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Squatting Toad
by Mel Byron
Interested in Creativity? Work full-time and trying to find the balance between your creative activities and the rest of life? Meet interesting people and be inspired as this is the podcast for you.
Episodes
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Squatting Toad Episode 19, Goodbye 2016, Hello More Creativity
In this last podcast of 2016, recorded in Ukraine, Mel reflects on the year and hopes to inspire us all to greater creativity in 2017. There'll be more comedy, for sure.
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Squatting Toad Episode 18 Daring to Write with Angela Thirlwell
In this unmissable episode, Mel meets published author, Angela Thirlwell, for insights into her writing career and gets brilliantly helpful advice for aspiring writers.
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Squatting Toad Episode 17 North London Dramaphilia
Mel discusses amateur theatre with Angharad Ellis Jones of the Crouch End Players. Should we even call it 'amateur'? What inspires people to join an amateur theatre group? Is acting good for you? (Answer: Of course it is!)
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Squatting Toad Episode 16 Musical Fireworks
Mel meets Barbara de Biasi, inspirational head of Fireworks Music School. Barbara explains what happens inside our heads when we play music and why it's important to learn an instrument. It seems that music is the most beneficial creative thing we can do.
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Squatting Toad Episode 15 Top Books for Creative People
This time, Mel Byron reviews and recommends some great books for creatives, by David Quantick, Grayson Perry and Fergus O'Connell. Entertaining, yes, but you'll also learn a lot (from this episode AND from the books!).
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Squatting Toad Episode 14 'Bad' Painting with Alex
When is your creative work 'bad'? Who decides? And does it matter? Actually, it doesn't. Painter, Alex Vassiliades, talks about the fun she gets from the process and itself. A helpful reminder for all creatives.
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Squatting Toad Episode 13 A Sort of Mid-Term Summing Up
Some helpful hints and inspiration for creatives, gleaned by Mel Byron from her own creative journey.
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Squatting Toad Episode 12 Cynthia Hamilton Performance Poet and Good Egg
Funny, warm and insightful, performance poet and writer, Cynthia Hamilton, tells us what drove her to write and perform. Now she has taken a break from performing, how does she deal with the need for an audience? Once you take that step, are you always a performer, even if you never set foot on a...
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Squatting Toad Episode 11 The Art Group
Squatting Toad travels (almost) to Wales to join the Sunday meeting of a group of artists and art enthusiasts. Why do they paint together? Were those teachers who said we couldn't 'do' art right, or can anyone be an artist?
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Squatting Toad Episode 10 The Radio Show with Peter Evans
This time we meet Peter Evans, presenter of Icelandic music show, Ice Station, on Croydonradio.com. Peter also presents a monthly poetry programme. How did he hit upon these two passions and find the forum to broadcast on them? What can we learn if we want to make community radio?
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Episode 9: The Open Mic Night
So you're a musician and you want to play, but where? How do you let the world know how good you are, and how do you find and audience? Travel the open mic circuit. Musician, Dan Rubinstein, tells us about his experience.
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Squatting Toad Episode 8 Book review
This time, Mel reviews two important new books on creativity: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert and Think Like an Artist by Will Gompertz, and asks for your suggestions for inspiring books.
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Squatting Toad Episode 7 Curiosity
This time, Mel Byron takes us back to some creatives from 1999. Then we ask, why is curiosity important to help us create?
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Squatting Toad Episode 6 New Year New, New Motivation
How do we motivate ourselves and find time for creativity in our lives? Come to think of it, what is creativity? Mel Byron wonders about the concept of 'New Year, New You'. What do we need to change? Do we need to change anything? So many questions, so let's start making time to answer them and…
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Squatting Toad Episode 5 Once Upon the Book
In this latest episode of the creativity podcast,we meet blogger, Maria Vassilopoulos of Once Upon The Book. How should we approach blogging in order to build an audience? Is that the most important consideration? And we touch on the topic of self publishing.
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Squatting Toad: Episode 4: To Sing is Glorious
Singing is good for you, and openings in choirs and other groups abound. This time, we meet singing group, The Wrablers, and hear their stories. More than just a small choir, these guys work hard to perfect what they do. We have some advice for would-be choral singers too.
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Squatting Toad: Episode 3: Inspiration for writers (and others)
Squatting Toad with a Hint of Radio 4! Coach and writer, Tania Hummel, discusses motivation, fear and what helps or hinders us creatively. More long words than previous episodes and more to think about. Why do we fear failure? And does Crouch End have any bookshops left? Listen and find out.
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Squatting Toad: Episode 2, Emmalucymakes
Inspiration for creatives from Emma McArthur of Emmalucymakes. How does she balance her full-time job and her crafting passion?
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Squatting Toad
Episode 1 of the podcast on creativity. If you both work and pursue creative interests in your free time, this is the podcast for you.Presented by Mel Byron.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Interested in Creativity? Work full-time and trying to find the balance between your creative activities and the rest of life? Meet interesting people and be inspired as this is the podcast for you.
HOSTED BY
Mel Byron
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How many episodes does Squatting Toad have?
Squatting Toad currently has 19 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Interested in Creativity? Work full-time and trying to find the balance between your creative activities and the rest of life? Meet interesting people and be inspired as this is the podcast for you.
How often does Squatting Toad release new episodes?
Squatting Toad has 19 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Who hosts Squatting Toad?
Squatting Toad is created and hosted by Mel Byron.
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