Podcasts

The Fascination of Running Up That Hill

Teenage athlete and fell running sensation, Charlotte Rawstron, talks to Jane Hunt about her progress through the world of athletics and the fascination of running up the seemingly impossible steep fell at Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show – and back…
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August 20th, 2024

Meeting a Doggy Dad & Getting Golden Retriever Pet Parenting Advice

Jane Hunt meets Brian Johnson, pet parent to social media doggy star, Pip the Golden Retriever, someone who Jane avidly follows on X and who has fans worldwide. Jane discovers all about Pip and his social media journey, finding out…
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August 20th, 2024

Summer at Levens: 330 Years of Garden History

As part of Catapult PR’s travel PR work, and tourism PR work in the county of Cumbria, Jane Hunt homes in on the delights of a formal English garden in the summer months, by talking to the head gardener of…
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June 7th, 2024

The De-risked New Insurance Brokerage Paul Deftly Built

As part of her insurance PR remit, Jane Hunt talks to Paul Howley, the very first insurance account executive who was selected for her insurance PR client, Gauntlet Group’s, new initiative, Gauntlet Brokerage Builder. Gauntlet Brokerage Builder is a unique…
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June 7th, 2024

Build Your Own Pizza Oven Through A Tuscan-Do Approach

If you can’t head off to Italy this year, you simply have to bring the tastes of the Mediterranean to your own home and what could be better than a tasty wood fired pizza, bubbling with cheese and with a beautifully charred base worthy of any pizzeria in Naples?  Maybe a pizza  – or even better, another recipe concoction, rustled up in your own garden oven?

But how do you top that?  Maybe by serving up that pizza from an oven you’ve built yourself, so it comes with a big topping of self-satisfaction?

May 22nd, 2024

Yew La La: Topiary’s French Connection

With the worldwide phenomenon that is World Topiary Day just around the corner, the creator of the multi-award-winning gardening awareness day, Jane Hunt, managing director of Catapult PR, talks to Patrick Salembier, President of the European Boxwood and Topiary Society…
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April 14th, 2024

Easels & Evergreens – Tree Therapy and World’s Oldest Topiary

It’s so easel, easel.  That sums up the 2024 season for one of Catapult PR’s travel PR clients – heritage visitor attraction and historic house and garden, Levens Hall and Gardens, located in the English Lake District, where ‘topiary art’ will take on a new meaning.

February 17th, 2024

On the Scent of a Unique Canine Sport

Jane Hunt gets on the scent of a historic and traditional canine sport that is largely these days confined to the beautiful countryside of Cumbria, or as some people may better know this  part of the UK – the Lake District.  

January 29th, 2024

Exploring Viking Roots & The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark

Jane Hunt explains the motivation that drove her towards a visit to the Viking Ship Museum, in Roskilde, Denmark, having been to a meeting, as part of her travel PR work, in which the need for DNA testing around Hadrian’s…
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January 20th, 2024