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Waveney Life - uplifting conversations from the English counties of Suffolk and NorfolkOld Glory Molly DancersListeners may be familiar with the classical Cotswold-style of Morris dancers, with their jolly handkerchiefs, stick and bells on their shoes. However, the Waveney Valley and the wider East Anglia has a very different kind of dance troup: theMolly Dancers, a dark, brooding presence, performing at night, with flaming torches, disguised faces, hobnail boots and crowns of ivy. There are no cheerful smiles here, more a spine-tingling sense of menace.I have been keen for some time to interview a member of Old Glory, because the experience of seeing them is so unique to East Anglia. A...
2025-10-2730 min
Waveney Life - uplifting conversations from the English counties of Suffolk and NorfolkBen Witchell, founder of Flint VineyardThe Waveney Valley and indeed the surrounding counties of Norfolk and Suffolk are home to a huge variety of wonderful food and drinks businesses, from farm shops to traditional fishmongers, award-winning cheesemakers, micro-breweries and vineyards.In September 2025, I interviewed Ben Witchell, founder and chief winemaker at Flint Vineyard, a brilliant, innovative vineyard just on the Norfolk side of the river Waveney, near Bungay.In the interview, he talks passionately about how he became a wine-maker, why he chose to establish Flint Vineyard on the Waveney Valley, the innovative approach he has taken to wine-making, why...
2025-09-1035 min
Waveney Life - uplifting conversations from the English counties of Suffolk and NorfolkJames Mayhew - Childrens' Author, Illustrator and StorytellerThe market town of Bungay sits astride the river Waveney at the northern edge of the county of Suffolk. It is also the home town of multi-talented artist, children's author, illustrator and storyteller James Mayhew. In August 2025 I interviewed him in Bungay. We talked about his early life in the Waveney valley, the inspiration he gained from his parents and sister during his childhood, how he uses his illustration to break down barriers, making music and art more accessible, especially to children, and the collaborations he's had with broadcasters, authors and musicians such as Zeb Soames, Joyce Dunbar, Roger...
2025-08-3039 min
Waveney Life - uplifting conversations from the English counties of Suffolk and NorfolkGary Stebbing - Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation MuseumAn interview with Gary Stebbing, the Manager of the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum at Flixton, near Bungay. In the interview, Gary talks about the museum, how he came to be its manager and dives into a little detail on one of its more unique artefacts, the Vickers Valetta C2.
2025-05-1419 min
Waveney Life - uplifting conversations from the English counties of Suffolk and NorfolkNicola Eastell - Professional Equestrian ArtistIn this episode, I interview Nicola Eastell, a professional equestrian artist based in south Norfolk. She talks about her life in the Waveney Valley, how she became a professional artist, her love for horses and her busy year ahead.
2025-04-2615 min
Waveney Life - uplifting conversations from the English counties of Suffolk and NorfolkSonia Collins - Local History RecorderIn this episode I interview Local History Recorder Sonia Collins about the role of a Local History Recorder and what she loves about the Waveney Valley. We hear some funny and interesting historical stories about the area in which she lives and hear about her surprising 'side hustle'...
2025-04-2534 min
Waveney Life - uplifting conversations from the English counties of Suffolk and NorfolkStella Cattermole of the Rumburgh Buck public houseIn this episode, we're with Stella Cattermole, manager of the iconic Rumburgh Buck, the Campaign for Real Ale's pub of the year for the area 4 years running. We talk about her love of the region, how she and her husband have made a success of this traditional English country pub and a surprising visit by global megastar Ed Sheeran.NB: Due to a technical issue while recording this episode, the audio quality isn't quite up to the standard we'd like.
2025-04-0109 min
Waveney Life - uplifting conversations from the English counties of Suffolk and NorfolkPatrick Elder - abstract sculptorIn this episode, I'm with Patrick Elder, an abstract sculptor living near the sleepy Suffolk town of Halesworth. Patrick talks about his journey into becoming a sculptor and how his practice of Vipassana Meditation influences his work.
2025-04-0113 min
Waveney Life - uplifting conversations from the English counties of Suffolk and NorfolkTrailer - Waveney LifeWaveney Life is an escape from the frenetic world most of us inhabit in the 21st century. It's a warm and optimistic antidote to the cold negativity of the 24-hour news media. It's also your invitation to step into a world where time slows, the air is rich with birdsong, and the river Waveney winds its way through a landscape shaped by centuries of quiet industry and enduring tradition. For those who’ve yet to discover it, the Waveney is a gentle, meandering ribbon of water that carves its way through the ancient he...
2025-04-0102 min
Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech PodcastAgritech in Uzbekistan: helping small scale farmers recover from communist farming methodsAgritech in Uzbekistan: helping small-scale farmers recover from communist farming methodsUzbekistan is tackling the many problems it faces in farming and agriculture with the help of technology. During its time as part of the Soviet Union, the country was forced to grow cotton which led to major environmental problems. The country has 5.5 million smallholders, many of whom are women. A new digital platform called Growz is creating tech solutions for smarter and more sustainable farming as well as allowing the farmers easier access to customers and suppliers. Murod Khusanov, the founder and CEO of Growz, was at...
