Stuck for Ideas: Recent Episodes
Rumble Theatre
A podcast about where we, Alice Wordsworth & Erin Blackmore, and guests go when we're stuck for ideas.
Sereena Abbassi is Independent Equity & Inclusion Practitioner, Holistic Coach and Public Speaker. Before going freelance, she was the Worldwide Head of Culture & Inclusion at M&C Saatchi Group. Taking activism into the corporate space, Sereena works with clients globally, to achieve both a creative and strategic approach to diversity and inclusion.
Sereena: http://www.sereenaabbassi.com/about Iranian Revolution 1979 Black Iranian Collective – LA Brit school Frantz Fanon Paul Gilroy W.E.B. Du Bois – Black Double Consciousness Shamanism The Body Keeps The Score - Bessel van der Kolk MC500 Scotland Hudson Beck Group
Weekly Inspirations: Darks Days – James Baldwin Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Becky is the Deputy Head Teacher at Hill Mead Community School in Brixton. Show Notes:
The Bee in Me - The Unicorn Theatre The Iron Man - Ted Hughes Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo The Pardoner’s Tale - Chaucer & The Unicorn
Inspirations: Unicorn Theatre Production Links:
https://linktr.ee/Unicorntheatre
Forest Schools: https://www.muddypuddles.com/blog/pros-cons-forest-school/
https://www.howwemontessori.com/how-we-montessori/2018/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-forest-schools.html
We would love to invite Caleb Azumah Nelson onto the podcast. Like so many others we were blown away by ‘Open Water’ for the lyricism and poetry of its language. Caleb has been named a 5 under 35 fiction honouree in the US, longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and longlisted for Desmond Elliot Prize (success in America as well as UK)
Show Notes Caleb’s Book - Open Water arthur jafa, visual artist - a space for black expression open water playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/s6fqr5ym44s71wgmpe4knarej/playlist/0JeZD3Jd67kGtSpVeXE488?si=AhHT0QRlTE-ABbwZmwKAdg Open Water Trailer - https://fb.watch/9-pyaMFntM/ kendrick lamar south east london kamble adi - ghanain photographer zadie smith james baldwin Books: intimacies katie kitamura Dark Neighbourhood by Vanessa Onwuemezi
Inspirations:
Solange -https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/solange The Wife of Willesden, by Zadie Smith - Kiln Thetare https://kilntheatre.com/whats-on/the-wife-of-willesden/
Harriet Hastings created the iced biscuit company Biscuiteers with her husband Stevie in 2007. They have shops and icing cafes around London and work with many iconic brands to create bespoke biscuits for a global market. Their recent accolades include being awarded ‘Best Brand in Lockdown’ in the 2020 eCommerce awards. Alongside her entrepreneurial success, Harriet is also managing director of the Women’s Prize for fiction. SHOW NOTES: Biscuiteers, Luxury Hand-Iced Biscuits - https://www.biscuiteers.com @biscuiteersltd
Lettice Events - https://www.letticeevents.com/
Anya Hindmarch Handbags Emma Bridgewater and Sophie Conran
3D structures - Covent Garden Gingerbread https://waddesdon.org.uk/whats-on/biscuiteers-manor-in-gingerbread/#:~:text=The%20celebrated%20hand-iced%20biscuit%20company%20Biscuiteers%2C%20have%20created,of%20icing%2C%20it%20took%20500%20hours%20to%20make%21
Women’s Prize for Fiction - https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/
www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/#podcast
Catherine Ryan at Latitude
Reading Women - https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/Reading-Women
Dolly Alderton at the Palladium
Books:
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Inspirations:
Hamnet - by Maggie O’Farrell - women’s prize for fiction winner 2020
Life size MR Darcyhttps://www.michellesugarart.co.uk/
Cheese Christmas tree - https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/cheltenham-food-artist-created-seven-3653315
Jelly competition- https://www.dezeen.com/2008/07/22/architectural-jelly-competition-results/
Article 25 - https://www.article-25.org/. Editor extraordinaire @jackbaxter Partner podcast: @outwoodspodcast
Creative duo and producers Janice Engel and Carlisle Vandervoort join us to speak about documentary filmmaking. In particular, their brilliant new project ‘Raising Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins’ a documentary about a Texan journalist who challenged the political establishment with her razor-sharp wit and outspoken approach. Janice is an award-winning filmmaker and a professor at Academy of Art University, San Francisco, where she teaches documentary film. Carlisle is a born and bred texan and a successful producer, as well as being an avid bee keeper and artist!
