In this thought-provoking interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of leading thinkers on the spot - from writers to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. In this special festive edition, Matthew selects his favourite conversations from 2021. Highlights include: Oliver Bullough exposes Britain’s major role in the world of corruption; Phil Tinline on why collective political nightmares can sha...
Dec 27, 2022•33 min•Ep. 170
In this special series, we explore how regenerative practice is helping people in place collectively re-design their communities, cities and economies and create a thriving home for all on our planet. In this fourth episode, Josie and Daniel explore new models for structuring our economies with radical economists Kate Raworth and John Fullerton. The words economy and ecology have the same root in Ancient Greek – oikos , meaning home. In an era marked by climate breakdown and profound social chal...
Dec 20, 2022•42 min•Ep. 161
In this thought-provoking interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of leading thinkers on the spot - from writers to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Pulitzer Prize-winning physician, biologist, and author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, joins Matthew to discuss the importance of the body’s smallest structural and functional unit: the cell. He explains why the cell is so important when it comes t...
Dec 13, 2022•31 min•Ep. 169
ReGeneration Rising In this special series, we explore how regenerative practice is helping people in place collectively re-design their communities, cities and economies and create a thriving home for all on our planet. In this third episode, Josie and Daniel discuss regenerative cities with urban designers, Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka, authors of the book Flourish: Design Paradigms for our Planetary Emergency . From our cities, to our homes, to our public buildings, the spaces we inhabit ...
Dec 06, 2022•47 min•Ep. 160
In this thought-provoking interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of leading thinkers on the spot - from writers to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Hashi Mohamed is a barrister and broadcaster based in London. A contributor to the Guardian , The Times and Prospect he also presented Adventures in Social Mobility (April 2017) and Macpherson: What Happened Next (2019). In his debut book P...
Nov 29, 2022•35 min•Ep. 168
In this special series, we explore how regenerative practice is helping people in place collectively re-design their communities, cities and economies and create a thriving home for all on our planet. In this second episode, Josie and Daniel are joined by Dr Anne Poelina, Co-Chair of Indigenous Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a Nyikina Warrwa Indigenous woman from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Regeneration is often positioned as a recent development in sustainable practi...
Nov 22, 2022•38 min•Ep. 159
In this thought-provoking interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of leading thinkers on the spot - from writers to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Games developer and writer, Adrian Hon, believes creeping gamification in our workplace, our schools, even our government, is increasingly being used as a way to profit from and coerce us. Adrian joins Matthew to explain why, in a tech-driv...
Nov 15, 2022•35 min•Ep. 167
In this special series, we explore how regenerative practice is helping people collectively re-design their communities, cities and economies to create a thriving home for all on our planet. In this first episode, co-hosts Josie Warden and Daniel Christian Wahl discuss what it means to think and act regeneratively. Every second of every day, our cells are fed, nourished, and regenerated by the living systems around us -- and our presence, in turn, enables other species to thrive. But our current...
Nov 08, 2022•35 min•Ep. 158
In this thought-provoking interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of leading thinkers on the spot - from writers to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Matthew meets with Will Butler-Adams, the CEO of Brompton Bicycles, originally a small British company that has grown to become one of the biggest cycling brand names in the world. Will discusses the challenge of producing intricate folding...
Nov 01, 2022•33 min•Ep. 166
In this thought-provoking interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of leading thinkers on the spot - from writers to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. In her latest book, 'Hagitude', Sharon Blackie shares her personal story alongside potent female figures from history to offer a rich vision of how we can grow into a more connected and creative second half of life. She joins Matthew to tal...
Oct 18, 2022•37 min•Ep. 165
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. In the last century of British mass democracy politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. So what can we learn by looking at periods of turmoil and misery instead of focusing on moments of consensus and harmony? Documentary-maker and writer Phil Tinline...
Oct 04, 2022•39 min•Ep. 157
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented. She claims her generation were the first who properly grew up online, riding the waves of those chaotic and experimental early years of the internet. But when the...
Sep 20, 2022•34 min•Ep. 156
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Just how does a book go from a germ of an idea in one person's head to top of the best-sellers list? How important are the army of proofreaders, indexers, copy editors and publicists in helping an author pen a succesful novel? In this episode of Bridges...
Sep 06, 2022•30 min•Ep. 155
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Oded Galor is Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University and the founding thinker behind Unified Growth Theory, which seeks to uncover the fundamental causes of development, prosperity and inequality over the entire span of human h...
