
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
540 episodes
How to write a poem about Netanyahu
A recent article in a serious current affairs journal challenged its readers to send in any suggestion for a rhyme for Netanyahu. I took up the challenge but unfortunately failed to record the name of the journal.Anyway, here are my efforts...
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This is Our Globe
This is our Globe Tudor RickardsA previously unpublished poem which seems suitable for turning into something special with more than a little help from my IT savvy friends ...WRITTEN FOR TWO VOICESTHE ROUND EART...
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Rainbow words. How they are contributing to dangers to our civilisation
Rainbow words. How they are contributing to dangers to our civilisationA post on the X platform recently set me thinking about its contents. It read:Here in the UK it’s dawning on many of us that rainbow words like tolerance, divers...
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True Start Coffee. A customer review
I review the product and packaging from the True Start coffee company.I complete this review while finishing a cup of coffee from ingredients provided by the True Start coffee company.
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Miracle at the Tennis Club
I bring the news of a miracle that took place at the tennis club which has figured from time to time in these podcasts. Doctor Glycol, who has also featured from time to time has conceded that something very strange has taken place alt...
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The sad case of Laura Lupin
The sad case of Laura Lupin This little story feels so bizarre I’m prepared to admit that it may be fake news…Laura recently posted her contribution to The Times newspaper on the X website .It reads as follows.I ear...
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Wit and Wisdom Early June 2025
Wit and wisdom, Early June 2025The halfway postBREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly demanding the FBI compile a list of everyone who uses the #TACO hashtag referencing "Trump Always Chickens Out."DocJust heard that the gover...
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They came at dawn. My nightmare begins
I awake to the rumbling of a large vehicle pulling up outside my front drive. My bedside alarm says 5.30am. Had my cover been blown? I had been expecting something every day for months since my messages to one address re...
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The bromance of the year is over. Donald and Elon part bigly
Bigger than Hollywood. Bigger than Bollywood. The romance between the most powerful political leader in the world and the richest man in the world crashed and burned in the space of a few days.Closest friends have always whispered that it w...
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Are you a supermarket shelf-searcher
"We all know someone who avoids the items on the front shelf in supermarkets”. This proposition was put forward recently by a friend of mine who writes under the pseudonym of Shoab Molvi. Shoab“ specialises in quirky puns of the kind w...
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Eco’s fourteen features of fascism
Eco’s fourteen features of fascismIn a much-quoted article in the New York Review of Books, in 1995, the philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco reflects on his direct experience of fascism. Eco typically refuse...
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TACO. An example of the dynamics of meme formation
TACO stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out," a mischievous phrase coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong in an opinion piece on May 2, 2025.He was referring to Trump's pattern of announcing steep tariffs only to back...
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Gary Lineker’s departure from the BBC: The uneasy relationship between sport and politics
Gary Lineker’s departure from the BBC: The uneasy relationship between sport and politics.The uneasy relationship between sport and politics is demonstrated by the case of Gary Lineker, a former international football star who bec...
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What’s more boring than watching paint dry? Answer: Attending the AGM of a Chess league.
What’s more boring than watching paint dry? Answer: Attending the AGM of a Chess league.This audio record of one such experience has two purposes. It is a summary of my attendance at the annual general meeting of Stockport chess l...
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Wit and Wisdom April 2025
Doc continues his punning streak…I taught my four year old son how to use the word abundance in a sentence. He said: Thanks Dad that really means a lot!I’ve been meaning to mention this often-repeated tweet which seems designed to c...
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Battle of the bins
Is it me, or is the collection of bins beyond the capabilities of a householder like myself?For several weeks, I had noticed that my green bin was not collected on the designated day, which happens to be Thursdays.To be precise, I mean ...
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Donald Opens Alcatraz Trump Tower
The press waited in expectation for the latest announcement from Donald Trump. They had been promised sensational news which would be the biggest news even of this administration.The fortunate reporters who had passed the loyalty test p...
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Cricketer and Philosopher Geoffrey Boycott wins Nobel Prize
The April 1 announcement came as no surprise to the many supporters of the philosopher and cricketer Sir Geoffrey Boycott whose work has been much admired in intellectual circles for many years.The announcement cited his contribution to...
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What’s my line? Tennis tantrums down the ages.
At one level, tennis has a squeaky clean reputation with images of strawberries and cream at Wimbledon, smartly dressed officials and players following the written and unwritten rules of the game.However, there is a dark side to tennis. Eve...
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Consciousness revisited. Book Review of Being you, by Anil Seth
Seth, Anil. Being you: A new science of consciousness. Penguin, 2021.The nature of human creativity has been increasingly recognised as a route to understanding artificial intelligence, and the mimicry of human behaviours by the emergin...
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Wit and Wisdom, April 2025
We continue the era of American liberation from exploitation by the rest of the world. I will try to squeeze other news and perhaps some with a little wit and wisdom …The story so far. President Trump’s announcement of his plan to MAGA ...
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The Nipper-nipping Chess Robot
The headlines are striking. ‘Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven year old opponent’The vicious act of nipper nipping took place in a demonstration event in Moscow. It seems that the robot had been programmed in turn-taki...
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