SHOW NOTES: Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins - https://www.modernfilms.com/mollyivins Watch on Amazon Prime @mollyivinsfilm
Film Mentions: All In: The Fight for Democracy John Lewis: Good Trouble Sisters with Transistors Crip Camp
Inspirations: TIME - https://linktr.ee/TIMEMovie @foxandrob Honeyland - https://honeyland.earth (both available on prime)
Editor @jackbaxter Partner podcast: @outwoodspodcast
Irish writer Eimear Ryan recently published her debut novel ‘Holding her Breath’ in June this year. It has been praised as the perfect read for fans who love Sally Rooney, Dolan and Anna Hope. Authors we have much admired and indulged in. It’s an honour to have the latest in that line up today. She is currently writer in residence at University College Cork. Eimear Ryan: @eims86 @eimear_ryan https://eimearryan.wordpress.com/
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Inspirations: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm. Partner podcast: @outwoodspodcast
We are very excited to launch Series 3 of Stuck for Ideas with a very talented comedian and friend who we know from our Exeter days. You may know her by her love of brownies, otters or some epic family choreography, that’s right we are joined by Abi Clarke. Over lockdown, Abi reached tik-tok fame but her success reaches into the world of stand-up and she’s made TV appearances on shows such as ‘Dating no Filter’.
Abi Clarke:
Instagram & Twitter @abiclarkecomedy
Jill & Tracey Sketch - www.twitter.com/abiclarkecomedy/status/1337102234845392896
Brand - www.wearehairypeople.co.uk/collections/abi-clarke-comedy
Rianna - Founder of Tea & Me
Rianna is the founder of the gorgeous new tea brand "Tea & Me" founded in 2020. Each tea is curated around a central focus of bettering your life in some form, with ingredients specifically chosen for their qualities and known benefits. They are infusions with intention. Tea & Me aims to redefine the way that wellbeing is approached and how tea plays a pivotal role in many individuals day to day lives.
www.itsteaandme.com
@teaandme
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/15/the-women-starting-businesses-in-lockdown-the-upside
Music: Snoh Aalegra
Original Music by Jack Baxter - www.jackbaxter.co.uk
Sponsors: HUNA Sleep https://www.hunasleep.co.uk/
Liz Dawes Liz Dawes founded the Robert Connor Dawes foundation after her son passed away from brain cancer in 2013. She has grown the charity to be the biggest paediatric brain cancer foundation in Australia. In eight years they have raised $5.7million. Liz: https://rcdfoundation.org/ https://rcdfoundation.org/music-therapy/ https://rcdfoundation.org/aim-brain/ Weekly Inspiration: www.thepadproject.org Film: Period. End of Sentence. Available on Netflix & Youtube Book: Kate Mosse - City of Tears Women in History: #womaninhistory / @katemosse
Original Music by Jack Baxter - www.jackbaxter.co.uk
Sponsors: HUNA Sleep
https://www.hunasleep.co.uk/
DAVID LURASCHI Photographer based in Paris, with artwork exhibited across Europe and the US. He is a contributor to magazines such as: AMERICAN VOGUE and M LE MONDE. And we haven’t even got started on the glamour of his clientele which extends to HERMES, DIOR, NIKE, NINA RICCI, GALERIES LAFAYETTE. Check out David's instagram to see his fantastic photos.... @davidluraschi Website: www.mirrormirror.fr/print/david-luraschi/ David Mentions: Notes on the Cinematographer, by Robert Bresson Film - Dekalog
Weekly Inspiration: Good on You - goodonyou.eco Stories Behind Things - www.storiesbehindthings.com/theseasonalshop Vestiaire Collective - www.vestiairecollective.com Thrift+ - www.thrift.plus Clean Clothes Campaign - cleanclothes.org Stacey Dooley - Fashion's Dirty Secrets - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bn6034 The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
