Breaks & Joins Podcast

Sue Mayo
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These chats about repair (our stuff, ourselves and our communities) range from mending textiles to the repair of broken bones, from up-cycling in the pandemic to community conflict in Bangladesh, from home made Punk Clothes to celebrating scars. Growing out of a Community project in Lewisham, South East London the podcasts give more space for longer conversations, and you'll be able to hear Rose Sinclair, textile specialist, Raj Bhari, Peacebuilder, talking with Clare MacDonald, artist and Unitarian Minister, Dr Sylvan Baker, founder of The Verbatim Formula,textile dyer Liz Honeybone from the National Theatre costume department, Theatre Designer Amanda Mascarenhas chatting with Mo Sumah, host of the Mend it with Mo repair cafe, Suzi Warren, founder of Stitch it Dont ditch it, theatre academics Sudip Chakroborthy and Ali Campbell on national identities, and Rachel Ho, ceramicist and creator of the scarred pots.They're interviewed by Sue Mayo, edited by Chuck Blue Lowry, music by Bob Karperhttp://www.suemayo.co.uk/

  1. Series 8, Episode 5: Dr Sofie Layton

    JAN 8

    Series 8, Episode 5: Dr Sofie Layton

    Sofie Layton is an artist, researcher and facilitator who has worked nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Her most recent research practice explores the interface between artist, patient and clinical landscapes. Interweaving lived experience with remediated medical data, she examines how the human story is entangled with the medical. Previous commissions include installations ‘Bedside Manners’ (Evelina Children’s Hospital 2012) and ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ (Great Ormond Street Hospital 2015-2016) exhibited internationally. ‘The Heart of the Matter’ (2016-2018), a national touring exhibition funded by Wellcome and ACE, addressed the medical, experiential and poetic dimensions of the heart. In ‘Does AI Care?’ (2023), commissioned by the London Science Gallery, she worked alongside young adults in remission from cancer to probe AI’s role in contemporary medical care. Her PhD, funded by LAHP - London Arts and Humanities Partnership (AHRC), awarded in 2025, developed multiple methods of artistic remediation and translation of medical data. This was used to investigate the materialisation of pregnancy, culminating in the performative installation Loss is Mine and is Stored within this Body. She has since become a research associate on the Visual and Materials Lab which is part of the Discovery Research Platform for the Medical Humanities at Durham University (funded by the Wellcome Trust). Her current research practice extends her PhD work, further exploring the non-diagnostic use of medical data through workshops, artworks and performance.  http://www.sofielayton.co.uk http://www.insidetheheart.org  @sofielayton Send us a text Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!

    35 min
  2. Series 8, Episode 4: James Holcombe & Alberto Bona

    JAN 5

    Series 8, Episode 4: James Holcombe & Alberto Bona

    James Holcombe is a filmmaker with decades of experience in photochemical film production. His practice merges a deep engagement with re-discovered historical, material and social processes of photochemical film production through single screen and expanded performance works. He is the owner of erehwon film. erehwon runs workshops and actively curates workshops, performances, screenings, residencies, and events through workshops and bespoke 1:1  https://www.erehwonfilm.uk/ Insta: erehwon_film Italian-born Alberto Bona began his journey as a cartoonist before honing his craft as an actor in London. Fascinated by the expressive power of silent cinema, he has produced and filmed several short films and music videos using clockwork cameras. His work is distinguished by flamboyant characters inhabiting worlds that blur the line between the surreal and the oneiric. Instagram: @arepofilms Send us a text Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!

    42 min
  3. Series 8, Episode 3: Hannah Kayi Mason

    12/18/2025

    Series 8, Episode 3: Hannah Kayi Mason

    Hannah is an experienced cultural practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in the arts, education, public and private sectors. An innovative problem solver and entrepreneurial creative communicator. A strategic leader with a natural gift for working at all levels and across multiple and diverse stakeholders, with a phenomenal track record of working at the intersection of diversity, art and culture. As Head of Social Entrepreneur Support at UnLtd, Hannah led a team of exceptional people helping others to solve societies toughest challenges. Currently leading InCommon as CEO, Hannah is focussing on social connection across generations to create impactful communities. In Common is a Charity connecting groups of young people with their older neighbours so they can share experiences, celebrate diffferences and learn from each other https://incommon.org.uk/ Send us a text Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!

    31 min
  4. Series 8, Episode 2: Chris Hellawell

    12/12/2025

    Series 8, Episode 2: Chris Hellawell

    Chris Hellawell is the Director of the Edinburgh Tool Library Chris has an educational background in environmental science, but began working in the charity sector 20 years ago. In 2014 he found a way to combine his dual passions of environmental and social justice by starting the first tool library in the UK, and since then it has grown to encompass multiple sites across Edinburgh, where carbon heavy DIY equipment is shared and treated as an asset for the whole community to access. From this starting point, other projects have blossomed, driven by the community around the libraries, and now include a cycle kitchen, Repair Cafe Edinburgh, a draught-busting initiative supporting people in fuel poverty, a programme of weekend volunteer builds, and an outreach programme that specifically targets individuals from groups often excluded from the workshop environment and the trades and making industries. Chris believes that sharing gives access, access gives opportunity, and opportunities can change lives.  http://www.edinburghtoollibrary.org.uk https://www.instagram.com/edinburghtoollibrary/ Send us a text Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!