Aug 23, 2022•39 min•Ep. 154
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Anna Jones is a journalist, broadcaster, and Nuffield Farming Scholar. She can be heard on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today, On Your Farm and Costing the Earth. Anna worked on BBC One's Countryfile for more than a decade. Growing up on the Welsh Borders, fro...
Aug 09, 2022•36 min•Ep. 153
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London . Formerly he was chief executive of Nesta, and held government roles (1997–2004), including as the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit dir...
Jul 26, 2022•38 min•Ep. 152
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. The good old days? They never existed. That's according to the historian, Hannah Rose Woods , in her new book, 'Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain'. From Brexiteers yearning for a lost imperial past to sixteenth-century observers looking ba...
Jul 12, 2022•34 min•Ep. 151
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Have the last 15 years seen the most sustained decline in political freedom around the world since the 1930s? Chief Foreign Affairs columnist for the Financial Times, Gideon Rachman, believes so. And he points the finger of blame squarely at the rise of...
Jun 28, 2022•32 min•Ep. 150
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Ukrainian national and Harvard historian, Serhii Plokhy, believes we are sleepwalking into another nuclear catastrophe. Drawing on past accidents, including Chernobyl in 1986, Three Mile Island in 1979 and Fukushima in 2011, he makes the case to Matthew...
Jun 14, 2022•34 min•Ep. 149
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Has the sexual revolution, which promised lots of fun, no-strings sex, actually made us unfulfilled, miserable even? And all that swiping left or right on our phones, has it left us detached, disillusioned, dissatisfied? Writer Christine Emba believes s...
May 31, 2022•32 min•Ep. 148
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Is Britain really the butler to the world's kleptocrats, criminals and tax dodgers? Is this country, famed for its supposed sense of fair play, really one of the few to do more to frustrate global anti-corruption efforts? Journalist Oliver Bullough beli...
May 17, 2022•37 min•Ep. 147
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. In our age of the internet and social media, the pandemic has revealed the importance of accurate science reporting. Fiona Fox, chief executive of the Science Media Centre, is an expert in science communication. She takes Matthew behind the scenes of so...
May 03, 2022•38 min•Ep. 146
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Noga Arikha has long been fascinated with mental illness and the way we understand identity. Researching her new book, the philosopher and historian spent 18 months at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris studying what happens when the mind goes wron...
Apr 19, 2022•33 min•Ep. 145
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. It seems obvious that pleasure leads to happiness. So why are we attracted to gruelling challenges that at times can truly hurt, from writing a novel to running a marathon or even raising a family? Drawing on findings from psychology and brain science, ...
Apr 05, 2022•36 min•Ep. 144
In this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. The final guest in the series is Professor David Pendleton, one of the world’s leading experts on the subject. His 'Primary Colours' model of leadership, has been highly influential in government in the UK and beyond. David Pendleton is a Professor in Leadership at Henley Business School and an Associate Fellow at the Said Business School at ...
Mar 29, 2022•33 min•Ep. 143
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. With Russia facing crippling sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine and with many businesses, from McDonald's to Apple, pulling out of the country, does this mark the dawn of a new era for the relationship between big business and geopolitics? Can busine...
Mar 22, 2022•36 min•Ep. 142
Special series: Lessons in Leadership In this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. In this fifth episode, Justin meets Jo Dibb , the headteacher whose school inspired Michelle Obama. In 2009, just two months after she had become first lady, Michelle Obama paid a visit to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school – a girls comprehensive in North London. It was to have a profound effect on her. W...
Mar 15, 2022•40 min•Ep. 141
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Matthew is joined by the author of 'Sweat: a History of Exercise', Bill Hayes. Together Matthew and Bill take a jog through history to find out more about our ancestors' attitude to keeping fit, and what we can learn from them next time we lace up a pai...
Mar 08, 2022•28 min•Ep. 140
Special series: Lessons in Leadership In this special 6 part series, Justin Russell meets with inspirational leaders from the UK public sector to find out how you thrive and survive at the top. In this fourth episode, Justin meets Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice – one of the UK’s biggest voluntary organisations with almost 30,000 staff and volunteers providing essential advice and help to 3 million people a year. The pandemic has brought home to all of us the importance o...
Mar 01, 2022•39 min•Ep. 139
In this lively interview series from the RSA , Matthew Taylor , puts a range of practitioners on the spot - from scholars to business leaders, politicians to journalists - by asking for big ideas to help build effective bridges to our new future. Our emotions drive much of our behaviour. But do we have the same emotions as people who lived three hundred years ago or who live three hundred miles away? And how exactly do we define what an emotion is? To find out, Matthew is joined by Richard Firth...
Feb 22, 2022•32 min•Ep. 138
