Amy has sailed her boat up from her office job through the rain to top and tail the pod this week - where our subject is PERIODS, AND PEACHES, for Series 2 pod DON'T PREACH* *do, please do. This week Miriam speaks to Lucy Peach, Period Preac

Don't Speak W Rachel Healy AF Director

May 29th, 2019 1h

EP TWENTY ONE! SERIES TWO! SEASON TWO! TAKE YOUR PICK! We’re back after a short break where we did some life stuff. So we’re calling this S2 Don’t Speak.This week Miriam looks back to an interview from February 2019 when she spoke with Rachel

Don't Speak with director Flavia D'Alvia + playwright Jen McGregor

Apr 11th, 2019 1h 16m

This week, Amy speaks to a pair of local heroes in Edinburgh theatre: Director Flavia D’Alvia and playwright Jen McGregor. Hear them discuss the highs, lows and hard work they each put into their plays, and the obstacles they’ve had to overcome

Don't Speak with Victoria Falconer

Mar 27th, 2019 1h 11m

We’re back - the spring equinox has happened and the quail and the frogs** and the humans are celebrating - in the northern hemisphere at least. Don’t Speak 18. This week Miriam speaks with Victoria Falconer of Fringe Wives Club, Midnight Mar

LIVE Don't Speak Adelaide Fringe 2019 wJane Howard & Double Denim

Mar 7th, 2019 1h 1m

Welcome to Don't Speak LIVE at Adelaide Fringe with Double Denim AKA Laura Frew and Michelle Brasier hosted by Miriam Attwood and Jane Howard. On Sunday 24 Feb this group of phenomenal women huddled round a chair at Adelaide Fringe Club to di

Don't Speak With Playwright Stef Smith

Feb 15th, 2019 1h 19m

‘Traits of a VERY good friend with Stef Smith’This week Miriam sits down with her pal Stef. (Look. I can’t edit my friend - I’m sorry, so this is the pretty much unedited chat between two old but VERY YOUNG AND HOT pals.) Stef Smith is a pl

BONUS EP January 2019

Jan 31st, 2019 39m 35s

BONUS EP! Miriam & film-maker Hope Dickson Leach spoke for sooooo long that we made a wee bonus ep with chats about TV and Film recorded at Hope’s house in early Jan. Recommendations and conversations about how fabulous a recent Ben Wishaw red

Don't Speak with filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach

Jan 24th, 2019 1h 12m

This week, Miriam speaks to Hope Dickson Leach, writer, director, film-maker and campaigner based in Edinburgh - working around the globe. We drank hot chocolate. Hope talks about what home means, the industry, her latest feature film The Lev

Don't Speak with actor Harrie Hayes

Jan 11th, 2019 1h 13m

This week Miriam speaks to Harrie Hayes! Harrie is a British actor with a penchant for comedy (she is very funny) who is one fifth of zazU, actual Queens on Horrible Histories, advertisers’ dream go to face and much more besides. We talk abou

Don't Speak with Orla O'loughlin

Dec 28th, 2018 57m 42s

This week, Amy speaks to Oral O'loughlin, the Outgoing Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre. They chat about her seven-year tenure at the helm of Edinburgh's new writing theatre, her final show Mouthpiece and, why it took Amy seven years t

Don't Speak with theatre-maker, Annie George

Dec 5th, 2018 1h 18m

This week Amy meets Annie George. Annie is an award-winning writer, theatremaker and occasional filmmaker, based in Edinburgh. Amy and Annie cover much ground in their 55 minute chat, from Obama, lies in politics, to 90s Scottish Theatre to tod

Don't Speak with singer songwriter Kathryn Joseph

Nov 22nd, 2018 1h 14m

Singer Songwriter all round wonder woman Kathryn Joseph joins Miriam for a chat about many things that have happened in the last 24 hours. Kathryn is an award winning artist who has been featured on all the radio stations that know what's good