Partnership for this series: POT GANG - www.potgang.co.uk HUNA sleepwear - @huna_sleep Original Music by Jack Baxter - www.jackbaxter.co.uk
Jaz O'Hara - The Worldwide Tribe https://theworldwidetribe.com/join-the-tribe/ https://theworldwidetribe.com/podcast/ Short films - Jangala - https://theworldwidetribe.com/jangala-film/ Mother - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r15PwRtrqFk&ab_channel=TheWorldwideTribe Other organisations to check out: Choose Love, Care for Calais, Refugee Community Kitchen https://twitter.com/AlfDubs?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor The Jungle - play by Good Chance Theatre Josh @dosomethingfornothing Our Inspirations: The Walk - Good Chance Theatre - https://www.walkwithamal.org/gallery/ Migrateful
Original Music by Jack Baxter - www.jackbaxter.co.uk
Sponsors: HUNA Sleep
https://www.hunasleep.co.uk/
Nafisah Baba is a ballet dancer and winner of the BBC Young Dancer Award. @nafisahbaba Mentions: Sadlers Wells production - ‘Message In A Bottle’ ‘Inescapable’ BBC young dancer award - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC9TRwsVKqk&ab_channel=teecee Ballet Black ‘We want our bodies back’ - https://youtu.be/JKN2Fq_mcAA Edgar Degas Maria Borges Nina Simone Documentary - Netflix Dance Therapy The Book of Quotes - By Nafisah Baba Beyoncé's Visual Album ‘BLACK IS KING’ - Disney+
Weekly Inspiration: Ballet Black, Like Water Film - www.balletblack.co.uk/like-water/ Sadler’s Wells, Dancing Nation Film - www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2021/dancing-nation/?utm_source=sm&utm_campaign=Dancing%20Nation
Partnership for this series: POT GANG - www.potgang.co.uk Original Music by Jack Baxter - www.jackbaxter.co.uk
Carla Jankelowitz - Carla is a pastry chef having studied at Prue Leith Chef's Academy in SA 2011 and Patisserie at Le Cordon Bleu in London. Since her training she has taken her to establishments such as Chelsea Football Club, Baftas, Ham Yard Hotel. Now head pastry chef at catering company CH&Co. @carlajankelowitz Mentions: Massimo Bottura George Williams - George trained at Ireland’s Ballymaloe Cookery School and was just a few weeks into his new job at the Michelin-star restaurant the River Cafe when Covid-19 struck. @fedbygeorge Order Food HERE: getfedby.slerp.com Some fave restaurants George recommended: JKS Restaurants Brawn & Bright restaurants. Weekly Inspiration: Snack Box - www.snack-box.co.uk / @vic_ivana Ottolenghi's mint and pistachio chocolate fridge cake - email us for full recipe if you can't find it! Partnership for this series: POT GANG - www.potgang.co.uk Original Music by Jack Baxter - www.jackbaxter.co.uk
Michael Coates Michael is an ex soldier and firefighter. He is the host of the award winning wellbeing podcast Declassified, Co-Founder of combat pest control which provides water and education to children in conflict and lululemon ambassador. Michael: @michael__coates Podcast: DECLASSIFIED - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/declassified/id1401005595 Head to Michael's instagram to watch his videos on how to break the ice and jump in the cold water. Charities mentioned: Samaritans SHOUT: giveusashout.org Weekly Inspiration: Chopra Foundation - www.choprafoundation.org At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Margaret Drabble Partnership for this series: POT GANG - www.potgang.co.uk Original Music by Jack Baxter - www.jackbaxter.co.uk
Anna Winger
Multi-talented wonder woman and most recognised this year as co-writer and producer of the Netflix series that captivated us all ‘Unorthodox’ which was a mesmerising insight into the Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, New York. Before this Anna created another hit TV sensation, Deutschland 83, 86 & 89 set in a divided Germany at the peak of the Cold War. She is also the author of 2008 novel ‘This Must be the Place’.
