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