Refracted World with Terry Geo

What would you do if you were in a park with friends and people in masks started harrassing you? Calling you racist, sexist or homophobic slurs. Telling you they will hurt you or for you to hurt yourself. In today's episode we'll be discussing The Faceless and what we can do to about them. Please sign the petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659130 Subscribe to RefractedWorld...

Today is the 29th March 2024 which is exactly ten years since same-sex marriage was legalised in England and Wales. Scotland was a little slower, passing the law in December 2014 and Northern Ireland was a lot slower, only passing the law in 2020, just four years ago. But that does mean that same-sex marriage is now legal in the entire United Kingdom. Today we celebrate the anniversary, talking ab...

I apologise for not releasing today's 30 minute podcast, but I have a head cold and look/sound terrible. Hopefully, I'll soon be back to normal health and normal programming will resume. Sorry everyone!

How did the Egyptians build the pyramids thousands of years ago using sticks and stones when we barely have the technology to build them today? For the first time ever, I will reveal the truth. It will shock many of you and at first will be so incredible you will not believe it. But just give me 20 minutes of your day and I will prove to you the truth on this week’s podcast, entitled: How the Egyp...

I was in Yorkshire two weeks ago and once back home, my brother tested positive for Covid. Knowing I was exposed and not wanting to spread it, I self-isolated for ten days, just in case. But it appears this is not common practice and some people believe we shouldn't even talk about Covid anymore as they believe it's no different than a cold. Am I from an alternate universe which collided w...

Virtual Reality is dominating the headlines at the moment with the release of the Meta Quest 3 and Apple's Vision Pro. But is all this a fad that will go away once the novelty wears off? In this week's episode, we look at the history of VR, the current state of the technology and where it could take us in the next decade.

If you believe gaming is just for kids, you’re probably old. That’s not an insult, I mean it quite literally. You have to be old because otherwise you would know that the majority of videos games haven’t been aimed at kids in a long time. In this week's episode, we dive into the realm of modern gaming and find out why it's one of the biggest industries in the world and loved by so many.

What is love? From a scientific point of view, it's an evolution of the subconcious to keep us procreating - but in reality, it's intense. In this episode, I talk about love from my perspective as a gay man and my own lived experiences. Some of it may resonate with you, some may not, but as humans we are all capable of love and love is everywhere.

Gong Xi Fa Cai As this weekend is Chinese New Year we're celebrating with an episode presented by not just me but also my beautiful, Singaporean husband. We talk about the history of Singapore, what life was like growing up there and food - we talk about food a lot! Join us in this full - longer than normal - celebratory episode as we welcome in the new year together.

The UK government has enacted a new law which removes all sex education from schools. It is now illegal for teachers to talk to their students about or even acknowledge sexual relationships and it encourages parents to do the same. This isn’t fake news, this actually happened in 1988 under the leadership of the then Tory Prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. But this legislation wasn’t aimed at every...

Imagine living in a world without money. How would it function? What would we eat? Where would we live? How could society function without money? It seems impossible, right? So if I told you, that a world without money could happen in the next 30 years – within most of our lifetimes, you’d think I was mad. I’d think I was mad. But that future is already being created and has been for decades. Welc...

On the morning of the 7th October 2012, I walked into my apartment and found my best friend fully-clothed and unconscious in the bathtub. The water was up to his neck and he was making strange, gurgling sounds. A toppled over bowl, a half-drunk bottle of soda and hundreds of pills were scattered all over the floor. That day and what came after it, will be forever imprinted on my brain. It has take...

While working in television, I met a lot of celebrities. Some were great, some not so great, some horrendous and some glorious. Today I'm focussing on two incredible British icons who I had the pleasure of working with, Nigel Hawthorne and Barbara Windsor.

We often think about resolutions in the new year and perhaps today's episode will help and maybe even motivate you to follow through with a few of them. Two months ago, I enacted an online experiment which I thought would be fun and something people could quickly engage in and move on. I received a lot of responses, far more than I expected and many of them, a lot more in-depth. Some were even...

Life is made up of many different experiences. The more experiences we have, the more memories we make. In late December 2007 my best friend and I flew to the United States for a trip of a lifetime over New Year's Eve. LA, Vegas, Disneyworld and New York - but all we could talk about for months afterwards, was the flight home!

A few years ago, my husband and I wrote a Christmas poem entitled Santa is Real. It's a fun, family-friendly festive fable which I hope you enjoy. Merry Christmas!

In 1997 I quit my job in television to join a brand new boyband - that failed before it even launched. In this episode, I talk about how it came to be, why it failed and as an extra special treat(?!), I even play the entire song at the end of the show. Enjoy!

After the first two "fluffy" episodes, we're jumping straight into a subject that is extremely important to me; gender. Specifically Transgender. As a gay man, I am a part of the LGBTQIA+ community and I hate seeing what's happening to my Trans friends. In this episode I talk about what's happening, what I think we can do and the challenges we all face.

In 1997, the youngest director in television was just 17 years old and that person was me. In this episode I talk about how I got into television and how I was the director and script-writer for a successful light entertainment show at such a young age.

The first episode of my first ever podcast - Refracted World with me, Terry Geo. In this episode I introduce myself and talk about why I wanted to release this podcast. It has been many, many years in the making, but finally, it's here!