TudoRama
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.
Episodes
600 episodes
A Woman's History, by W.H.Davies
A WOMAN’S HISTORYby W H DaviesWhen Mary Price was five years oldAnd had a bird that died She laid its body under flowers;And called her friends to pray to God,...
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Mourinho Matters: A study in charismatic leadership
In my book Mourinho Matters I take Jose Mourinho as a case example of a charismatic leader. I will draw on the account as described in the book. I have selected an exerpt of the occasions when I was embarrassingly misunderstoo...
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Leaders we Deserve: Making Sense of Donald Trump
In this podcast, I’m taking the approach which I found useful in introducing graduate level workshops on creativity and leadership.I would invite the Group to share their understanding of a current leadership issue and then discussing it...
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7:47
Staying on the Wagon, and other interesting English sayings
David Atherton is a scholarly contributor to X He explains that he has became increasingly disillusioned with his reach on X, and decided to write about stuff he likes.You can follow David on X , where he publishes as @DaveAt...
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2:08
A product in a bottle. How to turn ideas into new products
My topic for today is developing a plan for successful innovation.The subject is one which continues to attract attention, and books continue to be published offering various approaches some with more outrageous claims than others.
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5:40
Keith, the eco Goat
The adventures of Keith have attracted a faithful following on X. His biographer Sama Holle has chronicled the adventures of a range of eco-friendly animals on a farm, but I am only reporting on a day in the life of Keith as summari...
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5:49
Things you didn't know about St David's day
As a long-time exile from Wales, I have to confess that my grasp of the language is pretty bad. So much so that I struggle even to follow the commentary in Welsh of rugby games on SC4.At the present time, this might be regarded as ...
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5:28
Politics in England's Green and pleasant land ...
Overnight, a sensational political event. A resurgent Green Party wins a by-election in a close contest against the right wing Reform party and against the Government, the traditional party of the Left in England...
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4:41
The Topsy Effect: Revising the acknowledgments for a new edition of a text book
Reflections on the difficulties experienced in revising the acknowledgements section for the fourth edition of a textbook.
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2:50
Why Nigel Farage Recruits Tories
Why Nigel Farage Recruits ToriesBy Russ JacksonDr Russ Jackson is one of the deepest thinkers currently posting on social media. This is an abridged podcast version with some interventions by myself of a post on X this ...
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9:32
Breaking News! Keir Starmer is still Prime Minister
The political news in the United Kingdom this week has been dominated by sensational stories about the imminent humiliation and resignation of Keir Starmer.Various explanations were offered often justified by evidence of his shocking inc...
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The Survival of Starmer: 'Not another one!'
This can be seen as a follow-up to my recent podcast on the developing political crisis facing Prime Minister Keir Starmer.The story a week ago was posed as an exercise in the dilemma confronting Keir Starmer as he considered the appoint...
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5:17
Keir Starmer's Political Crisis: A Dilemma of Leadership
I’ve prepared this podcast in the form that makes it suitable for studying as an example of a leadership dilemma.
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4:48
How I Decluttered my Life ...
A nearly honest account of how I set about decluttering my life, starting with my sitting room sofa...
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3:28
My System: A new way of teaching chess
I hesitate to explain my approach to teaching Chess. It is a fact universally recognised among close friends that I am not the strongest Chess player on Buzzsprout. Indeed, I am not the strongest Chess player in my circle of friends.<...
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The Free Ocean effect: Will it appear in next year's dictionaries?
The free ocean effect was generated by prescriptive text as a title for my next podcast. Returning to the original note, I was puzzled at first.Because nothing I was working on dealt with a free ocean effect.But when I retr...
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2:02
Why you need 100 ideas in search of a good one
I look at a widely-held belief that you may need a hundred ideas for every successful one that you find ...
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3:23
Stop the singing
These are the lyrics I wrote recently to be turned into music. The history is quite interesting, and maybe I’ll make a podcast about it origins, if it becomes a hit.Stop the singingStop the people ...
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1:50
ChatGBT and its creation of poetry
I asked ChatGPT to produce a poem for me. My plan was to investigate the difference between a poem produced through the use of AI and produced in the traditional fashion with a human as primary producer of a creative work.
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3:12
Tyrants from Aristotle to Trump?
One powerful description of tyrants can be found in Aristotle’s hugely influential book on politics. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they have been appearing on the Internet as if the thoughts of an ancient philosopher might have relevance to mod...
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5:48
The loneliest hole in the wall
A personal memo about an idea leading to the creation of a set of lyrics for later application as a song.
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1:57
The Abduction of President Moduro: A day in the life of Donald Trump
On Jan 3 22026, Donald Trump announced the successful abduction of President Maduro in a military operation in Venezuela.To consider the fast moving story, it is useful to look back at the key features of Donald Trump's first Presi...
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