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Send us Fan Mail Friday of the first week is where the Wimbledon tournament approaches its crunch point for seeding shocks. Who will survive to make the second week, with prize money already enough to change the fortunes of the unseeded players ? Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmai...

Send us Fan Mail Wimbledon 2022. Thursday June 30th. A fascinating day's play with British prospects weakened by the losses yesterday.  Is there going to be a slump before the end of the first week? 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 @...

Send us Fan Mail Wimbledon fortnight in June attracts millions of tennis fans to what is billed as the greatest tennis tournament in the world.  This year, events have resulted in it losing its usual grand slam status. But the magic remains, as tennis author and commentator Tudor Rickards explains.  Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing...

Send us Fan Mail Wimbledon 2022 sees British singles hopes dashed, as Emma Raducanu and Andy Murray are knocked out of the tournament. 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 leadersw...

Send us Fan Mail Day 2 sees British triumphs and disasters. But the day is dominated by Raphael Nadal and Serena Williams 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.word...

Send us Fan Mail Wimbledon fortnight arrives. Tudor looks back at the momentous days of John McEnroe with the help of George Grime, the umpire who bore the brunt of some of McEnroe's outbursts.  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 @ Tud...

Send us Fan Mail And for conservative politicians, this is only the first one step to criminalisation of abortion as homicide, and reintroduction of the death penalty for millions of child killers.  Every politician dreams about leaving a legacy. President Trump is  basking in his success in overthrowing Roe Wade even if his battle at the Capitol was narrowly defeated. The machinations in the appo...

Send us Fan Mail Contemplating Comedy by Jonathan Levitt.  Book Review Johnathan Levitt is a chess grandmaster who turned his hand to book-publishing during the Covid lockdown.   Tudor examines the book and tries out the author's approach of providing a set of comic quotes, then commenting on them.  He adds his own contemplations, including the theory of humour proposed by the French philosop...

Send us Fan Mail Has Google created a sentient chatbot? If this were April Fool’s day I would sniff ‘gotcha’. Another Guardian joke. But it isn’t April Fool’s day and the story is about a Google engineer Blake Lemoine. Blake has been placed on leave from  Google for his actions promoting the rights of the company’s chatbot LaMDA. It’s name is short for ‘Language model for dialog application’.  He...

Send us Fan Mail After the news of Sue Barker’s departure from the BBC commentating team at the Wimbledon championships, we can reveal she will be joining the TudoRama crack squad of news reporters. She will specialise in tennis, but is expected to branch out into the forthcoming series:  A question of spurt, sponsored by Spurtulike the leading fire extinguisher brand. We interviewed Sue Barker, b...

Send us Fan Mail Hayden James has the daunting task of arranging and conducting seventy five thousand singers and up to forty choirs at the international matches at the Millennium Stadium. He talks to Tudor about his career and his experiences with performers such as Tom Jones, Katherine Jenkins, Sir Geraint Evans, and others he refers to as the Welsh Mafia or Tafia. Haydn explores the factors whi...

Send us Fan Mail Tudorama captures the drama of the Confidence Vote in Boris Johnson by the Conservative MPs in early June 2022. But does it result in a victory, defeat, or both? Monday 6 June The news breaks at 8.00 in the morning. The announcement comes from the man in charge of a possible confidence vote, Sir Graham Brady, in a hastily arranged press conference at Westminster. The threshold of...

Send us Fan Mail A debate is raging over the value of time-consuming and stressful SATs testing. The children's author Michael Morpurgo thinks they divert attention away from creativity, towards excellence in grammatical knowledge that is mostly of little benefit to the writing and use of language. TudoRama investigates the tests from the perspective of the parents and pupils. To add to his p...

Send us Fan Mail Councillor Blue wants his Woodford constituency to hold the best street party in the country for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations.  The councillor decides to enlist the help of the TudoRama podcasting team.   Tudor reluctantly approaches the distinguished music conductor Haydn James to supply his choir and military band, but learns that the costs of hiring busses would be pro...

Send us Fan Mail A school massacre at Robb Elementary School Texas comes ten days after a mass killing in a grocery store in Buffalo.  TudoRama looks back at reports of incidents going back to Sandy Hook Elementary School ten years earlier. The tragedies and polarities of views remain.   Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our ne...

Send us Fan Mail In search of everyday creativity, Tudor learns about the work of Jeff Goldberg who has written eight thousand film reviews. In his interview, Jeff explains his work, all documented on the website The Four Word Film Review. The first creative surprise. Every review is no more than four words. Explaining his hobby, Jeff explains that he sometimes reverses the process, coming up with...

Send us Fan Mail This TudoRama podcast describes a dream in which news items about the so-called Wagatha Christie libel case get hopelessly muddled up with the plot of the classic English novel, Vanity Fair.  It might have been an over-generous glass of Three Barrels VSOP too late at night which contributed to a most peculiar dream. That, and an evening news item about a libel trial which is gripp...

Send us Fan Mail The bloodshed in Ukraine continues, creativity in negotiation has been replaced by mindless slaughter. Tudor returns to a classic book, The Myth of the Strong Leader  examines how so-called strong leaders such as Vladimir Putin lose their capacity for creative responses to the situations they have helped create. Its author, Professor Archie Brown, is one of the most distinguished...

Send us Fan Mail Tudor describes his widely applied method for developing skills at creating ideas in everyday business or leisure situations. The podcast invites listeners to take part in a thought experiment. It has been designed particularly for for use by individuals or as part of team session for developing creative idea generation skills.  Thought exercises are included to engage listeners ...

Send us Fan Mail Joe Root announces his resignation as Captain of England's Cricket team. William and Tudor discuss the next Captain. They are undeterred at the problems of recalling the names of earlier captains. Tudor is interested in the process of selecting a captain and the possible preference of the selectors for safe pairs of hands of charismatic leaders. He likens this to the preferen...

Send us Fan Mail Elon Musk, the billionaire's billionaire, buys Twitter for $44million.  Tudor, as a regular user of Twitter, examines the implications of the takeover for Musk as well as  for Twitter users and employees. Reflecting on personal experiences he considers the appeal of Twitter to users, and reflects on his experiences of going viral, including how to avoid heated exchanges betwe...

Send us Fan Mail Tudor arranges to meet Professor Fernando Gimenez, a former student now a distinguished academic figure who is internationally recognised for his studies of entrepreneurship. The plan is in danger of being disrupted by last-minute travel arrangements.  Their meeting eventually takes place after a lengthy delay. The discussion begins with an exchange of views about cross-cultural e...

Send us Fan Mail After their first podcast, Tudor and the new team of poddlers meet in the bar of the tennis club where Tudor and William have been playing a game of tennis, driven indoors by a sudden cold snap.  They are joined by new team member Christine, a young graduate recruit in English literature, whose starting project has been to complete the last stage of submitting the book ‘Boris, me,...

Send us Fan Mail The new podcaster may be overwhelmed with problems of possible legal actions from unintended consequences of downloading materials from the web. In this episode, Tudor talks with Charles McFarlane, a marketing executive with extensive experience in copyright and intellectual property matters. The problems are particularly important for entrepreneurs setting out on web-based produc...

Send us Fan Mail In this very first episode of Tudorama, Tudor describes how the idea of Tudorama was created and turned into a podcast 'warts and all'. The first record was of a conversation with Physio Lindsey in which he explains his plan to publish podcasts instead of writing books about creativity and leadership. He confesses he has never made a Podcast before, and rarely ever liste...