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.

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Life is Sadness, life's a Bitch

May 01, 2026 • Tudor Rickards

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Life is sadness, life’s a bitch

I thought it might be interesting to record an audiotape about the origins of a song currently being worked on by music-making colleague GM Jon.

Sometimes you can trace an idea to some starting event. In this case, it was a suggestion from Jon that we should put together several candidate lyrics on the general topic of old age.

The idea struck me as sufficiently distant from most songs we had worked on that it at least considered serious considerations

I even had some thoughts that we could stray into regions that would result in the song being banned for dealing with some tricky issues such as euthanasia.

I even mentioned one of my favourite films it brought to mind, Springtime for Hitler in Germany…

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