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The Terrified Writer Podcast

32 Episodes

8 minutes | Dec 11, 2020
S3 Ep12: Do Well: Silent Screaming
Welcome back to the wellness guide that promises everything and delivers nothing. This week Ann meets someone who practices the art of silent screaming. If ever there was a practice to perfectly capture the mood of 2020... Do Well, folks, do well.
7 minutes | Dec 11, 2020
S3 Ep11: Do Well: Sitting With Pans
What fresh heck is this? Yep. In this week's episode, Ann meets local self-styled wellness guru Bob Jeffers and his propensity for getting up close and personal with his pan collection. It's a thing. 
8 minutes | Nov 23, 2020
S3 Ep10: Do Well: Silly Chanting
Just when we thought things couldn't get more ridiculous, we come across another local chump who's into Silly Chanting of all things. Honestly. Should come with an annoyance warning, this, like. Enjoy. As if.
13 minutes | Nov 13, 2020
S3 Ep9: Do Well: Whelming
Ever felt overwhelmed or underwhelmed and wished there was some way you could sit comfortably between the two? Me neither. But Do Well roving reporter Alex spoke to Susan Flatpack from the Whelming Society who claims the path to wellness can be reached via the road to whelmness. As usual, it's up to you, our gorgeous listener, to be the judge. Do Well is completely made up and performed by improvisers Ann Hirst and Alex Menhams. Get in touch, find out more: www.theterrifiedwriter.com Insta: @theterrifiedwriter / @menhamsalex Twatter: @Annhirst / @Alexmenhams 
12 minutes | Nov 6, 2020
S3 Ep8: Do Well: The School of Hard Stares
Welcome back to Do Well, your guide to the newest, most outlandish boundary pushers in the world of wellness. In this episode I meet Suffolk resident Bob Jeffers who's so convinced about the wellness benefits of Hard Stares, he's gone and created a school. Wonder what Ofsted would say about that? Do Well is completely made up and performed by Ann Hirst and Alex Menhams. If you like it, please rate and review. Pleeeeease.  Come find us: www.theterrifiedwriter.com Insta: @theterrifiedwriter / Twitter: @Annhirst @Alexmenhams
13 minutes | Oct 30, 2020
S3 Ep7: Do Well: Jazz Hands!
Welcome to episode 7 of Do Well, your alternative guide to wellbeingitude (in Suffolk - and beyond!). Once again, our roving reporter Alex has been out roving the arse out of wellbeingness only to discover a jazzy new practice that's got our guest, Susan Flatpack, all of a quiver. Listeners, he was shook, I tell you. Literally. Do Well is completely made up and performed by improvisers Alex Menhams and Ann Hirst. Find out more at www.theterrfiedwriter.com or follow us on the socials: @theterrifiedwriter (Instagram) and @Annhirst @Alexmenhams (Twitter)
11 minutes | Oct 23, 2020
S3 Ep6: Do Well: Blanket Banning
Here we are again, waving the wellness banner, quite literally as this episode is dedicated to banning. Guest Bob Jeffers is so passionate about his new banning movement that he's devised some kind of tenuous link to wellness that's frankly laughable. Do well. Do Well is devised and performed by Ann Hirst and Alex Menhams. Come find us: www.theterrifiedwriter.com Instagram: @theterrifiedwriter Twitter: @Annhirst @Alexmenhams
11 minutes | Oct 18, 2020
S3 Ep5: Do Well: Shrub Washing
Clean shrub, clean mind, clean soul. That's the mantra that shrub washing advocate Susan Flatpack lives by. Join Do Well's roving reporter, Alex, as he delves deeper into this unique horticultural hygiene practice that keeps Susan and her fellow villagers on top of their wellness game. Do Well is devised and performed by Ann Hirst and Alex Menhams. Come find us! www.theterrifiedwriter.com Instagram: @theterrifiedwriter Twitter: @annhirst @alexmenhams
12 minutes | Oct 11, 2020
S3 Ep4: Do Well: The Slow Clap Movement
In this episode, Suffolk bloke Bob Jeffers bigs up the benefits of immersing oneself in the shame, humiliation and deep sarcasm of slow clapping to emerge with renewed resilience and wellbeingitude. Does it work? Listen and find out. Do Well is devised and performed by Ann Hirst and Alex Menhams. Come find us! www.theterrifiedwriter.com Instagram: @theterrifiedwriter Twitter: @Annhirst @alexmenhams
11 minutes | Oct 4, 2020
S3 Ep3: Do Well: Dog Lifting
Ready to fill the well of wellness once again? In this episode, roving reporter Alex has roved around and found local resident, Susan Flatpack who believes the key to cosmic connection is in dog lifting. Not just any dog. Well, ok, pretty much any dog. But not just any lifting. That's right. Not just ANY old lifting. NOW you're interested. 
