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  • CFP # 44 - Elizabeth Bananuka
    2023/01/12
    Elizabeth Bananuka is a PR professional and the founder of BME PR Pros and The Blueprint, both of which promote racial diversity in the PR and communications industry. She's delivered diversity workshops for agencies, lobbied industry publications to diversify their judging panels, speakers and commentators, and in 2019 she organised the first BME PR Pros conference. In our fascinating chat, she tells me why she decided to start BME PR Pros and The Blueprint, and how she made the transition from being a full-time employee to a freelancer and company founder. Get in touch: creativeforcespod@gmail.com / https://twitter.com/creativeforcesp
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    55 分
  • CFP #43 – Matt Sewell
    2023/01/05
    Matt Sewell is an artist, illustrator and author, best known for capturing the beauty of birds through his vivid watercolours. Over his career he's illustrated for The Guardian, The National Trust and The V&A, painted walls for Greenpeace, BBC’s Springwatch and Countryfile, and the RSPB, and his work has been exhibited in London, New York, Tokyo and Paris. In our conversation, Matt explains how he made the transition to being a full-time artist, why he loves heavy metal, and why he's so fascinated by drawing wildlife, particularly, of course, birds. Get in touch: creativeforcespod@gmail.com / https://twitter.com/creativeforcesp
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    57 分
  • CFP #42 – Blake Howard
    2022/12/29
    Blake Howard is a writer, movie critic and podcaster, and the founder of One Heat Minute Productions. After starting out making my favourite ever podcast, One Heat Minute, in 2017, Blake has gone on to produce hundreds of brilliant podcasts under the One Heat Minute Productions brand, on a bunch of movies, including Last of the Mohicans, Miami Vice and Zodiac. On top of all that, he's written about movies for the likes of Empire Magazine, SBS Movies and Dark Horizons, among others. In our chat, Blake tells me how he started out in podcasting and why he loves audio as a medium for film criticism, and how it's felt to meet his heroes through his shows. Get in touch: creativeforcespod@gmail.com / https://twitter.com/creativeforcesp
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    1 時間 11 分
  • CFP # 41 - Adam Gibbons
    2022/12/22

    Adam Gibbons, better known as Lack of Afro, is a musician, multi-instrumentalist and producer. His first studio album, Press On, was released by Freestyle Records in 2009 and he's since gone on to release six more, all of which are infused with his unique take on funk, soul, break beats and rap. In our chat, Adam tells me how he became inspired to produce every aspect of his records, why taking control of his music and releasing it on his own label became so important to him, and the role his gran played in his early musical development.

    Get in touch: creativeforcespod@gmail.com / https://twitter.com/creativeforcesp

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    55 分
  • CFP #40 – Oliver Jones
    2019/12/19

    In 2010 Oliver Jones founded Deer Shed Festival, a family-focused music, arts and science weekend camping festival in North Yorkshire, with his wife Kate. Since then, it's gone on to become one of the best family-friendly festivals in the UK and celebrated its tenth anniversary this year. Oliver spent more than a decade working in the music industry in Bristol and London, which included playing at Glastonbury and studio engineering for Massive Attack, and ended up working in all sorts of jobs before setting up Deer Shed. In this honest and funny interview, which was recorded in front of a live audience at the Podcast Social Club (which he also founded) in Thirsk, hear Oliver describe the ups and downs of setting up a festival, the highs and lows of the music business, and the joys of heading down a YouTube wormhole.

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    56 分
  • CFP #39 – Andrew McMillan
    2019/12/05

    Andrew McMillan is a poet and lecturer in creative writing. His debut collection, physical, published in 2015, won a host of prizes and was the first poetry collection to win the Guardian First Book Award. Earlier this year, it was voted one of the top 25 poetry books of the past 25 years by the Booksellers Association. Growing up in Darfield, south Yorkshire, Andrew spent his early years looking to go into politics, but switched to poetry in his late teens. In this interview hear Andrew describe why he decided politics wasn't right for him, how he dealt with the merry-go-round of awards ceremonies when his first book took off, and the influence his dad Ian had on his career.

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    1 時間 13 分
  • CFP #38 – Joanne Harris
    2019/11/21

    Joanne Harris is the author of more than a dozen novels, most famously Chocolat, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Born in Barnsley, Joanne started writing at an early age and worked as a teacher for over a decade before the success of Chocolat allowed her to become a full-time writer. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. In this interview, hear why Joanne never thought she could earn a living as an author until Chocolat's success, why her brief stint as an accountant was 'like being in a Terry Gilliam film', and how she and her bandmates have managed to stay together for more than three decades.

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    1 時間 30 分
  • CFP #37 – John Nicholson
    2019/07/04

    John Nicholson is a football writer, novelist and web entrepreneur. Born in Hull and raised in Stockton-on-Tees, John has enjoyed a wide-ranging career which includes setting up the online t-shirt businesses DJTees & TShirts365, submitting a weekly column for Football365 for almost two decades, and writing 16 novels. His 2010 book We Ate All The Pies was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and he’s been short-listed for Writer of the Year by the Football Supporters Federation. Along the way he’s lived in over 20 locations including The Black Isle in Scotland and Laguna Beach, California. In this brutally honest and funny interview, hear John talk about his love of rock and roll, vinyl records and Middlesbrough FC, how he fell into writing professionally by accident, and how he found out he is related to William the Conqueror.

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    1 時間 58 分