Roaming Voices Podcast: Remarkable stories told by people who live nomadically.

Debs Wrekon: Fire, Scrap and Sculpture

Welcome to Roaming voices, a podcast having conversations with people who live in nomadic ways. This is episode 4, and today we hear from Debs Wrekon, a sculptress and member of the Mutoid Waste Company, an anarchistic arts collective founded in the 80's that makes post-apocalyptic pieces out of scrap. Deb's work ranges from large installations like giant love hearts made out of the back of two caravans welded together, to smaller pieces made from household items like spoons and nut crackers, and are a bit of a feminist statement, putting a new spin on things which may be traditionally associated with being a housewife. Her work features at festivals all over the world, including Japan and Italy and of course the UK festivals like Glastonbury, Shindig and Boomtown. Useful links: * Roaming Voices Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/roaming_voices_podcast/] * Wrekon Website [https://wrekon.wordpress.com/] * Debs Wrekon Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/wrekondebs/] * Wrekon - Mutoid Waste Co. Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/WrekonMWC/?ref=embed_page#] * House of Commons ( Removal of Hippy Convoy at Stonybridge PDF [https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1986-06-03/debates/5145ab23-757d-445b-b344-be03b146f70c/HippyConvoy(NewForest)] * New Age Travellers - Seven Days At Stoney Cross (YouTube) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIlWi05I-mo] * Mutonia (YouTube) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcAHEW7iK74] * Mutonia Website [https://www.mutonia.eu/] * Arcadia Website [https://www.arcadiaspectacular.com/about/] * Tripadvisor Mutonia [https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g1315192-d15188194-Reviews-Mutonia-Santarcangelo_di_Romagna_Province_of_Rimini_Emilia_Romagna.html](love the fact that this is here! :-) * Mutonia Risk of Eviction [https://www.mutonia.eu/%20https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/gallery/2025/11/07/mutonia-risk-eviction-mutoids-capsule-collection-cp-company-slam-jam.html] * Raw Vision Blog Mutonia [https://rawvision.com/blogs/articles/mutonia] * Unfair eviction of Mutonia [https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/gallery/2025/11/07/mutonia-risk-eviction-mutoids-capsule-collection-cp-company-slam-jam.html] * Unfairground at Glastonbury Festival [http://www.unfairground.co.uk/] * ⁠Atchin Tan at Glastonbury Festival ⁠ [https://atchin-tan-glastonbury.org/] * Deamon or Doppleganger (YouTube) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ3IHbSSnoA&t=1s] * Deamon or Doppleganger article in Glasto Fest Feed [https://www.glastofestfeed.com/features/editorials/glastonbury-mini-festival-turns-20/] * Gypsy & Traveller Trades Breifing [https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Economic-and-Financial-Exclusion-briefing-2.pdf] * Local authority transit provision for Gypsies & Travellers [https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/FFT_TransitProvisionFOIReportNov2024_FINAL-1.pdf] * Best Practice for assessing the accommodationneeds of Gypsies and Travellers [https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Best-Practice-for-Gypsy-and-Traveller-Assessment-of-Accommodation-Needs-2.pdf] * Applying for a pitch on a Council site [https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/advice-section/applying-for-a-pitch-on-a-council-site/] * Travellers Times Scrap Metal Law [https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2014/11/new-scrap-metal-law-hit-travellers-hard] * Rockaway Park [https://www.vice.com/en/article/rockaway-park-utopia-bristol/] If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to find out more please follow the links in the show notes and if you would like to join me for a conversation please email ⁠roamingvoices@gmail.com⁠  Thank you for listening. Josie 🌞 Music Credits: Theme Tune Jingle: Pappa Jeffery! Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!) https://uppbeat.io/t/doug-organ/twilight-dubLicense code: IDDPITX8BPHLQQNU https://uppbeat.io/t/sky-gienger/spotlight License code: 9ZBBJ0LLR86ZMQWA https://uppbeat.io/t/sky-gienger/how-did-you-find-me License code: SR9EBH1VTEGN7ZEL

