Laura Barnett is a best selling author, journalist, theatre critic and teacher.

Her first novel Versions of us was a Times best seller and was translated into 25 different languages. Her second novel Greatest Hits was a collaboration with songwriter Kathryn Williams. She has written a third novel Gifts and has just released another titled This Beating Heart which tackles IVF. She lives in an Oast house with her husband, son and cat and teaches at manchester university.

In this episode she talks of trying to sleep in a tree and waking to a man with NO pants on doing some Shakespeare! She talks about writing, being a mother and really gets into the conscious and sub consciousness of creativity.

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Muriel Teodori is a french psychoanalyst, writer, songwriter, film director and producer.

Her first film “ Sans Plomb” premiered at the Carbourg film fest in 2000. She has written as a journalist for Elle magazine under a pseudonym Jean Giselle. She wrote the libretto Welcome To The Voice with her husband Steve Nieve. She held a masterclass at the Cannes film festival all about the unconscious of TV characters. She has written books on philosophy and Dior.

In this episode she talks movingly about being isolated as a child, dreams and singing to her father.

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Steve Nieve is an English musician and composer. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Nieve has been a member of Elvis Costello’s backing bands, The Attractions The Imposters and also Madness. He has also experienced success as a prolific session musician featured on a wide array of other artists' recordings.

In 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame as a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

Nieve has released several solo albums. Keyboard Jungle (1983) was his first, a combination of classical and ersatz film scores delivered from his beloved Steinway piano. His second album, Playboy (1987), consisted of solo acoustic piano renditions of rock songs. His other solo albums It's Raining Somewhere (1996), Mumu (2001) and Windows(2004) all confirmed his status as an artist in his own right. His classical opera," Welcome To The Voice",was a collaboration with his partner, Muriel Teodori and was released in May 2007. It was interpreted by Sting, Robert Wyatt, Elvis Costello, Amanda Roocroft, Nathalie Manfrino and Barbera Bonney.. Nieve also composed the score to Téodori's film Sans Plomb.

In this episode Steve talks of time on the road and the creative process true love and theories of sleep.

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