CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST When Sasha Richardson first volunteered for Winston's Wish back in 1995, little did he know that 20 years later he would be heading up the Family Services programme.   As the first charity to establish child bereavement support services in the UK, Winston's Wish leads the way in providing specialist child bereavement support services across the UK, including in-depth therapeutic help in individual, group and residential settings. In this moving and...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Our guest this month is Marina Cantacuzino - founder of The Forgiveness Project, author of the book by the same name and inspiration behind the F-Word exhibition which has toured globally since 2004. The project itself is a UK charity and not for profit org that sets out through storytelling to explore how ideas around forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict resolution can be used to impact positively on people's lives through the personal testimony...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST    This month Merlin's Diary Podcast hosts Barry Durdant-Hollamby and Neil del Strother have the pleasure of interviewing Hermione Elliott, a leading light in the world of death and dying who founded the charity 'Living Well, Dying Well' which is helping to re-educate people in how to manage the dying process in a fearless and totally loving way. With a background in nursing, midwifery, counselling and palliative care, Hermione has worked...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST/ This month Merlin's Diary Podcast hosts Barry Durdant-Hollamby and Neil del Strother have the pleasure of interviewing Andy Thomas, one of the UK’s best-known authors and lecturers on unexplained mysteries and global cover-ups. The author of the acclaimed books 'The Truth Agenda' and 'Conspiracies', Andy has carried out over 1500 lectures/seminars and is a brilliant speaker who in the best tradition of investigative enquiry, allows the reader/listener...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST This month Merlin's Diary Podcast hosts Barry Durdant-Hollamby and Neil del Strother have the pleasure of interviewing the founder of Piatkus Books, Judy Piatkus, a woman once described by The Times as 'one of the world's leading thinkers' and listed in their top 50 list of 'movers and shakers who define how well we live'. Judy started Piatkus Books from her bedroom in her 20s and built it into one of the UK's most successful publishing houses, making...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST This month Merlin's Diary Podcast hosts Barry Durdant-Hollamby and Neil del Strother have the pleasure of interviewing Jamie Catto, a man described by Stephen Fry as ' kind, wise, open, boundlessly energetic, optimistic and passionate'. Jamie has been on our 'target list' for a while so we were delighted when he agreed to come on the show. Jamie describes himself as a 'Creative catalyst, a musician, and a mischief maker'. We'd say he's all that and...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST This month Merlin's Diary Podcast hosts Barry Durdant-Hollamby and Neil del Strother have the pleasure of interviewing Janey Lee Grace, an expert in holistic health and wellbeing, author of five books including two number one Amazon best sellers and someone who is also passionate about helping people find their purpose and do the work they were born to do. Janey is also a regular part of the crew on the Steve Wright Radio 2 show.  In this interview...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST This month Merlin's Diary Podcast hosts Barry Durdant-Hollamby and Neil del Strother have the pleasure of interviewing legendary PR guru and global change-maker Lynne Franks.  In this interview Lynne shares her personal story, how and why she has become an advocate for global women's work, the ideas that gave birth to her next book, 'The Pod Effect' and her hopes for our rapidly changing world.   Some background on Lynne:Lynne Franks, recognised as the...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Merlin's Diary Podcast hosts Barry Durdant-Hollamby and Neil del Strother have just had the honour of interviewing one of the World's leading truth-seekers and authors, Graham Hancock. The interview was very inspiring for us as we learnt more about Graham's personal story and how he became the agent for change that he is today. Please share freely. All our interviews are free to share. Here's a little background on Graham, followed by some info about...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Martín Prechtel  was raised on a Pueblo Indian reservation in New Mexico, where he learned the Keres language. His mother was a Canadian Native American and his father a Swiss palaeontologist. In 1970 after his first marriage ended, he traveled south through Mexico to end up in Guatemala. After a year of traveling through Guatemala, he found his home in a small village near Lake Atitlan inhabited by the Tz'utujil (one of the numerous Maya...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST JENNY COCKELL (Past Lives) In her best-selling book Yesterday's Children, Jenny Cockell discusses her extraordinary past life memories of life as Mary Sutton in early-20th century Ireland. The book chronicles Jenny's research into Sutton's life and her subsequent journey in which she ended up reuniting the entire Sutton family. This month we have had the pleasure of interviewing Jenny for the new Merlin's Diary podcast, and she tells us more about the...

