HI. This weeks Podcast is Bryony Doran reading 'The Slighted Piper' from her latest collection of Short Fiction, 'The Sand Eggs', published by Hookline Books

Bryony Doran reads The Slighted Piper from her 'Sand Eggs' collection

This is not a Diet! But I will tell you what I do and why, and why you should probably do it too. Eating to Live instead of the other way around resulted in a loss of 30% of fat body weight I did not need. All by following Doctors Advice from 1957! Good advice never dies, it just gets lost in the detail of modern thinking.
Links worth looking at: https://bit.ly/47KFh9k (Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken) https://bit.ly/491mHe6 (Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia.) Tim Spector at Joinzoe.com. 
I'd also like you to take a look at this website:
https://theoutdoorguide.co.uk/wellbeing-retreats-walk-yourself-happy/
Run by Julia Bradbury, the fabulous exponent of all things Natural, these courses promise a new you in two packed days of events and training.
Walk yourself over there and take a look!

A Maleficent Alchemy

This weeks Podcast is a sensitive Short Story titled ‘A Twist of Glass’, from my collection, Firelight on Dark Water… Tales of the Warm and Wonderful. 
I didn’t think too much about this story after I had written it. In fact, it hid amongst the dross on my computer for years before I 
took it out and read it again. Then it made me cry. (No, it’s not 
that bad, I’m just a soppy old sod.)
It’s a story about all the daftness that surrounds young love… 
the myths that we grow up with from the playground about how it 
will be and all our dreams of finding that perfect someone and 
how they will fill our lives to capacity and love will thrum our 
hearts like the strings on a double bass. 
All true. And it all happens. But none of it is as good as the 
anticipation of seeing that one truly undeniable sign that this is the 
one… that this person is the culmination of your teenage hopes 
and dreams… or as devastating as the worry that you are not going 
to be strong enough to deal with it.
Thomas needn’t have worried. What he’d found that day in the 
Post Office was nothing short of perfection… and she would be 
strong enough for both of them…

A Twist of Glass

No. 2, An interview with the fabulous Andy Whitehouse, is a welcome addition to my 'Kelham Island Discs' podcasts. For those who don't know, Kelham Island was once at the industrial Heart of Sheffield. The steel production and casting took place down the East End where Hitler failed to bomb them, preferring our town centre instead. I don't know why he did that, the pubs weren't that bad... But the Kelham Island area was the Heart of the engineering section, where the raw steel was actually made into something useful that we could throw back at Hitler! Nowadays, the factories are becoming up-market apartments for overpaid hamsters and students with well-off parents, but having said that, the pubs around there are certainly springing back to life. Not least 'The Gardeners Rest' on Neepsend Lane... of which I own a share! Go and buy beer! Make me rich!

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Kelham Island Discs No. 2.  Andy Whitehouse in Conversation with The Urban Tiger

This episode of Kelham Island Discs features Howard Swindells, self-penned musician and lyricist whose alter ego is the driver of a Mobile Library in the north of Scotland. Howard writes about the people he meets and those who are most important in his life, as in 'My Old Lady & Me', written as a Valentine present to his wife. Howard is a mountain runner and trains every day while not out intimidating other motorists on Scotland's famous single track highland roads.

Kelham Island Discs No. 3 Howard Swindells in conversation with The Urban Tiger

I hope this poem shows vividly that there's more to a teapot than a lid and a spout. Bomber's Moon is set during the Sheffield Blitz of the 12th. and 15th. of December 1940. Much of the City Centre and the residential areas were destroyed by raids from the Luftwaffe. There is a ground-gaining theory that in their attempt to destroy Sheffield's capacity to provide high quality steel for the war effort, they found their Radio Beacon location system distorted by the British War Department technicians and were fooled into thinking that they were bombing the East End factories. No-one told the Civilian population. In total over 660 people were killed, 1,500 injured and 40,000 made homeless in two nights of bombing.

Bombers Moon

FOR REMEMBRANCE DAY:  Bryony Doran, Author, Poet and Comedienne, in conversation with The Urban Tiger. Bryony's collection of poetry 'Bullet Proof', an unflinching examination of her emotional experiences while her son was fighting in Afghanistan, is published by Bloodaxe Books in their new anthology, 'Home Front'.

The Pearl Garden

Pearl 3: Bryony Doran in conversation with Urban Tiger Radio

Inspired by the stories of Bill Evans, Peche Merle and Carl Rogers.

Cherry Blossom

Arthur Thickett passed away some time in 2011. Perhaps he'd had enough of our capacity to make war not love. Arthur's is a moving life story of a remarkable man. Here, his loves, hopes and desires are wrestled with on a daily basis. Here also are the things he hated, mostly war and hypocrisy. A more-than intelligent child of his time, struggling to overcome humble beginnings, Arthur chimes for us all. 
Queenspark Books are available at queensparkbooks.org.uk.

Pearl 9: Arthur Thickett. An extra-ordinary man

Jack Whitham: Football legend for Sheffield Wednesday, Liverpool, England under 23's and others. A lifetime of devotion to Football, to his family, his talent for writing a good song and for performing them too. His career was curtailed by tragedy but Jack has risen above that through a determination and spirit that encompasses all the many walks of his life.

Kelham Island Discs No.12: Jack Whitham in conversation with The Urban Tiger

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