Rainbow Dads 2
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Rainbow Dads 2
LAUNCH OF NEW SERIES JUNE 24TH
The Dads are back!
The first series of RAINBOW DADS was a huge success. Nominated for a National Podcast Award, and Silver Winner in the Community Radio Awards, we were featured in a Guardian Podcast and one of the favourite LGBT+ podcasts for the Family Equality Organisation in the US. We are currently nudging 10,000 downloads.
So here we are, with series two of Rainbow Dads. Four interviews, four Dads, four extraordinarily different stories of resilience, humour, vulnerability and how to be fabulous!
These include – Coming Out in the Army, struggling with sex addiction, how a love of Cricket led to self-acceptance, and how being a Gay Dad becomes a lot more complicated when you also have a Gay Dad.
The new series launches and will be available on Friday 24th June! Do please consider donating, so we can continue to produce Rainbow Dads, Mums and Kids
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Rainbow Dads 2 has been nominated for an award at the British Podcasting Awards 2023.
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Alex, Nicholas, Richard and Smudge
Episodes
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019
Back in 2014 Nicholas McInerny was commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write the first of four series of HOW TO HAVE A PERFECT MARRIAGE, an autobiographical drama about a married man who Comes Out. Nicholas appeared on WOMAN’s HOUR and wrote an article for THE TIMES. He later adapted it for a pilot webisode, YOURDADSGAY ( https://vimeo.com/276309656. Password : YDG102)
In 2019 Nicholas was approached by Richard Shannon, a playwright and Lecturer in Radio at Goldsmiths, to make a Podcast. Over two weekends in April six strangers met, and this is the result. Six Podcasts that cover the different stages these men went on their incredible journeys.
Ep1. The Early Years. Growing up gay or bi in a straight world.
Ep2. Marriage Blues or not? What was their experience.
Ep3. Day Zero. Did Coming Out solve anything?
Ep4. A Brave New World. Expectations v Reality.
Ep5. Fit for Practice.? How to be lovable again.
Ep6. What now? Breaking through and the need to heal.
Ep7 goes into more details of Nicholas’s journal used throughout the previous six episodes.
Presenter – Nicholas McInerny
Producer and Editor – Richard Shannon
Music by Mina
Special thanks to Neil Bull, Senior Technician, Radio Section, Goldsmiths College
All with extraordinary stories to tell – an arranged marriage, an evangelical background, a deep affinity with David Bowie! – as they shared raw, honest, funny, bittersweet memories of family, of fatherhood – and of self-acceptance.
‘Yesterday, whilst I was sleeping, my wife leant over and whispered in my ear, ‘Wake up happy…..’
These Six Podcasts cover different stages in this journey as the Dads talk with extraordinary bravery and insight and share moments of laughter and tears.
The final – Seventh - episode focuses on the journal Nicholas kept from 2007 when he first confronted the realisation he was Gay.
Richard and Nicholas believe there are other subjects to cover in RAINBOW DADS, and would welcome suggestions for further Podcasts.
And we really hope – wherever and whoever you are – these stories touch you too.
FOR MORE INFORMATION – Press Only
Contact Nicholas McInerny on 07770943556
nicholas.mcinerny@gmail.com
RAINBOW DADS – Stories from Gay & Bi Dads
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
Friday Oct 25, 2019
Monday Oct 28, 2019
Monday Oct 28, 2019
Monday Oct 28, 2019
Monday Oct 28, 2019
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Rainbow Dads 2 will be launched on Friday 24th June. Here is a taste of what's to come!
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Friday Jun 24, 2022
David Ledain
David's ground breaking book Gay Dad, is an inspiring and illuminating set of stories about gay and bi-sexual fatherhood. He has continued to write important books which can be accessed via links on the following pages.
