I’ll be on the radio again tomorrow. This time for a BBC 2 documentary about children and faith/lack of faith. I’ll be talking a bit about Camp Quest and a bit about raising children in a non-religious community. At least, that’s what we talked about, I may have been edited out of the realms of [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Camp Quest’
October 2, 2009
Fun times at BBC Radio 2
My mood has been very up and down recently, but yesterday was one of those weirdly wonderful days.
I woke up to an out-of-the-blue e-mail from someone I met at AAI 2008 (Atheist Alliance International for all those not in the know) telling me what a good job I had done with Camp Quest and generally [...]
July 14, 2009
The Atheist and the Bishop: I talk to AC Grayling and Richard Harries
This afternoon I made my way to Canada Water, safe in the knowledge that my tube fares were being covered by the BBC. I was heading to Bacon’s College, a Church of England funded academy, to take part in a documentary series for BBC Radio 4 called “The Atheist and the Bishop”. This sets up [...]
July 10, 2009
Fan mail
Dear Samantha
I live in *** and was listening to the radio this morning and I heard you being interviewed about the Camp Quest 2009.
I like your passion for this cause, but at the same time I would like to say that I am praying for you, that you may see that the stars you study and the trees you [...]
July 6, 2009
Feeling a bit blue today
I’ve been doing something a little depressing. I’ve been googling Camp Quest UK, and myself.
There’s been so much conjecture out there on the internet. A couple of them have attacked me/my acting skills on youtube quite personally.
We are getting a lot of positive comments, but the outrageous comments are the ones which get attention. Such [...]
July 5, 2009
David Mitchell mocks us, traffic skyrockets
Not really. But this article by David Mitchell shows just how far word has spread of Camp Quest UK. Being mocked by such a funny man actually feels more like a badge of honour than an attack. I saw him on Jonathon Ross the other week and decided that since he was single, I want [...]
June 29, 2009
My media day
I write this lying in bed, blinds down, bbc breakfast news soothing me in the background, willing the children not to be awake.
Yesterday was HUGE and I still haven’t processed a lot of it. Camp Quest was featured on the FRONT PAGE of the Sunday Times, as well as an additional article and an editorial. [...]
June 28, 2009
A very interesting weekend
Camp Quest UK has been featured in a series of articles in the Sunday Times (including front page!) and I have spent all morning responding to the media and writing corrections. These can be found at:
http://www.camp-quest.org.uk/media/press-releases/corrections-to-sunday-times-series-of-articles-printed-2862009/
Our training weekend has gone fantastically well and our programme is set for camp!
I’m due to head down to the [...]
May 19, 2009
Success, and Camp Quest
It’s been about a year since Camp Quest UK really started going anywhere at all, and about 18 months since I first decided to set up.
I’ve never really thought of myself as remarkable, other than in my fantasies which consist of me accepting my Oscar for playing myself in a movie about how I wiped [...]
