SHED TALKS (Jeremy Thomas)

Blue Baltic Entertainment Ltd

Shed Talks is a good humoured show about well being, mental health and coping with life – what happens when things go wrong, and what you can do to get better and stay well. Shed Talks is hosted by Jeremy Thomas – a funny guy with experience of serious mental illness, and an advocate of good mental health. Jeremy is going to be in conversation with interesting people drawn from the world of Film, TV, Music, Books, Crime, Gardening, and Business. Interesting people who have achieved something in their lives but who also have had direct or indirect experience of poor mental ill-health. By sharing their inside stories with Jeremy, guests will also reflect on personal survival techniques, demonstrating how they recovered from poor mental health and how they now stay sane. Jeremy Thomas worked in the music business for 22 years during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.  He worked with artists such as John Williams, Al Green, Camel, Caravan, U2, The Levellers, James Brown and Rupert Hine to name a few. He wrote his first novel “Taking Leave’ in 2007, a former BBC Radio 5 ‘Book of the Month”, going on to co-produce the Emmy Award-winning BBC documentary ‘Stephen Fry – The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive’ and co-write the popular- A-Z Guide to Good Mental Health with Dr Tony Hughes. His last novel was the crime thriller ‘The Santa Monica Suicide Club’ published in 2016. Jeremy is now a leading speaker to schools and businesses, delivering talks on “How to Stay Sane in an Insane World’’.  An authentic, brutally honest, and often humorous talk that draws on his own battle with bipolar disorder and addiction, providing coping skills and strategies based around a mental health tool kit. For more Shed Talks information and mental health support visit our website or contact:- enquiries@jeremythomastalks.co.uk read less
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Episodes

Nicky Chinn talks about having ECT aged 16. How he coped with severe bipolar throughout his life, while-writing over 50 hits with Mike Chapman. Songs like Tiger Feet, Blockbuster, Devil Gate Drive, Hey Mickey, Living Next Door to Alice.
26-05-2023
Nicky Chinn talks about having ECT aged 16. How he coped with severe bipolar throughout his life, while-writing over 50 hits with Mike Chapman. Songs like Tiger Feet, Blockbuster, Devil Gate Drive, Hey Mickey, Living Next Door to Alice.
Ambassador to Bipolar UK, animal lover, Nicky Chinn waited nearly many years to discover the best ways to stay sane.  Alongside his songwriter partner Mike Chapman, Nicky enjoyed huge success around he world, including wining three Ivor Novello awards. Acts like Sweet, Mud, Racey, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Toni Basil, Tina Turner and Huey Lewis.  Nicky also talks about the terrifying treatment he received for severe depression and bipolar disorder he suffered aged just 16 and how this repeated and the subsequent multiple hospitalisations he experienced throughout his life. He talks about how alcoholism ruined the life of a singer of one of their biggest acts. There is also humour throughout such as when he tried to buy two Rolls Royce during the same day and transforming his bathroom into a discotheque complete with rollerball, then bought the Hollywood actor, Paul Newman's massive house. Asked for a possible overall trigger, Nicky points a finger at the abandonment he felt not knowing his parents but brought up by a nanny instead- and sent away to school aged six. Friendship became all important, one with pop supremo, Mickie Most. Despite some set backs in the early 90's, 1995 proved to be a massive turning point towards lasting happiness- when four things happened: .