Bristol Mind

DIO! is a media consultancy working into the health and social care, charity and government sectors. Bristol Mind has kindly allowed us to publish regularly on their site. DIO! has become a family firm, with the two members Richard Shrubb and Penny Hayes marrying on the 3rd May. DIO's offices have moved too - I'll just say out of the AWP area. Go to www.diomedia.org.uk for any more information on us as a company. With the business move and wedding we have been missing for a month. Apologies ;o)

This site is the Bristol Mind Podcast site. We intend on publishing a 10 - 15 minute podcast every 18th of the month.

To download one of our podcasts: right click the link and left click on "Save target as". File download will open a menu asking where to save the file to on your computer - I suggest the My Documents folder. After downloading, double click on the file and listen to it on your media player.

This month, a 25 minute programme for you to listen to. We did this long interview because it covers an important issue that may shock and affect the listener.

The stereotype of the "loony" is a ranting, strait jacketed freak. Sadly this happens all to often - in police stations across the country as people for a variety of reasons are removed to a place of safety because of their behaviour. They might be off their faces on drugs or suffering from intense periods of mental unwellness - or a combination of both. This month we met Sgt Clive Thomas of Trinity Road police station to see this dreadful experience (for both sufferer and policeman alike) from the policeman's perspective. We must remember that police are people too (!) and that they do not like this situation at all - there is a definite attrition rate of staffing at police stations because of these events, as you will hear.

Penny Hayes interviewed Sgt Clive Thomas at Trinity Road police station. Over the next 25 minutes (+ download time), please be wary you may feel uncomfortable at times.

April 2008 Podcast

March 08 Podcast

Having been tribal and political, DIO! Media returns from the wilderness of political activism this month with a new podcast, this time on science. If you've been a regular listener to this site, you'll be aware of the series on science that we started, interviewing Dr Toby Murcott, PhD. This time we look at medicine and how science deals with it. Why are schizophrenics given drugs that make us twitch and dribble, and are told that these are good for us? The answer I'm afraid is scientific trials - the cold hearted science of whether this drug deals with the symptoms without killing us! Fine, so Stelazine didn't kill me, but I still remember the medication with disdain. Penny Hayes and Dr Murcott discuss the science of medication - go download it!

March 08 Podcast

Jeff Walker

As the blood curdling cries below showed, Jeff is a guy worth fighting for. In an extraordinary addition to the Bristol Mind Podcast page, DIO Media has found an archived film of Jeff at the National Service User Network Launch Conference from November 2007. This is an unedited clip of 4 minutes, in which he talks about the work he has done and that of Bristol Mind. A chance to get to know the outgoing boss! This is 11.6 MB, or the same size as most of the podcasts we have transmitted here. Watch and learn!

Jeff's interview for NSUN

January 2008 Podcast

So, the year turns and Dio Media's podcasts have had their first birthday. Will we continue another year? Sponsorship would encourage us! For the moment our good downloaders have provided us with sponsorship in other ways - some have even become clients of ours!
To this month's podcast. Dr Toby Murcott is a Doctor of Philosophy - not a medical doctor. He is a well known science broadcaster and journalist, with titles and broadcasts in the Times and on BBC Radio Four. Penny interviewed him about his work at its most basic - what is science? How should we judge discoveries and advances in this field? This month we look at science in its most basic form - over the coming months we will revisit the interviews as they go into more depth, affecting medicine and psychiatry. Download and listen to Penny do the best interview she has yet done!

January 2008 Podcast

November 2007 Podcast

On World Mental Health Day 2007, DIO! went to the Redwood Lodge Hotel for the celebrations - and interviewed the two keynote speakers at the Recovery Conference hosted by Second Step Housing Association. Over 13 minutes 14 seconds, we hear about some of the latest ideas in recovery from mental illness.

November 2007 Podcast

January 2007 - Dio's first Podcast

For our first podcast, we spoke to Peter Horn, the National Programme Lead for mental health from the Care Services Improvement Partnership about choice in mental health; a policy the NHS is extending in mental health as well as the rest of the system. Click below to hear what he told us.

January 2007 Podcast.

February and the winter doesn't know if it is meant to be cold and bleak or warm and sunny...

