What happens when the person who studies creativity is also the person who warns us about its dangers?

In this episode of Anything Goes, we sit down with Professor Chris Bilton—former community arts practitioner, founder of the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises, and a man who has spent decades asking uncomfortable questions about the industries we romanticise.

We talk about what “cultural democracy” really means. About the hidden costs of doing what you love—and how to teach students to chase a dream without being devoured by it.

This is a conversation about uncreativity, disappearing products, and the one small thing any teacher can do next week to make room for the people who don't yet believe they belong.