24 episodes
SHED TALKS (Jeremy Thomas) Blue Baltic Entertainment Ltd
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- Health & Fitness
Shed Talks is a good humoured show about well being, mental health and coping with life – what happens when things go wrong, and what you can do to get better and stay well.
Shed Talks is hosted by Jeremy Thomas – a funny guy with experience of serious mental illness, and an advocate of good mental health. Jeremy is going to be in conversation with interesting people drawn from the world of Film, TV, Music, Books, Crime, Gardening, and Business. Interesting people who have achieved something in their lives but who also have had direct or indirect experience of poor mental ill-health. By sharing their inside stories with Jeremy, guests will also reflect on personal survival techniques, demonstrating how they recovered from poor mental health and how they now stay sane.
Jeremy Thomas worked in the music business for 22 years during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. He worked with artists such as John Williams, Al Green, Camel, Caravan, U2, The Levellers, James Brown and Rupert Hine to name a few. He wrote his first novel “Taking Leave’ in 2007, a former BBC Radio 5 ‘Book of the Month”, going on to co-produce the Emmy Award-winning BBC documentary ‘Stephen Fry – The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive’ and co-write the popular- A-Z Guide to Good Mental Health with Dr Tony Hughes. His last novel was the crime thriller ‘The Santa Monica Suicide Club’ published in 2016.
Jeremy is now a leading speaker to schools and businesses, delivering talks on “How to Stay Sane in an Insane World’’. An authentic, brutally honest, and often humorous talk that draws on his own battle with bipolar disorder and addiction, providing coping skills and strategies based around a mental health tool kit.
For more Shed Talks information and mental health support visit our website or contact:- enquiries@jeremythomastalks.co.uk
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SHED CHAT WITH RACHEL JONES, EDITOR OF TOES IN THE WATER, SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHER, TALKS ABOUT SELF DISCIPLINE & THE HUGE POWER OF WILD WATER SWIMMING HAS HAD ON HER SELF ESTEEM, AUTO IMMUNE DISEASE, RAISING TWO KIDS ON HER OWN.
Rachel Jones is the editor of Toes in the Water: Stories of lives changed by wild swimming
talks about the good and the bad times and how swimming in cold wild water has transformed her and other people's lives for the better. She highlights a sense of community, trauma, divorce, self-discipline, self-regulation, resilience, coeliac disease/autoimmune disease, happiness, kindness, autism and ADHD. Discusses being an SEN teacher at King Edward's School Southampton. -
PAUL UNWIN TALKS TRAUMA, AGED 19, SURVIVOR'S GUILT, CREATING TV SERIES CASUALTY WITH JEREMY BROCK, GRATITUDE, GRIEF, FEAR, DRUMMING, STEELY DAN, BEDALES SCHOOL, EMDR, AMBITION, CARTIER-BRESSON, ARTHUR MILLER, HILL STREET BLUES, NOT DWELLING ON REGRET.
Paul Unwin is the co-creator of huge hit TV show 'Casualty' with best friend Jeremy Brock, was the artistic director of the Bristol Old Vic, and collaborator and good friend of playwright Arthur Miller, to name a few accolades. He talks about the traumatic turning point of his life at the young age of 19, therapy and later EMDR, survivor's guilt. His ethos is "Don't live with regret, don't live with fear".
Paul also talks about his recent West End play 'The Enfield Haunting', as well as his new play, ‘The Promise’, about the birth of the NHS.
Paul has two children and a wife called Kate who he thinks of as his ‘very best friend’. Both his parents were in the diplomatic service, his father was an ambassador, his mother, interestingly, was a German Jew who managed to escape to England in 1938 from the Nazis. Paul’s other best friend is his dog, who he refuses to call a pet. -
A SHED CHAT HARVEY LISBERG- NICE GUY, GAMBLER, LEGENDARY MANAGER OF HERMAN'S HERMITS, GRAHAM GOULDMAN ,10CC, SAD CAFE, SNOOKER ACE JIMMY WHITE. TALKING ABOUT MICK JAGGER BEING BERATED BY CHARLIE WATTS, THE IMPORTANCE OF LUCK AND LIVING LIFE TO THE FUL
New to 2024: SHED CHATS
Shed Chats are briefer conversations with interesting people - not specifically to do with mental health, but fascinating topics nonetheless.
