Original Broadcast: Modern Mindset
Rory McGowan is joined by Craig Allan from ABAX. New research reveals how much of our workday is spent searching for misplaced items, rather than focusing on our job. Rory and Craig discuss this and more about all things tracking tech. https://www.abax.com/en-gb
Guests: Craig Allan
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Original Broadcast: Modern Mindset
Rory McGowan is joined by Dr Juho Jalkanen from Faron Pharmaceuticals. In this episode they discuss a new blood cancer trial has shown highly promising results, particularly for patients who have relapsed or live with hard-to-treat forms of the disease. https://faron.com/
Guests: Dr Juho Jalkanen
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Rory McGowan speaks to Damian Stirrett from ServiceNow. Damian tells us all about the 2025 Consumer Voice Report. This looks at shows Brits' attitudes towards AI customer service, with an increasing number expecting AI chatbots to pick up on and adapt to their mood. But there remains a lack of trust in AI to fulfil certain tasks and not make things more difficult. https://www.servicenow.com/uk/
Guests: Damian Stirrett
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Rory McGowan fills in for Adam Cox, interviewing Garnet Harrison from Highland Cask Group. With continued market instability due to global trade tensions, cask whisky experts are warning that without tighter regulation, the market risks being undermined by fraud. Rory and Garnet discuss this and more! https://www.highlandcaskgroup.com/
Guests: Garnet Harrison
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Original Broadcast: The Bigger Picture
With Simon Rose enjoying a few days' relaxation, we bring a special replay: Sue Dougan is joined by Anthony Hilton, a renowned journalist with the London Evening Standard and the Independent, to discuss his extensive career in media and economics and the musical influences that have helped shape his career.
Guests: Anthony Hilton
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Original Broadcast: Thought for the Week
Outcome assessment is vital for all new initiatives, particularly political, but traditional academic research, which is sequential in character, is not good at responding to the speed of change in our modern world. This is particularly the case in tackling Child Poverty, for which a UK-Government Task Force is due to report later this Spring. If we are to break the cycle of deprivation with inter-generational rebalancing, we need a new sense of dynamism and responsiveness. Background music: 'Peony Morning' by TrackTribe
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New research released reveals how the vast majority of people in Britain are concerned that 2030 is too soon to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. However, there is a general consensus that we need a viable solution to greenhouse gas emissions right now. Joining Adam Cox to discuss this is Dickon Posnett – the President of the European Biodiesel Board and Director of Corporate Affairs at Argent Energy.
Guests: Dickon Posnett
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Original Broadcast: This is Money
In this special bonus episode, Simon Lambert catches up with Alastair Humphreys about his quest to find adventure close to home. Alastair, a genuine global adventurer, who featured on our 'Making The Money Work' Podcast series in 2020, recently published his book 'Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness'. It told the story of his year spent swapping travelling the world for exploring the grid squares of the Ordance Survey map centred on his home location. In this extra episode, we find out more about why he did it, what he learnt and how you could start your own money-saving adventure on your doorstep right now.
Guests: Alastair Humphreys
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Original Broadcast: Thought for the Week
Food banks are very busy at this time of year, and Trussell, which co-ordinates and supplies 1,400 of them in the UK with 36,000 volunteers, is particularly active. Its combination of nationwide scalability and local partnerships shows how voluntary and philanthropic contributions can deliver hope in the face of a welfare state which has failed to break the cycle of deprivation over the past fifty years. Is this the model, combined with a more egalitarian form of capitalism, which can provide a more compassionate society, with participation for all? Background music: 'Soul Food' by Chris Haugen Image Source: Trussell
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Last Wednesday was World Children’s Day – a chance to not only celebrate the youngest members of our society, but also those who dedicate their lives to caring for and educating them. And with the government committing to opening 300 new nurseries in the next 12 months, the industry needs more early year educators. Could that be you? Joining Adam Cox to discuss this is Charlotte Hutchings from Busy Bees Nurseries. And she’s joined by Jazmine Waring who is an early years apprentice.
Guests: Charlotte Hutchings
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