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CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCASTWe start 2015 with an interview that has been our most 'listened-to' interview to date, featuring Gabrielle Roth, who died just a few months after we spoke to her in 2012.  The founder of 5Rhythms,  Gabrielle was an American dancer and musician in the world music and trance dance genres, with a special interest in shamanism. She created the 5Rhythms approach to movement in the 1960s and there are now hundreds of 5Rhythms teachers worldwide who use her...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Welcome to the  Merlin's Diary podcast. You can access the Merlin's Diary Search Engine in both theUK (www.merlinsdiary.com) and the USA (www.us.merlinsdiary.com). All event/presenter/venues listing is FREE so get adding your details and be seen on google, yahoo etc! Make sure you're subscribed to The Merlin's Diary newsletter and have made friends with us on facebook (Merlin's Diary) to get the latest updates. This interview features a beautiful...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST This month we interview Leo Rutherford, a renowned teacher and pioneer of shamanism in the West. He was one of the first people to bring the teachings of shamanism to the UK and founded the Eagle's Wing College of Contemporary Shamanism in 1987. Having worked in industry for 20 years, he was suffering from acute stress and depression by the age of 40 - and setting out find a path with more heart - he discovered the ancient wisdom of indigenous...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Philip Carr-Gomm is a Psychotherapist, educationalist and author practising at the cutting edge of a whole new paradigm in the field of Ecopsychology. Since 1988 he's also been the  leader of OBOD, the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids where he has overseen robust growth in the organisation thanks partly to the distance learning course he helped to create. This month we had the pleasure of interviewing this very humble and down-to-earth man in the...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Charles Eisenstein is an author and public speaker, and self-described "degrowth activist". He is the author of several books including The Ascent of Humanity (2007), Sacred Economics (2011), and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (2013).  "Whether for myself or for the world, I share with dreamers, Utopians, and teenagers an unreasonable intuition of a magnificent potential, that life and the world can be more than we have made of...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Steve Biddulph is one of the world’s best  known parenting authors and a very entertaining speaker. A psychologist for 25 years, he is now retired but continues to write and teach. His books, including The Secret of Happy Children, Raising Boys, The New Manhood and now Raising Girls, are in four million homes and 31 languages. They have influenced the way we look at childhood and especially the development of boys and men.  Hear Merlin's Diary...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Welcome to the 35th Merlin's Diary podcast - a fascinating in-depth interview with a man who knows all about going into the darkness and coming out smelling of roses... In the early 1990s Kevin Billett hit major depression. Having achieved relative security in life, he'd discovered the truth that joy and inspiration weren't to be found in 'stuff'. In total despair, a conversation with a friend resulted in Kevin leaving the Welsh Valleys to visit London...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Welcome to the 34th Merlin's Diary podcast and it's one of our best yet! Byron Katie has helped changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with her process entitled 'The Work'. She has sold millions of books and is rated as one of the most influential change-makers on the planet (Watkins Books 2013). Hear Merlin's Diary founder Barry Durdant-Hollamby and podcast co-host Neil del Strother interview Katie in-depth and discover with...

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCAST Welcome to the 32nd Merlin's Diary podcast.You can access the Merlin's Diary search engine in both the UK(www.merlinsdiary.com) and the USA (www.us.merlinsdiary.com). Expelled from the church for calling God 'Mother'In 1993, Dominican Priest Matthew Fox was expelled by future Pope Benedict XVI, for 'disobedience'. Among the issues Fox was asked to defend were that he was a feminist theologian; he called God "Mother"; he preferred the concept of...