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Chatter #86 – Paula McIntyre on Slow Food and Northern Ireland’s Food Culture

Paula McIntyre was my guest on today’s show. Paula is the head of Slow Food Northern Ireland, author of “A Kitchen Year” and “Paula McIntyre’s Down to Earth Cookbook”, and former guest chef on Ready, Steady, Cook! She is a member of the Craft Guild of Chefs, and the Irish Food Writers Guild,…

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Chatter #72 – Chris Ammon on Food, Cooking, and Becoming a Chef

My guest on the show today was a friend of mine. Chris Ammon, he is the head chef at Lizum 1600, a hotel in the Austrian ski resort of Axamer Lizum, where I spend my winters! I have been reading quite a lot about food and cooking over the past few months and…

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Chatter #70 – Jonas Salzgeber on Stoicism and Bio-Hacking

Jonas Salzgeber, author and bio-hacker, was our guest on today’s show. I first came across Jonas having read his book, The Little Book of Stoicism, which he co-wrote with his brother. It really helped me find a really positive way of looking at the lockdown and using the time as best I could….

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Chatter #64 – Katie McQuillan on Creativity and Exporting the Northern Irish Identity

Our guest on today’s show was Katie McQuillan, a photographer and videographer from Belfast Northern Ireland whose work has been chosen by the World Health Organization to front their entire worldwide coronavirus campaign. Katie is also a former classmate of mine so it was a pleasure to catch up and discuss creativity, her…

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Chatter #61 – Richie Prynne on Creativity, Busking and the Breakup of CC Smugglers

Richie Prynne, the former lead singer of CC Smugglers, was our guest on this episode of the show. CC Smugglers broke up at the end of last year after they lost over £20,000 borrowed from Richie’s Dad’s pension fund used to record their last album. They had recouped all the money using the…

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Chatter Episode 42 – Barney Scholes on Why Britain Deserves a People’s Vote on the Brexit Deal

Barney Scholes from the People’s Vote campaign was our guest on today’s show. Barney is the first of a series of interviews that we conducted in London surrounding Brexit, the People’s Vote, and a ‘No Deal’ scenario. We chatted all about the different justifications and arguments surrounding a vote on the final Brexit…

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