Michael Cashman • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #311
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to EPISODE 311 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined by activist, author and actor (all the A’s), Michael Cashman! Sorry - let me correct that - Baron Cashman CBE!
An amazing meeting this week with Pip and Michael, a man whose experience and knowledge will come shining through immediately upon listening. As a founder of Stonewall (with Ian McKellen), ex-member of European Parliament, activist and former actor (those of us who grew up on Eastenders will remember him as Colin), his life has been a genuine document of ups and downs, highs and lows, but all navigated with love, conviction and positivity. His story is moving, uplifting and at times incredibly unfair, but as you will hear - from all of this, pure goodness has been his reward. Over 30 years of his journey has been underpinned by long term partner Paul, who is unfortunately no longer with us but as you’ll hear, is spoken of by Michael with such love and compassion and it’s pretty much impossible to not be stirred by - well, the whole conversation, let’s be frank. The rest is yours to discover - listen, learn, and become better acquainted with a strong force for good in the world. Welcome, Michael!
His book 'One Of Them' is available now on Bloomsbury!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 211. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm delighted this week to be joined by Michael Cashman, or I've got a bit of a |
| 0:10.5 | sore throat apologies. Yeah, this only recorded this conversation last week |
| 0:17.6 | as you hear this. Exactly a week ago, in fact. And as many of you know, I tend to |
| 0:23.3 | record fairly fine advance. I've got loads kind of in the bank ready to drop, but |
| 0:29.7 | I wanted to rush this one out because I was so moved and inspired by this |
| 0:35.7 | conversation and by Michael's story. And it felt right to get out in February as |
| 0:42.5 | it's it's LGBT history month. And Michael is a key part of that history in the UK |
| 0:51.8 | at the very least. He he was one half of the first gay kiss on a British soap to much |
| 1:00.3 | outrage and and threat and abuse. He co-founded Stonewall with Ian McKellen and they |
| 1:11.5 | fought tirelessly and continued to fight tirelessly for for better rights and |
| 1:16.9 | better representation for the LGBT plus community. And yeah, just his story is |
| 1:23.0 | just amazing. He's got he's got a new book out that is is in front of me as we |
| 1:28.0 | speak. It's called one of them from Albert Square to Parliament Square. Because you |
| 1:34.3 | know, he rose to fame and acclaim as an actor and as said to anger as an actor and |
| 1:42.0 | ended up becoming a member of European Parliament. And then a politician. And yeah, it's as |
| 1:50.9 | you can hear I'm a little bit dumbstruck by it all because it's it's a hell of a story. |
| 1:56.1 | It's got a lot of downs, a lot of lows, but a lot of beauty and the way Michael spoke of |
| 2:03.9 | of his partner of his struggles over the years of the conflict he's faced. It was wonderful. |
| 2:12.0 | So yeah, I'm going to jump into this one. I should mention that the the latest issue of |
| 2:16.9 | Pod Bible magazine has come out and the latest issue of the pod Bible podcast has come out. |
| 2:21.4 | So check them out head to speechdevelopmentreckles.com if you want to buy any merch or any of my stuff. |
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