Don't Speak Bonus EP Apphia Campbell On BIZNIZ

Nov 15th, 2018 31m 36s

BONUS EP. A wee follow up to the chat with Apphia Campbell about how to, when to, and sensible thoughts about running a showbiz theatre life. Amy & Miriam will work to do this from here on out when our interviews run over. Let us know what you

Don't Speak with Apphia Campbell

Nov 8th, 2018 1h 8m

This week Miriam speaks to Apphia Campbell, writer, performer, actor, brilliant woman. We talk about the themes that emerge from Apphia’s work - plays Woke and Black is the Colour of My Voice. References we wander to and forth from are Michaela

DON'T SPEAK with Arusa Qureshi

Oct 18th, 2018 1h 10m

This week we are joined by List Editor Arusa Qureshi. Arusa is a writer, critic and editor based in Edinburgh and the current brains at the helm of the Scottish Arts and Culture Mag. We talk about being a boss lady, countering people’s expectat

Don't Speak With Mele Broomes

Oct 3rd, 2018 1h 6m

This week Miriam speaks to dancer, choreographer, ermerging talent Mele Broomes in Glasgow where Mele is based. We talk about Mele's recent work VOID and everything that came with, funding, dancing, new ideas, everyday racism and much much mo

DON'T SPEAK LIVE at Fringe '18 - Bonus ep feat Hot Brown Honey & Molly Taylor

Sep 19th, 2018 1h 4m

Our second ever SPECIAL LIVE BONUS EP recorded live in conversation at Fringe Central at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Join Miriam and Amy with dancer, choreographer, trailblazer, Yami Rowdy Lofvenberg and contemporary dancer, director and sou

DON'T SPEAK with Crystal Stacey from Hot Brown Honey

Sep 13th, 2018 56m 5s

The usual drivel from Trash and Attwood - Miriam had time to read a book and Amy some horror films so things are returning to 'less mad' after the biggest month of the year in the LIVE calendar - the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This week, Miri

Don't Speak with Shivani Saini

Aug 31st, 2018 38m 41s

Don't Speak with founder, producer & consultant at AtelierCulturati.com, Shivani Saini. Miriam spent a quick 20 minutes with Shivani on the final Sunday of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the Summerhall Press Office. Shivani is in Edinburgh

Don't Speak with Sarah Ward aka Yana Alana

Aug 8th, 2018 1h 10m

We are joined by rabble-rouser, anarchist neo-cabaret star and singer Yana Alana - IRL Sarah Ward. Miriam saw Yana Alana - Between The Cracks - at the fringe and her mind was blown so they sat down together the following weekend for a chat. Amy

Don't Speak with FK Alexander

Jul 27th, 2018 1h 44m

Amy and FK Alexander meet in John Lewis cafe for scones, juice and hot, hot tea. Discussions include: performance art, men, men on trains, men wanking during performances and art.

Don't Speak with Jenna Watt

Jul 13th, 2018 57m 59s

This June Miriam met with performer and playwright Jenna Watt. Jenna's most recent work Faslane has just wrapped an English tour, the play about the people and worlds colliding in Faslane (where trident lives) having won awards galore at the Ed

Busty Beatz Don't Speak

Jun 27th, 2018 1h 2m

This week, Miriam speaks to Busty Beatz from Hot Brown Honey about anything and everything, Recorded at HOME Manchester in December 2017, the conversation veers wildly from fan art to egos, to the huge success of Hot Brown Honey, then to terrib

Don't Speak with Desiree Burch

Jun 13th, 2018 1h 3m

This week Amy does the chatting and Desiree Burch is in the sassy seat over from her. The recorder did break 10 mins in BUT FEAR not, these women have dealt with worse. Miriam and Amy have been fans of Desiree's work for literally years, litera

Fringe '17 Don't Speak BONUS EP!

Jun 6th, 2018 57m 52s

A special bonus ep of Don't Speak recorded at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017. Join Miriam Attwood with Busty Beatz, Lisa Fa'alfi and Ofa Fotu of Hot Brown Honey, Theatre Director Caitlin Skinner, Performer and Director of Trans Creative Kat