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I AM WRITE

Nigel Write

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Nigel Write DELIVERS proof that "The gift is in the giving and the reciprocity is in the recipient paying it forward" Each week this writer entrepreneur uses TRANSPARENCY as a weapon of poetic justice against CONVENIENT TRUTH revealing what works for those who seek self-actualization and agree that IGNORANCE SERVES NO ONE. Join this fellow rabble-rouser on a journey to LEARN TEACH BUILD GROW TOGETHER. Whatever you BELIEVE will manifest. If you are reading, DO NOT SEE THIS AS COINCIDENCE and ...
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From Scratch

From Scratch

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Nigel is a former chief learning officer and now teaches, consults and writes books on leadership, learning and people development. Martin is a journalist, editor, curator and publisher.
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STOP WASTING TIME Done Beats Perfect Digital Marketing Tips WRITERS VOICE Paper Bag Publishing is social media made simple. How to convert content in conversation and deliver value in 10 minutes or less? You found us at @writevoice so STOP GUESSING what the gurus are doing and START WINNING with the right answers. PAPER BAG PODCAST provides actionable advice for skeptical small business owners and DIY Local Brands who are looking for digital marketing question and answer support without a se ...
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Are you struggling to turn your idea into a great documentary story? This podcast takes you through the steps that world-class documentary makers use to create compelling documentaries from real-life ideas. Whether it's for Netflix, The BBC, or Amazon, or you are just starting out, great storytelling is what your audience craves - it's the foundation of every successful documentary. Those skills aren't down to talent or desire - it's simply a matter of knowledge. Award-winning documentary ma ...
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THE BIBLIO FILE is a podcast about "the book," and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging, long-form conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and many others inside the book trade and out - from writer to reader.
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Stranger Than... a series of 15 non-fiction classics, coming to a bookseller near you. To mark the collection?s launch, Perennial, Foyles and 5th Estate organised a collaborative day-long celebration, where a host of published writers and book industry folk discussed how non-fiction works, how to write non-fiction and why the format is so successful.
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Bad Screenplays

Mark, Stewart

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We’ve spent years writing screenplays that nobody wanted to make into reality, we couldn’t even find anyone to read them! So we decided to review amateur screenplays to figure out what makes a bad screenplay. Hopefully by the end of this journey we’ll be able to write a good one. Probably not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Music Is Funny

