Dec 7, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has been the weirdest and least planned-for social experiment in our lifetimes, and it has exposed what is broken about many of our systems and sectors - as well as what is possible when you allow new ideas to be tested. In this episode, we’re looking at the night-time economy. And our very...
Nov 26, 2020
In this episode, to accompany our other interrogations of the creative industries such as theatre and music under pressure, we’re looking at visual arts. Some might assume the visual arts world has fared OK in lockdown, nothing like the industry of performance and festivals reliant on people gathering together. We've...
Nov 16, 2020
These conversations are through the lens of Post-traumatic growth - and seeing if there can be such a thing in UK society, culture and business. The Covid-19 pandemic has been the weirdest and least planned-for social experiment in our lifetimes, and it has exposed what is broken about many of our systems and sectors -...
Nov 7, 2020
If we step back and look at the economic winners and losers during COVID-19, in particular the industries who have managed to weather the storm and those which have partially collapsed - it is fair to say that construction has done, on the whole, OK. In many ways the last industry to shut down and the first to re-open,...
Oct 23, 2020
In this episode, the topic is children’s media. This conversation had nothing to do with public health pandemics, and was recorded in January 2020 - about a month before the news really set-in that an incurable and highly infectious virus was moving across Asia and deep into Europe and beyond. But the reason that...