Life Stories with Ian Rutter
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Life Stories is a programme I present for Talk Radio Europe in southern Spain, where I live. In Life Stories, I chat to non-Spanish guests about their lives here in Spain. We discuss their lives here, what brought them here and what they did before they moved to Spain. Each guest can choose 6 pieces of music that best represent periods in their Life Stories. Each of my guests has a fascinating tale to tell, and each has that one common denominator - they all decided to come and live in Spain.If you enjoy this podcast, do please take a moment to review it in Apple Podcasts and subscribe for future episodes. No de Licencia SGAE: SGAERRDD/4/1317/1018
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Life Stories with June Windon
December 03, 2018 17:00 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MBJune Windon was born and brought up in what is now the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. June left school as soon as she could to start her career and worked in Hatton Garden before finding a role she loved in the freight shipping industry. A holiday to Ibiza resulted in a complete change in June’s life. Following the end of a long relationship, she decided to travel and enjoy life a little without realising that she should bump into the man who would become her husband. June left eve...
Life Stories with Gayle Macdonald
November 26, 2018 17:00 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MBMoving to southern Spain was supposed to be the start of a new and exciting life for Gayle Macdonald and her husband. However, the way of life and a need to escape the perceived challenges and stresses of everyday life in rural eastern Granada lead Gayle to rely increasingly on alcohol. A decision to live a life without alcohol resulted in a new lease of life, where Gayle could finally dedicate time to her children, concentrate on her teaching job and launch the support and advice business,...
Life Stories with Jess Draskau-Petersson
November 18, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBJess Draskau-Petersson has an impressive CV. She is a lecturer in Human Rights and Environmental Law, and has spent half of her adult life in the law and working as an HR professional and a Management Consultant for companies such as Price Waterhouse Coopers. The second half of her life has been spent as a championship athlete. Jess is a two-times Olympian and has competed in Marathons and Triathlons around the world. Jess has Danish and Manx nationality and despite her success both in the ...
Life Stories with Fred and Denise Smithers
November 11, 2018 21:00 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBFred and Denise Smithers first met at a dance when they were teenagers. A few years later, they met again and got married in 1972. The couple both worked in different areas of the UK healthcare system, having moved from their native Wiltshire to the borders of Scotland. Music and Beauty have been two constants in their lives and once they had decided that they had had enough of the rain of the northern UK, they chose that part of Spain with the least rainfall - Almeria. It is here that the...
Life Stories with Alan Gandy
November 05, 2018 00:00 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBAlan Gandy is a photographer and website designer who lives with his partner, Elle Draper in Velez Blanco, Almeria Province. Alan has a wealth of IT, PR and marketing, and general management experience having worked previously in the web design and multimedia, marketing and electronics industries, mostly at Director level. Today Alan provides consultancy across a number of industries around the globe, enabling businesses to make the best use of their budgets, whilst raising their profiles...
Life Stories with Rubi Castro
October 27, 2018 23:00 - 56 minutes - 26 MBRubi Castro is a 25 year old classically trained musician who moved, with her mother and brother, to Rincón de la Victoria, Málaga, three years ago from her native South Africa. Rubi talks candidly about the bullying she suffered at school, her lack of self-confidence and the impact that growing up in Johannesburg has had on her life. As a young adult, Rubi is considering her next career moves, having discovered that opportunities for classical musicians in South Africa are few and far betw...
Life Stories with Sarah Spencer
October 24, 2018 23:00 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MBSarah Spencer and her husband Lee have lived in Andalucia for the past 10 years. Sarah is best described as having a portfolio career, as she works as a research company project manager, writer of music reviews, and the co-founder of a company selling eco projects. She is also a mother and finds the time to attend ballet classes. Since moving to Spain in 2008, Sarah has lived in a number of Andalucia’s villages and now lives and works in Casares Costa. In 2012, when Sarah was 7 months pr...
Life Stories with Elle Draper
October 14, 2018 23:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBElle Draper, and her partner Alan, run the information website Spain Buddy and a website design business from their home in Velez Blanco, Almeria. Elle is also one of the administrators of the Facebook group, Writers and Bloggers about Spain (WABAS). Elle was born in the North of England (York), and has a strong background in sales, pub management and call centre recruitment, and at senior operation management level in the electronics industry. Elle is one of those sickeningly chirpy opt...
Life Stories with Anne Clifford
October 10, 2018 23:00 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBAnne Clifford is a resident of Granada City, and has dual British and American citizenship. Anne’s career as a ‘corporate trailblazer’ in HR systems has taken her around the world, working with American banks in Hong Kong, London and Tokyo. Her job in HR systems eventually provided Anne with the opportunity to relocate to Granada so she could be geographically closer to her two grandchildren, who live in the UK. As well as a change of location, Anne found herself single after years of marri...
Life Stories with Pop Spencer
October 02, 2018 23:00 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBPop Spencer and his wife, Gelda, live in a cave house in Cortes de Baza, a very rural corner of north-eastern Granada Province. Friends of Pop bought two cave houses and suggested that Pop and his wife might like to rent one, and so began a completely new chapter in the couple's life - a chapter that they would never have imagined. Officially retired, Pop continues to play guitar in a band and together they perform gigs both here in Spain and in the UK. Programme originally broadcast on Talk...
Life Stories with Julie Chimes
September 25, 2018 23:00 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBThe Life Story of Julie Chimes is a fascinating one. Julie's mother was a former Miss Great Britain and her step-Father was the comedian Max Wall. Through a lucky break, Julie became a successful racing driver and then pursued an equally successful career in advertising before her life was interrupted suddenly and violently. In her own home, Julie was attacked and stabbed 35 times but managed to escape. Such a violent attack left long-lasting physical and emotional scars and as part of her re...
Life Stories with Sam Chesterton
September 21, 2018 23:00 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBSam and Jeannie Chesterton built the gorgeous Finca Buenvino, a stunning country bed and breakfast, from scratch over 30 years ago. Here, in the Sierra de Aracena, in Huelva Province, Sam and Jeannie raised their three children here, they run a farm and a cookery school and wrote the Finca Buenvino Cookbook. In this episode of Life Stories, Sam talks about the adventures they have had building their own idyllic corner of southern Spain. If you have enjoyed listening to this episode, please s...
Life Stories with Roberta Gordon-Smith
September 18, 2018 23:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBThis was the very first programme recorded for Life Stories, back in April 2017, with my guest Roberta Gordon-Smith. Roberta has lived in Granada's Lecrin Valley for some 26 years, and owns a Finca and a charming art gallery on the coast. Roberta is a decorative interior artist, specialising in Trompe L'oeil, and has written two books on the subject. She is also a very good cook, farms her own olives and works as an artist and interior designer on commission around the world. If you enjoy th...
Life Stories with PP Arnold
September 16, 2018 23:00 - 1 hour - 31 MBTo launch this new podcast, this is a special Christmas edition of my Life Stories chat with the soul singer, PP Arnold, recorded near her home in Salobreña, Andalucia in southern Spain, in mid-December 2017. PP had just released a collection of recordings from the 1970s, entitled "The Turning Tide" and was about to embark on a tour. In my Life Stories programme, produced for Talk Radio Europe, I chat to non-Spanish people who have chosen to live in Spain. We discuss their lives in Spain an...