Making Trouble with Molly Naylor
by Molly Naylor
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The Trouble with The Future, featuring Ella Frears
The Trouble with The Future, featuring Ella Frears
About this podcast
Welcome to Making Trouble, the podcast about the trouble we’re having with the things we’re making. Join host Molly Naylor and her special guests from across the arts as they navigate creative hurdles, from the trivial to the existential. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 43 episodes
- The Trouble with The Future, featuring Ella Frears · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 39This episode features the poet Ella Frears. A total bath person, Ella joins Molly in Sheffield for a chat about the future. How worried should we be about our artistic stability?…
- The Trouble with Responsibility, featuring Chloe Petts · 42 min · Season 4 Episode 38It's Chloe Petts! Chloe is a stand up comedian. You might have seen them on Have I Got News For You, Taskmaster or Mock the Week. They will be touring their new show, Call me by…
- The Trouble with Overthinking, featuring Salena Godden · 1 h 8 min · Season 4 Episode 37Poet, performer and novelist Salena Godden joins us today for a chat about overthinking. Why we do it, the impact it has, whether artists are particularly prone to it and what it…
- Listener Q & A, with Molly Naylor and Grace Petrie (returning!) · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 36It's our final episode! Of season 3. Don't worry, there will be more Making Trouble - soon (ish). Please keep supporting the pod until then, (via Patreon, by sharing it, by…
- The Trouble with Collaboration, featuring Troy Cabida · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 35It’s Troy Cabida (Neon Manila) day! Troy Cabida is a London-based Filipino poet. He is a former member of the Barbican Young Poets and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Join…
- The Trouble with People-pleasing, featuring Mark Haddon · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 34This week we welcome Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, A Spot of Bother, The Porpoise) to the podcast for a chat about people-pleasing. Find out…
- The Trouble with Flow, featuring Anna Jordan · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 33A treat for the ears! It's Anna Jordan (Yen, Lost Atoms, Succession, Killing Eve)! Anna made her name as a scriptwriter, but has now also published her debut poetry collection…
- The Trouble with Self Belief, featuring Harry Baker · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 32It's Harry Baker day! Harry is a poet with a background in MATHS. His poems have been watched by millions of people online, and his new collection TENDER was an instant Sunday…
- The Trouble with Isolation, featuring Benedict Lombe · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 31It's Benedict Lombe (Shifters! Lava!) day! Bene is an award-winning Congolese British playwright and screenwriter. Her work includes the hit play Shifters, which transferred to…
- The Trouble with Structure, featuring Lizzy Stewart · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 30Lizzy Stewart! Illustrator and writer! Molly's past collaborator! Maybe you've seen her pictures in there's a Tiger in the Garden, or Lights, Planets, People! Or perhaps you've…
- The Trouble with Perfectionism, featuring Jessie Burton · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 30It's Jessie Burton! is the multi-million best-selling author of four novels: The Miniaturist, The Muse, The Confession and The House of Fortune – all instant Sunday Times…
- The Trouble with Getting Older, featuring Athena Kugblenu · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 29Today we welcome the scriptwriter, comedian and journalist Athena Kugblenu for a chat about getting older. Which is good, because Molly needed to hear all this. We also talk…
- The Trouble with Focus, featuring Tim Clare · 1 h 10 min · Season 3 Episode 28This week I'm delighted to welcome Tim Clare, writer of fiction and non-fiction, for a chat about focus. We talk about planning, fractured focus & intense focus, confidence…
- The Trouble with Self Promotion, featuring Alice Fraser · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 27Alice is an award winning comedy writer, Broadcaster, and performer. Listed in the Telegraph’s 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century, her solo comedy shows have been…
- The Trouble with Vulnerability, featuring Sophie Robinson · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 26Today I'm talking to poet and novelist Sophie Robinson. Sophie's debut novel Prairie Oyster came out last week. Buy it from your local bookshop, or from Bookshop.org who donate…
- The Trouble with Productivity, featuring Josie Long · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 25It's Josie Long! Josie is a stand-up comedian, writer and filmmaker. She has toured her live shows all over the world. She co-founded the charity Arts Emergency, helping young…
- ANNOUNCEMENT: A CREATIVE ADVENTURE FOR JANUARY · 2 minListen up troublemakers! From January 12th you're invited to join us for a refreshing, rejuvenating CREATIVE COURSE. Six weeks of prompts, activities and ideas designed to…
- Answering YOUR questions with Grace Petrie and Molly Naylor · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 24In this season 2 finale, Molly is joined by Grace Petrie to answer your questions and respond to your creative dilemmas. Thanks for listening to this season of Making Trouble!…
- The Trouble with Saying No, featuring Kate Stables (This Is The Kit) · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 23Musician Kate Stables (This Is The Kit) joins Molly for a chat about saying no. Why it's hard to do in the moment, how to get better at it, what happens when we don't do it, and…
- The Trouble with Time, featuring Ian McMillan · 1 h 5 min · Season 2 Episode 22It's the bard of Barnsley himself, Mr. Ian McMillan! Ian is a poet and broadcaster. He presents The Verb on BBC R3 and has been a regular on BBC Breakfast, Coast, Pick of the…
