The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Reunion

Welcome to the bluedot podcast with Chris Hawkins.bluedot is finally back! And after an extraordinary return to Jodrell Bank this summer, we're excited to be able to share some of the many highlights of this year's bluedot 2022.Over the coming months, you can enjoy full talks, panels and listening parties from bluedot – including headline speakers from our Mission Control arena, and intimate chats in our Notes culture tent.In this episode, you'll be hearing Helen Pankhurst in conversation with Laura Bates, the author and creator of Everyday Sexism. This talk was one of three hosted by Helen at bluedot 2022 as part of our Pankhurst Sessions afternoon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the bluedot podcast, with Chris Hawkins.bluedot is finally back! And after an extraordinary return to Jodrell Bank this summer, we're excited to be able to share some of the many highlights of this year's bluedot 2022.Over the coming months, you can enjoy full talks, panels and listening parties from bluedot – including headline speakers from our Mission Control arena, and intimate chats in our Notes culture tent.We took the bluedot podcast onstage at bluedot 2022, and this In Conversation recorded live features Chris Hawkins in conversation with A Certain Ratio, discussing the past, present and future of one of Manchester's most iconic bands.bluedot returns to Jodrell Bank from the 20th to the 23rd of July 2023, with early bird weekend tickets on sale now at discoverthebluedot.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the bluedot podcast.bluedot is finally back! And after an extraordinary return to Jodrell Bank this summer, we're excited to be able to share some of the many highlights of this year's bluedot 2022.Over the coming months, you can enjoy full talks, panels and listening parties from bluedot – including headline speakers from our Mission Control arena, and intimate chats in our Notes culture tent.This episode is a full recording of a special Tim's Listening Party, recorded on the Friday of bluedot 2022, with Kelly Lee Owens in conversation with Tim Burgess discussing the fantastic. LP.8bluedot returns to Jodrell Bank from the 20th to the 23rd of July 2023, with early bird weekend tickets on sale now at discoverthebluedot.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the bluedot podcast.This is the third instalment of our In Conversation miniseries of talks and panels in Manchester, powered by our friends at bruntwood. In this live discussion, we pose the question 'how does culture build community?'. Hosted by bruntwood's and The Oglesby Charitable Trust's Kate Vokes, and featuring Band On The Wall's Gavin Sharp, Inga Hirst from the Royal Exchange Theatre and actor and spoken word artist Boshra Ghgam, this panel discusses Manchester's cultural milestones, and wider implications of what culture can do for a city, and vice-versa. Explore the rest of our bruntwood In Conversation miniseries on the bluedot YouTube channel or on the bluedot podcast, wherever you get your podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Teresa Anderson is an award-winning physicist and director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement, which she founded in 2010. Alongside Tim O’Brien, Teresa spearheaded the campaign to make Jodrell Bank a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an accolade it received in 2019. Teresa co-founded Live From Jodrell Bank in 2012 and the series of shows featured Elbow, Sigur Ros, The Halle and more, expanding into the weekend of science and music you now know as bluedot, in 2016…Welcome to the bluedot podcast… with Professor Teresa Anderson! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s a unique collaboration of electronic legends and indie favourites - the past and present combining to create something futuristic and extraordinary. La Planete Sauvage – the soundtrack to an iconic 1973 film – is a project that sees The Radiophonic Workshop and Stealing Sheep join forces, for an album released to mark 2021’s Delia Derbyshire Day. And this July it comes to bluedot for a very special performance on the Sunday of this year’s festival.This is the bluedot podcast with the Radiophonic Workshop and Stealing Sheep. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She’s the producer, songwriter and DJ whose avant-garde techno pop has seen her release three extraordinary albums to date. The most recent – LP.8 – was released earlier this year. Her combination of ethereal, atmospheric and at times industrial has seen her win fans in Bjork, St Vincent and John Cale, all of whom she has gone on to collaborate with. Having joined us at bluedot in 2019, she returns as part of our Friday line-up this July alongside Spiritualized, Kojey Radical, Groove Armada and more.Welcome to the bluedot podcast… with Kelly Lee Owens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helen Pankhurst is a celebrated women’s right’s activist and author – a Special Advisor on Gender Equality to the leading global aid organisation CARE International, and has served as a fellow of the London School of Economics, a visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan and as Chancellor of the University of Suffolk.She is also of course the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, leaders of the British suffragette movement. She has continued their legacy with a number of initiatives including Olympic Suffragettes and GM4Women 2028, and we recently spent some time with her at a special In Conversation talk at Manchester’s Circle Square, powered by our friends at Bruntwood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As part of bluedot’s partnership with our friends at Bruntwood, we’re curating a series of special In Conversation talks at Bruntwood venues across the country, hosted by me – Chris Hawkins. The first of these recently took place featuring Tom Heap, the author and writer behind 39 Ways To Save The Planet and a regular fixture on Countryfile. We spoke with Tom to a live audience at Bruntwood’s Bright Building at Manchester Science Park, and you can now enjoy the live recording of that talk in full here on the bluedot podcast. For more information about bluedot In Conversation, powered by Bruntwood, visit discoverthebluedot.com/inconversation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They’re the Brighton-founded project of songwriter Dana Margolin, whose prolific creative output has seen her go from a solo, self-releasing songwriter to the front woman of a Mercury Prize nominated band. That Mercury nomination, in 2020 for their album Every Bad, is followed by the new album Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky.Welcome to the bluedot podcast with Porridge Radio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.