a few days after that accident. We joined him at home to…
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After the completion of her seasonal quartet, readers will have been wondering where Ali Smith might take us next and it shouldn't be a surprise that a writer who had so successfully captured our present moment should seek to extend her gaze just a little further into an all too imaginable near future. Gliff forms the first part of a two book seque…
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74. Peter Cavanagh: New Book ‘How Birds Fly’ and the Science, Art, Evolution, Photography of Avian Flight
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Peter Cavanagh is a wildlife photographer who has been taking pictures since he was a boy in England. Peter's migration to the photography and study of bird flight evolved from his study of flight aerodynamics for aircraft pilot qualifications; his professional training in anatomy, biomechanics, and high-speed photography; and his love of nature an…
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Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins reflect on the need for broader perspectives on AI so that learning teams can be a part of business transformation, not just learning transformation.Από τον From Scratch
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From his mega-selling debut, to viral superstardom and a career-renaissance that continues to this day, Rick Astley’s life has always been filed with music. We sat down to speak with him about first singles, making tea for Pete Waterman and why, despite the hardships, gratitude is so important.
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Siegfried Lokatis is a retired professor of book history, and former head of the University of Leipzig's Institute for Communication and Media Studies. He is the author of Book Covers of the GDR and is currently working on a history of the S. Fischer publishing house, due out in 2026. We met in Leipzig recently where Siegfried treated me to a tou…
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Sometimes you want a second helping, and so it is with Stanley Tucci. After speaking with him about his memoir Taste, we were delighted to chat again about his new book, What I Ate In One Year (and related thoughts). Not just a chance to share some of his favorite food, but also the importance of friends, family, and making the most of every moment…
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73. Chase Jarvis: Founder of CreativeLive, Photographer, Entrepreneur, and Best-Selling Author on Never Playing It Safe
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Chase Jarvis is an award-winning artist, serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, and one of the most influential photographers of the past decade. He has created campaigns for Apple, Nike, Red Bull and dozens of other Fortune 100 brands. Chase has had fine art shows in the USA, Europe, and the Middle East, was a contributor to the Pulitzer-Prize …
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Since winning the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2015 with his debut picture book, Blown Away, we have been big fans of the work of Rob Biddulph. So when the chance came to visit his studio and find out more about not only his latest book, I Follow The Fox, but also about his process and passions, we leapt at the chance. Featuring foxes, imag…
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With a narrative that stretches over seven decades, the new novel from Alan Hollinghurst doesn’t just give us the intimate details of a man’s life, but allows us to see the shifting tectonics of Britain’s social and political landscape from the 1960s to the present day. We sat down with the author to discuss boarding schools, an actor’s life, and t…
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Following her bestselling classic, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale now transports the reader to 1950s Britain and the murders at Rillington Place, in The Peepshow. We spoke with her about using her journalistic skills to uncover new theories, the drive to understand the motivations of murderous men, and how individual cases can serv…
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72. Sam Abell: Legendary National Geographic Photographer on Building an Image, Micro Composition, Optical Vibration, and Staying Power
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Sam Abell is one of America's most influential and celebrated documentary photographers, best known for his rich, expressive, color photo-essays for National Geographic magazine where he made images for more than 30 years. Known as the ‘Quiet Photographer” Sam Abell has defined his career with patience, deliberation, and making carefully crafted im…
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The ability to appreciate even the smallest moments of joy in our busy lives can be the difference between just another day and a truly memorable one. This spirit infuses the latest book from Nigel Slater, a collection of meditative moments that touch all of our senses so we sat down with him to talk about the perfection of plain crisps, the art of…
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Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss pwc's Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2024.Από τον From Scratch
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71. Melissa Groo: Empathetic Wildlife and Conservation Photography, Career Mindsets, Ethics, Integrity, and the Disgrace of Wildlife Game Farms
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Melissa Groo is an American conservation photographer and writer. She is a Sony Artisan of Imagery, an Associate Fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers, an advisor to the National Audubon Society on photography content and ethics, and a contributing editor to Audubon magazine. Her work has also appeared on the covers of …
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When you have a world-renowned portraitist like Joe Lycett in the building, you get easels, paints and canvas out and indulge in a bit of dual-portraiture. We sat down with the mischievous comedian to discuss the unfinished genius of Truss’s premiership, where his activism comes from and why even those of us who think we can’t paint, actually can*.…
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The Iranian Embassy siege of 1980 was one of those ‘where were you when it happened?’ moments, but beyond the explosive live footage of the SAS assault that ended things, what of the previous six days of tense standoff and the lives of the 26 hostages and the 6 armed men who held them? Ben Macintyre writes narrative history like no-one else and aft…
