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Michelle de Swarte on flowing with your creativity

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Michelle de Swarte is a stand up comic, actor and ex catwalk model. She is the best friend in the Netflix comedy The Duchess and stars in the HBO series…

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Voluntary celibacy and the sexual empowerment of saying ‘no’

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Laura Vowels on navigating differences in desire

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Laura Vowels is an Emotionally Focussed Sex and Relationship therapist who specialises in desire discrepancy. She shares about what to do when it seems like you do not match sexually…

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Paul McGann on the craft of being an actor

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Paul John McGann is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer, then starred in the dark comedy Withnail and…

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Andrew G Marshall on how to deal with affairs

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In this episode, Andrew G Marshall talks about the eight types of affairs and seven stages to deal with them. He trained with RELATE the UK's leading couple counselling charity…

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Peter York on social commentary and standing for the BBC

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Peter York is an author, journalist, broadcaster, management consultant and President of The Media Society. Over the last 30+ years he has produced a flood of articles, initially in Harpers &…

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These are the UK’s top sexual fantasies

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Marianne Power on her book ‘Help Me!’

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 Marianne Power is the author of Help Me!: How Self-Help Has Not Changed My Life. In this podcast episode, she talks about her book and her year of taking…

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13 helpful New Year’s resolutions for couples

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