Best Adrienne Thomas and Harlan Cockburn Podcasts (2025)

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Creageivity 27 - with Author, Academic and Activist Gaby Weiner 40:50

14d ago40:50

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GABY WEINER has held various professorial and honorary research positions in universities in the UK and Sweden. Publications include Just a Bunch of Girls (1985); Feminisms in Education (1994); Closing the Gender Gap; Kids in Cyberspace, Reconstructing and Deconstructing Lives; Tales of Loving and Leaving (2016); Harriet Martineau and the Birth of …

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Creageivity 26 - with Author and Activist Ashton Applewhite 49:55

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Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and a co-founder of the Old School Hub. She has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times; speaks widely at venues that have included the United Nations and the TED mainstage; and is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism…

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Creageivity 25 - with Designer Peter Bosson 44:49

3M ago44:49

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Architect and Designer, Londoner PETER BOSSON attended Hornsea Art School before going on to the Royal College of Art and gaining a degree in architecture. Working as a consultant for Olivetti (then the largest computer manufacturer in the world), Peter studied the lack of ergonomic thinking in computer and office design and saw the need to “Connec…

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Creageivity 24 - with Husband, Writer, Film Director and Bridge Teacher Brian Reynolds 46:31

3M ago46:31

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Brian Reynolds: A Storyteller Who Plays to Win Brian Reynolds is an LA-based writer, director, and choreographer of movement—whether it’s the perfectly timed punch in a stage fight or the subtle, loaded pause between two characters on screen. With a background spanning theater, film, stage combat and storytelling, Brian has a knack for crafting nar…

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Creageivity 23 - with Guitarist Eli Dokson 42:01

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Musician ELI DOKSON converted from high school trumpeter to electric guitarist after seeing the Beatles perform live: “Everyone else was standing there screaming, and I was just standing there staring,” he recalls. And so began a lifelong passion for playing guitar, which Eli still continues at the age of 75, gigging regularly in the area around hi…

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Creageivity 22 - with Author and Activist Monica Clarke 42:29

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Our guest for Creageivity 22 is MONICA CLARKE – also known as Ouma Monica, meaning Grandmother – who was born and raised in South Africa during the brutal and repressive Apartheid regime which separated people according to their skin colour. By the 1980s Monica was an activist for the African National Congress, smuggling revolutionary literature an…

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Creageivity 21 - with Filmmaker Mary Dickinson 44:46

7M ago44:46

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Filmmaker MARY DICKINSON has an astonishingly long filmography working as a Producer and Director, mainly for the BBC’s flagship Arts programme, ARENA. During her seven years of art school, culminating in an MA from the Royal College of Art, Mary rapidly abandoned her teenage dreams of becoming a painter. Instead she experimented with decaying food…

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Creageivity 20 - with Glass Artist Norma Geddes 40:26

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Born in Canada during the Second World War, Norma Geddes has for many years been resident in Virginia, on the Eastern seaboard of America. She forged a career in healthcare and garnered a fistful of degrees along the way, while always being interested in creative expression. In our lively and entertaining meeting with Norma, she tells how one of he…

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Creageivity 19 - with Actor / Writer / Artist Martin Crocker 40:29

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South-east Londoner MARTIN CROCKER fronted school plays and was drawn to performing, while at the same time going on to become a sportsman and enthusiast for the outdoors, including mountaineering. In CREAGEIVITY 19, Martin describes how and why he was attracted to success in different areas, especially as an actor on stage, television, and as an i…

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Creageivity 18 - with Composer and Conductor Lucas Richman 55:32

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As Adrienne points out in Creageivity 18, listing the many and varied accomplishments of composer, musician, GRAMMY award winning conductor and writer LUCAS RICHMAN is quite the task. Coming from a family of performers, including his actor father and mother, Peter Mark Richman and Helen Richman, Lucas knew from early on that he would be a musician,…

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Creageivity 17 - with Actor / Producer / Activisit / Educator - Latifah Taormina 46:00

12M ago46:00

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A graduate of the Second City improvising group in Chicago, Latifah Taormina went on to co-found, produce, direct and perform with The Committee, San Francisco’s famed improvisational theatre of the late 60s. Under her stage name of Jessica Myerson, her Hollywood career included parts in The Graduate, Mrs Doubtfire, and Steelyard Blues, and she was…

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Creageivity 16 - with Us! (Adders & Harl) 49:05

1y ago49:05

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Our planned guest for this episode was unable to join us, so we made the creative decision to fall back on our own resources, with Adrienne Thomas the special guest of Harlan Cockburn and vice versa. Back in the 1970s we met at Maidstone Art College in Kent, southern England, and the journeys there were similar... but different: Adrienne battled fo…

