Show 57 was recorded at the 2017 World Travel Market at ExCeL and features interviews with Richard Young, Sales and Distribution Manager at Heathrow Express; Pilar Carbonell, General Director of Tourism for the Balearic Islands Government; David Cochrane, General Manager of Philippine Airlines; Colin Stewart, Chairman of the Latin American Travel Association (LATA)and Wendy Pedder, Marketing Manager of VisitGuerney.

With thanks to Lotus for setting up the interviews and to the support provided by our Technology Partner, TINT.

The final episode of this special series that we recorded in partnership with Microsoft from their Future Decoded event in ExCeL, London. Looking at Technology and Innovation Trends, our guests include Scott Allen, Microsoft UK CMO; Edd Atcheson, Adobe EMEA's Lead Digital Strategist; Michael Wignall, Microsoft CTO; Chris Bishop, Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge; Peter Deane, Vice President, VISR; Angela Evans, Microsoft's Office Business Group Lead UK and Praveen Maloo, Product Evangelist for Microsoft Teams.

The second of three special episodes recorded in partnership with Microsoft from their Future Decoded event in ExCeL, London. Focusing on Technology for Good, this show features Haiyan Zhang, Innovation Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge; Former Manchester United & England Footballer and now Founder of UA92, Gary Neville; Craig Parker, Microsoft's Education Partner Lead; Aaron Powell, Chief Digital Director at NHS Blood and Transplant; Hector Minto, Microsoft's Accessibility Evangelist for EMEA and Andrew Cook, Microsoft's Senior Product Marketing Manager for Firstline

The first of three special episodes recorded in partnership with Microsoft from their Future Decoded event in ExCeL, London. This first show features Clare Barclay, COO Microsoft UK, Ian McLaren, Finance and Contracts Director at London Midland, Hector Minto, Microsoft's Accessibility Evangelist for EMEA, Andrew Cook, Microsoft's Senior Product Marketing Manager for Firstline and Patience Wootton of Dentsu Aegis Network.

Recorded on location at The Tate Modern, Show 53 was produced in partnership with A Blueprint for Better Business as part of their 10 Steps to Fulfilment at Work series, with the aim of helping listeners seek inspiration for their business by stepping out of their comfort zones and visiting places unrelated to their line of work. Russell Goldsmith's guests were Blueprint's CEO Charles Wookey, their Senior Advisor, Norman Pickavance and Jo Alexander, the charity's On Purpose Associate. They were also joined by Ruth Dobson and Independent Consultant.

Russell Goldsmith was joined by the PRCA’s Director General, Francis Ingham, Mark Borkowksi, CEO of Borkowski and Claire Walker, CEO of Firefly Communications to discsuss the fallout of the PRCA's decision to expel Bell Pottinger from its membership and the news that the agency has been put into administration.

With thanks to markettiers for hosting and recording this episode and to global media intelligence provider www.CARMA.com for supporting the show.

Show 51 discussed Gender, LGBT+ and BAME Diversity within communications and business in general.

Russell Goldsmith's guests in the studio were Iain Anderson, Executive Chairman of Cicero Group and newly announced Ambassador for Stonewall; Sarah Stimson, Chief Executive at the Taylor Bennett Foundation (at the time of recording) and one of the Foundation's alumni, Toni Adeola, who is now an Executive at Brunswick Group. They were also joined on the line from Toronto in Canada by Lisa Kimmel, President & CEO of Edelman Canada and Global Chair of the company's Global Women’s Executive Network.

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Our 50th episode was produced in partnership with FleishmanHillard Fishburn where we discussed the latest release of their Authenticity Gap Report, which aims to help companies understand and proactively manage the gap between audiences’ expectations and actual experiences with a company or industry. In Part One, Russell Goldsmith spoke with FHF's CEO for UK & Middle East, Jim Donaldson and in the second part of the show, he was joined by their EMEA Reputation Management Lead, Nick Andrews, along with Steph Bailey, Managing Director, Corporate Communications as well as Simon English, Senior City Correspondent of the London Evening Standard. The report can be downloaded from http://fhflondon.co.uk/

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In the final episode of our series of shows produced at Cannes Lions 2017, Russell Goldsmith spoke in the first part of the show with Chris Clarke of DigitasLBi and Dr Heather Knight about Robotics. In part 2 he interviewed Catherine Balsam Schwabar, Chief Content Officer at Mattel on the topic of Branded Content and all things Barbie! For the final part of the podcast, Russell met with Pablo Walker, President of McCann Worldgroup Europe for a chat about the culture differences between Latin America and Europe and to find out a little more about the 3 x Grand Prix winning campaign, 'Fearless Girl'.

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In the third of our series of shows being produced at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2017 Russell Goldsmith spoke with Scott Allen of Microsoft UK and Vikki Chowney from H+K Strategies about Data & Creativity. He then met with the three judges of the Young Lions PR Competition, Blair Metcalfe from MSLGroup, Candace Kuss of H+K Strategies and James Hacking from BlueCurrent, plus he spoke with Bronze winners of the award, Estefani Solorzano and Christian Gomez. In the final part of the show, Russell chatted with Guillaume Herbette of MSL and Marie-Pierre Stark-Flora from Coty about Augmented Influence and Purpose Driven Marketing.

Many thanks go to Capstone Hill Search, our sponsors for these Cannes Lions episodes. Please visit - www.capstonehillsearch.com