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Spring 2020

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Heart and Soul:  BBC World Service  Spring 2020

SCH contributes to a  short series entitled REFLECTIONS ON FAITH IN A GLOBAL CRISIS:   Specially chosen contributors reflect on the situation the whole world is dealing with amidst a global pandemic.  

The first programme explores community: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0t1d    

The second programme is about prayer:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0t25;  

All the programmes in the series are well worth a listen - lots of simple, practical, profound ideas.

Music used in the community broadcast is IN KILNSEA by singer songwriter Tim Eveleigh.   timeveleigh.co.uk

December 2017

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Bit of a media flurry in the run up to Christmas.  3 articles/ broadcasts you might be interested in:

From a Canadian Radio Station (Lily Ames) .  Scroll down to Episode 9: where grace happens. - Really fascinating conversation with Lily Ames resulted in this broadcast.  Worth hanging on for the second half of the programme (I go first) which is about a woman who turned her recruiting skills to help ex-prisoners & recovering addicts find work.

 


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Hermit article in the Guardian  (Sarah Marsh). My bit is mainly edited from this website but there are 3 other interviews giving different perspectives.


Article

Really lovely, warm article about SCH on BBC website as part of their run-up to Christmas (Bethan Bell).

September 2015

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2015 was the year of Reuters, in the person of a young independent photo journalist (Neil Hall) who hoped to be able to offer the story to Head Office in Singapore. He was prepared to duck & dive around my most debilitating treatments and eventually produced a mash-up of hermitage highlights in which Mrs Hennypenny is pleased to be playing a starring role.  There are two short videos:  the first is here


Photos and Video

And the second here


Article

The Independent newspaper followed up with their own article here


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And the BBC World service here (the photo and strapline on the BBC website are from another article - the hermitage feature is from 37 mins onwards)

October 2013

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Living alone Well with Hardeep Singh Koli - Hardeep exploring the experiences  of folk living alone around the UK.  Some fascinating and profoundly honest contributions  from a whole variety of people.


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BBC Learning Website.  BBC put this page together as an extra resource to the programme with Hardeep

January 2013

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One to One with John McCarthy:  This is one of a series of interviews undertaken by John McCartney exploring the theme of being the “outsider” .  He reflects on his experience as a hostage whilst exploring the life of hermitage.

September 2012

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Richard McIlroy from the BBC Radio 4 programme Sunday, requested an interview in 2012.  It is available here as on YouTube with kind permission of the BBC.

January 2011

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Carlo Bevilacqua, an Italian photographer, contacted me in 2011 to ask if he could visit to take photos for his project   Into the Silence: Hermits of the Third Millennium.  He also taught me how to make tortilla!

2010

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SCH through the seasons.

October 2009

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Wellcome Trust.  These are pre-plinth and post-plinth interviews associated with the Anthony Gormley project in Trafalgar Square, London in summer 2009.


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A link to the video of my plinth-hour: an hour spent as a pillar hermit on top of a plinth in Trafalgar Square, London in summer 2009 - courtesy of Anthony Gormley’s One & Other project.



June 2009

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Guardian  Article exploring the life of a hermit


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The Guardian sent a photographer for their piece in 2009.  There cannot be many hermits who can boast of having their photo taken by the guy who takes the team photos for Manchester United.  Fabio de Paolo.  Who else!

October 2007

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Church Times October 2007 (page 20)

January 2007

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BBC Look North with Loveday Kitto - a 2 minute item on YouTube with kind permission of the BBC.  (Apologies for the rather scratchy quality of this - 2006 technology!)

November 2006

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Photos of Solemn Profession as a Hermit of the Diocese of Nottingham taken by Murray White


Article

Catholic News by Frank Goulding


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Rasen Mail: Report by Jason Hippisley

For my first 5 years as a hermit, I was here incognito.   Solemn Profession is however, necessarily, a public occasion, and since that time there has been occasional media interest in the life of a “modern day hermit”.  These articles/links are presented in reverse date order. If you hover and click over the various descriptions you should be able to link into the relevant pages and websites.