What Makes You Tick?

The way someone chooses to spend their time tells you a lot about who they are.

What Makes You Tick? is a society podcast hosted by Melanie MacGregor, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Melanie MacGregor hosts What Makes You Tick?, a society show with 25 episodes published.

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  What Makes You Tick?

  Frances - opera singer

  Jul 12, 202625 minS1

  I met Frances McCafferty when playing clarinet in an amateur musical. Frances had come from an international career in opera and had generously agreed to be part of the production, coming out of retirement to join the cast on stage. So I couldn’t resist the temptation of dropping past her dressing room one evening and asking if I could interview her about life in opera and what it took to get started. It was a precious opportunity to get a first-hand account - it’s not every day you meet an opera singer, let alone get the chance to ask them about their story.

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  Episode #25

  Markus - who cycled around the world

  Jul 6, 20261h 1m

  I met Markus Stitz just over a year ago, when I started cycling the Edinburgh version of Dawn Patrol that he set up. Dawn Patrol rides leave from the centre of the city at 5:40am a few times a week, for either a road or a gravel ride of about 30km, which ends at Cairngorm Coffee. All in time to fit in before starting work. Markus has managed to put his love of cycling at the heart of how he makes a living and I could have very easily spent an hour asking him about that, but I decided instead to ask him to look back on the round-the-world solo bike trip that he finished almost 10 years ago. Because I’ve always been curious about the behind-the-scenes and the ups & downs of what cycling around the world is really like. Markus added his own twist to the trip by deciding to take a single-speed bike, which as the name suggests means one gear, all the way. https://markusstitz.com/

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  Episode #24

  Our Dawn Patrol

  Mar 15, 202656 minS1

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  Episode #23

  Nigel - guitar maker

  Oct 31, 202439 minS1

  <p>Today I’m talking to Nigel Forster, who builds guitars for a living. He did his apprenticeship with Stefan Sobell, who is considered one of the best in the world at his craft. After working under Stefan, Nigel set up his own guitar-making workshop in Newcastle back in 2004. If you ordered a guitar from him today, you would need to wait at least a year before you got it. When I look at the photos on Nigel’s Facebook page of some of the guitars he's been building, I can see why people are willing to wait. I don’t play...

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  Episode #22

  Angie - yoga teacher

  Oct 15, 202420 minS1

  <p>Today I’m talking to Angie, who’s been a yoga teacher for the past 10 years. About a year ago, Angie set up her own yoga studio in Edinburgh with two good friends and I’ve been taking her classes there for the last few months. I liked Angie straight away ... it would be hard not to … she’s one of those people who doesn’t put up any barriers, right from the beginning. She’s warm and friendly and she definitely doesn’t take herself too seriously. It's a moving story of how she found her way to yoga.<br/><br/>h...

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