OneTrackMinds Podcast

Hello friends, Merry Christmas to you all! Here’s a very special bonus episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, with a very festive theme. Just one guest on today’s show, although her list of achievements is so long that its a wonder she could easily cover for two or more… She is Meganne Christian , a materials scientist, atmospheric physicist and a member of the European Space Agency, which means sh...

Hello Friends, It’s time for the penultimate episode of the first series of the OneTrackMinds podcast, and we’re featuring two stories from our Hidden Tracks workshops to round off the year. Our first guest is Alex Romeo , who spends most of her time in theatres, working to make shows accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences in her roles as a captioner and access consultant. She is an occ...

Hello friends, This week on the OneTrackMinds podcast, we feature two stories about the life-changing impact of songs by iconic black artists. Our first guest is the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell . Born in Australia, Peter’s incredible, selfless and tireless work has made him a veritable national treasure here in the UK, and his portrait now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Londo...

Hello friends , Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, featuring two very energetic stories about two classic rock songs. Our first guest is the poet and author Salena Godden . The author of six books, including the poetry collection Pessimism Is For Lightweights , and the novel Mrs. Death Misses Death , Salena is one of the country’s most vibrant and essential literary figur...

Hello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, featuring two very moving stories about loss and resilience. Our first guest is the novelist and campaigner Stella Duffy . Stella was born in London, but spent her childhood in New Zealand, and that country’s culture has had a big influence on her approach to life, as you’ll hear in her story. As well as publishing sevente...

Hello friends, * *EDIT - an earlier version of this post went out with a faulty audio file. Thanks to Michael Hayes for pointing this out to us. Here it is again, but without an advert interrupting Alicia’s story. Thanks for bearing with us .** Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast. Over the past two weeks, we’ve featured stories about mothers, stories about fathers, and now,...

Hello friends, Before we get into this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, a quick reminder to all of you in London that tonight is our Hidden Tracks show is taking place at 7:45pm tonight at the Purcell Room as part of the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival . Featuring five stories from graduates of our Hidden Tracks storytelling workshop, and one story from our special guest,...

Hello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, which features two stories about the songs that remind our storytellers about their fathers. Our first guest is the magician, speaker and business coach Richard McDougall . Richard has told this story a couple of times for us at OneTrackMinds , including at one of our very special choir shows, where our guests’s chosen son...

Hello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast. This week on the show, we have two bona fide musicians, sharing their stories about the song that changed their lives. Our first guest is Jack Garratt , a British singer-songwriter and former winner of the Critics Choice award at the Brit Awards . His story, which he told at Wilton’s Music Hall in February of this year, cu...

Hello friends , This week on the OneTrackMinds podcast, we’ve got two stories that deal with disappointment and the self-confidence that comes from bouncing back from it. Our first story comes from journalist and author Nell Frizzell . Nell is very much a part of the OneTrackMinds touring party, having joined us on the road to tell her story on many occasions. She’s the author of several books, in...

Hello friends, Trigger warning! If you’re planning to listen to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast on a flight, and you struggle with the stress of flying at the best of times, maybe give this one a miss until you’re back on terra firma again… Yes, this week we feature two stories where our storytellers have found themselves in a bit of bother on an aeroplane, but found varying degre...

Hello friends, This week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds Podcast takes us back in time to experience the life-changing impact of the 1980s, and features two stories which wax poetically about the very specific cultural climate of that strangest of decades… Our first storyteller is the actor, writer, director and (*checks notes*) magician, Andy Nyman . You’ll have been him on your TV screens in such...

Hello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, featuring two stories that celebrate the simple pleasure of pop music. Our first storyteller is journalist and author Keiran Goddard . Keiran is the author of four books, including the novels Hourglass and I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning . He writes regularly for The Guardian . Our second guest today is music critic an...

Hello friends, Welcome to this week’s episode of the OneTrackMinds podcast, featuring two stories about life-changing songs from two artists who definitely broke the mould. Our first storyteller is two-time Olivier-Award-winning actress Denise Gough. Denise has recently been back on the London stage reprising her breakout role in the play People, Places, Things ; and she’ll be appearing in the sec...

Hello friends, This week on the show, two stories about dancing your way out of trouble. Katie Puckrik is our first storyteller. Katie burst on to British TV screens as one of the hosts of cult 1990s late-night music show The Word . She regularly appears in print in The Guardian, and as a stand-in DJ on BBC Radio 6Music. Her YouTube channel about perfume and fragrance is called, brilliantly, Katie...

Hello friends! This week on the show, we have two stories about growing up in London and the impact that music had on the young lives of two incredible storytellers. First up, we have a story from former Labour politician and Home Secretary, Alan Johnson . After retiring from politics, Alan published his memoir This Boy , described as ‘moving and unforgettable’ by the Sunday Times , and he’s since...

Hello friends! In this episode of the podcast, we present two stories about songs that have really and truly acted as a solace and a salve through difficult times. And though the times described in these stories were unquestionably difficult, the stories themselves are utterly joyous - and very, very funny. Your first storyteller is actor, writer and director Leon Ockenden . You may know Leon from...

Hello Friends , Episode Three of the OneTrackMinds podcast features two stories about love, death and some creative ways of utilising cremains… The first is from writer Charlie Gilmour , and explores his relationship with his childhood dog John. Charlie’s wonderful memoir Featherhood is absolutely gorgeous. Neil Gaiman called it “the most powerful work of biography I’ve read in years”, and he’s no...

Hello Friends! It’s Podcast Launch Day at OneTrackMinds HQ, so, as promised, here’s our second episode, featuring two stories about friendship. The first, from Scottish poet and author Michael Pedersen , celebrates his friendship with Scott Hutchison, lead singer of Frightened Rabbit , who died by suicide in May 2018. Michael’s book Boy Friends explores this powerful, creative friendship in more d...

Hello friends! Well, we’ve finally gone and done it. After eight years of procrastination, fart-arsing and general titting about, we’ve finally got our act together and sorted out the OneTrackMinds podcast. Today, we present to you the first episode - a pilot of sorts - in which Adam and I look back on the very first stories we’ve told on the show, which felt like an apt place to start. Unfortunat...