Today, I'm having a GAS with Erminia Blackden, an integrated strategy director at ENGINE. She's experienced in research, CRM, media and advertising in a career that spans 20+ years.

Erminia is also author of 21st Century Woman and active writer, speaker and campaigner on why brands fail to recognise the power of women – the world’s largest emerging market.

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Having a GAS...is the podcast that talks to the great and the good of the creative industries, and in particular finds out what makes great music for film; for TV; for commercials; for dancing to; for cooking to; f*cking to, and more.

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GAS™ Music is a musical creative agency in Manchester, UK.

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Today, I’m having a gas with Grace Francis, a forward thinking tech impresario, whose enthusiasm and expertise in digital has caused her to ricochet through several major agencies, most recently being snatched up by Karmarama to serve as their Chief Experience Officer.

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Today, I'm having a GAS with Richard Huntington, the Chairman of the board and Chief Strategy Officer at Saatchi & Saatchi, arguably the most famous ad agency in the UK.

Richard - a self described 'high octane brand strategist' who '[hates] orthodoxy of any kind' - tells me all about his views on stakeholder capitalism, the utility of the industry, and the necessary unpredictability of creativity.

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Today, I'm having a GAS with Nicky Unsworth, who's been CEO of Manchester agency BJL for the last 24 years.

Nicky gives us an overview of the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of the C-Suite, and how she sees the industry responding in the future.

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Today, I'm having a GAS with Steve Harrison, a British copywriter, creative director and author who is regarded by Campaign Magazine as the greatest Direct Marketing Creative of his generation.

He has won more Cannes Lions awards than any other Creative Director in the World.

His latest book, Can't Sell Won't Sell: Advertising, politics and culture wars, asks the question: why has adland has stopped selling and started saving the world.

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Today I'm having a GAS with Sue Higgs, a creative director in London with a wealth of experience working for major agencies, including M&C Saatchi, Ogilvy, Publicis, Havas and Grey.

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Today, I'm having a GAS with James Brook-Partridge, Ogilvy's head of moving image.

James spent the last decade in senior production roles at Ogilvy and Hogarth in Asia-Pacific. He was regional head of broadcast production in Hong Kong and then Singapore from 2009, and in 2015 became regional head of production at Hogarth & Ogilvy – a position that involved establishing the partnership between the two WPP shops as the integrated in-house production arm of Ogilvy.

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Today, I'm having a GAS with Matt Gooden, one of WhoWotWhy's three co-founders.

Matt developed a reputation as a creative whilst working at Wieden + Kennedy, and after being 'fired', along with his creative partner Ben Walker, joined forces with Sean Thompson to create one of the most exciting and quickly rising creative agencies in London.

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Today, I'm having a GAS with Andy Bunday, the creative director at Manchester's branch of The&Partnership.

Like many top creatives, Andy cut his teeth at BBH in the 90s.

As a result, he gives some great insight on the culture, the creative and the transformations he's seen in the industry, over the last thirty years.

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Today, I'm having a GAS with Richard Denney, the ECD at St. Luke's.

Richard's success began early when he became the youngest ever board member of RKCR/Y&R in 1998.

He then made his reputation as a bankable creative director, cruising through the biggest name agencies in the industry - including Saatchi & Saatchi's, DDB and MullenLowe before settling in at St. Luke's.

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