Jen Brister is a comedian and writer who has appeared on some of the UK’s best loved comedy shows such as Live at the Apollo, QI, Mock the Week and BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz. She hosts her own podcast Memory Lane with fellow comedian Kerry Godliman as well as appearing on some of the country’s top podcasts such as Off Menu with Ed Gamble & James Acaster, The Guilty Feminist with Deborah Frances-White and Never Live It Down with Vogue Williams.Jen gave a TEDx talk about changing the way we raise our boys in 2018 and published her first book, The Other Mother, in 2019 about life raising her twin sons with her partner, Chloe.Jen’s story choices range from a gritty gang vs cops tale set in Baltimore, Maryland to a movie about the spying and surveillance carried out on potential enemies of the state in East Berlin during the Cold War. She described her book choice as “the funniest book ever written” and her podcast choice is one of the best ever made, setting the standard for audio production for over twenty years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Louisa Young: Cher, Dolly Parton & Career Advice from Johnny Cash
Louisa Young is a novelist, biographer and songwriter who has been nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Carnegie Medal as well as winning Audiobook of the Year at the National Book Awards.She has written several children’s books with her daughter as well as a biography of her grandmother, Kathleen Scott, widow of Captain Robert Scott. Previously, she worked as a journalist for titles such as Tatler & Marie-Claire as well as The Guardian and The Sunday Times. Louisa is currently writing the next three instalments in the Cazalet Chronicles, the cult series written by her late aunt, Elizabeth Jane Howard. Her eclectic choices take us from 1950s Scotland and London to New York in the 1980s and even to Dolly Parton’s Tennessee. Her love of character, quirks and nostalgia are no surprise given she is a writer and her enthusiasm for each is infectious. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Zachary Hart: Time Travel, Family & Having Faith in Yourself
Zachary Hart is an actor who graduated from the Academy of Live & Recorded Arts in 2017 and headed straight to the Bridge Theatre in London to perform in legendary director Nic Hytner’s Julius Caesar. And he’s just kept going ever since.He has appeared in many of the biggest shows on TV since his career rocketed into action: from Peaky Blinders on BBC One and The Witcher on Netflix to Masters of the Air and Slow Horses on Apple TV, Zachary’s been there. Our discussion was as wide-ranging as his title choices but often came back to the importance of family and Zach’s laser-like focus on the craft of storytelling, be that through the written word or on-screen. We talked about what he called “The Perfect Film” as well as a TV show he rewatches all the time and a book that showed him a love he hankered after himself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Alison Balsom: Healing, Tarantino & Battles on the High Seas
In this episode of Like This Love This, we are joined by Alison Balsom, a classical trumpet player, music producer and educator, who started playing the trumpet at age seven and went on to graduate top of her class from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.She has since won Young Artist of the Year and later Female Artist of the Year at the Classical BRIT awards and Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards.This year, she is playing at the Last Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall for the second time. Alison’s story choices are as wide and varied as they are interesting and even include an anecdote about Quentin Tarantino being on her first date with her husband - theatre and film director, Sir Sam Mendes.From creativity and innovation across the cultural landscape to new ways of thinking about things: passion and dedication are always at the heart of the stories that appeal to her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Patrick Grant: Economics, Drunks & How to Spend Your Perfect Day
This week’s guest is Patrick Grant - best known for his time as a judge on BBC1’s Great British Sewing Bee since the show started in 2013. But he has also turned around the fortunes of the Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons after seeing it advertised for sale in the back of a newspaper, won Menswear Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2010 and has worked with some of the world’s best known luxury brands such as Cartier, Rolls Royce, Christian Louboutin and Alexander McQueen. He now owns and runs Community Clothing; a brand which supports local textile manufacturers in Britain. Last year, he published Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish - How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier - his treatise on we all need to turn our backs on fast fashion and the general trend to just keep accumulating more stuff. Our discussion reflects Patrick’s dedication to his mission to convince the world to invest in longer lasting pieces from local manufacturers rather than enriching a few billionaire owners of global companies. We also chatted about his idea of a perfect day as well as a cult movie that is considered one of the best British films of all time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hosted by Lucie McInerney, Like This Love This features interesting, fun personalities from all walks of life discussing the stories they love: the books that they always recommend, the ones that changed their lives, carried them through grief, made them laugh time and again, or changed their perception of love, the films they can’t help talking about for years after watching, the podcasts that have educated, elucidated and elevated their understanding of a particular topic & the TV shows they come back to again & again. Insightful, emotive and full of those oh-my-god-I-can't-wait-to-share tales, these are the stories that have shaped THEIR story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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