Super Connected Conversations

In this episode of Super Connected Conversations: The Soho Series, Tim Arnold is joined by Stephen Fry to reflect on Soho as a place of ideas, eccentricity, gender fluidity and individuality. Drawing on Fry’s lifelong engagement with literature, performance, and British cultural life, the conversation explores Soho’s historic tolerance for difference and wit — and what it means to lose spaces wher...

Tim Arnold sits down with Jools Holland to discuss Soho’s central role in Britain’s musical and nightlife heritage. From clubs and record shops to informal late-night exchanges between artists, this conversation traces how Soho functioned as a vital location to discover new music — and examines how commercial pressures have altered the conditions that once allowed scenes, sounds and collaborations...

In this deeply reflective conversation, Tim Arnold speaks with the late June Brown about Soho as a place of character, community, and lived experience. Brown’s perspective reaches beyond performance to consider Soho as a human environment — one shaped by ordinary lives, creative labour, and social bonds — and how those textures are eroded when neighbourhoods are stripped of their long-standing inh...

Tim Arnold is joined by singer songwriter Emily Capell to explore Soho from the vantage point of a newer generation of artists navigating a rapidly changing city. The conversation considers what Soho once represented as a gateway for emerging voices, and how rising costs and diminishing grassroots venues have reshaped access, opportunity, and the very idea of a creative commons. Super Connected Co...

In this episode, Tim Arnold is in conversation with Kevin Godley, his long-time collaborator and co-director of the documentary Soho Is…. Together they reflect on Soho’s influence across decades of British music and visual culture, discussing experimentation, independence, and the conditions that once made sustained artistic risk not only possible, but normal. Super Connected Conversations: The So...

Tim Arnold speaks with Marc Almond about Soho’s role as a sanctuary for outsiders and subcultures. The conversation explores identity, sexuality, and performance, and how Soho historically provided space for expression that existed outside the mainstream — as well as what is at stake when those spaces are sanitised or erased in the name of progress. Super Connected Conversations: The Soho Series T...

We are only just beginning to understand the impact social media and smart devices are having on the mental and emotional well-being of teenagers around the world. In this episode of Super Connected Conversations, multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold talks to Rose Pepper: a secondary school student in the United Kingdom with a rare talent for curiosity and a natural gift for analysis.   Rose share...

Multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Sandy Chappell, a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist with over 30 years of experience. Sandy specialises in working with pre-school and primary school children who have speech and language disorders. She is the founder of Chatterbox Speech and Language Therapy in North Yorkshire and a passionate advocate for screen-free activities tha...

Multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Dr. Becky Foljambe, an NHS GP, passionate campaigner for safer screens and founder of Health Professionals for Safer Screens. In this episode, they discuss Becky’s work in advocating for the removal of smartphones from schools and her growing concerns about the increasing intrusion of technology in childhood, particularly in vulnerable comm...

Multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Dr. Sanjiv Nichani OBE, a Senior Consultant Paediatrician at Leicester Children’s Hospital and founder of Healing Little Hearts.  In this episode, they discuss Dr. Nichani’s work in paediatric care and his campaign to raise awareness about the ‘Screen Demic’, which he coined to describe the epidemic of mental health illnesses and developmen...

Multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Kaiwei Tang, co-founder of minimalist phone company The Light Phone. Together, they discuss how Light Phone help users disconnect from digital distractions, encouraging a return to more intentional and fulfilling daily experiences. Recorded live on August 2nd, 2024. Kaiwei Tang is a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of The Light Phone,...

Multimedia artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Kate Alderton - actress, theatre maker, dream practitioner and communications skills facilitator. Together, they talk about learning to be 'phone free' and making performance venues into sacred spaces again with their Screenless Socials. Recorded live on April 15th, 2024. Kate Alderton is a multifaceted artist, dream practitioner, theatre maker and...

Multimedia artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Hannah Oertel, the founder of Delay Smartphones UK. Together, they delve into the the impact of smartphones and social media on today's youth. Recorded live on April 2nd, 2024. With a background as a therapist and NLP practitioner, Hannah recognised the need to address the growing concerns surrounding smartphone usage, particularly among children a...

Catch Super Connected on tour in the UK: https://bit.ly/4bIkHcL Sociologist and media scholar, Nick Couldry, engages in a compelling dialogue with multimedia artist Tim Arnold about the intricate interplay between media, society and human experience, with a special focus on the use of smartphones by children and teenagers. Nick Couldry is a distinguished professor at the London School of Economics...

Catch Super Connected on tour in the UK: https://bit.ly/4bIkHcL Author, teacher, documentarian and 'Team Human' pioneer, Douglas Rushkoff joins multimedia artist Tim Arnold in a discussion on the impact of technology on humanity, with a special focus on the effects of smartphones and social media on children and teenagers. Recorded live for Super Connected Conversations on 20th March, 2024. About...

Musician Tim Arnold and science writer Eric Wargo discuss the themes of Wargo's forthcoming book about 'Creativity, Inspiration and Precognition'. This discussion is in context of one of the artworks from Arnold's new album and film 'Super Connected'. The artwork foresaw Apple's Vision Pro, 5 years before Apple announced it. In 2018, Arnold conceived a fictional wearable headset named "iHead" for...

Learn more about Super Connected here . Oliver Senton is an actor and theatremaker. He played Robert Anton Wilson in Daisy Campbell's adaptation of Cosmic Trigger in 2014 & 17, and the central role of Phil Masters in the legendary 24-hour play cycle The Warp in 1998-9. He is an artistic associate of Slung Low, a founder member of both Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and The School of Night, a...

Learn more about Super Connected Claire Callender-Phillips is a co-founder of The Green Funeral Company, You can connect with her on Twitter.

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  Ulises A. Mejias is a Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Institute for Global Engagement at the State University of New York, College at Oswego. Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this conve...

Learn more about Super Connected Phra Peter Suparo, (aka Peter Radcliffe) is a musician turned full time Buddhist monk.  He resides in the famous Thamkrabok Monastery in Thailand in an eco-spiritual community of Buddhist monks, nuns and lay people.  Connect with Peter here .  

Learn more about Super Connected Vicky Unwin has had a long career in both book and newspaper publishing, centred round her African roots, and is currently the chair of Wasafiri Magazine and a Caine Prize Council member. She has always been fascinated by family secrets and began researching the story behind The Boy from Boskovice shortly before her father’s death in 2012.  She is a Trustee ofTrans...

Learn more about Super Connected Jamie Catto facilitates professional, personal and creative breakthroughs, drawing from his own processes in ground-breaking film production, philosophy voyages and music.  Connect with Jamie here .

Learn more about Super Connected Abhijit Naskar is a  neuroscientist, author and public speaker, specialising in mental health, self-reliance, and neuro-leadership.  Connect with Abhijit here .

Learn more about Super Connected Michelle is an integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor in private practice, based in London.  She has been a member of Imperial college's psychedelic research team since 2015.  Connect with Michelle here .

Learn more about Super Connected   Bek began the study of naturopathy and alternative medicine to support her son on his healing journey over a decade ago. That path led to the practices of energy work as they allowed for a powerful collaboration of techniques to help lead her clients into the deepest transformations available to them. Connect with Bek here .