We chat to Alex Beard, CEO of the Royal Opera House who has a CBE for his services to the arts. From classics to finance and finding his true calling, we talk leadership, the Tate, new audiences for opera and ballet and controversy!

Books:

The Iliad by Homer

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

Chosen track: Ride of the Valkyries, Wagner. Experience the wonder Alex felt as a child with this as his first taste of opera!

Date recorded: 30/05/19 at the Royal Opera House, London.

Thank you for listening! We hope you've enjoyed the podcasts and while it's goodbye from the Design Cohort, we hope NMiTE students continue to record more stories and advice from brilliant guests.

Thanks to all our guests and the Design Cohort contributors: Belle Batkin, Meg de Bell, Henry Dangerfield, Whizz Ettinger, Chanel Goodman, Megan Lane, Morgan Poole, Archie Sale, Sophia Stevens, Meg Thomas, Geena Ware, Sam Whitby, Anna Yeomans.

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We talk to former Managing Director of BP, Co-Chairman of Eurotunnel and member of the ICI Main Board, Sir Robert Malpas. We cover human progress, creativity in engineering, living and working in different countries and leadership.

Books:

1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

2. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow and the stage musical

3. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

4. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Chosen track: Alexander Hamilton, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

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Publications mentioned:

1. The Universe of Engineering - A UK Perspective (2000) - RAEng/Engineering Council Working Group under Sir Robert Malpas' chairmanship

2. Energy for Planet Earth (1991) - Sir Robert Malpas,

Date recorded: 24/05/19

We talk radical ideas, astrophysics, misinformation and education with Quest University's Founding Faculty member and former President.

Play: An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. Books: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens and A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age by David Helfand.

David's chosen track: "...given my speech tendency and my identification with Mr Pickwick, perhaps 'I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General' from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance".

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Date recorded: 24/05/19

We chat to Greg James from BBC Radio 1 and Chris Smith, live from the Hay Festival! Crazy ideas, presenting radio with a hen on your head and success and fulfilment - what more could you want from a podcast?! Listen out for a hit song which could be the new Welsh anthem….

Recorded: 31/05/19

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Live from the Hay Festival with TV presenter, author and walking enthusiast, Kate Humble! We talk about outdoor education, success and fulfilment and her book, Thinking on My Feet.

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Date recorded: 31/05/19

Roma is a structural engineer whose projects include the Shard. She is a champion of diversity in the STEM sector and studied at Oxford and Imperial College London. We chat to Roma about Inferior by Angela Saini and Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik, as well as her own award-winning book called Built. Find out why all engineers should talk to a class of 5 year olds!

Roma’s Building Stories podcast:

www.BuildingStoriesPodcast.com

@BuildingStPod

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Recorded 01.04.19 - AECom office, London .

Sustainability champion, entrepreneur and businesswoman Juliet Davenport talks to Reading People. We cover the energy market and climate change, leading a growing business, management styles and the skills that future graduates will need to tackle the world’s biggest problems.

Books: Pandemic by A.G. Riddle and Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott.

Quote: “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” Steven Furtick.

Date recorded: 19/02/19.

Politician Jesse Norman talks to Reading People about politics, Hereford, the potential of NMiTE and shares insider knowledge on life in Westminster.

Books:

The Rule of Law by Tom Bingham

The Long and the Short of It: a Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Aren’t in the Industry by John Kay

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

High Windows by Philip Larkin

Advice for future students:

The secret to entrepreneurship, or indeed any project, is turning up at the finish line. Don’t get disheartened, don’t get turned away. Torquil Norman, Jesse’s father.

Since recording on 01/02/19, Jesse has been appointed as Paymaster General and Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

Soldier, doctor, inventor and businessman Dr Malcolm Russell talks to Reading People about his experience in the Army, climbing Everest, emergency pre-hospital medical care in high stress environments, inventing life-saving medical equipment and running award-winning Prometheus Medical.

Book:

The Enemy Under The Microscope: a Story of the Life of Pasteur by O. Kuznetsova

Quote:

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” Muhammad Ali

Our chosen track:

Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees

Date recorded: 18/01/19