TudoRama

By Tudor Rickards

TudoRama explores the nature and practice of creativity in the arts, sciences, politics and above all in everyday life. Tudor Rickards is Emeritus Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at ... more

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May 04, 2026Vote to keep the weirdos out
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Yesterday I was left feeling depressed at what I saw as hideous bias in the coverage of the upcoming local elections. Very late, I knew what I wanted to happen and feared it was probably too late
How to warn people about voting for charlatans?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful, I asked myself, if everyone could listen to my message before they cast their votes on Thursday. After that the idea almost wrote itself.
So here it is, a cry that may have to wait for another occasion for it to be heard…

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May 03, 2026Three poets and a music-maker: Creating a website
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It is now nearly a year since I became involved in a music-making project. The music is generated by an AI system by one member of a small team.
This may become a more common approach to generating music which also has implications for theory and practice.
We have now reached the inevitable stage of a start-up operation, namely the creation of a website. As a starting point, our team leader and music maker GM Jon has drafted a mission statement.
Yes, that’s one of the features of conventional businesses likely to be familiar to most listeners to this podcast…
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May 01, 2026Life is Sadness, life's a Bitch
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Life is sadness, life’s a bitch
I thought it might be interesting to record an audiotape about the origins of a song currently being worked on by music-making colleague GM Jon.
Sometimes you can trace an idea to some starting event. In this case, it was a suggestion from Jon that we should put together several candidate lyrics on the general topic of old age.
The idea struck me as sufficiently distant from most songs we had worked on that it at least considered serious considerations
I even had some thoughts that we could stray into regions that would result in the song being banned for dealing with some tricky issues such as euthanasia.
I even mentioned one of my favourite films it brought to mind, Springtime for Hitler in Germany…
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April 27, 2026Natural talent and its weaknesses
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I came across a splendid analysis of the weakness of relying on natural talent, in a piece published in the Quora website. The author publishes under the title Halftime Legend.
It makes sense, and may even contribute to the debate on the nature of creativity.
It may be of more interest to Chess players, than to other listeners to my podcasts.
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April 22, 2026Brexit Rap: Where do new ideas come from?
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Where do new ideas come from?
To compensate for my abysmal failure in steps per day, (according to my distance walked App) I resort to the treadmill at my local gym.
Recently, the experience was weird. My pounding on the treadmill seemed to produce a reaction. It was as if as if the treadmill was telling me something.
I interpreted its message as if I had been listening to a mechanical version of the Oracle at Delphi. The rest of this brief podcast explains what I heard and how I interpreted it…
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April 16, 2026The Houdini tactic: An invaluable rescue weapon for the club player
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I cannot claim to have invented the Houdini tactic in chess. However, I hinted at it in one of my least successful books, The Double Houdini.
As will become obvious, the tactic does not work when you’re playing against a computer program.
This week, it contributed to a much needed victory by our second team, still with a fighting chance of gaining promotion into the first division of the Stockport league. Much needed, as some consolation for the dive into the second division by our first team.
I will now explain the basic principles of the Houdini tactic in preparation for next season, in whatever divisions we find ourselves….
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April 15, 2026The Dark Side of the Augusta Masters Golf Championship
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Every year, the masters golf championship at Augusta, Georgia gets worldwide television coverage. The traditions are well-known, including ritual acceptance by the winner of the iconic green jacket, handed over by last year‘s winner.
This year, a contingency plan was smoothly executed as Rory McIlroy became the first player since 2002 to defend the Augusta title successfully.
But amid the drama and spectacle, there is a darker story of the most famous golf club, which can be seen as the Twickenham or Wembley of Golf…
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April 10, 2026A late-night Trump rant against his enemies
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Donald Trump, in the midst of saving the world, finds time to excoriate his multiple enemies in a classic late-night rant on Truth Social...
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April 07, 2026A Tale of Two Tweets: Donald Trump's Easter Messages
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April 03, 2026Lewis Goodall: Where did it all go wrong?
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Listeners to this podcast will be aware that I have borrowed its title from a recent Channel 4 documentary entitled Kier Starmer: where did it all go wrong.
The broadcast triggered off a storm of criticism of its presenter Lewis Goodall, led by many disappointed supporters of his work in the United Kingdom, which had made him an icon of the left in a profession widely dominated by politically right-wing leaning journalists.
It was certainly a provocative headline by Channel 4. It was widely presumed to be signalling another hatchet job on the Prime Minister who has received more than the usual criticism of a new first minister from the largely conservative oriented mainstream media...
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