The Good Listening To Show: Stories of Distinction & Genius

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Clearing:  Scottish Actor - with the lovely Scottish dulcet tones to match - Cal MacAninch! Cal is a much respected TV, Theatre & Film Actor. Best known on TV for portraying the character DI John Keenan in BBC's "Holby City" but has been in much much more besides in a long-spanning and impressive career. Including Downton Abbey, Banished, Mr Selfr...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genminminimin (er min...) please welcome to The Good Listening to "Clearing" the warm, wise & wonderful "Storysmith" himself with the perfect surname that just keeps on giving Mark Story! This very special podcast Episode released on this very day - 13th December 2021 - to celebrate Mark Story's 50th Birthday! How's that for a Story...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n Genminminmin' please welcome to The Good Listening To "Clearing" the warm, witty & wise Actor, Magician & "Magic Advisor" to the likes of Derren Brown & David Blane - Peter Clifford! “Peter Clifford is one of my favourite magicians and one of the loveliest people I know… Do everything you can to get tickets!” Derren Brown In the intima...

Send us Fan Mail Please welcome Chris Pirie Artistic Director of Internationally renowned Puppet Theatre & Film Company (for Stage, Screen & Street) Green Ginger. The most wonderful conversation indeed in which Chris Pirie from Green Ginger teaches us all a new word! What's the official word for a Skip Diver? Conjugate the verb "to Sprott" pleeeeease! Our full conversation -...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genminiminminmin (er, min...) who do I have in my Good Listening To Zoom Hole & Clearing Today?! Please welcome Mountaineering Legend and King of all things "Gnarly" in terms of adventures - Rolfe Oostra. A man who I got in touch with because of 2 other connections - and because he had a picture (for real) on his Facebook Page of an Iguana and a Cat ha...

Send us Fan Mail Please welcome to The Clearing - to talk about Improbable's "The Gathering" (amongst other things) Matilda Leyser from Improbable Theatre. A Special Episode of "The Good Listening To" where Improbable's "The Gathering" meets The Good Listening To's "The Clearing"! Matilda is Associate Director of the world renowned and much ad...

Send us Fan Mail "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" The adventure continues! Please welcome Award Winning Comedy & Theatre Director - Cal McCrystal - Director of many seminal Theatre, Opera, Circus & Film Productions. "One Man Two Guvnors" +  "Gifford's Circus" to name but two of very many others, which have collectively won him the accolade of...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genminiminminmin (er, min...) please welcome my lovely and good friend Nik Howden to "The Good Listening To: Your Life & Times with Me Chris Grimes!"  Clearing! Nik and I have been on stage together in a Comedy Improvisational capacity in INSTANT WIT (a Company which I co-run with Stephanie Weston) for the last many many years - plus we also have The B...

Send us Fan Mail "The Good Listening To: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" The adventure continues on UK Health Radio & here on Buzzsprout with the enigmatic Pete Bailie! Actor, Acting Teacher, 6th Dan Aikido Instructor, Expert Communication Skills Trainer, Director at VOX Coaching - and all round enigmatic wise owl! Here to teach us all about Impact & Presence - how t...

Send us Fan Mail Ohhhhh yes! Welcome to my Zoom Hole pleeeease!  For another delightful Episode of "The Good Listening To: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" Here "LIVE" on FaceBook - right NOW please - with the very lovely Laurens Nockels - Co Founder of Mangostone.org   Model & Prop Makers par excellence: A Creative Hub in the centre of Bristol with the "ex...

Send us Fan Mail In The Clearing 'A Show within A Show within A Show!' with Fellow UK Health Radio Presenter Leaha Mattinson from Master Your Life and Recovery Road, Hurrah! Please welcome to The Clearing - for a "Show-within a Show -within a Show!" (how very Shakesepearean!) fellow UK Health Radio Presenter and the "fiery-force-of nature" that is Leaha Mattinson.   L...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a special "Leadership Reflections" LIVE RECORDING of "The Good Listening To Show: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" Podcast & Radio Show. And here in "The Clearing" to talk about his new "hot-off-the-press" Leadership Book: "Be More Wrong!" is the wise, warm and wonderful Colin Hunter from PotentialSquared...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another and particularly exciting Episode of "The Good Listening To: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" Podcast! (and show on UK Health Radio) And ohhhhh yes indeedy-doody (!) look who I've 'snagged and tagged'' in my Zoom Hole for today's Episode! Ladies n' Genminminminmin (er, min...) please welcome to The Good Listeni...

