It's been the most amazing few months! As well as writing and performing and producing the podcast, I've been performing with Liverpool poets at the Unity Theatre, with a Drag Cabaret at the Everyman Bistro, Sound City and Festival of the Third Summ…
There is something very special about the conversations we enjoy with those much older, or much younger than ourselves. I remember when I was in my late teens and early twenties, my closest friends were people in their forties and fifties. It …
To season, or not to season—that is indeed a question. Essential in cooking, and what is a podcast audio drama if it's not a form of cooking! In this case, to be honest, I needed to take a break so I took an executive decision on 17th Decemb…
How did I get to be so busy? It’s a mystery. The past couple of months has been hectic, almost frantic, with teaching and performing work, online events—symposia, lectures and spoken word performances. I’m exhausted! Plus writing and…
Always on the lookout for ways to spread the word, and create a community around the programme, it occurred to me to check that it could be accessed via the Amazon Echo device, otherwise known as Alexa. So I tried. I asked very nicely, I aske…
We do a lot of that these days—catching up. Friends, colleagues, family members we haven’t seen for a while. For me, this is now starting to spill over into a new phase, that of meeting up with people I’ve met on Zoom, who are now avail…
In case you are wondering, the answer is… It’s not about the answer, it’s about the conversation that the question incites. I have this conversation a lot. It starts with somebody seeing the question, and saying something like &…
When I returned to Australia in 1997, after an absence of 30 years, the first acting job I was offered came from a Brisbane based company, Trocadero Productions. I had been impressed by their previous production, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus…
Here’s a Doodle Poll for you to play with. You can tick whichever character—as many as you like—you would like to hear more from in Season 2. I have my own ideas, but I’m always open to suggestion. Enjoy! DOODLE POLL
No spoilers, I promise. If you want to know how it ends, you’ll have to listen all the way through. All I can say is, some things are resolved, while others turn out to not be so… I decided to take a wee break, just two or three wee…
