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Jan 13, 2025 | 
msn.com | Sam Pyrah
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Sam Pyrah
There’s a pesky crisp wrapper half-sunk in the mud under brambles. Each time I secure it within the jaws of my litter-picker, another piece tears off. I persist, until all the fragments of coloured foil are in my bin liner. Then I move on. I’m volunteering with a group at my local park. They perform a range of tasks, but today – my first time – we’re litter-picking. “Aren’t you good?” passersby say, as they walk through the park with their takeaway coffees.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Savannah Ayoade-Greaves |Chris Godfrey |Oliver Burkeman |Sam Pyrah |Joe Coen |Evelyn Miller
Subscribe to Weekend via your favourite platform Let us know what you think of the episode: [email protected] Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/weekendpod The Guardian and Observer’s 2024 Charity Appeal has partnered with three charities, Medicins Sans Frontieres, War Child and Parallel Histories, to support civilians living in Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan and Ukraine as they struggle with the devastating impacts of war, and to help schools teach children about sensitive and...
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Zoe Williams |Rachel Dixon |Nigel Kendall |Arwa Mahdawi |Amy Fleming |Sam Pyrah | +9 more
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Sam Pyrah
Rachel Ashe has always struggled with her mental health. But after a particularly vile year, she impulsively took part in the Loony Dook, a New Year’s Day swim in the chilly Firth of Forth in Scotland. “I hated it!” she says. “But afterwards, I felt just a little glimmer of hope.”On her return home to Swansea, that glimmer was enough to motivate her to take to the water again and invite others experiencing mental health challenges to come along.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sam Pyrah
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Sam Pyrah
There’s a footpath opposite my house; it slips between two bungalows ending at a stile that takes you into the fields. In spring, it’s one of the first places you can spot cuckooflower and Jack-by-the-hedge; in summer, borage sprawls on to the path, humming with bees. I have walked and run along this path thousands of times – sometimes alone, sometimes with my dog, husband, friends or neighbours. While the route remains constant, the experience never is.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Savannah Ayoade-Greaves |Charlotte Edwardes |Sam Pyrah |Kristi Schmidt |Laura Shavin |Evelyn Miller
Charlotte Edwardes interviews the Labour leader as he closes in on power, but who exactly is the man who wants to run Britain? Plus the extraordinary story of the woman who stepped in as a surrogate for her daughter’s baby, and Sam Pyrah examines the latest scientific understanding about why we dream what we do How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
standaard.be | Sam Pyrah
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Sam Pyrah
When my husband brought me a cup of tea in bed the other morning, I could barely muster a “thank you”. I was furious that he’d spent the night blatantly cavorting with another woman (a friend of ours, no less). Never mind that it only happened in a dream. The emotions – betrayal, outrage, rejection – felt real. My next words – “I had a dream last night” – echoed what Oscar Wilde is said to have deemed the most frightening sentence in the English language. My husband would probably agree.
