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- Frantic Friday as the prime Minister sacks her Chancellor
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Friday 14 October.
Overnight, The Chancellor Kwasi Kwartang (KK) has cut short his American trip, and is returning for discussions with Liz Truss.
Midday.
News leaks out that KK is to resign as Chancellor, or be sacked. BBC news is on full political crisis alert. The BBC1 Politics Live show has its customary spectrum of opinion pundits. KK has left his post, sacked or resigned. The pundits describe it a profound political crisis.
The events of the day quickly labelled Frantic Friday are beginning to unfold...- 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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9 min - Watching Paint Dry. The 50 Move Rule in Chess
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Chess, like other sports such as cricket, has speeded up aided by electronic clocks and fast versions of the game.
in this podcast, I look at the under-appreciated innovation which ended the era of timeless chess.- 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 - Frantic Friday as the Prime Minister struggles for her survival
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Friday 14 October.
8.00am
Overnight, The Chancellor, Kwasi Kuarteng has cut short his American trip, and is returning for discussions with Prime Minister Liz Truss.Midday
News leaked, then the leak confirmed that Kwasi Kuarteng is to resign as Chancellor, or be sacked.
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9 min - The Elon Musk Show BBC2 Part1. How to show a girl a good rocket video
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The BBC has granted Elon Musk a three one-hour mini-series on … Elon Musk.
Without charging him for three hours of advertising. First learning point. You don’t become the richest man in the world without being a great marketeer. The title is a hint that we are to watch show biz in its treatment. We are not disappointed.The scene is set for a heroic tale of the childhood genius focussed on fulfilling his destiny to rescue civilisation by creating interplanetary travel for when the Earth becomes uninhabitable...
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6 min - Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Two. Wendy Lockinge. A New Career.
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Wendy Lockinge looks back on her childhood and fast tracking into the police force, where she meets Robbie Lockinge. He warns her that they can never have a life together unless she shares the secret of his undercover work for a Government agency.
She agrees, becomes a high-profile figure after her success bringing a multi-murderer to justice.
But her dreams are shattered when Robbie disappears, possibly captured on a mission. Wendy is relocated as a senior University figure at the University of Urmston. At the acceptance speech, she promises to build on the university's reputation and will accept that she will not be using skills from her old profession to keep her colleagues of students in order.
She sets about reforming the administration, but is unable to resist testing new visitors by pretending to be the secretary not the Vice Chancellor.
Later, she is approached by her mentor Sir Bertie Farm who indicates she is needed to help with a serious problem in a top-secret scientific laboratory with links to the University. She has no option but to accept.- 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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28 min - Angela Lansbury. The Detective writer who wasn’t.
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Angela Lansbury, (1925-2022), born in London, to an affluent family became one the best known film and TV actors in the world in a glittering career that spanned eight decades.
A successful and entrepreneurial business woman she took control over the TV Show Murder she wrote that was to establish her fame. The title comes from Murder, She Said, a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel 4:50 from Paddington.In it she plays the role of Jessica Fletcher, a detective and thriller writer. Reruns continue to be screened around the world. It has broken numerous records for its longevity.
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3 min - Dark Justice. Prologue
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Stephen Tranter follows in the footsteps of John Gresham with his second court room drama.
'Can a noble outcome justify means that are despicable?' Martin muses, as he waits for the jury to return with their verdict ....- 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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8 min - The Chronicles of Leadership. Prelude and Chapter One
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Chronicles of Leadership is the first non-fiction book I wrote. It was published in 2016. It describes the first of what became several stories of Wendy Lockinge, family and colleagues at the fictional University of Urmston (a very much non-fictional town in Greater Manchester, England).
In COL, Wendy Lockinge has problems. The former celebrity cop turned academic faces a drug crisis on campus. Her daughter Jessica hates her and vanishes in search of her father she believes to be still alive. Mysterious deaths occur in a nearby top-secret laboratory. Wendy recruits scientist John Keane and Susie Yup, his journalist friend, to find Jessica. …
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33 min - Twenty-first century marketing and common pitfalls
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Dr Alex Gunz of the Alliance Manchester Business School discusses the unique nature of marketing in the twenty first century, and common pitfalls to avoid.
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12 min - Chess is the new Rock and Roll
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A scandal that rocked the chess world reached far wider headlines involving accusations of cheating, including a bizarre intervention my Elon Musk.
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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.