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Send us Fan Mail Angela Lansbury, (1925-2022),  born in London, to an affluent family became one the best known film and TV actors in the world in a glittering career that spanned eight decades. A successful and entrepreneurial business woman she took control over the TV Show Murder she wrote that was to establish her fame. The title comes from Murder, She Said , a film adaptation of Agatha Christ...

Send us Fan Mail Stephen Tranter follows in the footsteps of John Gresham with his second court room drama. 'Can a noble outcome justify means that are despicable?' Martin muses, as he waits for the jury to return with their verdict .... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gma...

Send us Fan Mail Chronicles of Leadership is the first non-fiction book I wrote. It was published in 2016. It describes the first of what became several stories of Wendy Lockinge, family and colleagues at the fictional University of Urmston (a very much non-fictional town in Greater Manchester, England). In COL, Wendy Lockinge has problems. The former celebrity cop turned academic faces a drug cri...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Alex Gunz of the Alliance Manchester Business School discusses the unique nature of marketing in the twenty first century, and common pitfalls to avoid.  Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor'...

Send us Fan Mail A scandal that rocked the chess world reached far wider headlines involving accusations of cheating, including a bizarre intervention my Elon Musk.  Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs:...

Send us Fan Mail An English version of the Welsh Folksong  (Oes Gafr Eto) has been added to the podcast: Have you seen my Goat there? Or a trace of Goat hair? Lost before the milking starts  Somewhere in the cold air What sort of goat there? Would you know it anywhere? Is the one you’re looking for Rather dark or quite fair? Refrain It’s all white white white White from lip to back it’s white Has...

Send us Fan Mail The Brecon Beacons are the looming highlands of South Wales. Remote, dotted with hill farms, whose owners which have eked out a living from their goats and sheep for centuries. There ‘s an entrepreneurial  spirit in these hill farmers. A thriving industry has sprung up.  Visitors can take part in the life cycle of the goats and sheep from birth to the sheering.  Other farms have e...

Send us Fan Mail Nearly a decade ago, I began a book which started my new career as a writer of campus detective stories. Here's the original blog published in Leaders We Deserve, converted into a podcast.   TR Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor...

Send us Fan Mail As the Country suffers a severe reaction from the markets over her Mini-Budget, Liz Truss faces a round of local journalists. 'That didn't do too well' a supporter said sadly ...  Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on T...

Send us Fan Mail This England, Sky Atlantic, is a ‘fictionalised version’ of the rise and fall of Boris Johnson. It seems fitting that its launch coincided over the first chaotic weeks of the Government picking up the mess inherited partly a result of his ignominious downfall...  We have Kenneth Branagh as a scarily convincing  Johnson extracting his likeable as well as his mock Churchillian roles...

Send us Fan Mail Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech at the Labour conference. His opening remarks capture the disarray of the Govt and the need for a Labour government. A round of applause, choreographed as they always are at party conferences. Too lengthy for the neutral observer. But BBC News rose to the occasion. The cameras focussed on Rachel Reeves. Because she wasn’t applauding enthusi...

Send us Fan Mail Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.uk leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan Mail Catherine Hull and Tudor Rickards Conor Glean of the Royal Shakespeare Company helps us understand the pageantry of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, and how Shakespeare might have approached writing a play about the Queen’s life. We interviewed Conor as a co-editors of the TudoRama newsletter the week following the royal funeral ceremonies in September 2022. Conor approached his first S...

Send us Fan Mail Among the tributes paid this week to Queen Elizabeth, has been steadfast commitment to her oath of service to her people. It is a slippery concept and frequently deployed by the powerful to buttress their position ... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sig...

Send us Fan Mail Lizzie Truss picked up an Axe And gave Keir Starmer forty whacks Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.uk leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan Mail A recorded explanation with do's and dont's of resetting a password.  With grateful thanks to Mike Jackson, computer gardener extraordinary. The key advice is to find someone with IT experience. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow...

Send us Fan Mail It has become a commonplace to describe would-be revolutionaries as armchair warriors or armchair revolutionaries. The passion required to go into battle is for most people tempered by fearing the consequences of becoming a political street warrior. I became aware of my comfort zone in pontificating from the armchair position recently, as the political events around me spun crazil...

Send us Fan Mail The death of the Queen has sunk into the national consciousness, assisted by the loyal lockdown protecting us from any less significant distractions.  I am able to watch which is known as the proclamation ceremony, which has remained mostly unchanged since Elizabeth the first, with other bits stretching back to Anglo-Saxon times.  I consult my notes to ensure the accuracy of my re...

Send us Fan Mail On the death of her beloved Husband Albert, Queen Victoria began a period of mourning that lasted forty years to her death. It is considered today a somewhat extreme action by a person who never overcame the grief after her bereavement. When Diana, Prince of Wales died in a gruesome car crash in 1997, there was an outpouring of grief for the princess which has scarcely subsided fo...

Send us Fan Mail Tudorama reports on the first days in office of Liz Truss as Prime Minister.  Monday September 5th, 2022 8.00am BBC News reporters already out and about collecting the assorted voices of the people. Mostly are disinterested or dismayed. There are still four hours of mostly non-news to fill before Liz Truss is formally pronounced as the replacement PM for Boris Johnson. What seems...

Send us Fan Mail 6 September 2022. Liz Truss is appointed as Prime Minister.  I interview Laura about the day to day challenges of running a company. The brief interview took an unexpected  turn. I had been waiting for an opportunity to interview her as founder of her cleaning company, as well as her work as a sporting coach.  My opportunity came today when Laura found herself filling in for a mem...

Send us Fan Mail On the day the results of the voting for a new prime minister is announced, Catherine Hull, editor of the TudoRama newsletter interviews Tudor about creativity in politics and everyday life Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitte...

Send us Fan Mail The Which periodical reports its two best visitor attractions in the UK.  But in this Thought for the Day   we consider the merits for the claim, and set a competition for listeners to the podcast. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor o...

Send us Fan Mail I recently thought differently about something important to me. As its importance is only to myself, I would see it as an example of everyday creativity.   To share it with others, I posted it on Twitter, and started a note about the idea and how it began to suggest more ideas. The note turned into a conversation with myself. The tweet: What’s the best way to retain your love of l...

Send us Fan Mail Mikhail Gorbachev who died on the 39 August 2022 presided over the break up of the Soviet Union, with the subsequent  monumental political changes in Europe over the last thirty years. As such, his life deserves the attention it is receiving. His obituaries at the west are glowing, a reformer who brought freedom to a continent.  Boris Johnson, in one of his briefer and more though...