Andy Hope: Doing Constructive Things with Renewable Energy

Welcome to Roaming Voices, conversations with people who live in nomadic ways. In this episode we hear from Andy Hope, co-founder of the Green Roadshow and the well-known Glastonbury Festival venue, Croissant Neuf. Andy shares his love of family, community, and nature, reflecting on being ahead of the times and founding eco-energy venues by harnessing natural resources to grow food and power music. Andy reminds us that by working collaboratively and letting the magic happen, life can take you down some interesting roads. Useful links: * Roaming Voices Instagram⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/roaming_voices_podcast/] * Croissant Neuf Glastonbury [https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/areas/the-green-fields/croissant-neuf/] * Croissant Neuf Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/croissantneuf69/] * Croissant Neuf Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/croissant_neuf_/] * Wind and Sun: [https://www.windandsun.co.uk/pages/milestones%E2%81%A0] * Fred Dibnah (Steeplejack) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0A4eqGjrQ&t=13s] * TheRoundup.org.uk [https://theroundup.org/solar-power-statistics/] * How Blue LEDs Changed the World [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idwKHQEw78g] * Tess and Dougal (Resource Living) [https://www.resourceliving.org/] * Dale Vince remembers the Battle of the Beanfield [https://youtu.be/BIcBWk-ctqc] * Battle of the Beanfield | Operation Solstice Film [https://youtu.be/V1doyDQDZtc?si=aAgkbkDj1J_cUbcO] If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to find out more please follow the links in the show notes and if you would like to join me for a conversation please email ⁠roamingvoices@gmail.com⁠  Thank you for listening Josie 🌞 Music Credits: Theme Tune Jingle: Pappa Jeffery! Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/airstream/sunny-side License code: CDS7B29NSBYUUSUX https://uppbeat.io/t/matrika/on-vacation License code: ESB0FAAPNLLPQUFK https://uppbeat.io/t/blue-wednesday/lefty License code: KWSK2VCYPYEXJZNO https://uppbeat.io/t/doug-organ/nag-champa License code: YCV0KPOTH4P5LBLZ https://uppbeat.io/t/giulio-fazio/battare-prosciutto License code: LROB6WF9FRYAJ2BC https://uppbeat.io/t/walz/golden-age License code: KCWXILU69OCSYH0B

Mary Guyver: You Can’t Take the Show Out of the Girl

Welcome to Roaming Voices, conversations with people who live in nomadic ways. I am having a conversation with Mary Guyver, a New Traveller, performer and Bi-Lingual stage Manager.  Just a bit of a warning, there may be swearing, sensitive issues and terminologies discussed.  This is my second episode and was recorded across continents and not without its technical issues! It turns out that the internet in Brittany, France, is not great on a Thursday night when - in Mary 's words ‘all the gamers are on’   Hear about Mary's Badass bus life, dealing with breakdowns and learning mechanics, being a self -sufficient single mum to her daughter Circe, her life as a performer, stage manager and activist, ditching the UK and moving to France.  Mary shows us that you can be autodidact (a self-taught person) turning your hand to anything if you put your mind to it, to not be so suspicious of strangers and to be mindful of the angels and the arseholes! After about 40 mins of playing with the tech, Mary and I worked out a way of still having a conversation by ditching the computer and going for a video chat on our phones. I balanced my personal phone in an empty cup of tea on my desk and balanced my work phone on another cup and pressed record! The sound is a bit sketchy and there was a weird echo and delay which meant I had to limit my own speaking to reduce the echo, but it worked out pretty good and we laughed at how bodge jobbing is in our blood! Useful links: * Roaming Voices Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/roaming_voices_podcast/] * Young Travellers ‘Bullied Out Of School' In London, Report Finds | EachOther [https://eachother.org.uk/traveller-children-bullied-out-of-school/] * Education - Friends, Families and Travellers [https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/our-vision-for-change/education/] * Education-inequalities-faced-by-Gypsies-Roma-and-Travellers-in-England-briefing-2.pdf [https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Education-inequalities-faced-by-Gypsies-Roma-and-Travellers-in-England-briefing-2.pdf] * Travellers Skool Bus - One Eye on the Road [https://alanlodge.co.uk/OnTheRoad/travellers-skool-bus/] * Education Otherwise - | Education is Compulsory - School is Optional [https://www.educationotherwise.org/] * Friends, Families and Travellers [https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/] * The Traveller Movement [https://travellermovement.org.uk/] * Travellers Times [https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/] * CND website [https://cnduk.org/who/] * Cuban Missile Crisis [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/cuban-missile-crisis]Home - Big-Top Hire - Selene Events [https://seleneevents.com/] * MUTOID WASTE COMPANY | Joe Rush [https://www.joerush.com/mutoidwastecompany] * Croissant Neuf | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/croissantneuf69/?locale=en_GB] * Circomedia: Centre for Contemporary Circus and Physical Theatre [https://www.circomedia.com/] * Circus City [https://www.bristolcircuscity.com/] * Rougham Tree faire [https://www.ukrockfestivals.com/rougham-tree-faire-1980.html] If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to find out more please follow the links in the show notes and if you would like to join me for a conversation please email ⁠roamingvoices@gmail.com⁠  Thank you for listening Josie 🌞 If you or anyone you know are experiencing being in an abusive relationship, you are not alone, there is help out there please reach out to someone you trust or contact ⁠⁠ Women's Aid ⁠ [https://www.womensaid.org.uk/] Big love xxx Josie xxx Music Credits: Theme Tune Jingle: Pappa Jeffery! Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/giulio-fazio/marching-band License code: WT24Y1KEXVWLVOSQ https://uppbeat.io/t/matt-stewart-evans/crazy-circus License code: NCD7LJMH96FMYQOD https://uppbeat.io/t/giulio-fazio/battare-prosciutto License code: LROB6WF9FRYAJ2BC https://uppbeat.io/t/gnashers/rubidium-disk-mannequins License code: 9YMRLBHYEQAPDPIC

