24th June 2026
A check-in with previous guest, Jane Hilton. And last week’s guest, Harriet Logan, tackles the bonus questions.
THIS WEEK ON A SMALL VOICE PODCAST MEMBER-ONLY EPISODE...
A check-in with my guest from episode 35 of the podcast (August 2016), Jane Hilton, in which we discuss her love of Americana, the current state of the photography business and her nearly finished documentary The Last Roar, which has been ten years in the making.
And last week’s guest, Harriet Logan, returns to tackle the bonus questions.
Sample question:
What do you think you might have ended up doing if you hadn’t become a photographer and would you have been good at it?
God, I wish I'd been an astronaut.
Really?!
F***, I wish. I would love to have gone to space. Amazing. That's the one thing. I think, how must it feel to look back on planet Earth, and think there's all of humanity right there? I just wish, I wish I'd had that experience.
Listen, it could still happen. You don't have to be an astronaut to do that anymore. You know, go ask, uh, who was it went…?
Oh, yeah, Katy Perry. I could be Katy Perry.
Harriet, if Katy Perry can go to space…
So can I…
I think you can. Yeah.
She didn't really go to space. She just went outside the atmosphere. I wanna go on the dark side of the moon.
Ah, all right. Okay, fair enough. Then you may have to be an astronaut…
Oh, and I wish... I did actually get very far, 150 hours, into my helicopter license. So I can fly a helicopter. And the reason I wanted to learn to do that is because I wanted to fly aid flights. Going back to those times when I was working a lot in Africa, and I used to see these incredible pilots, and I used to think, “f***, you're like the coolest people ever." But flying a helicopter was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Like, I'm really shit at maths. And I'm really bad at doing that thing where you rub your stomach and tap the top of your head at the same time. Like, forget that. So flying a helicopter and having to stay at the same height, stay in the same direction, thinking about wind direction, think about your fuel, read a map, cause you can't do it on GPS, and speak to a control tower… But I did 150 hours.
But you didn't actually get the license?
Well, because COVID hit, and I broke my leg, and got addicted to OxyContin. So things got in the way.
Oh my God!
Yeah…
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