Blogs & Podcasts

Three Old Hacks
Brentford FC – A League Apart
Oborne & Heller On Cricket
Mind Matters
Jennifer’s Dog Training Advice
Man in the Middle
My Corona
Bedford Park Festival
The Chiswick Calendar / Chiswick Book Festival

Three Old Hacks Podcast

Mihir Bose – former BBC Sports Editor, David Smith – Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and political commentator Nigel Dudley

The three have been friends since they first met while working at Financial Weekly in 1980s. They have kept in touch regularly, setting the world to rights over various lunches and dinners. With coronavirus making that impossible, what do journalists do, deprived of long convivial lunches over a bottle of red wine or several? Why, podcast of course.

Episode 37: Three Men in a Boat navigating British Journalism

November 6, 2023/by Three Old Hacks

Episode 36: A perfect profession for spying

September 18, 2023/by Three Old Hacks

Episode 35: What the Nigel Farage ‘debanking’ saga tells us about British journalism

August 7, 2023/by Three Old Hacks

Episode 34: Gamesmanship and Protest

July 17, 2023/by Three Old Hacks

Episode 33: Is the coronation still going on? Sorry, I missed a bit, the dog needed a walk

May 16, 2023/by Three Old Hacks

Episode 32: Gwyneth, Boris and the economy, stupid!

April 3, 2023/by Three Old Hacks
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Brentford FC  – A League Apart

Brentford 3, West Ham United 2

November 6, 2023/by Bill Hagerty

Brentford 3, Burnley 0

October 23, 2023/by Bill Hagerty

Brentford 0, Arsenal 1

October 2, 2023/by Bridget Osborne

Brentford 1, Everton 3

September 26, 2023/by Bill Hagerty

Brentford 2, AFC Bournemouth 2

September 4, 2023/by Bill Hagerty

Brentford 1, Crystal Palace 1

August 29, 2023/by Bill Hagerty
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Brentford 3, West Ham United 2

November 6, 2023/by Bill Hagerty

Brentford 3, Burnley 0

October 23, 2023/by Bill Hagerty

Brentford 0, Arsenal 1

October 2, 2023/by Bridget Osborne

Brentford 1, Everton 3

September 26, 2023/by Bill Hagerty

Brentford 2, AFC Bournemouth 2

September 4, 2023/by Bill Hagerty
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Oborne & Heller On Cricket Podcast

The joy of cricket explored and shared

Cricket authors (and obsessives) Peter Oborne and Richard Heller launched a podcast early in 2020 to help deprived listeners endure a world without cricket. They’re no longer deprived of cricket, but still chat regularly about cricket topics with different guests each week.

Episode 118: World Cricket And All That Shapes It Covered By Wisden Editor Lawrence Booth

May 2, 2023/by Peter Oborne & Richard Heller

Episode 117: Sovereigns, stars, stewards, scorers, statisticians … Steven Lynch on this year’s Wisden obituaries

April 18, 2023/by Peter Oborne & Richard Heller

Episode 116: From teenage record breaker to players’ champion: James Harris of Glamorgan and the PCA

March 28, 2023/by Peter Oborne & Richard Heller

Episode 115: The weird genius who revolutionized cricket history

March 20, 2023/by Peter Oborne & Richard Heller

Episode 114: Two testaments of cricket and war

March 13, 2023/by Peter Oborne & Richard Heller

Episode 113: A story made for the movies – Pakistan women’s cricket

February 28, 2023/by Peter Oborne & Richard Heller
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Mind Matters

Tips about maintaining our mental well-being

Nicholas Rose’s firm offers counselling, psychotherapy and coaching for children, adults, couples and families. Here he offers his thoughts on how we can look after our own mental health.

Mind Matters – Nicholas Rose on the nature of goblins

December 17, 2022/by Nicholas Rose

Mind Matters – Do we really need to talk about our feelings?

November 15, 2022/by Nicholas Rose

Mind Matters – Three minute life hack?

October 31, 2022/by Nicholas Rose

Mind Matters – The art of patience

October 17, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Mind Matters – To Know or Not to Know?

September 5, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Mind Matters – Feeling fine or feeling F.I.N.E?

July 25, 2022/by Nicholas Rose
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Mind Matters – Nicholas Rose on the nature of goblins

December 17, 2022/by Nicholas Rose

Mind Matters – Do we really need to talk about our feelings?

November 15, 2022/by Nicholas Rose

Mind Matters – Three minute life hack?

