Covid Living

Throughout the pandemic, NHS workers were provided with a variety of techniques to “de-stress”. Articles were published on strategies to increase our “resilience”. Continually trying to be “resilient”, however, can be a heavy burden...

With 38 hours to deadline I’ve four un-started articles and a few to edit. In those hours I must also sleep, and fast – it’s Ramadan you see.   But in extremis I found a...

The number of pets in London doubled during lockdown. Dog ownership increased 84% in 2020 alone. There is now a pandemic puppy phenomenon and thieves are roaming the capital looking to make thousands from...

Will Vincent talks to a retired policemen and get's his views on everything from BLM protests, lockdown policing and how people see the police today https://soundcloud.com/user-28992473/retired-policeman-podcast

Fergal Hale-Brown talks to animal welfare officer Kia Newbould-McFarlane about how she started her career, what the pandemic has meant for pets and what the future holds for pandemic puppies https://soundcloud.com/user-869684735/animal-welfare-interview

Jumping over fences, walking through holes in gates, broken locks on pitches, all to play football. Why? For the love of the game. The constant need for him to get better, feeling as if he was...

Football fans around the world have had to adapt. Covid-19 has left fans being unable to attend stadiums and having to watch or listen to teams play in empty stadiums on the TV, radio...

Stéphanie Malm narrates her three stages of lockdown https://youtu.be/gXTA6JiYWDU

I’ll be honest; many times over, I’ve treated myself to smoothies from the shops. We’ve all been there, wonderful colours, great sounding ingredients and it’s meant to be good for you right? Wrong, on the...

Will Vincent talks to a local authority housing officer who tells the hidden story of the work done to save people from the streets and what happened when we were all ordered indoors https://soundcloud.com/user-28992473/housing-the-homeless-podcast