Not Your Usual: The Skinny x Glayva

For the final episode of our Not Your Usual series, we chat to BAFTA-winning animator and filmmaker Will Anderson about process, pathos and playfulness, as well as his recent debut feature film with frequent collaborator Ainslie Henderson, and his 3D animation experiments.A Cat Called Dom will screen on BBC iPlayer in 2024; watch some of Will’s short films, including The Making of Longbird, Betty and Have Heart, at vimeo.com/willandNot Your Usual is brought to you by Glayva and The Skinny. #NotYourUsual

Heather Parry is a prolific writer of novels, short fiction and non-fiction, often centred on our relationship with the body – the ways it can be used, transformed and made vulnerable.Heather sits down with our books editor Anahit Behrooz to chat about her novel Orpheus Builds A Girl, her new short story collection, existentialism, music writing, the limits and liberations of genre, and cocktails.Orpheus Builds a Girl is out now with Gallic Books. This Is My Body, Given For You is out now with Haunt Publishing. Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and the Failed Promises of Capitalism is out with 404 Ink in April 2024. Follow Heather on Instagram @heatherparrywriter Not Your Usual is brought to you by Glayva and The Skinny. #NotYourUsual

Bee Asha Singh is a musician, an MC, and co-founder of The Spit It Out Project. Our Music editor Tallah sat down with Bee Asha to talk about making art from trauma, creating connections with other artists of colour in Scotland and beyond, and her incredibly ambitious plans for her new record.Content warning: this episode contains discussions around grief and sexual assault.Follow Bee Asha on Instagram @bee.asha.bish and on Bandcamp at beeasha.bandcamp.comNot Your Usual is brought to you by Glayva and The Skinny. #NotYourUsual

David Callaghan combines theatrical staging, innovative technology and storytelling stand-up to make exciting, boundary-blurring shows. David joins us fresh from a month in his van to discuss his influences, embracing technology, and the creation of his latest show Everything That's Me Is Falling Apart, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe this August. This chat's for fans of intricate detail, trying new things, David Niven, and toy train sets.Everything That's Me Is Falling Apart tickets: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/everything-that-s-me-is-falling-apartFollow David on Twitter @davidcallaghan and on Instagram @callaghandlethisNot Your Usual is brought to you by Glayva and The Skinny. #NotYourUsual