Welcome to our podcast series which aims to explore how being Useful and kind to yourself, to others and to the world can make things better.

Today our theme focuses on ‘creativity’.

The much admired and missed Sir Ken Robinson (the most viewed Ted talker of all time) defined Creativity as ‘making something new and of value from the imagination’. These are tough times for us to be creative and yet never more needed whether from artists, scientists or economists.

We are thrilled to be joined to explore these issues today by two fantastic guests.

Elspeth Murray is a Poet and theatre-maker based in Scotland. She describes herself as a ‘versatile versemonger and weaver of text styles’. I first came across her brilliant work in a fantastic publication of works she made with participants at a Mental health conference and she has accompanied me in spirit ever since as I have read some of those works at every leadership retreat I have ever led.

Graham Fitkin is one of the funkiest composers of his generation. He has written for everyone from school kids in Southport to dancers in New York City Ballet. He is passionate about the role of the composer in the contemporary world. We are thrilled that all our podcasts begin and end with his piece Sciosophy from a very early album called Flak and we are also thrilled that he joins us today from his native Cornwall.

Presented by Duncan Fraser

Produced by Hannah Johnson

The video version can be viewed on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/xSykV_saUJ4