Survival Songs

<p>Grab yer air guitars and prepare to yell - We’re about to go in for a female-focussed, punk moment, and it’s ace.</p><p>Laura Slater in a designer who works across textiles, print and image making. She is also a...

<p>Big song - Gorgeous chat. Grab a cuppa and enjoy two pals unpacking a very beautiful song.</p><p>Rich Huxley is a musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and workshop leader, best known as a founding...

<p>Bodies, brains, friends and lovers. This is a beautiful chat about a beautiful song - What more do you want? We laughed, cried and swayed our way through this one. We hope you do too.</p><p>Caro is an artist, writer...

<p>Craft, community, solidarity and skateboarding: This chat with Luke Tonge goes places! It may be the shortest track we’ve heard so far on Survival Songs, but it sure still packs a punch. And Luke is the perfect...

<p>Testament is an acclaimed writer, rapper and Guinness world record breaking human beatboxer who is based in West Yorkshire. Testament’s work ranges from spoken word poetry, playwrighting and composition, to essay...

<p>Every now and then, there comes a song that has space for everything - all of it. Good, bad and ugly; brave, wild and hilarious. This is one such song (and we know the perfect person to introduce you to it). Meet...

<p>A longer and lovely episode for you this week, as we overhear two best friends having the kind of conversation they’ve been having in the pub for a long time already…</p><p>Mat Lazenby is the founder and creative...

<p>When does Char play this euro pop banger? “Every opportunity! I’ve become unbearable! I’m a very annoying fan of this song!” Despite really not wanting to choose it, this song is undeniably Char’s happy place, and...

<p>David Benjamine Blower is a musician, poet, podcaster and writer. From the post-industrial melting pot of Birmingham, he has written and toured prolifically, gathering audiences 'round fires to find language for...

<p>‘I would’ve been twelve. And I was holding on to the ladder, there was this little radio with the antennae up, tin foil on it…’ Grab a cuppa and let Robbie tell you a story. This is a great conversation about a song...

<p>‘You’ve just got to keep walking.’ Says Rio, ‘Surviving is giving yourself permission not to thrive.’</p><p>Are we spoiling you with the wisest guests on any podcast? Probably. And here’s another one. We hope you...

<p>“My partner give it me” says Florence, when we asked how this song first found her. But while Joe may have given her this song, what Florence describes in this conversation is all her own. This episode contains...

<p>Nicki Davy is a Yorkshire actor, musician, writer and theatre-maker. She has been lucky enough to tread the boards at some brilliant venues, including Sheffield Crucible, Lyric Hammersmith, Nottingham Theatre Royal...

<p>Sim isn’t a die hard fan of many things, but this band had him at this song. We hope you enjoy what turned out to be a lovely chat about the right tune landing at the right time, and all the joy that’s rolled out...

<p>Those songs that remind us who we are a bit, soundtrack us through doorways and towards more loving places - Know what we mean? Yeah. Here’s one of those.</p><p>Meet the fantastic Lindsey Chapman and her chosen...