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
587 episodes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Where do ideas come from: An Experience in Music-making
Spoken by Tudor Rickards based on a music-making project directed by Jonathan Levitt and supported by myself and Stephen Tranter, as regular contributors as lyricists.
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8:14
Hum it again, Sam, like Columbo used to
How I wrote the words to a song based on the tune hummed by Columbo in his great series about the eponymous homicide detective.
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2:54
In Hindsight, It's all done with mirrors
An account of minor road accident and the process of resolving the problem...
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BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY)
I take a look at the BBC's glossy sports' celebration as one of its Xmas highlights.
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4:42
Making Fonts Great Again and rescuing America from Wokeness
Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues to follow President Trump's crusade to rid American of the curse of Wokeness...
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Socrates and the dilemma of the finger
Being an account of a fragment of parchment excavated in an archeological dig near to the modern city of Athens
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When threads become knots: A detective story
This is a real life story with aspects of a 'who done it' which invites leaders to create their own endings.
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Dear England. Book Review.
This book review is of Dear England by Gareth Southgate, former England Football Manager,written and spoken by Tudor Rickards.
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"The visit to Eccles was no Cakewalk"
In which the intrepid members of my fantasy chess club visit the mythical headquarters of our opponents, the Eccles chess club...
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4:48
Tara's Trial
Hi, folksJust a trial to confirm all our efforts in producing a Tara backstory have started bearing fruit.Thanks t all involvedTudor
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