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A View From A Bridge

Joe Bloom

Welcome to the A View From A Bridge Podcast! Each episode is a carefully curated selection of stories, experiences, and views from an eclectic and wide ranging selection of guests, including familiar voices, and passers by who have picked up our red phone. It’s the show where human stories come first. No interviewer, no studio. Just people talking into a telephone from a bridge.

Presented + Produced by : Joe Bloom

Podcast Producer : Hattie Moir

Original music : Joi Wiren, Ross Woodhead, Ned Prevezer

Sound Design : Eva Krysiak

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  • weekly
  • Avg 23 min
  • English

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  • S1 · E1
    Oct 14, 2025 · 37 min

    To Be, or Not To Be, a Parent

    To be or not to be a parent...That is the question - which everyone in today’s episode has asked themselves. The birth of Alexandra’s first child didn’t go as planned. She tells us about it and why she won’t be doing it again. Jonathan, an Oscar nominated documentary maker, thought he was making a film about Vasectamies. It turned out he was starting a worldwide movement. Lead singer of the band Franz Ferdinand, Alex Kapranos speaks on having his first child at 50. Musician Rebecca Lucy Taylor, otherwise known as Self Esteem, muses on one of nature’s cruelest gender dividers; the body clock.

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