Secrets I’ll Never Tell - Benedict Cork & Sophia Thakur

Hey friends, welcome to my podcast miniseries. I'm a massive fan of podcasts, even more so over the past year, and so I wanted to do something special for my new EP 'Secrets I'll Never Tell' and create this series of conversations to go alongside it. A companion piece you could say. Each week for the next seven weeks, I'll be chatting to different performers, creatives and inspiring people about stories in their lives, vulnerabilities, sexuality, identity, mental health and loads more. There'll be some live performances, some laughter, maybe a few tears, and hopefully some really valuable conversations for you to enjoy that focus on some of the themes of 'Secrets I'll Never Tell' and beyond.

This week's guest is the incredible Sophia Thakur. She is an award winning spoken word artist, songwriter, poet and author of a beautiful book of poetry called ‘Somebody Give This Heart A Pen.' We spoke about vulnerability in creativity, how important it is for her to be authentic in her work, and she also performed a brand new poem at the end of the episode! I loved everything Sophia had to say; it was so poignant for all of our experiences over the past year, and I'm so grateful she was willing to go deep on this one. I really hope you get something out of it too!

This episode was recorded during lockdown in London, April 2021

Artwork by Katie Cairns, Mixed by Ruby Smith, Music by Benedict Cork & Paul Stanborough

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