The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Creativity with Melanie Lehmann and Ben Pechey
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live in Sheffield, My Skin, My Creativity is the first of a limited two episode run our podcast series exploring modern identity.
Our deputy editor Gina Tonic sat down with photographer Melanie Lehmann and activist Ben Pechey to discuss representation, creativity in the North, social media politics and how to harbour community following lockdown.
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The Skin You're In, a Polyester Podcast, is brought to you by Polyester's founding editor in chief Ione Gamble (@ionegamble), and co-hosted and produced by Olivia Graham (@og.irl), in collaboration with @monki.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Ioni here and I'm so excited to be presenting a brand new two-part limited series of our podcast, The Skin You're In exploring modern identity. |
| 0:15.6 | Maids in collaboration with Monkey, The Skin You're In explores what it means to be alive today and the biggest issues affecting our generation. |
| 0:21.6 | For these two episodes we will be coming to you from our live podcast sessions in Sheffield and in London. |
| 0:29.6 | And we're talking about coming back together and how the world has changed post-pandemic for better and for worse. |
| 0:36.6 | In our first episode, we are in Sheffield and we are speaking to |
| 0:40.2 | Ben Peachy, the activist and Melanie Lemon, the photographer. So here's the episode. |
| 0:48.7 | Welcome to the polyester podcast. This is a limited series that we're doing in the collaboration |
| 0:53.2 | with Monkey. It's called |
| 0:54.9 | The Skin You're In. We're doing one here in Sheffield and one in Carnaby Street in London, focusing |
| 0:59.6 | on coming back together post-COVID, even though COVID's not really gone yet. But kind of like |
| 1:04.8 | post-restriction lifting, I was really adamant as part of the polyester team that if we were going |
| 1:09.8 | to do live events, that we did one in the north. |
| 1:12.0 | And I think that it's... |
| 1:13.1 | And I think it's very important to recognise how different the north of England is to the south of England. |
| 1:20.1 | And I'm saying that as a Welsh person, so I clearly care quite a lot. |
| 1:24.4 | But let's start off by getting our beautiful, gorgeous, fabulous guests to introduce themselves and what they do. |
| 1:31.2 | Hi, Melanie Lemon. |
| 1:33.8 | It's not spelled like my Instagram actually, but it sounds like it. |
| 1:38.3 | So I'm a photographer and I'm a creative. |
| 1:41.4 | And I actually only just moved here like in January. |
| 1:46.5 | Are you enjoying it? I love it. Well good. |
| 1:51.6 | Hello everyone. My name is Ben Pichi. My pronouns are they them if you did not know. |
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