On this week’s show the full crew are together to answer listener questions.

Our shows of the year are as follows:

Julia – Paul Clarke

Lisa – Tim Plester, Timandra Harkness and James Eves

Chris – Mark Bjornsgaard and Martin Sadler

Michelle – Cat Barnard, Paula Brockwell, Tammy Watchorn and Katrina Collier

Matt – Alice Sherwood

We are back in January 2025 – Happy New Year!

On this week’s show Matt and Julia talk with critical futurist Johannes Kleske about how the future is as much of a way to deal with the present as anything else.

You can find out more about Johannes and his work at https://johanneskleske.com/en/

Matt’s small collection of historical visions of the future is here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2015/02/27/envisaging-the-future/

And the Walter Kronkite video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TUZ_x57d8

On this week’s show Matt and Lisa are joined by actor, film director and self-proclaimed folknographer Tim Plester to talk about folk traditions, saving archives, and Doctor Who.

You can find out more about the Doc Rowe film, and contribute to the crowdfunder at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/docrowe

You can watch Way of the Morris at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wayofthemorris

Find out more about Tim’s production company at https://fifthcolumn.org.uk/

More about Tim at http://www.timplester.com/

and https://www.instagram.com/timplester/

And buy Tim’s collection of stage plays now available on Kindle at
https://www.amazon.co.uk/1-2-3-4-PLAYS-Zapruder-Highway-Longhair/dp/B08GLQNLS9?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYVqoW3dQKyNILmmp35fC91vD60zmQir7IE6orLJ05oeBKchP74eCXb5HY_aem_3vvfFvbptFEIwRJdb-PNzA

On this week’s show, Michelle and Matt are joined by Victoria Dioh to talk about personal purpose and how we are trained to not follow it. Find out more at https://www.victoriadioh.com/victoria

Michelle’s book is available for a few more days on Kindle for 99p – get it now here.

On this week’s show, Julia and Michelle meet with Clara Bettina Behrmann to talk about how psychological safety can become performative.

On this week’s show, Matt and Michelle meet Henry Oakes, co-founder of Pathfinder to learn how AI might be used to help project and programme managers to make connections they’d otherwise miss.

On this week’s show Lisa and Julia are joined by Gallup Certified Strengths coach (and, for full disclosure, Michelle’s partner) James Eves to talk about finding out what we are good at doing.

On this week’s show Matt and Lisa are joined by seasoned IT contractor Neil Millard who had written a book about how to work freelance.

You can find out more about Neil’s book here:
https://www.confident-contractor.co.uk/confident-contractor-the-book/

On this week’s show Michelle joins Chris and Lisa to talk about the experience of turning her book into an audiobook.

You can get Good Girl Deprogramming exlusively on Audible here: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Good-Girl-Deprogramming-Audiobook/B0D9MKBDBW

On this week’s show Cat Barnard joins Matt and Michelle to talk about the ongoing debates about the future of work, the UK productivity challenge and whether it’s all just a problem of BIG.