Distraction Therapy

This week I had a stroll along the River Soar in Leicester, up to Aylstone Meadows. As lockdown permits I’m looking to find some guests [...] Source

I’m starting a new project for 2020. I’m developing a series of podcasts and radio programmes that will be based on soundwalks around Leicester. The [...] Source

I went for a walk into Leicester on Saturday and recorded some sounds and some thoughts. I’ve mixed them together with a couple of tracks. [...] Source

It’s the last day of British Summer Time, and the clocks return to Greenwich Mean Time tonight. It means we get an extra hour in [...] Source

The nights are drawing in, and the leaves are shedding their green hue and turning brown before they fall and scatter. I’ve been working from [...] Source

In our pandemic times, it’s worth reminding ourselves that people have been through these kinds of experiences before, and that we should be able to [...] Source

Here are some tracks I’ve sequenced together in no particular order. The summer is over, and we are heading into the shorter and colder days. [...] Source

Here’s another mix of tracks that I’ve been listening to as the summer is coming to an end, and autumn is on its way. Hang’em [...] Source

Once again I’ve been compiling random tracks into a playlist as I’ve been working and travelling about. I’ve put them into a mix, and the [...] Source

Here’s the tracklisting for this podcast. I’ve been stuck in as it’s been raining for the last couple of days. I’ll go for a walk [...] Source

I’ve been wandering around Leicester, as usual. There’s a feeling that we are at the end of summer and the weather is starting to turn [...] Source

I’ve strung together another mix, with some random tracks that came up on my playlist today… Dumb Waiters (Remastered) – The Psychedelic Furs – Talk [...] Source

As it’s been a while since I’ve seen a live band, I’ve put together a mix of different concerts that I’ve been listening to over [...] Source

This is something different than I’ve done in a while. I’ve put together a mix of poems and tracks from different genres that I’ve been [...] Source

I’ve been listening to some playlists while I’ve been reading and sitting in the sun over the last couple of days. I’ve put together a [...] Source

It might be a combination of the heat and the lockdown, but getting my brain working and focussed seems to take more effort as the [...] Source

I’ve put together another podcast with some music tracks that I’ve been listening to as I’ve been wandering around Leicester. Wallace – Hanz Zimmer & [...] Source

I’ve been intending to put together a music compilation for ages, and now that we are heading out of lockdown here in Leicester I’m wandering [...] Source

It was fantastic to talk today with Dr Jen Unwin  @jen_unwin and Dr David Unwin @lowcarbgp about their work to promote low-carb health. We talked [...] Source

It was great to catch up with Jon Prest, aka Brand Master Flash, this evening, and chat about how we are coping under lockdown, and [...] Source

While I didn’t get up this morning to listen to the dawn chorus, because that would have meant dragging myself out of bed at 5am, [...] Source

This afternoon I’ve been chatting with John Halker, who is a psychotherapist and app developer. We chatted about how we are keeping busy during the [...] Source

I’ve been chatting with my friend Jay Sykes, who is an audio drama producer and writer, who is based in Sunderland. We chatted about how [...] Source

There are many different ways for us to cope with the lockdown. I wanted to find out how my sister, Jackie Crawford has been coping. [...] Source

This evening I’ve been chatting with Leon Barton and Russell Todd about how they have been managing during the lockdown, and what they have been [...] Source