Penny Thoughts Podcast

Of Valentines, Ancestry and My Mate Liz Carr

It's episode three, I go in deep with Valentines, reading poems by Hardy and Baudelaire. And me! My secret passion this month is Family Trees. Every single person has a story in their ancestry. I hope you like mine - a love story between George and Hannah in the early 1800s, my wild and crazy distant ancestors. Even this episodes ghost story, set at the atmospheric ruin of Hastings Castle, has tragic love as its theme. [TRIGGER WARNING suicide mentioned]. And, drum roll, it's a revisit to the chat around Valentine's mush with the unmistakable and inimitable Liz Carr. She says, on celebrating Valentine's and love, "It's the tiniest things that mean the most - like holding hands with [my wife] Jo." And I agree. Because disabled people often know more than most, what is truly precious. Produced by Emma Sheehan. Podcast theme – "Wanting Love" by Spiral Sky, ©PennyPepper/Acme Records Incidental  royalty-free music and sound effects from  https://www.zapsplat.com

Of Birds, New York and 2021 Remembered

In episode two I look back at the year from a disability activist's perspective.  There are lows and highs, and something I'm keen to share, trigging a gleam of optimism. There's some twitching by the bird feeder as I reveal my secret passion for birdwatching. I fly you to New York with Hemingway Shorts winning story 'Hatman and Brian', set in the Big Apple, rounded off with a regular ghostly tale- from my birthplace Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Intrigued about flying books any day! Produced by Emma Sheehan. Podcast theme – "Wanting Love" by Spiral Sky, ©PennyPepper/Acme Records Incidental  royalty-free music and sound effects from  https://www.zapsplat.com

Of Ghosts, Freaks and Disability History Month

Welcome to Penny world with the launching of my podcast.  In this episode, I chat about the UK's Disability History Month (Nov/Dec) and other crip anniversaries.  I reveal my passion for Victorian freaks, with a short story 'Mrs J Merrick' (published in Mslexia 2021) and end the episode with my regular feature on ghostly and paranormal phenomena - this time with my own ghostly experience in an old Victorian house...