Self-effacing Harvey Lisberg talks about making his own luck, His wild life in the music business, meeting Elvis, Colonel Parker, playing on the same bill as the Stones. What it was like to be in the fast lane in Manchester and the North, London and New York. and on being a self confessed gambler. Graham Gouldman, Peter Noone, Herman's Hermits and 10CC How he met his wife, Carol and how she changed his life for the steadier and much better. His time with Danny Batesh at Kennedy Street . The importance of family then and now. -
MARY RYAN: DOCTOR, SCHOLAR, WIFE, MOTHER, SURVIVOR, DOG LOVER, COLD WATER SWIMMER TALKS . PERSONALITY DISORDER, GOOD & BAD PRIESTS, BEING A G.P. POWER, VIOLENCE, NOT BEING BELIEVED, 7 YEARS OF HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS. LOVE
Mary Ryan was a GP for over 35 years, is the mother of four children and the wife of one husband. She is the national adviser for the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, an Oxford graduate and scholar. Throughout her life, she has been fearless and shown great courage and humour. In just the same way, she talks about her diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), its stigma and the lack of understanding surrounding it, and how her own feelings about it have changed.
Mary talks reconciling with her Catholic faith after a traumatic childhood, growing up as an 'outsider', a sudden stroke at 41, serious workplace bullying, hospital admissions, and the one treatment that has really helped her mental health. Mary also recalls her time in Australia, her love for the Archers, Barry Humphries, dogs, baking and cleaning. -
RICHARD MORTON JACK TALKS IN-DEPTH ON NICK DRAKE: THE ‘FIVE LEAVES LEFT’ ‘PINK MOON’ SINGER-SONGWRITER’, HIS LYRICS, CAMBRIFGE UNERSITY, ISLAND RECORDS, CHRIS BLACKWELL, EXPECTATIONS, FEAR, DISAPPOINTMENT, DEPRESSION, ISOLATION AND TRAGIC END
Music biographer, reviewer, and co-founder of elvinyl.com Richard Morton Jack joins host Jeremy Thomas to discuss 'Nick Drake: The Life' and much more.
Many people thought that Nick Drake was going to be hugely successful in the 1970s. His three albums were all critically acclaimed, yet did not sell. Tragically, he took his own life when he was 26. However, ever since his death, his popularity has continually increased throughout the world. This episode sets the record straight on unanswered questions about Nick Drake’s private life and his demise. Was it possible he had severe depression or schizophrenia? Was it possible he was going to marry someone? What would have happened to his mental health had he been alive today?
Thanks to the unfettered access to private correspondence, tapes, university friends, family friends, and female acquaintances, Richard Morton Jack sympathetically but objectively unveils Nick Drake's private life, medical history and much more. -
Top impressionist of BBC Radio 4's Dead Ringers, talks about growing up in a house dominated by Liverpool FC and her father's Schizophrenia. Her love of Thora Hird's certainty. Spitting Image, winning Celebrity Mastermind, fear, self-doubt, and humour.
Jan Ravens did not enjoy her childhood, did not like being teased about her father . Did not like feeling such a powerless child. Jan talks about how being ill, causing a serious weight loss and his made her the most popular gal down at the disco. How this and impersonating teachers to her fellow pupils gave her some much needed power. She talks of some good times laughing at comedy TV with her father and trying to be sympathetic about her angry mother. How her father was baffled and defeated by life. She describes many poignant and awkward aspects of the effects on the family that her father's illness trig How local Glenda Jackson was a major inspiration. Ferociously bright, Jan got to Cambridge University, took a deep breath and dived into the world of the Footlights. Her achievements include winning the big Award at the Edinburgh Festival. Going on to work in Spitting Image, the RSC, Strictly, she felt the fear and did it anyway. What drove her on and what keeps her afloat?