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The sound of change jangling in our pockets may be less familiar in these days of contactless payment, but we all know how important money can feel in our lives. But might it actually have shaped human history? From the very beginnings of money as a concept, through ideas like credit, forecasting, and cryptocurrency, to its connections to literary …
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70. Bill Wallauer: Cinematographer and Filmmaker for the Jane Goodall Institute on the Chimpanzees of Gombe National Park
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Bill Wallauer is a cinematographer and filmmaker with the Jane Goodall Institute. He’s also a public speaker, scientific advisor and lover of chimpanzees and all wildlife across the globe. Bill joined the Jane Goodall Institute's Gombe Stream Research Center in 1989 while on assignment for the U.S. Peace Corps in southern Tanzania. As a cinematogra…
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After creating the irresistible anti-hero Grace in How To Kill Your Family, Bella Mackie returns with more familial dysfunction, more unlikeable characters and, yes, more murder in What A Way To Go. We sat down to discuss the lives of the super wealthy, her fascination with the appeal of true crime, and finding humour in the darkest of places.…
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Clare Chambers knows how to hook readers, with her previous novel, Small Pleasures, winning The British Book Awards 2022 Pageturner Book of the Year. She looks set to do it all over again with her latest, Shy Creatures, which unearths the story of a mute patient in a psychiatric hospital. We sat down to talk about factual inspiration, the influence…
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Richard Charkin on Lessons Learned from 50 Years in Book Publishing
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Richard Charkin has held senior posts at many major, and some minor, publishing houses in the U.K. over the past 50 years, including: Harrap, OUP, Pergamon Press, Reed Elsevier, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and Mensch Publishing. He is former President of The Book Society, the International Publishers Association and the UK Publishers Association. His bo…
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69. The Aurora Episode with Vincent Ledvina: The Art and Science of the Northern Lights, Auroral Beads, Substorm Sequences, Predictions, Photography
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Vincent Ledvina, AKA “The Aurora Guy,” is a Space Physics Ph.D. student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a night sky photographer, aurora fanatic, science communicator, and educator living in Fairbanks, Alaska. Vincent, originally from Minnesota, has been a photographer since the age of 16. He earned his B.S in Physics from the University of …
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After introducing us to legal dogsbody Gary Thorn in The Satsuma Complex, comedian Bob Mortimer returns with its sequel, The Hotel Avocado. We sat down with a nice slice of Battenberg cake to discuss death row meals, memories of his days as a South London solicitor and the correct ratio of marzipan to cake.…
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The last time I ran into renowned book scholar Jonathan Rose (at a SHARP conference) he mentioned that he was doing some work on Playboy magazine. ‘Way more women readers than you’d expect!’ he told me. Rose is an accomplished author. His groundbreaking and award-winning book, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, first published in…
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241: From Scratch #241 Nigel reflects on the process of writing his new book on organizational learning
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Martin Couzins asks Dr Nigel Paine to reflect on the process of writing his latest book, The Great Reset: Unlocking the Power of Organizational Learning. Pre order here.Από τον From Scratch
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68. Sean Collins and Dan Modern Interview Richard Bernabe: When Seals Attack, Wildlife Photography, Podcasting, and More
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Sean Collins and Dan Modern interview Richard Bernabe on the Crafted Process Podcast about Richard's most recent trip to Namibia where he was attacked and bitten by a fur seal, wildlife photography, travel, managing a photography business, podcasting, and much more. This episode is co-published on the Crafted Process Podcast, which brings new creat…
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67. Malin Fezehai: Visual Journalist and Photographer Inspired by People, Refugees, Survivors, and Women Surfers of the World
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Malin Fezehai is an Eritrean-Swedish New York-based photographer, filmmaker, and visual journalist. She's worked in more than forty countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and America. In addition to being a National Geographic Explorer, she's also worked for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other media organizations around the…
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Ferdia Lennon’s riotously funny debut disarms from the very first page. With a setting of Syracuse in 412 BC but a very modern Irish vernacular, readers will enjoy every minute they spend with best friends Gelon and Lampo as they seek to stage a performance of Euripides with a group of captured Athenian soldiers. We spoke with him about finding the…
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Martin Couzins and Dr Nigel Paine review Cache's State of AI report.Από τον From Scratch
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Michael Lista is an investigative journalist, essayist and poet who lives in Toronto. I’ve followed his career now for some fifteen years. He’s written true crime for the better part of a decade. His story “The Sting” is being adapted by Adam Perlman, Robert Downey Jr., and Team Downey, into a television series for Apple TV+. We talk here about Mic…
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66. Frans Lanting: Working with National Geographic, A Passion for Wildlife, Personal Vision, and Conservation Photography
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Photographer Frans Lanting has spent decades capturing the Earth’s diverse wildlife and landscapes, weaving a personal visual narrative that highlights both the beauty and the fragility of our planet. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, his work has led him across the globe, from the lush rainforests of the Amazon to the stark wilderness of Anta…