    31 min
  5. Series 8, Episode 1: Sarah P Corbett

    12/04/2025

    Series 8, Episode 1: Sarah P Corbett

    Sarah is Founding Director of Craftivist Collective and Gentle Protest. She  is an award-winning activist, author and Ashoka Fellow. Born in Everton, the fourth most deprived ward in the UK. An Activism Manager at Oxfam GB before founding the global Craftivist Collective in 2009. Corbett calls her unique methodology ‘Gentle Protest’ and her work has helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world. Collaborations include Save the Children, The Climate Coalition, Girlguiding, Helsinki Design Week, Tate, V&A, BBC, SkyArts and Secret Cinema amongst others. The Craftivist Collective Handbook was awarded best multimedia book of 2025 by the Creative Book Awards http://www.craftivist-collective.com   http://www.gentleprotest.com Instagram Insta: @Craftivists & @Sarahpcorbett Send us a text Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!

    37 min
  6. Series 7, Episode 8: Morag Anderson

    05/30/2025

    Series 7, Episode 8: Morag Anderson

    Morag Anderson’s second chapbook, And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound, won the Aryamati Poetry Pamphlet Prize and was described by TS Eliot Prize-winning poet Joelle Taylor as 'Delicate and furious, a haunting act of worship, of rebellion, and story. She was poet-in-residence for the 2024 Birnam Book Festival and for Dublin’s Creative Brain Week 2024 held at Trinity College. Recent commissions include The Scottish Poetry Library, The Canmore Suicide Prevention Trust, The National Trust for Scotland, and the Perth Festival of the Arts. Morag is currently a delegate on Arvon’s two-year Advanced Writing Programme. https://www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page/morag-anderson-poetry-bundle  https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/morag-anderson/ https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/10/20/morag-andersons-evolution-from-gritty-realism-to-expansive-lyricism-in-sin-is-due-to-open-in-a-room-above-kittys-and-and-i-will-make-of-you-a-vowel-sound/ https://www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/interview-morag-anderson https://www.instagram.com/morag_caimbeul/ Send us a text Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!

    38 min
  7. Series 7, Episode 7: Haeweon Yi

    05/22/2025

    Series 7, Episode 7: Haeweon Yi

    Haeweon is a theatremaker, writer, and researcher from Korea, now based in the UK. As a co-artistic director of Blooming Ludus, she has been making diverse community-based theatre projects for climate justice and a sustainable future since 2015. Her current PhD research at the University of Manchester is on nurturing performance practice, “Theatre of Decomposition,” which explores human–fungi relationships, mourning and celebrating in the meshwork of the ecological crises. Her recent works include 'Welcome to the Planet,' a pansori theatre for toddlers of the Anthropocene, 'This Play Is Written in Mushroom' (for CCTA 2023), and 'How to Become a Rock.' Citizen scientists and Lichen Camp: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/environment/climate/citizen-scientists-set-to-celebrate-closure-of-annapolis-county-lichen-camp/  Friends of Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area: https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofgoldsmithlake/  Support and learn more about protecting the old forests in Mi'kma'ki (NS, Canada) – https://saveouroldforests.ca  Unseen World (Megan Giffen), the organiser of the first fungi festival in Nova Scotia "Myceliates" (2022): https://www.instagram.com/unseenworld.ca/ Send us a text Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!

    38 min
  8. Series 7, Episode 6: Arti Prashar

    05/15/2025

    Series 7, Episode 6: Arti Prashar

    Arti’s inclusive creative practice champions diverse voices, and immersive sensory theatre practice for people living with dementia and learning disabled people. She has a strong commitment to collaborative theatre with values based on fundamental human rights. Arti stepped down as Spare Tyre's Artistic Director/CEO in August 2019 after inspirational and acclaimed leadership for 19 years. 2023/24 Director ‘Ballad of Thamesmead’ GDIF/Dante or Die Lead artist ‘Meet Your Neighbour’ Tara Theatre Lead artist The Chatter Project’ Chichester Festival Theatre. ‘My Great Escape’ Acousmatic storytelling collaboration with Julia Schauerman to produce an audio recording and live immersive event. Co-Chair of CADA (Creative Ageing: Development Agency), Chair of The Amplify Project, Awarded OBE in 2022 for services to Arts and Dementia, Awarded Tonic Award 2020 (inclusion and diversity), Churchill Fellow 2013 (spirituality, dementia and ageing)  LinkedIn: @artiprashar  Send us a text Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!

    44 min
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These chats about repair (our stuff, ourselves and our communities) range from mending textiles to the repair of broken bones, from up-cycling in the pandemic to community conflict in Bangladesh, from home made Punk Clothes to celebrating scars. Growing out of a Community project in Lewisham, South East London the podcasts give more space for longer conversations, and you'll be able to hear Rose Sinclair, textile specialist, Raj Bhari, Peacebuilder, talking with Clare MacDonald, artist and Unitarian Minister, Dr Sylvan Baker, founder of The Verbatim Formula,textile dyer Liz Honeybone from the National Theatre costume department, Theatre Designer Amanda Mascarenhas chatting with Mo Sumah, host of the Mend it with Mo repair cafe, Suzi Warren, founder of Stitch it Dont ditch it, theatre academics Sudip Chakroborthy and Ali Campbell on national identities, and Rachel Ho, ceramicist and creator of the scarred pots.They're interviewed by Sue Mayo, edited by Chuck Blue Lowry, music by Bob Karperhttp://www.suemayo.co.uk/

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  • Creator
    Sue Mayo
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    61
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Breaks & Joins Podcast
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