Kate Verney: “Being a Girl Clown Was Hard.” Recorded at Glastonbury Festival 2025.

Welcome to Roaming Voices, conversations with people who live in nomadic ways. This is my first episode and was recorded at Glastonbury Festival 2025, in my van, and under the Ash tree opposite the Pyramid stage, on the Wednesday before the festival started.  I am having a conversation with Kate Verney, hear about her extraordinary life on the road and her mission to be a female clown and mime artist - which was rare back then-  her life living in a truck, travelling with troupes and travelling solo, busking for breakfast and how being neuro divergent was her super power as a performer. Kate reminds us to look hard for the magic. Kate has worked as a body harmony teacher and practitioner for over 25 years, her hands on body harmony work is intuitive and holistic, working with people and the stories they hold in their bodies, she is happy and in love and living in South Wales by the sea. Check out her website⁠ ⁠bewellbehappy.co.uk⁠⁠ [http://bewellbehappy.co.uk] Useful links: * Roaming Voices Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/roaming_voices_podcast/] * ⁠⁠Friends Families and Travellers ⁠ [https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/] * ⁠⁠Battle of the Beanfield Operation Solstice 40th anniversary edition⁠⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMYjeb-Po58] * ⁠⁠Atchin Tan Glastonbury⁠⁠ [https://atchin-tan-glastonbury.org/] * ⁠⁠Alan Lodge (Tash) Battle of the Beanfield photographs⁠⁠ [https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0cf2eb075a14a844&q=Battle+of+the+Beanfield&udm=7&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeuYzzFkfneXafNx6OMdA4MQRJc_t_TQjwHYrzlkIauOKj9nSuujpEIbB1x32lFLEvPT3JmO8mWQjm2X3w-eMKXZ0RUYhz1JSpwmiVqRbYKaSUH5IT0DtjseXr7pWbySQW2IansKYxVko0I4Xq9VSCktKDaAksofpR02O_Zlq1OtpJOB00g&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_-Nymj8aOAxVpVkEAHaBtOM8QtKgLKAJ6BAgVEAE&biw=1232&bih=560&dpr=1.5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8afb620e,vid:HAJvdQlRgSo,st:0] * ⁠⁠Traveller Times⁠⁠ [https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/about] * ⁠⁠Criminal Justice Act⁠⁠ [https://djmag.com/features/dance-protest-30-years-uks-anti-rave-criminal-justice-bill] * ⁠⁠Nik Turner⁠⁠ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Turner] * ⁠⁠Gerry Cottle Circus⁠⁠ [https://www.circopedia.org/Gerry_Melville] * ⁠Kidz Filed Glastonbury⁠ [https://www.kidzfield.com/] 'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' ⁠He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Poem by W.B. Yeats. ⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRkdLNG_aYI] If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to find out more please follow the links in the show notes and if you would like to join me for a conversation please email ⁠roamingvoices@gmail.com⁠  Thank you for listening Josie 🌞 Music Credits: Theme Tune Jingle: Pappa Jeffery!