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Chris Whitaker's previous novel, We Begin At The End, was a multi-award-winning smash with readers, who fell in love with its characters and pressed copies on friends so as to have someone to discuss it with. He’s done it again with All The Colours of the Dark, which again features characters that will get under your skin, a plot so propulsive the …
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In this episode Nigel and Martin explain what we mean by fieldwork and why it should be a part of how you work.Από τον From Scratch
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Anthony Brightly, co-founder of the Reggae group Black Slate, discusses becoming involved with the music industry, having the hits ‘Sticks Man’ & ‘Amigo’, backing several legendary artists live in concert, including Dennis Brown, managing an acclaimed sound system, creating the ‘Sir George’ record label, producing hugely popular Lovers Rock tracks,…
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Ian Birch is "former editorial director of Hearst UK and Emap. He began his magazine career in the late 1970s as a reporter for Melody Maker before moving to Smash Hits where he was assistant editor for three years. His first launch and editorship came in the late 1980s with Sky Magazine. At Hearst UK he was publisher of Company, Esquire and Harper…
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Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024 Shortlist
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The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize is powered by our brilliant booksellers, whose keen eye for the most exciting new talent makes it a thrilling short list every year. In this third year, we spoke with authors from around the globe about having the support of booksellers, the release of seeing years of work finally realised and how specificity in …
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Hot from winning the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024, we spoke with V. V. Ganeshananthan about her novel, Brotherless Night, which took over 15 years to complete. Exhaustive research, an incendiary setting, and characters that capture your heart. We spoke with her about the politics of civil war, the time it takes to write and the support you need a…
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65. Jay Silverman: Award-Winning Director on His New Movie 'Camera' and the Intersection of Photography and Filmmaking
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Jay Silverman is an award winning director, producer, filmmaker, writer, and photographer from Santa Monica, California. Jay’s films have been awarded numerous Best Feature and Audience Awards at festivals across the country, along with being honored with Belding, Telly, Promax, and Lucy Awards for his commercial work. In addition, he has also been…
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The Storytelling behind Netflix's hits F1:Drive to Survive and Meerkats with Sir David Attenborough - a Masterclass
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What happens when your documentary feels flat and unengaging, despite all your hard work? This was the main question behind a Masterclass I gave at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers. We look at why a lack of storytelling craft and mentorship in the industry often leads to issues with storytelling, and debunk the myth that extensiv…
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64. George Nobechi: The Concept of Nukumori and the Virtues of Patience, Quietude, and Photographing Everyday Life
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George Nobechi is a Japanese-Canadian photographer living in Nagano, Japan. His work is often described as evoking solitude, duality and longing. Being bicultural, he is simultaneously an insider and outsider in both Eastern and Western cultures and this is reflected in his sensibility and vision. Topics Richard and George discuss: • Japanese and C…
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Psychotherapist, Counsellor & Author Annz Zuridiscusses the motivation to write her first book, challenges faced by Black people in the UK, the importance of finding creative outlets for feelings of frustration, hosting an online radio show highlighting a variety of issues, plans for the future and much more… Annz Info: Book @Amazon The Urban Narra…
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238: From Scratch #238 A look at the book The Social Brain - The Psychology of Successful Groups
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Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins review the book The Social Brain - The Psychology of Successful Groups.Από τον From Scratch
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RIK EMMETT On Collaborating With ALEX LIFESON & JAMES LABRIE: “That Was Probably One Of The Greatest Days In The Studio In My Life”
In the realm of hard rock and guitar virtuosity, few names resonate as profoundly as Rik Emmett. Renowned for his masterful fretwork and distinctive vocals, Emmett has left an indelible mark on the music world through his solo career and tenure with the iconic Canadian rock band Triumph. Recently, he unveiled “Diamonds – The Best of the Hard Rock Y…
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The concept of following Brooklyn with a sequel took even the author by surprise, but after 15 years the story of Eilis continues in Long Island. We spoke with Colm Tóibín about his rigorous approach to avoiding the tedious, his long working relationship with editor Mary Mount and his connection to his hometown Enniscorthy in County Wexford, Irelan…
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63. Guy Tal: Landscape Photography, Self-Expression, Flow, Creativity, Artistic Style, and Being Extraordinary
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Guy Tal is an American nature and landscape photographer, the author of several books, a regular contributor to photography publications such as LensWork and On Landscape, a prolific blogger, and educator. He resides in Torrey, Utah. Guy primarily photographs and writes about the Colorado Plateau in the American Southwest. He describes himself as a…
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JOEY VERA Talks ARMORED SAINT’s Recent Tour, Upcoming New Single, And Discusses Likelihood Of FATES WARNING Touring
As the bassist for Armored Saint and Fates Warning, Joey Vera has carved a unique legacy in the genre, spanning decades of uncompromising musicianship and reliable low-end on both these bands. With Armored Saint, he’s been an integral force behind the band’s dynamic blend of power, melody, and raw energy, while his tenure with Fates Warning has see…
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