The Good Listening To Show: Stories of Distinction & Genius
"If you tell your Story 'out loud' then you're much more likely to LIVE it out loud" and that's what this show is for: To help you to tell your Story - 'get it out there' - and reach a large global audience as you do so. It's the Storytelling Show in which I invite movers, makers, shakers, mavericks, influencers and also personal heroes into a 'Clearing' (or 'serious happy place') of my Guest's choosing, to all share with us their stories of 'Distinction & Genius'. Think "Desert Island Discs" but in a 'Clearing' and with Stories rather than Music. Cutting through the noise of other podcasts, this is the storytelling show with the squirrels & the tree, from "MojoCoach", Facilitator & Motivational Comedian Chris Grimes. With some lovely juicy Storytelling metaphors to enjoy along the way: A Clearing, a Tree, a lovely juicy Storytelling exercise called '5-4-3-2-1', some Alchemy, some Gold, a couple of random Squirrels, a cheeky bit of Shakespeare, a Golden Baton and a Cake! So it's all to play for! "Being in 'The Good listening To Show' is like having a 'Day Spa' for your Brain!" So - let's cut through the noise and get listening! Show website: https://www.thegoodlisteningtoshow.com See also www.secondcurve.uk + www.instantwit.co.uk + www.chrisgrimes.uk Twitter/Instagram @thatchrisgrimes
The Good Listening To Show: Stories of Distinction & Genius
69 Welcome To The Clearing: Bristol Slapstick Festival Director - Chris Daniels!
Ohhhh yes!
It's the Life & Times of Mr Slapstick himself!
Chris Daniels - Director of the Bristol Slapstick Festival in The Good Listening To Clearing on UK Health Radio!
A lovely, rich conversation indeed: Talking the simplicity and shared admiration for 'Stoicism' - the love (obviously!) of Silent Film Comedy - the Bristol Slapstick Festival itself - and a joy of all things Stan Laurel!
Hurrah and indeed Huzzah!
Enjoy!
And if you’d prefer to Watch/Listen to Chris Daniels’ time in the Clearing it’s here:
https://vimeo.com/573567043
Slapstick Festival Director, Chris Daniels, has been doing his level best to bring Laughter to Bristol for the last umpteen years.
So far the Festival has been a regular success. Indeed Michael Palin described it as a ‘a complete delight’. The Festival Director is a silent film fanatic, marketing perfectionist and wannabe Stoic, while the younger version of Chris Daniels was amazed and delighted to discover Film Studies as a legitimate A level subject. Like his teenage contemporaries, Jurassic Park he knew, Jaws he’d enjoyed, the Godfather he’d admired but now at last he discovered the peculiar brilliance of Silent Film.
One particular pre-talkies masterpiece was the French marathon epic ‘Napoleon’ which runs for 5 and one half hours and takes, apparently, 8 hours to enjoy properly, in full. Chris Daniels is so obsessed with the medium that he really could ask the projectionist to “Play it again, Sam” and sit through it all again, right from where he came in.
Chris’s mission is simply to ensure that Silent Film immortals remain immortal in the eyes of future generations. Chris believes that the best silent films are every bit as good in their own way as the latest Hollywood blockbuster. That creativity and ingenuity are timeless. CGI is not necessarily better than earlier techniques, it is just different.
As Shakespeare expressed it in ‘Hamlet’: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” Chris credits his father for his entrepreneurial spirit and acknowledges his wife and children for the joy they bring to his life.
Tune in next week for more stories of 'Distinction & Genius' from The Good Listening To Show 'Clearing'. If you would like to be my Guest too then you can find out HOW via the different 'series strands' at 'The Good Listening To Show' website.
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