Our exciting new partnership for this series: POT GANG - www.potgang.co.uk
Anna:
This Must be the Place - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303048/this-must-be-the-place-by-anna-winger/
Deutschland 83, 86, 89
Netflix series - Unorthodox Borgan - Netflix,
Danish Political TV drama
Song - Hungry like the Wolf - Duran Duran Catnapp - https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/catnapp Argentinian musician ‘Unorthodox: The
Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots’ by Deborah Feldman - https://www.waterstones.com/book/unorthodox/deborah-feldman/9781982148201
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe - 2016 Film
Peloton bike
Weekly Inspirations:
Oma and Bella - a film by Alexa Karolinski - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/omaandbella
ASIA - a film by director Ruthy Pribar, watch on Curzon £10 for 48h
Original Music by Jack Baxter - www.jackbaxter.co.uk
ELOISE VIOLA - Singer/songwriter and body positivity ambassador. She released her first EP ‘I am enough’ in 2019 and since then has released 3 more singles, the latest one being ‘Bad Girl’. Her music, in the genre of alternative RnB pop, has been likened to Dua Lipa, with most of her songs championing female empowerment and overcoming the pressure society puts on women.
Weekly Inspiration:
Swimming in the Sea
Sea Fever by John Masefield
Evening Standard Magazine
Eloise:
@eloiseviola
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6SusScAL9iW1SN9aIiBa3T?si=qP6HtRELT3OdAvAWk5xJnA
https://wearewewear.com/
https://www.sofarsounds.com/
https://scala.co.uk/
Janice Joplin - 'Little Girl Blue' Documentary
Podcast survey - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/XVPB3L8
FLORA BEVERLEY - Fitness model, blogger and social media consultant based in London. Flora recently completing the Tokyo marathon, a boxing match and the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge. Flora creates food and fitness content for her Instagram, blog and YouTube, and writes for various publications. She’s a passionate advocate for sustainability and mental health, using her platform to myth bust, encouraging others to speak up too. Using her background in Biology, she aims to back up everything she writes with scientific evidence and reduce the amount of misinformation online
Weekly Inspiration:
Breath by James Nestor - Audible or Bookstores Crashing by Pheobe Waller-Bridge - Available on Netflix & 4oD
Flora:
Flora: https://foodfitnessflora.blog/ @foodfitnessflora W model - https://www.wmodel.co.uk/
Guide to Social Media PDF - https://payhip.com/b/n0l5
Banana bread recipe - https://foodfitnessflora.blog/2016/09/06/healthy-banana-bread/
Sustainability Eco Age - https://eco-age.com/ & https://goodonyou.eco/ @drstacysims & @r_mcgregor & @georgiebruinvels
MEADHBH MAXWELL - Graduate actor of the Lir Academy, Dublin and has recently had her first professional gig as Lisa in Normal People.
Weekly Inspirations:
Mr Salary by Sally Rooney - https://www.waterstones.com/book/mr-salary/sally-rooney/9780571351954
Kari Kola's Connemara light installation - https://galway2020.ie/en/news/special-digital-edition-of-savage-beauty/
Meadhbh:
@meadhbh_maxwell
The Lir Academy - https://thelir.ie/students/meadbh-maxwell
The Dubliners by James Joyce
Brontë by Polly Teale
Movement - https://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/the-eight-efforts-laban-movement/
https://alexandertechnique.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g8rs/normal-people
RTE comic relief - Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar Jones & Andrew Scott - https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/0626/1149930-normal-peoples-connell-marianne-have-divine-reunion/
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/pablo-neruda
SOEY KIM - Soey is a writer for British Vogue magazine. She has written an amazing breadth of articles from film reviews, to charity shop pointers, to travel guides inspired by Call me by your name as well as running Miss Vogue’s playlist every week.
Weekly Inspiration:
Hot Milk, by Deborah Levy - https://www.waterstones.com/book/hot-milk/deborah-levy/9780241968031
Soey Kim:
https://www.vogue.co.uk/profile/soey-kim
Instagram @soeykim
Soey's Inspirations & Reccomendations:
The Handmaiden and The Vengeance Trilogy Directed by Park Chan-wook
SUNITA DEVI - Yoga instructor, Lululemon ambassador and just all-round wellbeing guru.
