A couple of weeks ago, I received an email out of the blue from James Aldred, a producer on BBC Radio’s The Late Show. He had come across my book, Chimera, and read my accounts of what happened during that incredibly intense time through my guest blog post for the charity Young Lives Vs Cancer. He asked if I would be up for recording an interview with the show’s host, Jim Davis, the very next day.

Of course, I said yes. As an independent artist, one of the most difficult issues to deal with is getting your work in front of people. So for the BBC to want to publicise my story and my book – well, you don’t say no. The Late Show, for those that don’t know, is a weekday evening show recorded in London but broadcast simultaneously across the UK’s network of 39 BBC local radio stations, a nightly audience of a few hundred thousand.The original link on the Sounds app is here. The Interview starts at 22mins, and continues at 30mins.I hope you enjoy this interview, it was great to talk with Jim about that crazy time and the raw and poignant book that emerged out of it. You can check the book out at any of the following locations, or ask your local bookshop to order it for you.Amazon Audible Bookshop.orgSpotifyIf you feel so moved it, please help me out by leaving a review if the book wherever you can. Good Reads is a great place to start.Thanks, as ever, for your support.

Sian is a vocalist, composer, musical director, and co-founder of NYX Electronic Drone Choir, based in London, UK.

NYX is an electronic drone choir and otherworldly electric chorus, re-embodying live electronics and extended vocal techniques. NYX are reshaping the role of the traditional female choir, testing the limits of organic and synthetic modulation to explore the full spectrum of collective female voice as an instrument.

Sian is a bubbling creative force, and I hope you enjoy this deep dive into her background, her process, and the formation of her primary artistic project. From singing opera as a teenager in New Zealand, to working at London Contemporary Voices, and now as an established artist in her own right. Much love and thanks to Sian for sharing her time and energy.

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Charlotte Pulver is a modern-day alchemist and ceremonial facilitator, born into the Pulver lineage of apothecarians.

She has a background in natural healthcare, studying and practising various systems of healing – including Tibetan Medicine – for more than twenty years. Her work is rooted in a love for making medicines, which she sells through ‘Pulver’s Apothecary’. She teaches intuitive herbalism and medicine-making and leads a variety of pilgrimages, ceremonies and workshops at auspicious times throughout the year.

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