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Brian Donnelly, formerly Head of Expressive Arts at LC, meets Lewis Harvey for a conversation about art, school, his career and his current interests. This is a chance to peak into the mind of one of the College's great characters. Utterly unique.

Elliot Atkins: kind, thoughtful, intelligent, warm, prepared, inspiring, patient, and committed. An exceptional educator. Here the man speaks with Lewis Harvey and you get to listen!

As Hans Broekman prepares to leave Liverpool College after 16 years as Principal, Lewis Harvey asks some questions about his time at the school. This is the first episode of the new series of Imagination in Education!

In this the final episode of the first season of Imagination in Education, Zia Chaudry, MBE, DL, talks about his life as a British Muslim and discusses common misconceptions of Islam. In dialogue with Sixth Formers at the College, he educates and encourages for respect, study and understanding and a rejection of Islamophobia in all its forms.

Dwayne Fields loves the outdoors and he loves adventure. And he excels at both. His family emigrated from Jamaica to Britain where Dwayne adjusted to a new culture, including the experience of exclusion and racism,  and a new experience of the outdoors. He is an inspiration to many young people to aspire to be their best no matter what their background or circumstances, to stand up for justice and...

Kate Scott, Inclusion Mentor at Liverpool College gives tips to parents and pupils  on how to keep well during lockdown. She shares her experiences of supporting people unique reactions and attitudes to the reality of "Covid school" and how we can support and accompany each other at this time.

Poet and teacher Henry Marsh reflects on the nature of creativity and the way schools both encourage and discourage creativity. He reads his award winning poetry and explains the impulse that made him write poetry.

We discuss what school is like for someone who is a born entrepreneur. Martin Bramley describes his journey from school to success as an entrepreneur. He provides insight and wisdom about the character traits he developed, at school and in life, and the key traits every entrepreneur must develop to be succesfull.

Anna Rothery is currently Lord Mayor of Liverpool. In this episode, she tells us about her own education and about the passion for learning that kept her going. Ms Rothery is the first black Lord Mayor of Liverpool. She describes her own experience of growing up black in Liverpool including inspirational intervention from teachers concomitant with harrowing racism, and displays her passion for pub...

Gill Ridley faced a unique challenge when the lockdown was announced. With three young children at home, she had to simultaneously teach them and her 29 6-year old charges in Year 1. Gill describes how she went about doing this, what she and the parents and pupils learned, and how we can make our homes the best possible schools.

Professor Atkinson, Professor of Computing and Dean of the school of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computing at the University of Liverpool, describes how her own educational journey led her to become a researcher in computing and artificial intelligence. She discusses the key skills schools should teach their pupils in order to participate actively in a world where computers and artific...

Nick Crofts, Director of Aspire Liverpool, describes his own education at a large Liverpool secondary and reveals to us how difficult it is for a child in Liverpool to get to Oxbridge. He reveals the obstacles which keep young people from applying and how Aspire Liverpool helps Liverpool students get a place at a top university.

Kim Johnson, MP for Liverpool Riverside, describes what it was like for her at school. She comments on her experience growing up as a black girl, her ambition, education and her journey to Westminster. On the way, she makes clear her vision for her work as an MP and for Liverpool.

Lord Adonis, academic, teacher, journalist, policy maker, former schools minister, former transport minister, fervent European and high-speed rail advocate and author of a new biography of Ernest Bevin,  joins the podcast for a conversation about his own experience of school, his choice of history as a subject, his passion for improving schools as instruments of justice and transformation and shar...

Peter Francis joins the podcast to tell us about his own education, his work as warden and director of the Gladstone Library. He addresses head on the controversies currently swerving around the legacy of this Victorian giant of British politics.