Weekly Inspiration:
Dolly's Newsletter - https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/132443/dolly-alderton.html
Eat Out to Help Out - https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/eat-out-to-help-out/find-a-restaurant/results?postcode=tw9+1dt
Restaurant Recommendations:
https://www.atoca-lambeth.co.uk/
https://booma-brixton.co.uk/
https://www.kilnsoho.com/
Sunita:
@sunitadg
https://sunitadeviyoga.co.uk/about/
Sunitas Podcast Recommendations:
https://www.russellbrand.com/podcast/ - The title we were looking for was UNDER THE SKIN...!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deepak-chopras-infinite-potential/id1453873374
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oprahs-supersoul-conversations/id1264843400
https://melissaambrosini.com/
Song - Life is Beautiful by Quart
MAGGIE COLE - an internationally renowned musician who specialises in modern piano, fortepiano and the harpsichord. American born but now a resident in England she talks to us about her journey into music both as performer and teacher.
Weekly Inspiration:
Ministry of Stories: https://ministryofstories.org/
Sydmar Lodge Care Home Album Covers: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/seniors-album-covers-nursing-homes_ca_5f0b687dc5b67a80bc091a42
Maggie:
Share More Air: https://open.spotify.com/album/2LSZnavFrGXwaIKZDyowbd?si=Mt5FBzQ0Sl-Ck8PfjkJ4UA
Ben Folds - The Enemies Maggie: https://mountdela.com/a-roommaggiecole/ Kings Place, Concert Hall - https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/classical/?gclid=CjwKCAjw0_T4BRBlEiwAwoEiAdzU-NcoqgQHC-zWjMSj7KvyNYjCdsvMJDM2SejJcoxyTZe8s1pDdxoCPwsQAvD_BwE The Sarasa Ensemble.
Cambridge, Massachusetts - www.sarasamusic.org Olivier Messian, french composer Flamenco Fit, Battersea - https://batterseaspanish.com/course/flamenco-fitness-online/ Qi Gong - https://westlondonbuddhistcentre.com Exit track - Trio Goya (Maggie Cole on fortepiano, Sebastian Comberti on cello & Kati Debretzeni on violin) https://open.spotify.com/album/0jbzBf4o7Ggd1LFnkjEDQw#login
ALICE KIDNEY - Creator of MENTAL, a collaborative project which examines the impact of mental illness through shared stories of people personally affected by it. MENTAL exists in the form of a printed and online zine publication as well as providing an ongoing dialogue and community.
Weekly Inspiration:
The Donmar Warehouse, Blindness: https://www.donmarwarehouse.com/?
The Positive Space: @thepositivespaceireland
Brandalism: http://brandalism.ch/
Alice:
@mental.project.
www.logcabin.org.uk
www.samaritans.org/Paralympic Game
Superhumans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY7Zp96jYZM & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IocLkk3aYlk
mentalhealthawareness
EMILY BURNETT - Our guest this week, a BAFTA winning actress, talking about her career, artwork, writing and Black Lives Matter.
The impetus for this podcast came out of quarantine. With the theatre industry in crisis, our self-sufficiency, creativity and imaginative drive were put to the test. We have found ourselves looking more than ever to others for inspiration. This podcast is about where we (and guests) go when we're stuck for ideas.
Weekly Inspiration:
Hasting Contemporary - https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/exhibition/quentin-blake-we-live-in-worrying-times/ https://www.roalddahl.com/things-to-do-indoors
Letters to the Lyceum: https://lyceum.org.uk/letters-to-the-lyceum/entry/hannah-lavery
Sam Mendes Article: https://www.ft.com/content/643b7228-a3ef-11ea-92e2-cbd9b7e28ee6
Emily:
@emilyburnett97
www.emilyburnett-art.com
www.itsmyshout.co.uk/
www.unicorntheatre.com/TheBeeinme
Books:
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Girl, Women, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Little Fires Everywhere - Amazon Prime