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- How Ideas Mushroom. A Tudorama Team Project
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A short podcast illustrating how ideas flow in a team environment.
A news report of the discovery of a rare mushroom was reported. The news item triggered off other ideas including a short story about Megan and her Lonely Mushroom.
Contributors
Mike Ogden who warned of the dangers of talking about magic mushrooms
William Thompson who came up with the idea of Megan and her lonely mushroom
Myself, who takes all responsibility for narrative shortcomings and technical details about mushrooms.
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5 min - Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Six Visitors to a Sick Bed
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John Keane receives a series of visitors at his hospital bed, but struggles to identify reality from hallucinations.
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10 min - The Great Fruit Fly Battle
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I am at war. My enemy has overwhelming forces. Like many a conflict, my territory has been invaded in a lightening attack. In this case, by an army of fruit flies. I am battling to repel the mini-squadrons but to little avail...
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4 min - Rishi Sunak's First PMQs. The Re-appointment of Suella Braverman
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In his first day as PM, Rishi Sunak assembled a Cabinet. He has included members regardless of political differences. This differs from the decisions of Boris Johnson, and even more so of Liz Truss who preferred the approach of choosing loyalists.
The most controversial appointment is Suella Braverman, purveyor of right wing muscular views on immigration. Braverman is popular with party members. She had resigned or been sacked for cavalier disregard for security precautions. Her re-appointment as Home Secretary is already seen as an unwise move, presumed to be a political necessity.
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4 min - Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Five: John Keane leaves Meniscus
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The story is picked by Hugo Mifflin head of Personnel at Meniscus Laboratories.
We learn of a long-running feud at Meniscus involving John Keane, and a fellow scientist, Julian Callender, which may have influenced John Keane in his departure for Urmston University.
His health had deteriorated and is experiencing a period of recovery for hospitalisation. The head of the Laboratory, Dr Trescothick has been informed, and intends to visit him when he has sufficiently. recovered.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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4 min - Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Four. First days at Urmston University
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John Keane has left Urmson on a secondment to Urmston University organised by his academic manager, Montague Beamer. He has met the University Vice-Chancellor Wendy Lockinge who seems interested in his earlier meeting with the mysterious old man.
At breakfast one day, he meets the celebrity academic Tony Scrivener, the glamorous student Hudson Baye, and briefly, the student activist Dando Llewelyn- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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5 min - What a friend we have in Rishi
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On the day a new Prime Minister was appointed, after the brief reign of the last one, strains of a song filtered through an open bathroom window. It may have been a gleeful party activist but whether for the Conservative Party or the opposition is not clear...
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2 min - Chronicles of Leadership. Chapter 3, Montague Beamer's Beehive
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John Keane encounters a mysterious old man who tells him about an ancient secret society which passes on their secrets by means of books each written by an author who is a member of the society. He is directed to study the masterwork by the Economist Maynard Keynes, and told he will be contacted later by the old man.
He is later invited to a meeting at Urmston University, by Montague Beamer, a senior academic. Through Beamer, he meets the celebrated vice-chancellor Wendy Lockinge who appears to know something about the old man, but without mentioning the secret society.
She encourages him to leave his work at the Meniscus Laboratories to spend some time at the University to pursue his ideas about the secrets that Keynes had concealed in his writings.
Keane is suspicious when he discover's Beamer has exaggerated his location, which in reality is a cramped set of rooms with working conditions like a beehive.
He hesitates, but is told by Dr Brush, one of the occupants of the beehive, that he will probably get sucked into the plans for him being arranged by Wendy Lockinge and her accomplice Montague Beamer.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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13 min - Will Boris Bounce Back? I Find the Answer in The Wind in the Willows
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This has been the craziest week in U.K. politics since we cut off the head of King Charles 1st. Highlights included the sacking of top cabinet leaders, a lettuce becoming a joke measure of political survival time, the resignation of our Prime Minister, and Larry the Downing Street Cat seeing off a marauding fox.
Of, yes and now a speed-dating version of Eenie, Meenie, Mindy, Moe, by the Conservative party to select a new Prime Minister in the time it takes for an iceberg lettuce to wilt.
Crazy enough? Enough, you cry. But there is more. As I write, I see today’s headlines. They include the name of Boris Johnson among the front runners for becoming our next PM. Boris, the recently departed and discredited former PM but one.
Fortunately, I have found an explanation hidden away in the wonderful children’s book Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
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6 min - An hour is a long time in politics. Woeful Wednesday for the Prime Minister
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This is only the third PMQs since Liz Truss began her ill-fated Premiership. Since then, her original plan has been hung drawn and quartered, by market reaction, and this week by her replacement Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. One pressure point is the so-called triple-lock on pensions. My summary notes are abbreviated, but capture the general tenor of a noisy session.
But the PMs travails were only beginning. In the space of an hour, a cancelled meeting and the resignation of senior cabinet minister produced Woeful Wednesday to follow last week's Frantic Friday ...- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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About TudoRama
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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…
the University of Manchester. Tudor studied chemistry and radiation chemistry at The University of Wales at Cardiff. Following post-doctoral research at New York Medical College, he returned to the UK to work in technical management before joining Manchester Business School. He has published numerous books and articles on creativity, sporting management and leadership, as well as fictional works involving the mythical University of Urmston. He has been influential in the development of creativity-related projects in Europe, including the European Association for Creativity and Innovation (EACI), and was co-founder (with Susan Moger) of the journal Creativity and Innovation Management. He is also author of detective stories centred around the fictional University of Urmston, and a nearby chess club which houses a top-secret government surveillance operation. His recent switch to podcasting reaches out to a wider general audience interested in current affairs, and the processes of creativity previously described in his lectures, blogposts, and textbooks.