THE SHY LIFE PODCAST

Here we are for episode NINE - and it's our longest episode yet!! This time Mr Yeti is having one of his little poetry shows at The Poetry Café near Covent Garden in London. There are two other guest-poets joining us - John Smallshaw and Rich Harris and you may also recognise one or two familiar faces in the crowd. Mr Yeti would like to thank John and Rich for performing on the night and also woul...

Here we are for episode EIGHT!! This time Mr Yeti catches up with a member of his family - tries to make peace with some grumpy house-mates, looks back at his "SUTTON PARK" days and shares another poem. Dameus Twinklehorn also reports in and we get another insight into Mr Yeti's vinyl collection. He also gets very excited about his recent appearance on THE SMELLCAST. The clips from SUTTON PARK wer...

Here we are for episode SEVEN!! This time Mr Yeti catches up with an old friend over the phone and shares a couple of dark stories from his blog. Yeti Uncle John finds himself lost and Dameus Twinklehorn has a challenging new role! Not only that but we're back in vinyl vault, hear what Mr Yeti carries around with him and also say a quick hello to an old guest-star! All that and we've a funky (and...

Here we are for episode SIX!! This time we see what happens when Shy Yeti is asked to write a musical, both Dameus and Yeti Uncle John return to update us on their goings on... This time Harry is back to complete our chat and we discuss night's out on the town and holidays we have shared all over the world. I also enthuse about an old movie that I just discovered and plunge back into the vinyl vau...

Episode FIVE!! We're longer still this week!! This time we have a monologue which first appeared on this blog - both Dameus and Yeti Uncle John are back to make comment. Our special guest is one of my oldest friends, Harry; this is part one of a two part interview where we chat about our school days, making films together and our shared music and TV favourites. Speaking of which, I also have a bit...

We're BACK! Already!! It's our longest one EVER!! This time we're having trouble with our guests - but Mr Yeti does try to explain his 90s movie making pursuits... Dameus is about to make a film - there is a poem about fish and chips, a discussion on vinyl - more library gossip, some messages and a doughnut... Thanks to Nick G, Mr Trowbridge and LSF for their contributions to this episode. We'll b...

In this, our third full-length episode, Mr Yeti and his flat-mate Calum head off to Amsterdam for Calum's birthday! Alas all does not go quite to plan - but there is a lot chat about holidays gone by - a trip on the canal and some chatting with a zoo animal or two! This episode was recorded between the 29th May and the 5th June 2016. Our next episode will hopefully be out later in the month. All c...

In this, our second full-length episode of THE SHY LIFE PODCAST, Mr Yeti returns to the location of one of his first full time jobs - which he began 20 years ago this year! His mum is also on hand to share stories of her library days... We also delve into listener's letters, hear this episode's poem, reacquaint ourselves with Dameus Twinklehorn and have a little chat about some second-hand vinyl.....

This time - in our first full length episode of THE SHY LIFE PODCAST - entitled SCHOOL DAYS AND SHELVING IMPS, Shy Yeti speaks to his old school friend - Also Paul, reads a sinister piece from his latest book and also discusses Shelving Imps in his continuing series about life as a librarian. We also receive feedback for our pilot episode, ask a cat his opinion and hear more stories of actor, Dame...

This is the pilot episode for my forthcoming THE SHY LIFE PODCAST which I hope to start posting regularly later in the summer. This is a shorter episode, with no guests - but it does give you an idea of some of the silliness that will be involved. In this pilot episode you will find some daft secrets about libraries - a poem from my latest E.P. (THE KISS-ME-QUICK E.P. available from Bandcamp) and...