Creative Connections

Creative Connections
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Connecting the creative, creatively connecting everything else. Creative Connections explores two strands under one brand: one tracing links through song meanings and creative works, the other uncovering unexpected connections across art, nature, ideas and the wider world. New episodes released on Wednesday and Saturday.

  1. 1d ago

    No Parade Home (Song Meanings)

    Welcome to Creative Connections — where we join the dots between songwriter meanings, across the decades, and spin them into a new narrative. Today’s episode is No Parade Home: seven songs about people who go to war, come back changed, and then discover that home is not the same as welcome. Watch the full music-in-sequence video version of this podcast including the seven songs at: https://unmask.us/creative-connections/no-parade-home/. Individual Song Links on YouTube: Steppenwolf — None Of Your Doing Black Sabbath — Hand Of Doom Elton John — Daniel Bruce Springsteen — Born In The USA Tom Petty — The Criminal Kind Joe Grushecky — Somewhere East of Eden Jason Isbell — Tour Of Duty   You can watch all of our Creative Connections episodes on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CreativeConXPod

    16 min

  2. 3d ago

    Chanctonbury Ring: The Hill Beneath the Trees

    Chanctonbury Ring is one of the most atmospheric landmarks on the Sussex skyline. In this Creative Connections episode, we walk up to the Ring in the evening on the longest day of the year to watch the sunset, and follow the story of this ancient hilltop — from prehistoric earthworks and nearby barrows to Roman temples, folklore, replanting, and views across the South Downs. The video version can be found at: https://youtu.be/U2l8ZwPV3Os Image and video credits: All video footage and most images were created by Creative Connections. Additional freely reusable images from Wikimedia Commons are listed below with full attribution and licence details. The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Ordnance Survey, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Peterlewis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. J. S. C. Schaak, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. data.gov.uk, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons. Peter Cox / Chanctonbury Hill, Cross Dyke. Sussex Archaeological Society, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Peter Cox / Chanctonbury Hill, Tumulus. #CreativeConnections #ChanctonburyRing #SouthDowns #SussexHistory

    19 min

  3. Jul 1

    Between the Lines (Song Meanings)

    Welcome to Creative Connections — where we join the dots between songwriter meanings, across the decades, and spin them into a new narrative. Today’s episode is Between the Lines: seven songs whose meanings lead us back to books — not just books as references, but books as triggers. Watch the full music-in-sequence video version of this podcast including the seven songs at: https://unmask.us/creative-connections/between-the-lines/. Individual Song Links on YouTube: Creedence Clearwater Revival — Lookin’ Out My Back Door Jethro Tull — Songs From the Wood Don McLean — Vincent Patti Smith Group — Birdland Rush — 2112 Bruce Springsteen — Ghost of Tom Joad U2 — The Wanderer   You can watch all of our Creative Connections episodes on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CreativeConXPod

    17 min

  4. Jun 27

    Lost Then Found (Song Meanings)

    Welcome to Creative Connections — where we join the dots between songwriter meanings, across the decades, and spin them into a new narrative. Today’s episode is Lost Then Found: a journey that starts in grief, passes through being lost and oppressed, slips into the private theatre of sleep and heartbreak, and then turns — toward uncertainty, momentum, and finally a hard-earned kind of awakening. Watch the full music-in-sequence video version of this podcast including the seven songs at: https://unmask.us/creative-connections/lost-then-found/. Individual Song Links on YouTube: Arrested Development - Tennessee Crosby, Stills & Nash - Delta R.E.M. - Fall On Me The Kinks - I Go To Sleep Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know Pink Floyd - Time   You can watch all of our Creative Connections episodes on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CreativeConXPod

    15 min

  5. Jun 24

    Love, Unspun (Song Meanings)

    Welcome to Creative Connections — where we join the dots between songwriter meanings, across the decades, and spin them into a new narrative. Today’s episode is Love, Unspun: a tour of love and relationships in their many forms — the wide-eyed beginning, the optimistic rebound, the moment you lose your perspective, the hunger to be seen, the need for hope after tragedy, the ache of unfinished love… and the kind of loss that underpins identity itself. Watch the full music-in-sequence video version of this podcast including the seven songs at: https://unmask.us/creative-connections/love-unspun/. Individual Song Links on YouTube: Elton John - Your Song Phil Collins - This Must Be Love Lindsey Buckingham - Wrong The Who - Pinball Wizard The Rossington Collins Band - Tashauna Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs Mary Gauthier - Blood Is Blood   You can watch all of our Creative Connections episodes on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CreativeConXPod

    16 min

  6. Jun 20

    Escape Routes (Song Meanings)

    Welcome to Creative Connections — where we join the dots between songwriter meanings, across the decades, and spin them into a new narrative. Today’s episode is Escape Routes: seven songs about getting out. Sometimes that means leaving a place. Sometimes it means leaving a version of yourself. Sometimes it’s fantasy, sometimes reinvention, sometimes running, sometimes returning — and sometimes it’s the moment when escape stops being an idea and becomes a decision. Watch the full music-in-sequence video version of this podcast including the seven songs at: https://unmask.us/creative-connections/escape-routes/. Individual Song Links on YouTube: Def Leppard - Photograph Billy Joel - Piano Man Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Leonard Cohen - Bird on a Wire Ben Watt - Hendra Patti Smith Group - Citizen Ship 30 Seconds to Mars - Up In The Air   You can watch all of our Creative Connections episodes on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CreativeConXPod

    14 min

  7. Jun 17

    The Power of Prayer (Song Meanings)

    Welcome to Creative Connections — where we join the dots between songwriter meanings, across the decades, and spin them into a new narrative. Today’s episode is The Power of Prayer. Not prayer as decoration, but prayer as an act — a way people speak when ordinary language isn’t strong enough. In these seven songs, prayer shows up as ritual, surrender, wish, courage, and a kind of private survival. Watch the full music-in-sequence video version of this podcast including the seven songs at: https://unmask.us/creative-connections/the-power-of-prayer/. Individual Song Links on YouTube: Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire Fleetwood Mac - Songbird Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will Creed - Higher Bruce Springsteen - Across the Border Billy Bragg - I Keep Faith John Mellencamp - Sometimes There’s God   You can watch all of our Creative Connections episodes on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CreativeConXPod

    9 min

  8. Jun 13

    The Limits of the Dream (Song Meanings)

    Welcome to Creative Connections — where we join the dots between songwriter meanings, across the decades, and spin them into a new narrative. Today’s episode is The Limits of the Dream: seven songs about what we hope for, what we expect, what we compromise, what seduces us, and what we finally accept. Watch the full music-in-sequence video version of this podcast including the seven songs at: https://unmask.us/creative-connections/the-limits-of-the-dream/. Individual Song Links on YouTube: Jewel — Who Will Save Your Soul? John Mellencamp — Jack & Diane Eagles — Hotel California Paul Weller — Heavy Soul Oasis — Little by Little Leonard Cohen — A Thousand Kisses Deep Ben Sollee — How to See the Sun Rise   You can watch all of our Creative Connections episodes on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CreativeConXPod

    13 min
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Connecting the creative, creatively connecting everything else. Creative Connections explores two strands under one brand: one tracing links through song meanings and creative works, the other uncovering unexpected connections across art, nature, ideas and the wider world. New episodes released on Wednesday and Saturday.

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    Creative Connections
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