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Creageivity 15 - with Singer / Songwriter / Performer Graham McGregor-Smith 41:21

1y ago41:21

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Graham McGregor-Smith took a long detour as a Chartered Accountant, and then stay-at-home Dad before eventually launching himself into music. Having started with a love of AC/DC, he became influenced by the Great American Songbook, with artists such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. However it was many years before he was able to progress things, …

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Creageivity 14 - with Author Christine Cohen Park 1:02:19

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CHRISTINE COHEN PARK is a novelist, freelance writer, facilitator of shared reading groups, and a former tutor on the University of Sussex M.A. in Writing & Personal Development, She’s written three published novels, Joining the Grown–ups, The Househusband, and A Key To Lock Out Cougars. She has also co-edited a prize-winning collection of short st…

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Creageivity 13 - with Movie Set Designer and Jeweller Mark Rimmell 41:56

1+ y ago41:56

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To describe MARK RIMMELL as a movie set designer, or as a jeweller, is to barely scratch the surface of an extraordinarily rich and varied life. Mark starts us off with his birth in the slums of London's East End in 1933, followed by incredibly difficult years. Gradually he overcame many obstacles and his creativity began to flower as a singer, and…

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Creageivity 12 - with Everyone! A Treasure Chest compilation of 11 episodes 1:25:12

1+ y ago1:25:12

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Wow! Eleven episodes of Creageivity, so we thought we would open the treasure chest for a bumper bundle compilation of clips from throughout 2023. Featured guests are: Lisa Armytage, Claire Waller & Arthur Brown, Tim Fraser, Gregory Gudgeon, John May, Honora & Dahlan Foah, Jonathan Weightman, Mich Maroney, Steve McDade, Hermione Elliott, and Emil T…

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Creageivity 11Bonus - King Lear 0:58

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Our guest on Creageivity 11, Jonathan Weightman, performs as King Lear - a 2023 film role he starred in. Listen to this wonderful bonus minute of Jonathan in full flight! If you feel you're too old to be creative, or too creative to be old, then Creageivity is the podcast for you!By Adrienne Thomas and Harlan Cockburn

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Creageivity 11 - with Director, writer and actor Jonathan Weightman 46:31

1+ y ago46:31

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Jonathan Weightman has had a storied career as an actor, writer and director, beginning with almost exclusively female roles including Lady Macbeth and St Joan while at school, coming right up to 2023 when he starred as King Lear in a movie, shot underground! With an English father and Brazilian / Uruguayan mother, Jonathan describes how he always …

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Creageivity 10 - with writer, artist and magazinist Mich Maroney 42:53

1+ y ago42:53

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Visual artist, writer, magazine publisher, and classical music enthusiast, Mich Maroney is an inspiring creative who relocated from the metropolis of London to the rural peace of Ireland. It's here that she has realised a long-held ambition to start a magazine blending the written word with distinctive visual art. SWERVE Magazine is available in pr…

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Creageivity 09 - with Musician and Stonecarver Emil Thompson 54:22

1+ y ago54:22

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Based in the countryside near Dundee, Scotland, 'Old Man Thompson' - Emil Max Thompson - is a talented musician, songwriter, stonecarver... and so much more. In this fascinating podcast he traces some of his family roots, including a cross-dressing great grandfather who was a risque star of Music Hall. We also learn what ekphrastic means, and how t…

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Creageivity 08 - with End of Life expert Hermione Elliott 51:59

1+ y ago51:59

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In her late 50s, as she was contemplating retirement from a career as a nurse, midwife and counsellor, Dr Hermione Elliott instead embarked on a huge journey of what she describes as ‘Unfoldment’. She saw the need for end of life care which was analogous to the Doulas who assist with birth, and has since worked tirelessly to found and lead the orga…

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Creageivity 07 - with Artist Steve McDade 46:12

2y ago46:12

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A drummer who arts, or an artist who drums? Steve McDade's academic career culminated as Head of Fine Art at the University of Chichester, and he has been a constant painter and exhibitor over the years: his most recent work being shown in 2023, with a back catalogue spanning very many art shows. As a musician he was inspired by Tony Williams at a…

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Creageivity 06 - with Multimedia-ists Honora & Dahlan Foah 53:45

2y ago53:45

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Honora and Dahlan Foah are multi-disciplinary artists and producers, living in Atlanta USA, and working across a dazzling variety of media. Together they are creating a sequence of seven Frequency Operas, with the first of these unique events being staged in a Budapest church, and the latest taking place in the Vatican. Honora originally trained as…

