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I love the writing of John Higgs. It was a chance encounter with The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds that first switched me on to his unique literary landscape. It’s a landscape where there’s a surprise round every bend, a place where diverse ideas intermingle to create flashes of illumination …
I’ve thought for a while that Darby would be an excellent guest on the Wind Thieved Hat and when I found out that he was about to publish a book on creativity and poetry, I invited him to join me. Our conversation roams over subjects as diverse as the losses and wins of getting older, what your sober self can learn from your drunk self, the benefits of hanging out in cemeteries and …
Dan Nelken is on a mission: he’s passionate about helping creative people create and get over what's stopping them. A fork lift driver - and advertising copywriter - by trade, his book A Self Help Guide for Copywriters was a breakout hit during the pandemic …
Kathryn Mannix is a best-selling author and palliative care doctor. Given that this is a podcast about the creative process she may seem to be a rather unusual guest, but as you’ll discover, Kathryn is a brilliant wordsmith and someone who has a great deal to say about stories; the stories we use to make sense of life and of death …
Byron grew up poor. With the cards stacked against him. He had a tough time when he was younger. He’s the only one of my guests, so far as I know to have been shot and kidnapped. But through the nurturing of his home environment and his own character kooks – he used to bunk off school to go to the library – he managed to navigate those early challenges …
Of all the books I read to my kids when they were growing up, there was one that I loved just as much as they did - ‘The Murderer’s Ape’. In this inspiring and reflective episode I talk to the creator of Sally Jones, writer and illustrator Jakob Wegelius …
It’s rare but every so often a documentary film comes along that transcends the medium, that is in itself a work of art. For me, Garage People is such a film. So I was delighted to talk to Natalija Yefimkina, the film’s director, about her own creative process. Garage People is - remarkably – her first film.
A thought provoking conversation with a hugely inspiring thinker and writer on how to overcome some of the most common challenges we face in making creative work.
John Wood and Paul Harrison are two artistic heroes of mine. They make work that is both simple and complex, profound and mundane; it’s always engaging, often funny and, as you’ll hear, has occasionally ended in disaster …
Horatio Clare is an award winning writer and broadcaster. And if there was an award for being a lovely bloke he’d probably have won that too.
I first came across Horatio through his book Heavy Light in which he writes vividly about his experience of the highs and lows of bipolar disorder and what it’s like to be sectioned.