9 minutes | Sep 28, 2020
S3 Ep2: Do Well: Quiche Appraisal
In episode 2 of Do Well, Ann meets Suffolk-dweller, Bob Jeffers, whose weekly supermarket shop has become wellnessly enhanced by the discovery of the benefits of appraising quiche. Intrigued? Then take a listen... Instagram: @theterrifiedwriter www.theterrifiedwriter.com
9 minutes | Sep 24, 2020
S3 Ep1: Do Well: Verge Avoidance
This week, Ann meets Suffolk resident Bob Jeffers who is an advocate of the benefits of avoiding the verges. Both literally and metaphorically.
53 minutes | Mar 23, 2020
9: whatever happened to phoebe cates?
this episode was recorded at the end of february before the actual apocalypse happened and one of the reasons we sat on it for so long was because, like everyone else in the world, we've been FREAKING THE FREAK OUT!!! and we never use capital letters so that just shows how weird the world is right now. and what's the podcast even about anyway? and what's the point? these and millions of other important questions are not answered at all in this week's episode of sotw with ann and tim. wash your hands. don't touch your face.
48 minutes | Dec 25, 2019
8: wonderful bum music
just hear those sleigh-bells jingaling, ring ting tingaling too! come on it's lovely weather for a podcast together with you! christmas greetings from the last sotw of 2019 and in fact the last one of this mad, strange decade, whose name we still can't fathom. was it the teens? the tens? who cares because in a few days we'll be out of those and into the twenties and who knows what else? in this episode ann berates her own pathetic lightweightedness when it comes to festive consumption, while tim recounts the downside of meat dehydration, plus his weekly career update and maybe, just maybe, he's found his calling...fingers crossed. merry christmas one and all. if anyone is feeling out of sorts, alone or lonely this christmas and wants to chat, head over to twitter, add the hashtag #joinin and someone will be there to help you get through the day. come find ann at @Annhirst. peace and love❤️
54 minutes | Dec 23, 2019
7: don't pretend fight us
join ann and tim in the lead up to christmas with discussions on pressing issues such as tim's tinsel textural terror, dehydrator and doorperson news, festive films and, of course, the weekly career update. Also ann's aromatic anxiety and tim makes a potentially life-changing decision.
45 minutes | Dec 17, 2019
6: ok karen
ann discovers she's really karen but doesn't give a shit and there are updates on tim's career and dishwasher-gate, from way back when in episode 2 or 3 or something. tim's got a bugbear with impractical pub toilet cubicles and ann's dodging the mother-of-the-year awards for the sixteenth year running. plus some live (recorded) improv in which ann gives tim a present. oh, and welcome to all our new listeners, from all over the world!
38 minutes | Dec 5, 2019
5. you can make a sword out of cornflakes
warning: this is a koala-heavy episode. weirdly, animal lover tim doesn't like them, ann does, so you can only imagine the mild-mannered non-debate that ensues. what about you, listener? do you have any thoughts on koalas? cute or devil spawn? let us know, we're genuinely interested! 😃🐨there's also a career update from tim (obvs), a literal highlight for ann and some improv that features, yeah, you got it, bloody koalas. sheesh. how much more exciting can these episodes get? (that's a rhetorical question, we already know the answer 😐) please subscribe, rate and review. get in touch: ann@theterrifiedwriter.com or come find us on social media (details at the end of the podcast).
46 minutes | Nov 26, 2019
4: not posh and phoney
this week tim shares a couple of phoney bugbears and ann declares she's definitely not posh, despite living close to Waitrose. there's a career update from tim, a sponsorship update from ann and a tear-jerker of an improv scene involving two unusual household items on a mountain trek. You'd be completely within your rights to give it a miss. Got something to say to us? Email ann@theterrifiedwriter.com and we'll read out your contributions. @theterrifiedwriter @Annhirst @merryweathertim
36 minutes | Nov 20, 2019
3: ann meets a comedy legend
This week, tim gives us a career update and describes what it's like to eat meat rope and ann might be rubbish at celeb spotting but recounts a wünderbar encounter with the glorious Eddie Izzard. Also, is it pronounced GIF or GIF? 🤔And stay till the end if you want to hear us perform some real (imagined) live (recorded) improv.💡🥮
37 minutes | Nov 12, 2019
2: The awkward second episode
Ok, so we have a format, the audio is sorted and the best we can say about this episode is: we're getting there 🤨 This week, an update on Tim's career path, social awkwardness, the dangers of too much vitamin C and what's the word for the thing where you can't stop bad thoughts taking over your brain? Answers please to ann@theterrifiedwriter.com Find us! Ann: theterrifiedwriter.com/@annhirst on Twitter/@theterrifiedwriter on Instagram Tim: just google Tim Merryweather, you'll find him,
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