Podcasts - Recent

Listen to our interview with Skyler Weeks, world record breaking dyno-er, ahead of his forthcoming visit to Cliffhanger 2011 (2 & 3 July) where he hopes to break the world record for a fifth continuous year.

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 Listen to Sir Ranulph Fiennes ahead of this Friday's interview with Ian Parnell in Buxton.

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Yesterday I blogged about the new Heason Events 'PR- girl' Lissa Cook overcoming her fear of heights over the weekend on a specialist course with Will4Adventure. Lissa recorded herself whilst on the course and you can listen, in two parts, below. well worth a listen!

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This is a two-part interview with US mountain bike champion Rebecca Rusch, two times winner of the Leadville 100 mountain bike race.  The film of the 2009 event (also starring Lance Armstrong) is showing at the Sheffield Adventure Film festival (9.30pm Friday 4th March).

And The 2009 DVD and BluRay are available at the Leadville Trail 100 Online Store.  The 2010 DVD will be available on March 8. If you thought 2009 was good, wait until you see 2010 – Rebecca champions again!

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Ultra-runner Stephen Pyke (aka Spyke) lives in Hathersage in the Peak District and works at Sheffield University. Starting on April 25th last year with Ben More on Mull, Stephen set himself the challenge of climbing all Scotland's 3,000 ft hills, better known as the Munros in a continuous round under his own steam - on foot, by bike and paddling a kayak.

On 3rd June, just 39 days 9 hours and 6 minutes later, Spyke touched the summit cairn on Ben Hope in Sutherland to complete the fastest round of the Munros. The previous record was 48 days 12 hours set by Charlie Campbell in 2000.

Below is an interview (in two parts) with Spyke ahead of his lecture at ShAFF on Sunday 6th March. 

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Ahead of Friday's Biking Expert Night at the Sheffield Showroom, adventure sports writer, Nik Cook, talks to on and off road cycling champ Nick Craig about being mistaken for a horse rider at the Olympics and David Miller's road to Damascus moment in the Peak District. The Scott rep also talks about his down-to-earth view on the future of bikes - as he puts it "at the end of the day they have 2 wheels and a frame to hang off!".

To book tickets click here.

Note that the event is being sponsored by Silva and there will be over £500 worth of head torches to win...

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For this week's podcast Lissa Cook talks to 17 year old amateur photographer Sam Davies. Sam has won the first part of the Arc'Teryx Adventure Shot photography competition and will now go up against four professional photographers in a live slideshow final at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival at 9pm on Saturday 5th March at the Showroom Cinema. Sam studies at Gorseinon College in Swansea. He says: "I'm a 17 year old student who enjoys photography, specifically Mountain Biking Photography inlcuding Downhill, Dirt Jumping and Freeride. I entered the competition because I saw the quality of some of the Mountaineering shots and wanted to see if my Mountain biking shots could compete through the eyes of non mountain bikers. Also because I thought it would a good opportunity for me to showcase my photos in front of professionals and people in the industry."

Sam's slideshow can be viewed on MPORA

All the entries to the competition can be viewed here. 

For more details click here and to buy tickets click here.
 

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 On Friday night last week Ian Parnell gave a really interesting talk on mountaineering photography at the first of a series of ShAFF Expert Nights (others to come are: Caving on Feb 4th, Running on Feb 11th and Biking on Feb 18th). Lissa Cook was on hand to interview Ian, who co-edits Climb Magazine, about what makes a good photograph / photographer. Listen to the interview in the Podcast below (in two parts):

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 Interested in video making? Want to stand a chance of winning £500? Check out this interview with Matt Heason on High Peak Radio on the ins and outs of the Jagged Globe ShAFF Shorts Video Competition.

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This is the second Heason Events Podcast.

It is an interview with Phil Harwood, the film-maker responsible for Mazungu, a 20 minute film premiering at ShAFF on March 5th in Sheffield. Phil made the first solo canoe journey, some 3,000 miles, down the Congo river from Source to sea. If you've read Heart Of Darkness or, more recently, Blood River, you will be well aware that the Congo is not a place many people choose to go by themselves, let alone in a canoe. 

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In the first of a series of Heason Events Podcasts you can listen to Alexandre Buisse, winner of last year's Arc'teryx Adventure Shot at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, talking about what it meant to him to win the competition. 

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Lissa Cook interview Leo Houlding at Buxton Opera House on 31st October a few days after he topped out on The Prophet, El Capitan, Yosemite...

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