October 31, 2022/by Nicholas Rose

Mind Matters – The art of patience

October 17, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Mind Matters – To Know or Not to Know?

September 5, 2022/by Guest Blogger
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Jennifer’s Dog Training Advice

Tips from a professional

Jennifer Billot, MSc CPDT-KA is a professional dog trainer, founder and owner of Bone Ball Bark. Her blog for The Chiswick Calendar explores the most common problems she encounters when clients first get in touch..

Jennifer’s dog training advice – How to stop your dog from dragging you down the street

October 10, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – ‘How Do I Stop My Dog From Jumping Up?’

September 27, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – My dog won’t leave me alone when I am working

September 5, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – ‘My puppy is biting and chewing EVERYTHING!’

August 23, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – How do I get my dog to stop barking at the door?

August 8, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – Help! My dog won’t come back to me!

July 25, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – How to stop your dog from dragging you down the street

October 10, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – ‘How Do I Stop My Dog From Jumping Up?’

September 27, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – My dog won’t leave me alone when I am working

September 5, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – ‘My puppy is biting and chewing EVERYTHING!’

August 23, 2022/by Guest Blogger

Jennifer’s dog training advice – How do I get my dog to stop barking at the door?

August 8, 2022/by Guest Blogger
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Man in the Middle

The musings of a middle aged man on living with his family and aged mother

Faced with the realisation that she can no longer live on her own, the decision to move the old lady in with himself, his wife and teenage children has a seismic impact on their lives, with riotous consequences. By James Thellusson.

Man in the Middle 91: Merci Beaucoup

July 11, 2022/by James Thellusson

Man in the Middle 90: The Repair Cafe

June 21, 2022/by James Thellusson

Man in the Middle 89: The Day of the Empty Nester

May 31, 2022/by James Thellusson

Man in the Middle 88: An Offaly nice idea

May 17, 2022/by James Thellusson

Man in the Middle 87: Willy Wonka should run adult social care

May 3, 2022/by James Thellusson

Man in the Middle 86: Do I owe you anything?

April 18, 2022/by James Thellusson
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My Corona

A diary of life in Chiswick during the pandemic

During the first lockdown in March 2020, Keith Richards started writing the My Corona blog – a mix of observations from his daily constitutionals and the quiet enjoyment of his record collection. Since then he has continued to document the everyday occurrences of this most peculiar time.

My Corona – Parting is such sweet sorrow and other rants

May 30, 2021/by Keith Richards

My Corona – Mississippi Swamp Dogs

May 24, 2021/by Keith Richards

My Corona – Plundered History. Stolen Culture.

May 16, 2021/by Keith Richards

My Corona – Africa

May 10, 2021/by Keith Richards

My Corona – Me Radio Live

April 30, 2021/by Keith Richards

My Corona – April is the cruellist month

April 27, 2021/by Keith Richards
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My Corona – Parting is such sweet sorrow and other rants

May 30, 2021/by Keith Richards

My Corona – Mississippi Swamp Dogs

May 24, 2021/by Keith Richards

My Corona – Plundered History. Stolen Culture.

May 16, 2021/by Keith Richards

My Corona – Africa

May 10, 2021/by Keith Richards

My Corona – Me Radio Live

April 30, 2021/by Keith Richards
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BEDFORD PARK FESTIVAL PODCASTS

The following podcasts went online in 2020 bacause of the Pandemic.

Dusted with Sugar

June 15, 2020/by Bridget Osborne

Frank Matcham & the Chiswick Empire Theatre

June 15, 2020/by Bridget Osborne

Creature Features

June 15, 2020/by Bridget Osborne

Dusted with Sugar

June 15, 2020/by Bridget Osborne

Frank Matcham & the Chiswick Empire Theatre

June 15, 2020/by Bridget Osborne

Creature Features

June 15, 2020/by Bridget Osborne

CHISWICK BOOK FESTIVAL PODCASTS

The Chiswick Book Festival

The festival brings together top authors and their readers for a long weekend of history, biography, fiction, crime, thrillers, politics, the arts, fashion, children’s books and other genres.

‘The War Against the BBC’ with Patrick Barwise & Peter York

Assignment Moscow, Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin

Michael Tippett, The Biography

Sissinghurst, The Dream Garden

The Lost Decade 2010 – 2020

A History of Britain Through Books

Jeremy Vine, journalist & broadcaster

Sally Green author of young adult fiction

Ted Sandling on mudlarking

Santa Montefiore, author of commercial women’s fiction

Peter Hanington journalist & novelist

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