19 episodios

Interested in Creativity? Work full-time and trying to find the balance between your creative activities and the rest of life? Meet interesting people and be inspired as this is the podcast for you.

Squatting Toad Mel Byron

    • Arte

Interested in Creativity? Work full-time and trying to find the balance between your creative activities and the rest of life? Meet interesting people and be inspired as this is the podcast for you.

    Squatting Toad Episode 19, Goodbye 2016, Hello More Creativity

    Squatting Toad Episode 19, Goodbye 2016, Hello More Creativity

    In this last podcast of 2016, recorded in Ukraine, Mel reflects on the year and hopes to inspire us all to greater creativity in 2017. There'll be more comedy, for sure.

    • 17 min
    Squatting Toad Episode 18 Daring to Write with Angela Thirlwell

    Squatting Toad Episode 18 Daring to Write with Angela Thirlwell

    In this unmissable episode, Mel meets published author, Angela Thirlwell, for insights into her writing career and gets brilliantly helpful advice for aspiring writers.

    • 25 min
    Squatting Toad Episode 17 North London Dramaphilia

    Squatting Toad Episode 17 North London Dramaphilia

    Mel discusses amateur theatre with Angharad Ellis Jones of the Crouch End Players. Should we even call it 'amateur'? What inspires people to join an amateur theatre group? Is acting good for you? (Answer: Of course it is!)

    • 32 min
    Squatting Toad Episode 16 Musical Fireworks

    Squatting Toad Episode 16 Musical Fireworks

    Mel meets Barbara de Biasi, inspirational head of Fireworks Music School. Barbara explains what happens inside our heads when we play music and why it's important to learn an instrument. It seems that music is the most beneficial creative thing we can do.

    • 21 min
    Squatting Toad Episode 15 Top Books for Creative People

    Squatting Toad Episode 15 Top Books for Creative People

    This time, Mel Byron reviews and recommends some great books for creatives, by David Quantick, Grayson Perry and Fergus O'Connell. Entertaining, yes, but you'll also learn a lot (from this episode AND from the books!).

    • 18 min
    Squatting Toad Episode 14 'Bad' Painting with Alex

    Squatting Toad Episode 14 'Bad' Painting with Alex

    When is your creative work 'bad'? Who decides? And does it matter? Actually, it doesn't. Painter, Alex Vassiliades, talks about the fun she gets from the process and itself. A helpful reminder for all creatives.

    • 28 min

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