Life sometimes throws us circumstances beyond our control, we can’t change the fact that these circumstances exist, but we can have a say in what comes next, and how we approach what we’ve been confronted with. This is an episode about moments in life where the fabric of what we know to be reality is torn, and we are found in a new situation for which we have no prior training. Camilla receives a shock diagnosis of stage four cancer at the age of 26, her doctor telling her she has a year to live, at best. Elizabeth wanted to be an actor. Now she's a co owner of the toe wrestling federation. Jason Williamson, frontman of the punk duo; Sleaford Mods, talks about his shift into sobriety and how the mornings have become his afterlife. When Brexit happened in 2020, Jose thought he was British, but quickly came to realise how Brexit really did mean Brexit. Mike, known to many as the musician Perfume Genius, revisits the moment where a rattlesnake cut his dog's life too short. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Leaving Home
Home can be the house you grew up in. The country you were born in. It can be a person, a feeling, or an unidentifiable sense of safety. Sometimes people leave home because it isn’t safe, sometimes they leave to become who they are supposed to be, and sometimes the decision to leave is made for them. The search for safety, or the decision to leave it behind is something that joins all of today's stories.Dymtro, a teenager confronted with a decision, after the Russian invasion of his home country, Ukraine. Elnaz shares a story about her Mother who, against all odds, took a leap of faith when leaving Iran with her children, to find a new home in the UK. Fleeing Singapore, from a life of transphobia, asylum seeker Yuna explores some of the moral complications which this journey to London has opened up. Bradley, a university student who has left the comforts of his family home, figures out how to run a washing machine and what it really means to be self-sufficient. Matty, who, with the distance of time, reflects on being made homeless at 15, and the subsequent years that followed Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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To Be, or Not To Be, a Parent
To be or not to be a parent...That is the question - which everyone in today’s episode has asked themselves. The birth of Alexandra’s first child didn’t go as planned. She tells us about it and why she won’t be doing it again. Jonathan, an Oscar nominated documentary maker, thought he was making a film about Vasectamies. It turned out he was starting a worldwide movement. Lead singer of the band Franz Ferdinand, Alex Kapranos speaks on having his first child at 50. Musician Rebecca Lucy Taylor, otherwise known as Self Esteem, muses on one of nature’s cruelest gender dividers; the body clock. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A View From A Bridge : Trailer
A View From A Bridge is an audio-first storytelling podcast. Each episode is thematically curated and brings together a handful of different voices, or 'views' recorded outdoors on bridges across the world. Known to millions on Instagram for its powerful short films with the project’s iconic red telephone, the podcast dives deeper into these profound human stories, featuring extended and carefully curated conversations from famous voices to strangers passing by who have decided to pick up the phone. A View From A Bridge is produced and hosted by Joe Bloom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to the A View From A Bridge Podcast! Each episode is a carefully curated selection of stories, experiences, and views from an eclectic and wide ranging selection of guests, including familiar voices, and passers by who have picked up our red phone. It’s the show where human stories come first. No interviewer, no studio. Just people talking into a telephone from a bridge.Presented + Produced by : Joe BloomPodcast Producer : Hattie MoirOriginal music : Joi Wiren, Ross Woodhead, Ned PrevezerSound Design : Eva Krysiak Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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