LANCASHIRE
AUTHORS' ASSOCIATION
HERE WE WILL FEATURE A NUMBER OF PODCASTS.
If you click on the links below, they will take you to a player that will allow you to listen to our interviews.
These interviews will feature, amongst other personalities, local writers, committee members, and some LAA
members who have a story to tell. Each guest will be asked to choose pieces of music that mean something to them.
To start the ball rolling, the first one featured, will be Melinda Hammond, who is a novellist.
Second podcast in line is Les Bond. Les is member and patron of the LAA but also a renowned authority on the history of The Accrington Pals
as well as a respected poet, singer, songwriter who can make us laugh and cry at the drop of a hat.
Our next podcast features our librarian, Brian Foster. He will tell us all about the library, read some poems and choose his favourite music.
Here we feature Nick Oldham. Nick tells us about his police career and how it shaped him as a writer of crime thrillers and shares some of his favourite songs with us.
It gives us pleasure to post the sixth of our Podcasts. This one features one of our patrons, who is also a renowned poet,
prolific author, teacher and adjudicator - Alison Chisholm. She shares her thoughts and chooses some music.
Our seventh Podcast is with journalist, broadcaster and radio and TV announcer, Helen Veysey. Helen is a Lancashire Lass in the
true sense, having been born and brought up in Accrington. She now lives in Gloucestershire with husband, Paul and has been
kind enough to give us an interview and choose some music as part of this series. Look out for even more soon.
This Podcast features Peter Jones interviewing LAA President Lily Driver. Here she talks about her life, how she started writing
and her former time with Lancashire Authors' Association and picks her favourite music.
Neil White is a Yorkshire lad who now lives in Preston. He has written nine novels, one of which earned the distinction
of Number One Best Seller. Here he tells D Garrett Nadeau about his life and chooses his favourite music.
Jill McDonald-Constable is an LAA member and a published author. She writes Western novels under the name of Amos Carr for
Robert Hale and as Gil McDonald for the American market. Please listen to her interview here and hear the music she has chosen.
Jill McDonald-Constable Interview
The tables have been turned! The interviewer has become the interviewee. D Garrett Nadeau gets his hour in the spotlight as
Peter Jones asks the questions. Dana is a novelist and academic in his own right. Listen to Dana's answers and his choice of music here.
Our latest offering concerns author and newly elected Secretary of Lancashire Authors' Association, John Winstanley. John talks about his journey
into musical journalism, his book, "Unsigned, Unscene" and his life in general and chooses some of his favourite tracks.