Jonathan Bright

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Willie Nelson’s granddaughter, Raelyn Nelson, and her bandmate/producer, Jonathan Bright interview top comedians about the similarities and differences between the comedy and music “business”. Road stories, bad gigs, shady promoters/etc, you get it all with Music Is Funny.
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SRE LIVE is an interview series of creators who stand out. From video producers to YouTubers and journalists. You’ll understand what makes their style unique, how they think, how they produce. You'll get to observe their mindset...and that is much more than a conventional “how to” advice.
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​B. Traven's​ novels and stories​ have sold m​ore than ​3​0 million copies​ over the past century in more than 30 languages​ worldwide. He was Einstein's favourite novelist. Der Spiegel ranks his The Death Ship as the third greatest German novel ever written (okay in the past 100 years), after Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, and Kafka's The Castl…
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Some years ago I interviewed David McKnight about a collection of Canadian “little magazines” he’d hunted down and later donated to the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Library. It was very easy to get caught up in David’s enthusiasm, and I was really impressed by the catalogue he’d produced. Shortly after our conversation I learned that he didn’…
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Black magic is not something I ever expected to explore deeply, but when filmmaker Liam Le Guillou approached the DocFix with his idea, I was delighted to help. His premise - could he persuade practitioners of Black Magic to curse him, to see what it could teach him about the true nature of magic? On today's episode, we discuss the process Liam wen…
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What if the most impactful stories aren't about the events themselves but the human experiences they evoke? Dan Reed’s documentaries have earned 22 major nominations and 18 wins—for good reason. In this episode, I talk to Dan, the director whose hugely important films include the Emmy-winning Leaving Neverland, which investigates the sexual abuse a…
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Michael Erdman is Head of Middle East and Central Asian Collections at The British Library with overall responsibility for all manuscript holdings in Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chagatai, Coptic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Syriac. I talked with him about my recent magazine hunting exploits in Istanbul, and how what we found f…
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I first came across Andrés Mario Zervigón’s (Cuban) name while researching a magazine that filled me with awe the first time I saw it. AIZ, the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (Workers Illustrated Magazine) is an illustrated, mass circulation German periodical that was published in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s (in Prague after 1933). It contains…
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Tony Fekete is a​ book collector who for years specialized in collecting erotica. ​H​e's best known for the catalogue he produced for a Christie’s auction that took place in 2014 that featured highlights from his collection. ​M​ore than 200 books, manuscripts, lithographs and erotic photographs ​w​ent up for sale​,​ including a first edition of My …
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When we sat down to talk, John Mathieson and just returned from shooting Gladiator 2 with Ridley Scott in Malta. He was part of the orignal team, having wenty-five years earlier shot the original iconic film. Afer that first collaboration he was the cinematographer for numerous films for Scott, including Kingdom of Heaven, Hannibal and Robin Hood. …
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Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, the creative minds behind "Superman, the Documentary," shed light on their inventive storytelling techniques and the profound life of Christopher Reeve. Together, we explore their decision to weave Reeve's action-packed past with his advocacy-driven present, crafting a narrative that is as compelling as it is emotion…
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Siegfried Lokatis is a retired professor of book history, and former head of the University of Leipzig's​ Institute for Communication and Media Studies. He is the author of Book ​Covers of the GDR and is currently working on a history of the S. Fischer publishing house, due out in 2026. We met in Leipzig recently where Siegfried treated me to a tou…
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Richard Charkin has held senior posts at many major, and some minor, publishing houses in the U.K. over the past 50 years, including: Harrap, OUP, Pergamon Press, Reed Elsevier, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and Mensch Publishing. He is former President of The Book Society, the International Publishers Association and the UK Publishers Association. His bo…
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The last time I ran into renowned book scholar Jonathan Rose (at a SHARP conference) he mentioned that he was doing some work on Playboy magazine. ‘Way more women readers than you’d expect!’ he told me. Rose is an accomplished author. His groundbreaking and award-winning book, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, first published in…
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Michael Lista is an investigative journalist, essayist and poet who lives in Toronto. I’ve followed his career now for some fifteen years. He’s written true crime for the better part of a decade. His story “The Sting” is being adapted by Adam Perlman, Robert Downey Jr., and Team Downey, into a television series for Apple TV+. We talk here about Mic…
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Ian Birch is "former editorial director of Hearst UK and Emap. He began his magazine career in the late 1970s as a reporter for Melody Maker before moving to Smash Hits where he was assistant editor for three years. His first launch and editorship came in the late 1980s with Sky Magazine. At Hearst UK he was publisher of Company, Esquire and Harper…
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What happens when your documentary feels flat and unengaging, despite all your hard work? This was the main question behind a Masterclass I gave at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers. We look at why a lack of storytelling craft and mentorship in the industry often leads to issues with storytelling, and debunk the myth that extensiv…
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Paul Wells is a leading Canadian political journalist and author. We met at his offices in Ottawa to talk about his impressive career, and his craft writing about politics for newspapers, magazines, books, and now Substack. Topics covered include: observing and interviewing politicians; reading and remembering history; putting events into context; …
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Today JB gets educated on all things Taylor Swift by Raelyn and special guests, King and Queen Swifties, Pepper and Annie Goins. What is the new album really about? Is she a clone? Is she gay? Is she the spawn of Satan? Or is she simply the current queen of pop and a positive role model for everyone? All of your questions will be answered and oh so…
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“Lucian Bernhard (1883-1972) was one of the great founders of modern graphic design. In a career spanning nearly five decades in Berlin and New York, Bernhard laid the foundation for a new language of form and communication. His brilliant posters, advertisements, book designs and typefaces created the very look of the twentieth century and beyond. …
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The art of documentary storytelling is not a static skill, but a journey with distinct milestones. I'm Nigel Levy, your guide through the labyrinth of crafting compelling narratives, and this episode of DocFix Documentary Storytelling Podcast is your roadmap. This is about unearthing the universal skills that will elevate your craft regardless of y…
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I interviewed Nick Anthony a year or so ago about his experience writing a first novel and getting parts of it work-shopped. Today I catch up with him to find out what he’s been doing and where he’s at now on the road to getting his first book published. We talk about, among other things, how AI has helped him in the writing process; subjective and…
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Growing up on classic country music, playing honky tonks 7 nights a week, getting a publishing deal in Nashville and getting cuts by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Hank Jr., George Jones and Barbara Mandrell in the first 6 months, why Nashville wasn't for him, doing radio with cousin Johnny Knoxville, getting on the Jackass soundtrack, gambling on t…
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Seeing the Beatles for the first time, witnessing the first wave of English Punk rock, busking in Paris, playing in bands, beginning his film career with no experience then consequently making over 400 music videos, working with Britney Spears, GnR, and Oasis, filming the Band-Aid project, sleeping through a Willie Nelson concert and oh so much mor…
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John Sargent was too young to fight in WW ll but he spent years battling Amazon and Google in the trenches on behalf of publishers and authors, protecting copyright and defending book prices. John grew up on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. Over forty years he worked at six publishing companies, including Simon & Schuster where he was the publisher of th…
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This episode it a little different, as it's a converation between myself and James, a student of the DocFix Program. James' background is in drama, and later as part of the marketing department of Lionsgate Films, a very large US entertainment company and film producer and distributor. James came to us with his passion project, and his first docume…
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Joshua Doležal is a writer and award-winning teacher with 20 years of experience in publishing and editing. His mentor was Ted Kooser, former Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner. Josh's work has appeared in more than 30 magazines including The Kenyon Review and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His memoir Down from the Mou…
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Birger Clausen, the composer, is one of my closest collaborators, most recently on the two-time Emmy nominated (including for music and sound) and RTS winning 9/11: Life Under Attack. In this episode we talk about many things - the relationship with the composer, mood and storytelling, the use of specific effects and the avoidance of cliche, trends…
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Today Raelyn and JB discuss Yoga and golf, weird documentaries, doing standup on New Year's Eve, brainstorming in the shower, funny things white people say, break down their Chat-GPT music video and oh so much more! Check out the music video here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE00r_kLAEQBy Jonathan Bright
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