Earlier this week, Apple launched Time to Walk – a podcast-style interview series with well-known guests that aim to help you get out of the house, take a walk, and complete your exercise rings. Each episode (there are four at launch and Apple plans to add a new one each week) is approximately 25-40 minutes long and involves the guest telling three stories about their life and interests, followed by three of their favorite songs. .
Episodes play directly through your Apple Watch and are available to Apple Fitness Plus subscribers.
The first four guests are musicians Shawn Mendes and Dolly Parton, actor Uzo Aduba and basketball player Draymond Green. It’s a nice idea – even if you are alone, you can go for a walk “with” someone else. I spent an enjoyable half hour wandering my cold and rainy hometown listening to Dolly Parton’s tales of her childhood in Tennessee, and it made me start thinking who else could spin a good one. thread for Apple users. Who would you choose as your storyteller?
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Daniel Kaluuya
Actor Daniel Kaluuya is probably now best known for his role in Get Out, which won him an Oscar nomination, but I first saw him in the Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits. If you haven’t seen it (and you don’t mind something a little dark), it takes place in a society where ordinary people cycle for hours on end on stationary exercise bikes to earn merits, which serve as currency for everyday life. Collect enough merits and you will have the chance to be on a reality TV style talent show and possibly earn a chance at a better life.
It might not be the best story to think about while filling your activity rings, but you have to admit it’s fitting, and the story is really brought to life by Kaluuya’s heartbreaking performance as the protagonist. desperate Bing.
Kaluuya wrote his first play when he was only nine years old and worked his way up through his local theater school in Hollywood, alternating between the stage and the writers’ room. He’s only 31, but he’s a fantastic storyteller and must have amassed a huge collection of anecdotes throughout his career so far.
Gillian Burke
Gillian Burke is a naturalist and TV presenter, and at the time of writing, she co-presents Winterwatch on BBC 2. She first developed an interest in wildlife through photography, observing the natural world with her father in Kenyan play parks, and following that of his mother. conversation work for the UN.
I would love to hear an episode of Burke’s Time to Walk for two reasons. Firstly, she’s so passionate, and I can easily imagine her sharing stories about wildlife in three of her favorite places, or three of the species of plants or animals that she finds most interesting – sharing her knowledge and her enthusiasm. Second, she has a very relaxing voice – very different from Dolly Parton, but just as distinctive.
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Mary Berry
If you grew up in the UK you are almost guaranteed to have one of Mary Berry’s many cookbooks handy in the kitchen – probably well used, and with patches of cake batter on the pages. most used. She is one of the nation’s best-known and beloved food writers and presenters, and has seen an increase in popularity more recently for her role as a judge in The Great British Bake Off (or as it is called in the United States). United, The Great British Baking Show) when it was broadcast on the BBC.
Berry (now 85) first developed an interest in cooking in high school, and has since written over 70 books and appeared on countless TV shows. I imagine her Time to Walk episode focusing on the stories behind some of her favorite recipes – how they came to be and what they mean to her. And what radio does she keep in her own kitchen?
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