Send us Fan Mail "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues! With Alastair Fothergill OBE: CEO & Founder of Silverback Films.  The Film Company (& Alastair as the Producer) behind many of the most seminal Films about Planet Earth that you will ever see - and with none other than Sir David Attenborough as his oftentimes Narrator. With a crucial message also to share a...

Send us Fan Mail In the “Clearing” Actress, Scot & Fellow INSTANT WITTER Kirsty "Mesmeric" Cox! "Kirsty Cox is mesmeric!"  So said Sam Marlowe in The Times "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues on UK Health Radio - and here in The Good Listening To Podcast - with wonderful Bristol-based Scottish Actress Kirsty Cox:   Talking the joys of people wa...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genminmin I give you latest Episode of "The Good Listening To Show" on UK Health Radio! Please welcome to "The Clearing": John Williams MD of "The Ideas Lab" and best selling author of "F••k Work - Let's Play!" with other titles in the bag including "Screw Work - Break Free" and "Screw Work - Let's Pla...

Send us Fan Mail Ohhhh yes! "The Good Listening To: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues on UK Health Radio - with the wonderful Bristol based Actor Gerard Cooke! Part Man - Part Viking - Part Pirate (you do the Math!) Complete with his "Clearing" bobbing along in the Mediterranean Sea pleeeeease! (It was either going to be there or in Screwfix apparently - go...

Send us Fan Mail Hurrah! "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues on UK Health Radio - and here in "The Good Listening To Podcast" on Buzzsprout with Director, Actress, Producer - Force of Optimism and Galvaniser of Others - Vanessa Bailey from "Nine Yards Films"! "The Good Listening To Show" is a weekly Show version of "The Good Listenin...

Send us Fan Mail Ohhhh yes!  It's the Life & Times of Mr Slapstick himself! Chris Daniels - Director of the Bristol Slapstick Festival in The Good Listening To Clearing on UK Health Radio !  A lovely, rich conversation indeed: Talking the simplicity and shared admiration for 'Stoicism' - the love (obviously!) of Silent Film Comedy - the Bristol Slapstick Festival itself - and a...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genminminminmin (er min...) I give you the delightful Toby Hulse in "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" on UK Health Radio! Toby Hulse: Theatre Director - Playwright - Creative Practitioner - Natural Storyteller - and All Round Inspirational Pants! As we join him - very specifically- in his “Clearing” aboard the X1 Bus - late evening just as the...

Send us Fan Mail Ohhhh yes!  Ladies n' Genminminmin (er min...) it's Doctor Phil Hammond Day on UK Health Radio! Hurrah! "The Good Listening To: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues! With all round versatility and prolific pants Dr Phil Hammond - who also - spookily enough has news of a New Book! "Dr Hammond's Covid Casebook" published in '...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 11 of "The Good Listening To Show" on UK Health Radio:  "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues! Please welcome “Motivational Pants” (!)  himself: Alex Moyle to the Good Listening To Clearing! "Welcome to Optimistic Moyle Island - with Catch Phrase City as the Capital!" And Alex also asks the vey important question:...

Send us Fan Mail Ohhhhh yes! Ladies n' Genminmin (er min...) Welcome to a particularly exciting Episode (in 2 Parts!) of "The Good Listening To Show: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" Please welcome to "The Clearing" the incomparable Phelim McDermott from Improbable Theatre: Director, Pioneeing Improviser, Theatre Maker & Conversation Starter.   With a Flota...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 10 of "The Good Listening To Show" on UK Health Radio:  "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues! Please welcome "The Cave Man" himself - Dick Willis!  In this wonderful conversation we talk about his life-long passion for all things subterranean and a love of Caving - and he describes himself as 'blundering thro...

Send us Fan Mail Ohhh yes! Ladies n’ Genmin - I give you Episode 9 of “The Good Listening To Show” (& Podcast) on UK Health Radio! And please welcome to the GLT “Clearing”: The very lovely Colin McGill    with wise and wonderful insights on choices, change, happiness, energy & connection... Hurrah! And my first Guest to be interviewed in a Caravan! "A GLT with me CG!" is the feel...