Charmaine McKissock: Radio

What Matters - a programme produced by Charmaine McKissock and aired on Colne Radio

In 2014 Charmaine McKissock started recording a unique series called ‘What Matters?' She aims to record Essex folk in conversation in order to build a unique picture of our lives today and leave a footprint for future generations.We are asking people to briefly share their thoughts, experiences and feelings in a recorded conversation about what really matters to you. What you talk about is up to you!

Can you talk to me for just 10 minutes about what really matters to you?
How many of us stop to really think about which things are most important to us?
Have you got a passion, gripe, memory, person, experience, project, or belief that really matters to you?

Please do not hesitate to contact Charmaine McKissock at Charmaine@colneradio.com

If you would like to listen again to any of the recordings below,

‘Women of the Colne’ for Colne Radio

This programme is produced to give a voice to local women about their lives, opinions and interests. Below you will find details of previous interviews with Wivenhoe Women and Women of the Colne

Your feedback is really appreciated, as well as suggestions for guest women. Contact Charmaine at: Charmaine@Colneradio.com

Wivenhoe Women - Local history in the making

In 2013, Charmaine McKissock interviewed 33 women who touched the lives of the Wivenhoe community and local area. A CD was produced: the idea was to create an archive of local women's experience in the early part of the 21st century. To read more about this special project, click here.

Here is the list of brave women whose recordings you can listen to:
1.   Alison Stockmarr
Artist and teacher Alison Stockmarr, tells us about her love of the sea, why she is drawn to scrap and found objects - especially the tatty and downright ugly - and her fascination for exploring family histories. The daughter of a Danish father and Lancastrian mother, she originally trained as a clothes designer and worked in a London Couture House. Later she retrained at Colchester School of Art in Textiles and 3D Design, and taught at Colchester Institute. She also talks about how her dyslexia has informed her work and thinking processes.
2.   Andrea Luxford-Vaughan (for part 2 of Andrea's interview click here)
In this 2 part interview with Charmaine McKissock, Andrea Luxford Vaughan gives us a spirited and open account of her formative life experiences, travels, career and relationships, including family influences, the expected pleasures, aims and challenges of being Mayor of Wivenhoe, and her special dyslexia-related talents.
3.   Arlene Lyne - For part 2 of Arlene's interview click here)
In this 2 part interview, Charmaine McKissock is in conversation with Arlene Lyne, who is a homeopath and natural health coach, based in Wivenhoe. She tells us about her commitment to natural medicine; her approach to working with diverse clients, including young people and teens; and her passion for travel, cinema, dance and writing.
4.   Barbara Rogenbruck
In this interview, Charmaine McKissock talks to Barbara Rogenbruck is a retired educationalist, lover of nature, animals, reading, true conversation and the arts. She is to be seen at many local events always looking wonderfully stylish, whether mucking into a gardening task for Wivenhoe in Bloom or attending a cultural event. Barbara also gives a fascinating account of her early years in Germany in the WW2 period.
5.   Caroline Moiret
Caroline Moiret is a psychotherapist and award-winning glass artist based in Wivenhoe, North East Essex. She discusses the influence of her upbringing on her travels, work, and personal life view.
6.   Ellie Chambers
Ellie Chambers was born and bred in Wivenhoe, North East Essex. She is an intrepid, caring and gifted 17 year old, who has just returned from an expedition with the Russ Foundation helping in an orphanage in India. She is busy studying for A Levels, but still finds time for her friends, her passion for acting, a part-time job at the Co-op supermarket, and babysitting for local families.
7.   Gill Sleightholm
Gill Sleightholm talks openly about her key role as a volunteer in Wivenhoe’s Helping Hands project based in Wivenhoe North East Essex. She tells the listeners with humour about her early family life, career as a nurse and passion for caravanning with her husband and cats in tow.
8.   Jan Williams
Essex storyteller, Jan Williams, has roots Welsh roots. She started her working life as a teacher of History, English and Drama, which took her to Canada for five years. After her return to the UK, some difficult life experiences forced her into early retirement, which interestingly nudged her towards starting a new fascinating and successful career in storytelling. She has founded the Essex Storytellers Group, and tells us her views on what makes a ‘good’ storyteller. She has performed and written many tales rooted in Essex, including her recent Tales Across the Colne, available in local bookshops.
9.   Janie Groat
Janie Groat is a garden designer living in Wivenhoe, North East Essex. She has worked in the past as a scientist, radical bookshop/café owner, carpenter, and psychotherapist. She also gives us an insight into her involvement with the Women’s Movement and her challenges with ME.
10.   Jeanie Jackson
Jeanie Jackson traces the influences in her early childhood and later life as a business woman which led her to her vocation as a spiritualist medium, Tarot reader, healer, and bereavement counsellor. She describes some of her case histories and the training that she has been involved in, as well as expressing her views on destiny and the spirit world.
11.   Jo Wheatley (for part 2 of Jo's interview, click here)
12.   Julia Murphy (for part 2 of Julia's interview, click here)
13.   Julia Vezza
14.   Julie Palmer
15.   Julie Thompson
16.   Karen Backhouse
17.   Kate Lilley
18.   Laetitia
19.   Lelia Ferro
20.   Lois Wheeler
21.   Maria Iacovou
22.   Mary Dodds
23.   Mary Pullen
24.   Moira Collett
25.   Pat Smith
26.   Pauline Robinson part 1
         Pauline Robinson part 2
27.   Philippa Hawley
28.   Pip Scott
29.   Sam Mayer
30.   Sarah Jarvis
31.   Sarah McCaskey part 1 and part 2
32.   Sheri Kershaw
33.   Sue Dawes