2025-03-1830 minSomewhere on Earth: The Global Tech PodcastMyanmar tops the charts for the most internet shutdowns in 2024Myanmar tops the charts for the most internet shutdowns in 2024India stands as a global leader in various sectors - technology, innovation, space exploration, and education in science and engineering. However, it has also consistently ranked first in internet shutdowns for six consecutive years. From 2016 to 2023, there were a total of 771 recorded incidents. According to the Freedom Law Centre India, a digital rights organization, the criteria for implementing these shutdowns are often lacking in transparency. Notably, in the past year, Myanmar has surpassed India, with the military regime responsible for 85 internet shutdowns, while India recorded 84. We check...
2025-03-1124 minSomewhere on Earth: The Global Tech PodcastAI can now sell your intentions – marketing your decisions before you make themAI can now sell your intentions – marketing your decisions before you make themMachine learning is on the verge of commercialising your decisions even before you make them. New research shows that we are moving away from an attention economy to an intention economy as machine learning models, which can already imitate the way we write or talk, can now map previous activity onto future actions. Writing in the Harvard Data Science Review, Dr Yaqub Chaudhary, visiting scholar at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and Dr Jonnie Penn of the University of Cambridge ask if...
2025-02-1833 minSomewhere on Earth: The Global Tech PodcastIs Arabic another language that goes unchecked online?Is Arabic another language that goes unchecked online?A few weeks ago we reported on the almost impossible task of monitoring Kiswahili content online. This situation exposes millions of people to harmful and abusive content while the major social media companies continue to profit. In another report by the Centre for Democracy and Technology, similar conclusions have been drawn about Maghrebi Arabic – a language spoken by about 100 million people across western and central North Africa. Just like Kiswahili, monitoring Maghrebi Arabic is very difficult and current methods are completely inadequate. Dr. Mona Elswah is the lead author of...
2025-02-1136 minSomewhere on Earth: The Global Tech PodcastIs AI going to replace your job?Is AI going to replace your job? Is artificial intelligence a threat to your employment? If your profession involves machine learning or chatbot development, the outlook appears promising but for translators and some writing roles it’s not. Those are the findings of a study recently published in the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation. Researchers analysed over three million job postings from a global freelancing platform since 2019. They identified which skills are being replaced, complemented, or remain unaffected by AI. Two of the authors, Dr. Fabian Braesemann from the Oxford Internet Institute, and Dr. Ole...
2025-02-0436 min
CES 2025 Interviews with visionary leadersThat's all folks - closing commentsThanks so much for listening to my series of interviews at CES 2025! I hope you've enjoyed it. I'd love it if you'd leave a rating and/or comments to help me improve future podcasts and please do share with anyone that you think might enjoy them too. Bye for now!
Jez
2025-01-2900 min
CES 2025 Interviews with visionary leadersRenewable heating using energy from underground spaces such as parking lots & shopping mallsThe roll out of renewable heating and cooling is key to our
battle to combat climate change. Yet heat pumps generally require a lot of excavation, or bulky equipment which can be difficult to accommodate in dense urban settings.
Enerdrape has addressed this issue by exploiting latent heat
in underground spaces, such as tube stations, shopping malls and underground car parks. By connecting large thin wall-mounted panels to a heat pump, they’re able to provide renewable heating and cooling to urban spaces such as office blocks with minimal impact on the fabric of the building.
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2025-01-2915 min
CES 2025 Interviews with visionary leadersImproving access to Primary Care with OnMed’s ‘Clinic in a box’Access to Primary Care is a serious challenge in many parts of the world. In many rural communities in the developing world, a doctor could be a day’s drive away, but even in the developed world, many patients have to wait weeks for an appointment with a medical professional.
OnMed addresses this need by providing a ‘clinic in a box’ called a CareStation, which can be dropped anywhere with a mains power supply.
The CareStation provides rapid access to a ‘life sized’ medical professional as well as diagnostic tools such as a stethoscope, an infra-red...
2025-01-2919 minSomewhere on Earth: The Global Tech PodcastRobobees – could they help solve world hunger?Robobees – could they help solve world hunger?A drone approximately the size of a thumb and weighing less than one gram is currently under development by a team at MIT. This team is focused on creating robotic insects that could serve various purposes, including functioning as pollinators in vertical farms—environments where crops are cultivated within tall structures designed for optimal growth conditions. The engineering challenge of designing such a tiny flying robot is huge. One major obstacle is replacing rotors with small, flapping wings. However, this approach presents its own difficulties, particularly that the wings tend to b...