People and organisations look inward and rearrange in preparation for the summer blooms. AWP is no different and is planning an overhaul of the Integrated Care Programme Approach. Speaking to our roving reporter, Penny Hayes, Christine Vise and Patrick McKee talk about the changes afoot and how it affects we, the people working under and with the revised approach. Click below to listen to the 10 minute package.

February 2007 Podcast.

Well, so much for the 17th of the month b/s! Didn't make the deadline, a crucial part of broadcast journalism!

This month we're doing things differently. Penny Hayes wrote a play about mental health advocacy. More of an argument!

The actors are Janey and Paul, who argue the pros and cons of advocates between themselves (the advocates) and Penny the journalist. Listen and learn!

March 2007 Podcast.

April - where's the showers? Bet we'll have a drought warning and a hozepipe ban soon. Better than watering the garden, spend twenty minutes listening to our podcast this month! Five for download on a 512kbps connection or less with a higher broadband speed.

This month, Penny's having a lie in and the CEO of Dio Media gets out of bed to do something for a change - and I went to meet Rachel Barclay of the BME Reference Group. Click below to listen to the straight interview...

April 2007 Podcast.

Eighteenth of the month by the skin of my teeth! This was recorded in Bridgwater's Garden World yesterday- who says I don't get to go to amazing places in the name of radio! I interviewed James Wooldridge of Mental Health Media and specifically the Openuptoolkit.net website about his experience of mental health discrimination and how he deals with it. For the final 4 minutes I talked to him about the openuptoolkit.net website, which you can find by hitting this link http://www.openuptoolkit.net

At 15 minutes this is a long podcast, so beware about how long it takes to download.

Contact details! If you wish to email James Wooldridge about anything you've heard, drop him an email at jayw@jaydoubleu.fsnet.co.uk

Click below to listen to the May 07 podcast

May 07 Podcast.

With a sunny April and a flooded June we can't be talking global warming but global madness! Fulfil your mad watching with us again this month by listening to our latest contribution to the world of podcasts.

This month I went all the way to sunny Frenchay to talk with our newest volunteer, Julian Wood. We chatted for 8 minutes about the Nobel Prize nominee Claire Weekes and how she helps - even after 10 years in the grave.

If after listening to this you want to see more about her, either Google her name or go to this site as a good starting point: http://www.drclaireweekes.co.uk/

Hold it! This site is about podcasts and the real link you seek is this, the 10 minute June Podcast. Listen, and (hopefully) enjoy!

June 07 Podcast

July 07 Podcast hasn't happened. How embarrassing! By way of excuse, the sexy new 2 GB flash recorder that I bought from the USA has broken, and we did not find this out until I went to edit it this morning! Eh well, another £100 spunked in business, is... £100 we dearly need elsewhere. Life goes on, debts will increase, but business is business!

DIO! has a new website! Go to http://www.diomedia.org.uk to see what we do. We need volunteers to keep the Bristol Mind Podcast alive, as the serious business of making DIO a viable enterprise subsumes Penny Hayes and Richard Shrubb. Get on board - there may be opportunities that extend beyond fame in the future.

A second website to look at, from the 1st October is a chance to buy Richard's book, Giving Voice to the Inner Scream. Go to www.gv-is.co.ukto see this new book and buy a copy!

MNPodcast

Coming soon......

Excuses, excuses! I am waiting for final approval ffrom the Avon and Wiltshire Partnership Trust before I can publish the next podcast. Committees and clients that seek perfection - very similar beings. We have a new RSS feed that we shall be putting in with this, so you can be alerted when the next podcast comes out. The podcast after covers a Second Step event in October. AWP paid for their slot so we must wait for them, bluntly! Keep surfing by and you shall see - it is all recorded but editing takes time!

If you'd like to try being DIO's latest star reporter / citizen journalist / slave / exploited labour , we'd like to hear from you. I have an MA in radio and TV journalism and am well able to teach you all the skills you need to do a Jeremy Paxman! If you're interested, we'll provide full training and the skills to go out and help you to do it! Contact Rich Shrubb on shrubberz@shrubberz.co.uk or on the phone on 0797 0013 889

And finally, we do this podcast for love, but love don't pay the bills! We want your money and love. DIO! provides multimedia solutions for the challenges you face in enabling your staff and clients to stay up to date. Get in touch with Rich Shrubb on the above email and phone line and I'll be happy to discuss terms. Have wheels will travel - I serve clients across the South West, and if the terms are right, can reach as far as necessary to achieve your corporate ambition.