Series 1 of Women of the Colne

Interview with Angela Dennis on Colne Radio Monday 4th August at 10AM - repeated Saturday 9th at 2PM.
Angela Dennis is a Community musician, singer, Natural Voice Practitioner, music and vocal facilitator and 'Singing For The Brain' leader for North East Essex. She talks with Charmaine McKissock about bringing music and singing to all members of the community, including those with Alzheimers Disease, her childhood influences and what keeps her awake at night...
Click here to listen to Angela's interview.

Interview with Dilly Meyer PART 1: Monday 11th Aug 2014 at 10AM

In this 2 part interview with Charmaine McKissock, Dilly Meyer tells us about her German -Irish roots, her travels, work as the University of Essex Skills Centre Manager, being Mayoress of Wivenhoe, and her numerous fund raising projects including Colchester Women’s Refuge, the
Hospice and Barnado’s. In 2015, she will become the Regional President for the Anglia Region of the Soroptimists. She shares her infectious love of people, parties and a bottle of fizz.
Click here to listen to Dilly's interview.
Dilly Meyer PART 2: Monday 18th Aug 2014 at 10AM

Click here to listen to the second part of Dilly's interview.

Margaret Godwin: Monday 25th Aug 2014 at 10AM
In this interview with Charmaine McKissock, Margaret Godwin tells us about how various key life experiences have shaped her outlook on life: including caring for her severely disabled brother; overcoming dyslexia; becoming a Christian; post-natal depression; and working as a counsellor specialising in adult survivors of childhood abuse.
Click here to listen to Margaret's interview.

Rosalind Scott PART 1 2014: Monday 1st September at 10AM

In this 2 part interview, Charmaine McKissock talks to Rosalind Scott about her personal and political life. Rosalind was brought up in the North of England but progressively migrated to Wivenhoe in Essex, via Zimbabwe where her children were born, and South Africa, where she worked as a teacher after Mandela was freed. In this 2 part interview with Charmaine McKissock, Rosalind discusses her love of ecology, her philosophy of ‘Ubuntu’, and the consequences of the gender imbalance in politics. Rosalind expresses her hopes and plans for Wivenhoe should she be elected as a Labour candidate in the coming Borough Council by-election in July 2014.
To listen to the first part of Rosalind's interview, click here,

Rosalind Scott PART 2: Monday 8th September 2014 at 10AM
To listen to the second part of Rosalind's interview, click here.

Series 2 Women of the Colne

Alison Stockmarr
Andrea Luxford-Vaughan Part 1 and 2
Arlene Lyne Part 1 and 2
Barbara Rogenbruck

Series 3 Women of the Colne

Caroline Moiret
Ellie Chambers
Gill Sleightholm
Jan Williams
Janie Groat
Jeanie Jackson

Series 4 Women of the Colne: the final one!

Heather Purdey Part 1 and Part 2
Sarah Holmes
Jacqui Warren
Lyn Pendle
Barbara Simpkins

Charmaine McKissock

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