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Creageivity 05 - with Generalist John May 54:43

2y ago54:43

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What hasn't John May been involved in? He describes himself as a Generalist, and his first activities were in the early UK Arts Lab network. There followed eight years with the New Musical Express (at the time the most influential music weekly in Britain), writing as Dick Tracy. He has met and interviewed - among many others - Allen Ginsberg, Steve…

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Creageivity 04Bonus - actor Gregory Gudgeon performs Shakespeare 3:19

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In Creageivity 04 Gregory Gudgeon talks about performing Shakespeare's King Richard II, with puppets. Richard is alone in his prison cell, and begins to use objects there to take the place of people in his life as he compares how far he has fallen: ' Sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am.' He hears distant mus…

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Creageivity 04 - with actor Gregory Gudgeon, and songs from Mark Flett 57:36

2y ago57:36

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Acting seems to have been in the blood for Gregory Gudgeon from an early age, with family connections to the stage, and a childhood role in a local pantomime which captured his imagination. Later, movement training came at the Jaques Lecoq school in Paris, with productions in French, and the mentorship of the Czech actor and director, Hannah Kodice…

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Creageivity 03 - with songwriter Tim Fraser 44:59

2y ago44:59

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Platinum and Gold record songwriter Tim Fraser got traction relatively late in his career, but hasn't looked back since, with multiple successes for major artists around the world. In this podcast he relates the story of how Tina Turner came to record one of his songs, and mentions a few other performers along the way. There's also the opportunity …

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Creageivity 02 - with Claire Waller and Arthur Brown 50:56

2y ago50:56

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Arthur Brown's debut album The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic... in 1968. Since then The God of Hellfire has never stopped making music and collaborating with a wide range of amazing musicians. (In this podcast he recalls gigs with Frank Zappa, and hanging out with Jimi Hendrix in his LA apartment). A true legen…

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Creageivity 01 - with actor Lisa Armytage 37:11

2y ago37:11

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Podcast 01 features special guest, actor LISA ARMYTAGE, who fell into acting – literally – aged 6, when she entered the school stage headfirst as The Angel Gabriel through the wrong entrance - where the curtains were tied together at the bottom. Recovering from this mortifying beginning has been a lifelong quest. You may remember Lisa as a 30-somet…

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Creageivity 27 - with Author, Academic and Activist Gaby Weiner 40:50

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Creageivity 26 - with Author and Activist Ashton Applewhite 49:55

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Creageivity 25 - with Designer Peter Bosson 44:49

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Creageivity 24 - with Husband, Writer, Film Director and Bridge Teacher Brian Reynolds 46:31

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Creageivity 23 - with Guitarist Eli Dokson 42:01

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Creageivity 22 - with Author and Activist Monica Clarke 42:29

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Creageivity 21 - with Filmmaker Mary Dickinson 44:46

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Creageivity 20 - with Glass Artist Norma Geddes 40:26

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Creageivity 19 - with Actor / Writer / Artist Martin Crocker 40:29

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Creageivity 18 - with Composer and Conductor Lucas Richman 55:32

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Creageivity 17 - with Actor / Producer / Activisit / Educator - Latifah Taormina 46:00

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Creageivity 16 - with Us! (Adders & Harl) 49:05

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Creageivity 15 - with Singer / Songwriter / Performer Graham McGregor-Smith 41:21

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Creageivity 14 - with Author Christine Cohen Park 1:02:19

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Creageivity 13 - with Movie Set Designer and Jeweller Mark Rimmell 41:56

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Creageivity 12 - with Everyone! A Treasure Chest compilation of 11 episodes 1:25:12

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Creageivity 11Bonus - King Lear 0:58

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Creageivity 11 - with Director, writer and actor Jonathan Weightman 46:31

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Creageivity 10 - with writer, artist and magazinist Mich Maroney 42:53

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Creageivity 09 - with Musician and Stonecarver Emil Thompson 54:22

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Creageivity 08 - with End of Life expert Hermione Elliott 51:59

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Creageivity 07 - with Artist Steve McDade 46:12

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Creageivity 06 - with Multimedia-ists Honora & Dahlan Foah 53:45

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Creageivity 05 - with Generalist John May 54:43

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Creageivity 04Bonus - actor Gregory Gudgeon performs Shakespeare 3:19

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Creageivity 04 - with actor Gregory Gudgeon, and songs from Mark Flett 57:36

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Creageivity 03 - with songwriter Tim Fraser 44:59

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Creageivity 02 - with Claire Waller and Arthur Brown 50:56

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Creageivity 01 - with actor Lisa Armytage 37:11