The Totnes Chain Podcast

22/08/2023

Our event at St Marys Church at 3pm is on tomorrow! Very much looking forward to seeing people there...

04/07/2023

The very fabulous Rob Hopkins! The early years!

‎Show The Totnes Chain, Ep 3 - Rob Hopkins, the Prequel - 3 Jul 2023

02/07/2023

Another one of Rob Hopkin's pictures, his podcast is out tomorrow...

02/07/2023

A Jewish family Karnofsky, who immigrated from Lithuania to the United States, took pity on the 7-year-old boy and brought him to their home.
There he stayed and spent the night in this Jewish family home, where for the first time in his life he was treated with kindness and tenderness.
When he went to bed, Mrs Karnovski sang him Russian lullabies, which he sang with her.
Later he learned to sing and play several Russian and Jewish songs.
Over time, this boy became the adopted son of this family.
Mr. Karnofsky gave him money to buy his first musical instrument, as was the custom in Jewish families.
Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies in compositions such as St. James's Hospital and Go Down Moses.
The little boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family, who adopted him in 1907. And proudly spoke Yiddish fluently.
In memory of this family and until the end of his life, he wore the Star of David and said that in this family he learned "to live a real life and determination."
This little boy's name was Louis Armstrong.This little boy was called Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. Louis Armstrong proudly spoke fluent Yiddish and “Satchmo” is Yiddish for “big cheeks, a nickname some say was given to him by Mrs. Karnofsky!

Now you know rest of the story!

02/07/2023

Coming soon on the Totnes Chain Podcast, Ray 'the ears' Hendricksen discusses his time working as a sound engineer for some of the biggest bands in the world.

02/07/2023

02/07/2023

The young Rob Hopkins (+ beard!)

02/07/2023

Next up is Rob Hopkins - the story behind the creator of Transition.
(and a very good artist)

13/06/2023

The wonderful Emma Hopkins shares her story here …

‎Show The Totnes Chain, Ep 2 - Rebellion - 11 Jun 2023

10/06/2023

Coming out on Monday will be Emma Hopkins, XR inspiration and activist

22/05/2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-totnes-chain/id1657664021?i=1000613948828

‎Show The Totnes Chain, Ep 1 - Farming and Wellbeing - 21 May 2023

21/05/2023

Mark O’Connell’s podcast is out tomorrow…

18/05/2023

Coming up: Huxham Cross pioneer, Mark O’Connell, XR inspiration Emma Hopkins, Jeff Chinnock, director at R&E and jazz legend, Mama Tokus

17/05/2023

The next is going to be about environmentalists - it starts with Matt Harvey interviewing Mark O’Connell of the Apricot Centre & Huxhams Cross…

09/05/2023

The Marmot Review - as discussed by its Co-author, Jessica Allen in our latest podcast…

The Marmot Review into health inequalities in England was published on 11 February 2010. It proposes an evidence based strategy to address the social determinants of health, the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age and which can lead to health inequalities.

08/05/2023

This is the latest Marmot report, which my sister Jessica co-authored.

Webinar: Build Back Fairer

08/05/2023

For anyone interested in the Marmot review or the Institute of Health Equity, here is my sister's bio and their website. Her episode is out soon.

institute of Health Equity Team, University College London, social determinants of health, public health, Michael Marmot, global health, inequality, covid-19, build back fairer, World Health Organisation, inequity, deprivation.

08/05/2023

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08/05/2023

The next episode is another one in our series for the Totnes Podcast Festival this summer, where we hope to be able to record people interviewing members of their families or friends. This episode features my lovely sister, Jessica Allen, who is the co-author of the Marmot review and is the deputy director of the Institute of Health Equity. https://anchor.fm/totnes-chain/episodes/5---This-comes-with-a-Health-Warning-e23nbp4

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23/04/2023

Pete Hodge, train man on the boilerplate of the Flying Scotsman - out tomorrow

19/04/2023

Looking forward to hearing about Pete Hodge’s life this coming Monday. From Totnes trains in the 60’s to Albania as a missionary with a short stint as the youngest ever councillor on Torbay Council, aged just 19. Here he is 3rd from the right on the 2nd last row!

10/04/2023

Jenny Allen’s podcast

‎Show The Totnes Chain, Ep 3 - A Wartime Childhood - 9 Apr 2023

08/04/2023

Out this Monday, Jennifer Allen discusses her experience of being a child through the 2nd world war. This is part of a series of people interviewing their parents about their life stories, which we’ll open up to as many people as possible during a festival in the summer. NB she is possibly the oldest podcaster in the world at 91.

04/04/2023

https://youtu.be/TA4vF62Are4
Paul Wesley’s YouTube episode! A Disappointing Dinner with Dylan discusses Paul’s time in the anti-Vietnam War movement

Paul Wesley discusses Dylan, the anti-war movement & what happened to it!

28/03/2023

We've got a youtube channel - what do you think?

The first episode in our second chain features Ben Piper discussing his thoughts on art and activism and about his time in the New Age traveller protest move...