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51. Kate Kennedy: the biographer on how playing injury can lead to eating disorders
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***This episode deals covers topics including eating disorders, mental illness and the Holocaust. Kate talks about them incredibly respectfully and not in graphic details, but for listeners that would rather sit this one out, we understand***
It's our last episode of 2022 and this time, we're speaking to the exceptional Dr. Kate Kennedy, broadcaster, academic, cellist and writer, who specialises in combining biography, words and music. She is also the Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing and a research fellow at the University of Oxford.
We talk to her from the crypt of St. Clement Danes (with somebody's wedding going on above our heads), discussing her own experiences in life and in music, and about her current work on her book, Cello, an autobiography of the instrument itself and its musicians. We were particularly interested in her biography of war poet and musician, Ivor Gurney, speaking about his own struggles with mental illness and confinement to an asylum in later life. (Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney, Princeton Press, 2021)
We're incredibly grateful to Kate for her eloquence and candidness about her own encounters with injury and struggles during her teenage years and early adulthood. It truly is a pleasure to listen to her, and interviewing her was such an enriching experience, and we cannot wait to read her future works.
Follow Kate on Twitter
Kate's website
Click here for transcript
Find TMDTA on all the socials at @tmdtapodcast
Our website is: www.thingsmusiciansdonttalkabout.com
Support us on Patreon for £3 a month and get access to extra episodes and content!
Or buy us a Kofi
It's over and out from us for the year, and wishing you all an incredibly soul-warming holiday and New Year!
Love Becca, Katy and Hattie xx
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
104 episodes
Manage episode 351059070 series 3329571
***This episode deals covers topics including eating disorders, mental illness and the Holocaust. Kate talks about them incredibly respectfully and not in graphic details, but for listeners that would rather sit this one out, we understand***
It's our last episode of 2022 and this time, we're speaking to the exceptional Dr. Kate Kennedy, broadcaster, academic, cellist and writer, who specialises in combining biography, words and music. She is also the Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing and a research fellow at the University of Oxford.
We talk to her from the crypt of St. Clement Danes (with somebody's wedding going on above our heads), discussing her own experiences in life and in music, and about her current work on her book, Cello, an autobiography of the instrument itself and its musicians. We were particularly interested in her biography of war poet and musician, Ivor Gurney, speaking about his own struggles with mental illness and confinement to an asylum in later life. (Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney, Princeton Press, 2021)
We're incredibly grateful to Kate for her eloquence and candidness about her own encounters with injury and struggles during her teenage years and early adulthood. It truly is a pleasure to listen to her, and interviewing her was such an enriching experience, and we cannot wait to read her future works.
Follow Kate on Twitter
Kate's website
Click here for transcript
Find TMDTA on all the socials at @tmdtapodcast
Our website is: www.thingsmusiciansdonttalkabout.com
Support us on Patreon for £3 a month and get access to extra episodes and content!
Or buy us a Kofi
It's over and out from us for the year, and wishing you all an incredibly soul-warming holiday and New Year!
Love Becca, Katy and Hattie xx
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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