Tracy Mackness's guest appearances

Tracy Mackness

Midweek

The Influential Women Podcast

Tim Tate

Sarah Williams

Peter Layton

Gina Campbell

Michael Mosley

Patrick Stewart

Jancis Robinson

Gavin Turk

James Buchanan

Diana Nyad

Martin White

Caitlin Doughty

Lynda La Plante

Michael Parker

Michelle Collins

OwlTail

Tracy is a bad girl turned good, now a motivational speaker and award winning business owner she has used her experiences of prison to completely turn her life around.   The ‘Influential Women Podcast’ discusses with Tracy how being imprisoned  compared to the lockdown which is happening across the world and what can we do to survive it. Tracy gives us tips on how she learnt new skills, read books and how her mantra on life got her through 7 years in prison and how that compares to isolation.   It is co-produces and presented by Nicki Bannerman, executively produced by Juliette Nicholls and audio produced by Saffron Mirza.  Support and help us keep making podcasts here: https://www.patreon.com/InfluentialWomenPodcast  @nickihbc @pineappleaudioproduction @saffronmirza

Tracy is a bad girl turned good, now a motivational speaker and award winning business owner she has used her experiences of prison to completely turn her life around.  The ‘Influential Women Podcast’ discusses with Tracy how being imprisoned  compared to the lockdown which is happening across the world and what can we do to survive it. Tracy gives us tips on how she learnt new skills, read books and how her mantra on life got her through 7 years in prison and how that compares to isolation.  It is co-produces and presented by Nicki Bannerman, executively produced by Juliette Nicholls and audio produced by Saffron Mirza. Support and help us keep making podcasts here: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/InfluentialWomenPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/InfluentialWomenPodcast</a> @nickihbc @pineappleaudioproduction @saffronmirza

Rhonda Long Sharp

Elisa Segrave

George Butler

Libby Purves meets pig farmer Tracy Mackness, former state defender turned art dealer Rhonda Long Sharp, writer Elisa Seagrave and artist George Butler.Tracy Mackness worked on her dad's stall in Romford market but fell in with the wrong crowd, fraternising with gangsters and the Essex criminal underworld. She was eventually convicted of conspiracy to supply cannabis and was sentenced to ten years in prison. She worked on the prison farm, and now runs her own business breeding pigs and selling sausages at farmers' markets around the UK. Her book, Jail Bird - The Life and Crimes of an Essex Bad Girl is published by Simon &amp; Schuster.Rhonda Long Sharp was a chief deputy state defender for twenty-five years in Indiana, working with prisoners on death row. She is now an art dealer, who set up the Indy Contemporary and Modern Masters Fine Art and Brokerage companies, specialising in well-known artists such as Picasso, Warhol and Dali, as well as local Indianapolis based artists. She will be at the Masterpiece London 2013 art fair at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London.Elisa Segrave is an author and writer. Her book, The Girl From Station X, is based on her late mother's diaries in which she discovered a very different woman from the one she knew. The diaries started in childhood and dealt with marriage, the loss of a son and her wartime experiences as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park. The Girl From Station X - My Mother's Unknown Life is published by Union Books.George Butler is an artist and illustrator who captures such diverse subjects as the oil fields of Azerbaijan, soldiers in Afghanistan, the G20 riots and the New York Fire Department. Last year he went to Syria to draw the civil war damaged town of Azaz and went on to win the V&amp;A Illustration Award for this work. An exhibition of his work - A Year of Drawing - will be at the Illustration Cupboard Gallery in London.Producer: Annette Wells.

Libby Purves meets pig farmer Tracy Mackness, former state defender turned art dealer Rhonda Long Sharp, writer Elisa Seagrave and artist George Butler. Tracy Mackness worked on her dad's stall in Romford market but fell in with the wrong crowd, fraternising with gangsters and the Essex criminal underworld. She was eventually convicted of conspiracy to supply cannabis and was sentenced to ten years in prison. She worked on the prison farm, and now runs her own business breeding pigs and selling sausages at farmers' markets around the UK. Her book, Jail Bird - The Life and Crimes of an Essex Bad Girl is published by Simon &amp; Schuster. Rhonda Long Sharp was a chief deputy state defender for twenty-five years in Indiana, working with prisoners on death row. She is now an art dealer, who set up the Indy Contemporary and Modern Masters Fine Art and Brokerage companies, specialising in well-known artists such as Picasso, Warhol and Dali, as well as local Indianapolis based artists. She will be at the Masterpiece London 2013 art fair at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. Elisa Segrave is an author and writer. Her book, The Girl From Station X, is based on her late mother's diaries in which she discovered a very different woman from the one she knew. The diaries started in childhood and dealt with marriage, the loss of a son and her wartime experiences as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park. The Girl From Station X - My Mother's Unknown Life is published by Union Books. George Butler is an artist and illustrator who captures such diverse subjects as the oil fields of Azerbaijan, soldiers in Afghanistan, the G20 riots and the New York Fire Department. Last year he went to Syria to draw the civil war damaged town of Azaz and went on to win the V&amp;A Illustration Award for this work. An exhibition of his work - A Year of Drawing - will be at the Illustration Cupboard Gallery in London. Producer: Annette Wells.

Tracy Mackness, Rhonda Long Sharp, Elisa Segrave, George Butler