2025-01-2824 min
CES 2025 Interviews with visionary leadersFinally, maps for the blindIt’s a long-held belief that blind people just can’t use maps, even to the extent that, here in the UK, maps are exempt from accessibility legislation. Brandon Biggs has changed all that. Brandon is the totally-blind Founder and CEO of XR Navigation, makers of Audiom, the world’s first inclusive map viewer. I interviewed Brandon at CES Las Vegas on January 7th 2025. In the interview, he explains the technology, why he developed it, what kind of customers the company has and how they’re using it.
More information at xrnavigation.io
and www.audiom.net
2025-01-2810 min
CES 2025 Interviews with visionary leadersUsing AI for early detection of Pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer is often described as a silent killer, because there are no clear symptoms and it’s often detected when patients only have weeks left to live. Another amazing founder that I interviewed at CES on January 9th 2025 was Logan Nye of Galen Health. A medic and computer scientist, Logan and his team has devised an AI that helps predict the onset of Pancreatic Cancer much, much earlier than is typically the case today. It does this by automatically and continuously scanning medical records, looking for correlations that human medics simply do not have the time for.
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2025-01-2812 min
CES 2025 Interviews with visionary leadersRestoring vision for Macular Degeneration sufferersMacular Degeneration affects around 200 million people worldwide, slowly wiping out their vision from the centre of their field of view, gradually extending outwards until they lose their vision altogether. Neal Weinstock is a Founder and CEO of Soliddd, a company that has created digital spectacles that can give good vision back to people who have been blinded with Macular degeneration and a number of other visual impairments.
In the interview, he explains the incredible discovery he made about the way the brain assembles images and how the technology exploits this to bypass impairments in the eye.
2025-01-2811 min
CES 2025 Interviews with visionary leadersPocket-sized delivery of multimedia education material without Internet accessAccessing quality educational material without an Internet connection is a major problem in remote rural villages and in schools where Internet access is banned by law. Jacques Bogh is a co-founder, COO and CFO of Beekee, creators of the "Beekee box", a tiny 'classroom in a box' which can operate without Internet access. This is currently in use in schools in countries where Internet access is outlawed and in remote regions of the world, such as in rural Africa or Asia , where schools can be isolated, or by NGOs operating in disaster zones, for example.
I interviewed...
2025-01-2709 min
CES 2025 Interviews with visionary leadersGenerating electricity from GRAVITY, 24x7, without fossil fuels, sunlight or windG3 Power is a novel power generation technology which makes electricity from gravity.
This is an in-person interview that I conducted with Founder and CEO of Exxell/G3 Power, Lucas Zdravkan Goreta at CES Las Vegas on January 8th 2025. In it, he gives great insight into the amazing renewable energy generation technology his company has developed; technology that generates electricity 24x7 yet does not require fossil fuels, wind or sun. Enjoy!
More details on the product at www.g3-power.com.
2025-01-2709 minCES 2025 Interviews with visionary leadersSeries introductionThis is an intro to the podcast series, giving an overview of what you can expect...please listen to this first.
2025-01-2701 min
Under The Abbey StandTen Years On: The 13/14 Season Special (Part One)Pods don't come more special than this one. And teams don't come more special than United's legendary 2013/14 promotion-winning team. To celebrate a whole decade since Delano day, "Are you not entertained?", "Donaldson with a curler" and 10 minutes of stoppage time that felt like an hour, we've put together a two-part special looking back at that season month-by-month.Alongside Julian, Jack, Tom and Jordan reminiscing on their memories of that year, we had the pleasure of speaking to key members of that team that finally took the U's back into the football league after an agonising 9 year...
2024-05-181h 31
Insights UnlockedOur 2nd annual book recommendations from our podcast guestsWelcome to our second annual roundup of book recommendations from guests on the Human Insight Podcast. It is a good mix of books, covering creativity, money, innovation and product development. There is even a children’s book recommendation, as well as one for a newsletter.
Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan
Gerrard: My Autobiography by Steven Gerrard
Nudge: The Final Edition by Richard H. Thaler
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition by Richard Bach
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
The Gruffalo in Scots by Julia Donaldson
The Book of Joy...
2022-11-1417 min
dj dAz presents: soul, rare groove, hip hop and ting'dj dAz presents: Brass Vol. 2 (The Sounds of Brass 1992)dj dAz presents: Brass Vol. 2 (The Sounds of Brass 1992)1. Jamiroquai – Too Young To Die2. D-Influence – I’m The One3. Greyboy – Outerlude4. Greyboy – Freestylin’5. The New Jersey Queens – Party and Don’t Worry About It6. Main Source – Looking At The Front Door7. Gang Starr – Who’s Gonna Take the Weight8. The Pharcyde – Pork9. Soul II Soul – Jazzie’s Groove10. Loose Ends – Don’t Be A Fool11. Jamal-Ski – Jump, Spread Out12. Super Cat – Ghetto Red Hot (Hip Hop Remix)13. The Ragga Twins – Jugglin’14. El General – Pu Tun Tun15. Cutty Ranks – The Stopper16...
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