Episodes

  • Wanderful: The Knickerbocker Glory Edition

    Wanderful: The Knickerbocker Glory Edition
    Sep 5 2023

    With the World Wide Wander just weeks away, we've edited together just a few of our favourite guests from the Wanderful podcast - sharing what they love about taking their creativity for a walk.

    If you would like to join us in exercising your imagination, take a wander to https://www.theworldwidewander.com and sign up for free Walkshops across the globe, special guests, inspiration, ideas and laughter, all with like minded folk wanting to find #betterways

    Timeline:

    00.00 - 00.47: Intro Theme

    00.47 - 04.55: Introducing the World Wide Wander

    The Perfect Strangers

    04.55 - 09.04: Pippa Evans

    09.05 - 11.24: Ruby Rare

    11.25 - 14.33: Sarah Ellis

    15.12 - 16.50: Philip Cowell

    16.51 - 21.01: Deborah Coughlin

    21.02 - 23.13: Sir Tim Smit

    24.19 - 25.50: Traci Ruble

    25.51 - 27.20: Oli Barrett

    27.21 - 31.05: Kia Cannons

    31.06 - 34.24: Libby DeLana

    34.25 - 38.17: Tom Morley

    38.18 - 39.56: Satish Kumar

    40.25 - 41.30: Sarah Corbett

    41.31 - 42.40: Phillip Blom

    42.41 - 44.18: Tina Roth Eisenberg

    44.19 - 46.54: Introducing our Perfect Strangers / Reminder of the World Wide Wander

    46.55 - 47.15 End Credits

    Credits

    David Pearl (Host)

    Web: https://www.davidpearl.net

    Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com

    Twitter: @davidpearlhere

    Instagram: davidpearl_here

    Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

    Twitter: @ItPainesMe
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    47 mins
  • Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... Season 5 Omnibus

    Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... Season 5 Omnibus
    May 2 2023
    Hello wanderers… welcome to the finale of our fifth season of ‘Wanderful’". If you’ve listened to any of the previous episodes, you will know this is a podcast which has been designed to be walked to, providing you with some ‘inspiration on the go’ Every week we invite an inspiring guest to join us… somebody with a refreshing take on life and its various twists and turns. What you don’t know is that lots of the wonderful conversations get left on the cutting room floor. However… David and our producer, Andrew, have scooped up some of that interview gold so you can take a wander through the magic we missed out on. As ever… you can listen to this podcast in your home, but we think you will get the most inspiration if you boot up and join David @davidpearl_here @streetwisdom_ out on the streets or https://wanderfulpodcast.com Season 5 finale features conversations with pianist, singer, choir leader, environmental campaigner and curator, Holly Cullen-Davies: Bestselling author, broadcaster and two-time TED speaker and voice of the Slow Movement, Carl Honoré: Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar: Senior Partner McKinsey & Co, Arne Gast: Historian and author of several novels, journalism, politics, and philosophy; radio presenter, documentary film maker and public lecturer, Philipp Blom: The ‘Stand Up Drummer’, musician, key note speaker and team builder, Tom Morley and executive creative director, founder of ‘This Morning Walk’, co-host of the podcast This Morning Walk and author of ‘Do Walk’, Libby De Lana https://linktr.ee/DavidPearl Time Line 00.00 - 00.44: Theme 00.45 - 02.50: Introducing Season 5 Omnibus 02.51 - 03.55: Introducing Libby De Lana 03.57 - 08.09: Libby DeLana: The Hell Yes Chapter! 08.10 - 10.00: Introducing Tom Morley 10.02 - 15.53: Tom Morley: A Brush With The Law 15.55 - 18.40: Introducing Philipp Blom 18.42 - 21.29: Philipp Blom: Grouse & Imagine: The Culture Of The Cafe 21.30 - 23.52: Introducing Arne Gast 23.55 - 29.40: Arne Gast: Riding the S-Curves 29.45 - 31.08: Introducing Satish Kumar 31.10 - 33.13: Satish Kumar: A Maternal Wisdom 33.20 - 35.07: Introducing Carl Honoré 35.10 - 37.34: Carl Honoré: The Genesis of (B)older 37.40 - 39.00: Introducing Holly Cullen-Davies 39.04 - 41.54: Holly Cullen-Davies: Thula Mama 41.57 - 44.00: Epilogue: Gratitude 44.00 - 44.26: Closing credits Quotes Libby DeLana “I’m a big believer in the beginner’s mind. Starting things is terrifying and wonderful and interesting, so am I a beginner? I’m a 60 year old beginner of everything.” Tom Morley “The Clash sung ‘I fought the law and the law won.” I would love to re-mix that and call it ‘I fought the law and the people won.’ We have to stand up for our eroding rights.” Philipp Blom “The coffee you buy (in the cafe) is in fact not a cup of coffee: it’s an entrance ticket. It entitles you to sit there as long as you want… that means of course, that things can develop and you can sit there and watch people, and sit there and read your novel or sit there and write your novel. It’s such a luxury in today’s world.” Arne Gast “ I see that my (S) curve is flattening when i become at ease; when I feel like I got this, I like this, that’s the moment the inner voice starts saying… hmm.. let’s do another near-death experience, start anew somewhere.” Satish Kumar “Whatever you see… is divine, is sacred. There is no separation between humans and nature and no separation between God and nature. This is the beauty of Indian culture: everything is God, everything is divine, everything is nature. This is what I learned from my Mother.” Carl Honoré “In the blink of an eye, I went from goal-scorer to Grandad… age took on this terrible power… defining and limiting me. I just thought this can’t be right. Why was I feeling a door was being slammed in my face just because of the numbers on my birth certificate?” Holly Cullen-Davies “Singing is proven to release endorphins in the same way as exercise is and it’s proven to release more endorphins when you do it with other people and I just see these people light up.” Links Libby DeLana Web: https://libbydelana.com/ Twitter: @parkhere Instagram: @parkhere This Morning Walk: https://www.thismorningwalk.com/ Tom Morley Website: https://tommorley.com/ Twitter: @TomMorley Instagram: _tommorley_ Philipp Blom Blomcast: https://blomcast.buzzsprout.com/ Website: https://philipp-blom.eu/cms/en/ Arne Gast Website: https://aberkyn.com/humans/arne-gast/ Satish Kumar Website: https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/ Carl Honore Instagram: @carlhonore Instagram: @carlhonore Twitter: @carlhonore YouTube:@carlhonore Facebook: @carlhonore and @carlhonorepage LinkedIn: @carlhonore Pinterest: @carlhonore TED Talk 1: Slow TED Talk 2: Age TED Course: How to slow down Holly Cullen-Davies Web: https://www.concertsdontcosttheearth.org/ Web: http://...
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    44 mins
  • Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Holly Cullen-Davies

    Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Holly Cullen-Davies
    Apr 21 2023
    “Find what you’re best at and do that” Holly Cullen-Davies is a pianist, singer, choir leader, environmental campaigner and curator. Holly has been performing regularly since the age of six and working as a freelance musician for over fifteen years. She studied at the CNR de Lyon, France, The Royal Northern College of Music and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying with Kasia Borowiak, Carole Presland, Charles Owen and Martin Roscoe. She set up Live Junction which received an Emerging Excellence Award from Help Musicians UK in 2013 and The Kids’ Concert Company which has been funded by The Arts Council for the last 4 years to take professional concerts in to primary schools. More recently she set up Concerts Don't Cost The Earth to bring together the two things she is most passionate about: live music and protecting the planet for our next generation. Concerts Don't Cost The Earth supports both musicians and our precious world at the same time. You can find out more about how to support it or get involved here: www.concertsdontcosttheearth.org Time Line 00.00 - 00.44 Intro 00.45 - 05.13 Introducing Holly Cullen-Davies 05.17 - 07.20 The inspiration behind 'Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth’ 07.35 - 09.02 The role music can play in having difficult conversations about the climate 09.05 - 12.45 Holly’s musical journey 12.46 - 16.16 Introducing classical music to unusual spaces 17.12 - 21.46 Holly introduces and plays Chick Corea's Children Song no. 6 21.48 - 24.15 The element of surprise and the juxtaposition of unusual things 25.10 - 26.54 The etymology of ‘concert’ 26.55 - 31.37 What fuels Holly’s activism? 32.22 - 34.47 Find what you’re best at and do that: being the change you want to see 34.50 - 36.01 Subsidise the trains campaign - an activist’s song 36.03 - 41.27 Holly introduces and plays Alberto Ginastera's Danza del gaucho matrero (Dance of the outlaw cowboy) from Danzas Argentinas 41.30 - 43.50 How people can organise a ‘Concert Don’t Cost The Earth’ concert 44.00 - 47.34 David introduces ‘pogging’ 47.35 - 48.00 Outro Quotes “I’ve always loved the intimate concerts… up close… where you can hear the workings of the instrument.” (Holly) “Concerts Don’t Cost The Earth exist to start conversations about the climate crisis through the power of music.” (Holly) “What I really got a kick out of was introducing classical music to people that didn’t usually hear it and putting it in spaces where you didn’t usually hear it. I did a lot of gigs early on where I was the classical act in a cabaret of other acts and it kind of blew people away.” (Holly) “I hate people looking at a programme during a concert. I think that’s a shame for them to be sidetracked. I’m hoping that I’m compelling enough as a pianist that they’re just listening.” (Holly) I want people to feel the breath, the moment between the pieces and not know what’s coming next.” (Holly) “Every percentage of a degree is absolutely critical and going over 1.5 or certainly going over 2.0 degrees will have catastrophic runaway effects that could lead to the end of all life on earth.” (Holly) “When we do risk assessment in other parts of life: medicine, building bridges, flying aeroplanes… we don’t take risks. If the scientists are saying this could be a disaster, we don’t administer that drug, we don’t build that bridge, we don’t fly that aeroplane. And the risk here (climate) is huge. And the answer is we have to stop using fossil fuels… we have to phase them out completely by 2030.” (Holly) Links Holly Cullen Davies (Guest) Web: https://www.concertsdontcosttheearth.org/ Web: http://www.hollycullendavies.com/ Instagram @daviesanddaughters Instagram @thulamamalondon David Pearl (Host) Web: https://www.davidpearl.net Web: https://wanderfulpodcast.com Twitter: @davidpearlhere Instagram: davidpearl_here Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer) Twitter: @ItPainesMe
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    48 mins
  • Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Carl Honoré

    Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Carl Honoré
    Mar 28 2023
    ‘I think of each year of my life now, as a level… in a game.’ Carl Honoré is a bestselling author, broadcaster and two-time TED speaker. He is also the voice of the Slow Movement. After working with street children in Brazil, Carl covered Europe and South America for the Economist, Observer, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, National Post (Canada), Time and other publications. His first book, In Praise of Slow, chronicles the global trend toward putting on the brakes in everything from work to food to parenting. The Financial Times said it is “to the Slow Movement what Das Kapital is to communism”. Carl’s second book, Under Pressure explores how to raise and educate children in a fast world and was hailed by Time as a “gospel of the Slow Parenting movement”. Carl’s third book, The Slow Fix, explores how to tackle complex problems in every walk of life, from health and relationships to business and politics, without falling for superficial, short-term quick fixes. His fourth book, Bolder: How To Age Better And Feel Better About Ageing, is a spirited manifesto against ageism. Carl recently published his first children’s book, It’s The Journey Not the Destination Published in 35 languages, Carl has landed on bestseller lists in many countries. In Praise of Slow was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and the inaugural choice for the Huffington Post Book Club. It also featured in a British TV sitcom, Argentina’s version of Big Brother and a TV commercial for the Motorola tablet. Under Pressure was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Award, the top prize for non-fiction in Canada. Bolder was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week as well as a Reader’s Digest (UK) Book of the Month. Carl featured in a series for BBC Radio 4 called The Slow Coach in which he helped frazzled, over-scheduled people slow down. He also presented a television show called Frantic Family Rescue on Australia’s ABC 1. Carl lives in London. While researching his first book on slowness he was slapped with a speeding ticket. The Podcast was recorded live at The Kings Place London on the 27th February, 2023. Timeline 00.00 - 00.44 Theme & Intro 00.45 - 03.28 Introducing Carl Honore 03.30 - 07.55 How Carl came to write a book on ageing: The London Jets 07.56 - 10.09 Myth-busting Ageing: The Story of Jacko 10.10 - 13.14 The Effects of Ageism 13.15 - 14.00 The ‘Still' Syndrome 14.00 - 15.44 Inter-Generational Activities 15.45 - 18.00 The ‘Village’ School 18.00 - 23.52 David Pearl - ‘Tanzlied des Pierrots’ by Erich Korngold’s from Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) 23.54 - 32.34 Ageing and Singing: How the voice evolves with age 32.36 - 35.25 How does Carl now feel about age? 35.26 - 37.40 Drawing the line of your life: where do you put the ‘x’? 37.41 - 38.36 David Pearl - ‘Ideale’ by Paolo Tosti (excerpt) 38.38 - 40.15 Epilogue 40.16 - 40.37 End Titles Quotes “All of my books start with an existential crisis.” (Carl) “The thing about ageism is that it falls more heavily on us who are in the later years of life, because it has got tangled up in the cult of youth, the idea that younger is better. Ageing is seen, especially in our western cultures, it is seen as something to be ashamed of, to feel guilty of, to be disgusted by… to deny.” (Carl) “One of my bugbears is the phrase… showing my age. We should be showing off our age” (Carl) ‘When you don’t know people of different ages, into that space rush all the grim toxic stereotypes about ageing. What they do find is that as soon as you start breaking down the silos and mixing people up that the stereotypes start to fall away.” (Carl) “Before writing ‘Bolder’ I was a full card carrying member of the cult of youth. I never would have given my age. I would have low-balled it. I just felt awful about the whole idea of growing older and would have pushed it away. Now I feel genuinely at ease with it.” (Carl) “My metaphor for ageing is a gaming analogy. I think of each year as a level in a game. Right now I’m at level 55. I’m enjoying level 55 to the hilt. I’m gathering as much treasure as I can have. I’m enjoying all the adventures.” (Carl) “Every age has its pros and cons. Every age can be glorious and wonderful but only if we embrace it.” (Carl) Links Carl Honore (Guest) Instagram: @carlhonore Instagram: @carlhonore Twitter: @carlhonore YouTube:@carlhonore Facebook: @carlhonore and @carlhonorepage LinkedIn: @carlhonore Pinterest: @carlhonore TED Talk 1: Slow TED Talk 2: Age TED Course: How to slow down David Pearl (Host) Web: https://www.davidpearl.net Twitter: @davidpearlhere Instagram: davidpearl_here Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer) Twitter: @ItPainesMe Anthony Ingle (Piano) Website: https://impropera.co.uk Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-ingle-3339a915/ Fiona Finsbury (Opera Singer & Actor) Instagram: @fionafinsbury Genevieve Tawiah (Performance & Vocal ...
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    41 mins
  • Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Satish Kumar

    Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Satish Kumar
    Mar 14 2023
    Satish Kumar ‘Goodbye, Rene Descartes!’ Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9, Satish renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Then in his 20s, he undertook a pilgrimage for peace, walking for two years without money from India to America for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration, social justice, and spiritual fulfilment. A world-renown author and international speaker, Satish founded The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity that seeks to inform and inspire a just future for all. He was the Editor of the charity’s change-making magazine, Resurgence & Ecologist, for over 40 years, making him the UK's longest-serving editor of the same magazine. He continues to serve this publication as Editor Emeritus and by writing for each and every trailblazing issue. Satish would like to offer you 20% off membership of The Resurgence Trust. When you join, you will receive a range of membership benefits including the hope-inspiring, bi-monthly Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, and support Satish (and the charity he founded) in protecting the future of people and planet. Find out more about Satish’s work and this offer. https://www.resurgence.org/membership/satish-offer.html Timeline 00.00 - 00.43 - Theme 00.44 - 05.05 - Introducing Satish Kumar 05.06 - 09.20 - Explaining Soil / Soul / Society: A new trinity for our time 09.21 - 11.55 - Making soil and planting our own food in cities 11.56 - 14.18 - Humans are nature too - we are not separate 14.19 - 15.40 - Revering nature at home 15.41 - 16.56 - Meditating on the river 16.57 - 20.20 - The intelligence of nature - a living organism 20.21 - 21.24 - Moving from ‘ego’ to ‘eco’ 21.25 - 24.09 - Where Satish draws his energy, motivation and hope 24.10 - 26.50 - The link between economy and ecology 26.52 - 30.50 - Pilgrimages and walking for peace 30.51 - 32.41 - The freedom from walking 32.42 - 36.30 - How to engage with strangers: trust and love: the state of mind of the pilgrim 36.30 - 38.36 - Re-writing Descartes 38.43 - 40.35 - The Wanderful Exercise: The Trust Walk 40.56 - 44.05 - Epilogue: Trust is a powerful thing to spread around 44.06 - 45.18 - End Credits Quotations “I wanted to have a new trinity for our time and that trinity should represent holistic thinking… everything connecting with each other. So I came up with a new trinity for our time and I called it soil, soul and society.” (Satish) “Human beings are literally soil beings. Human comes from the Latin ‘humus’ and humus means soil. So human beings are soil beings. Our bodies are soil transformed.” (Satish) “We are all nature, there is no separation. We have to think about living in harmony with nature and making good use of nature not mis-use of nature, because we are nature.” (Satish) “Don’t trust a philosophy that has not been tested by walking.” (Satish) “When you are walking you are free. You are a free spirit. Your body is free. Your mind is free. You are not bound.” (Satish) “When you are walking for peace, you are putting your body where your mouth is.” (Satish) “My friend and I decided to walk to the four nuclear capitols of the world. So we started from New Deli and we walked to Moscow, Paris, London and Washington DC. 8000 miles. 2.5 years.” (Satish) “If you are walking, even if in a city, if you are walking, you are free. Walk everyday if you want to experience and taste of freedom. When you are walking you carry no burden on your shoulders, you are not worried, you are just walking. By walking you connect with the soil, you connect with your soul, your spirit, your consciousness, your imagination, your answers come when you are walking. All your questions can be answered when you’re walking.” (Satish) “Let go of fear and cultivate trust. Trust everybody and talk to everybody. People are good. Enemies are only creations of the mind.” (Satish) “If you have the state of mind of a pilgrim, then you trust. If hardship comes, if difficulties come, welcome it. This will make you strong. “ (Satish) Links Satish Kumar (Guest) Website: https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/ David Pearl (Host) Website: https://www.davidpearl.net Website: https://www.wanderfulpodcast.com Intagram: @davidpearl_here Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer) Twitter: @ItPainesMe Instagram: @Sonicoyster
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    45 mins
  • Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Arne Gast

    Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Arne Gast
    Mar 1 2023
    Arne Gast, Senior Partner McKinsey & Co “We have to re-write all the rules.” The core of Arne’s work is creating organisations for the future and making change personal and systemic in high-stake transitions. As the global lead of McKinsey’s “Powering Performance Transformations” offering, Arne helps to create positive change – through shifts in culture, stronger leadership, new capabilities and liberating structures. McKinsey’s team of more than 1,000 change experts include their own Aberkyn facilitators, communication mavericks, implementation experts, learning architects and organization specialists – trying to combine the best ideas and evidence- based methods for the leaders they serve. Currently, Arne is working on a book called “Schokland” – exploring the role of leadership teams in this decisive decade. Previously, he was part of the teams writing the books Leadership at Scale, Beyond Performance, Reorg and (as a student at INSEAD) Blue Ocean Strategy. Arne’s social impact passion is education. He co-founded Leerkracht Foundation with a committed team, and over the years helped more than 1000 Dutch schools with an inspiring cultural change approach to improve outcomes. He also worked with the Dutch-Moroccan Leadership Institute, Young Leaders Malaysia, schools for highly gifted children, and multiple universities including the founding of ISB in Hyderabad, India. His own educational background includes an MBA from INSEAD Fontainebleau, and a MSc Organization Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam –preceded by a year of Liberal Arts at Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi. Arne splits his time between the Netherlands and Malaysia, with his wife, 4 children and a selection of dogs and cats. In his free time, he loves playing or coaching field hockey, gardening and growing apples, dabbling with black-white Leica photography, and visiting small book stores and reading many, many books. Timeline 00.00 - 00.44 Theme & Intro. 00.45 - 05:08 Introducing Arne Gast. 05.10 - 08.45 An inspiring teacher: the story of Mr Bone and the thirst for knowledge. 08:47 - 10.02 The areas of unknowing: the mischievous desire to help people touch the areas they are not familiar with. 10.05 - 11.30 How things work and re-writing the rules: re-inventing and finding a new world. 11.31 - 15.35 Arne’s appetite for the future comes from hope. 15.35 - 16.30 What we can learn from the Nordic countries. 17.00 - 19.39 Re-inventing how we talk to each other. 19.40 - 23:50 Rejoicing in the not knowing: thriving on reinvention. 23.51 - 26.43 Life was ‘easy’ for companies in the past - now we have to do things differently - considering C02 neutral / net positive / digital transformation / you cannot source from China or Russia anymore / full diversity / climate cri sis - how do we do all of this? 26:48 - 30.40 The role of story and the methods we like to work with: What’s the new narrative? 31.00 - 31.30 What is to what if… rather than concentrate on what the current stories are and let’s imagine different futures. 31.31 - 33.15 The mind is like an art gallery - a lot of Rothko at the moment - can we put a Van Gough in there? 33.48 - 38.22 Telling stories and using experimentation as a way forward. 38.24 - 41:22 Arne’s metaphor - Schokland 41.25 - 44.00 The Wanderful Exercise: Seeing the world as an art gallery 44.15 - 48.45 Epilogue 48.47 - 49.54 Outro and Credits Quotations “We have to re-write all the rules. It is not the end of history. It is only beginning. It is our time in the next decade that we are going to re-invent it. We are going to do regenerative agriculture together and find the new world.” (Arne) ’Men will not survive, they will prevail.’ (William Faulkner) “I like starting things anew and when something gets too stable, I want to move on.” (Arne) “The wisdom is in so many different fragments of people that if we can talk to each other and co-create with each other then we can find a new place.” (Arne) “I like to spark some joy in the unknowing. It’s all an experiment we are doing. There are no answers anymore and even the questions are unclear right now.” (Arne) “Be kind with people.” (Arne) “Narrative is one of the most powerful tools we have. It’s a way to really inspire people.” (Arne) “Amplification of the bad news is going up and it limits people from taking agency to say what do I want and what is the world I want to create.” (Arne) “Imagine different futures - let’s use that.” (David) “The story is the first step. I’ve seen it without really being there. Just by thinking we get the medicine.” (Arne) “Dip a toe in the water as an experiment but just keep telling yourself… it’s just an experiment.” (Arne) Links Arne Gast (Guest) Website: https://aberkyn.com/humans/arne-gast/ David Pearl (Host) Website: https://www.davidpearl.net/ Instagram: @davidpearl_here Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio ...
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    50 mins
  • Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Philipp Blom

    Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go... with Philipp Blom
    Feb 14 2023
    Philipp Blom “History is a mess of facts.” Philipp Blom (1970) is a historian and author of several novels, journalism, politics, and philosophy. He also works a radio presenter, documentary film maker and as a public lecturer. Philipp was born in Hamburg and grew up in Detmold, in northern Germany. After studying history, philosophy and Jewish studies in Vienna and Oxford, he gained a D.Phil. on nationalism. During this period, he also worked in journalism, taught at a high school, and wrote a novel. Like many of his subsequent books it was written in English and translated into German by himself. From 1997 to 2001 Blom and his wife, the writer Veronica Buckley, lived in London, where Philipp initially worked as an editor in a publishing house and as a foreign correspondent for German, Swiss and British newspapers and magazines (Guardian, Independent, the TLS, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Züricher Zeitung) and for radio stations (BBC, ORF, Deutschlandfunk). 2001 the couple moved to Paris to concentrate on their books. Since 2007 they live in Vienna. Next to his work in history, fiction, philosophy and art, Philipp presents the program „Punkt 1“ on the Austrian radio station Ö1. He wrote and presented a TV documentary, and curated exhibitions for, among others, the Wien Museum and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, where Philipp invited in 2010 to work for one year. Lecture tours and festivals take Philipp throughout Europe as well as to the USA, Canada, and South America. Philipp Blom’s book combine historical research, philosophical enquiry and an essayistic, literary approach. Among his best-selling works are The Vertigo Years and Fracture, dealing with the cultural history of the early twentieth century, A Wicked Company, about the radical Enlightenment, Nature’s Mutiny an investigation into history and climate change in the seventeenth century and, more recently, What is at Stake, dealing with climate change, digitization, and democracy. Philipp’s wide-ranging work and research interests have received numerous accolades. He won several international prizes (Premis Terenci Moix, Barcelona, Groene Waterman Prijs, Antwerpen, NDR Kultur Buchpreis, Wolfenbüttel), and his books are translated into sixteen languages. From 2009-2010 he was Fellow of the IFK, 2017 Visiting Fellow at the IWM, both in Vienna. 2018 he opened the prestigious Salzburg Festspiele with a widely-discussed speech on the future of the Enlightenment in a time of climate change. Having wanted to become a violinist early in life, Philipp also continues to make music and presents a series of concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus. Timeline 00.00 - 00.44 Wanderful Intro theme 00.45 - 04.22 Introducing Philipp Blom 04.33 - 07.07 The Flaneurs: deliberately getting lost in the city 07.08 - 08.36 History as a mess of facts: knitting things together to make a pattern 08.37 - 11.00 Map making: showing the world as it isn’t 11.03 - 16.50 Nature’s Mutiny: What happened when Europe became 2 Degrees colder 16.51 - 18.27 Transforming society: the emergence of the enlightenment 18.28 - 23.25 Surviving the climate crisis: the need to change the way we see the world and how we see ourselves in it 23.28 - 26.25 Where the creativity for writing comes from 26.26 - 28.25 The monster of European colonialism 28.26 - 30.00 The Yeast Metaphor 30.01 - 36.20 Let’s talk about ‘systems’ 36.23 - 39.18 Discovering your true self and exploring the weirdness of the world 39.20 - 41.38 David introduces the ‘Wanderful’ mapping exercise 41.55 - 44.23 Epilogue: Insights from the exercise 44.24 - 45.30 End Credits and Outro Quotes “History is a mess of facts. Out of all those facts you have to distil the fact that you think means something. You have to knit them together into a pattern and relate them to one another. ” (Philipp) “Maps are useful because they show the world as it isn’t. They select, they say you don’t need to know that, but you need to know that. Whatever you want to know, there is a map for it.” (Philipp) “If we want to survive this current (climate) crisis in some decent form… we need to accept the total transformation of our economic system, our political system , the way we see the world and how we see ourselves in the world.” (Philipp) “If you live in a completely commercialised imagination, then the amount of stories you can tell declines dramatically… imagination becomes deadened by commercial interests.” (Philipp) “If we are learning anything about nature it is simply the fact that we need to talk about ‘systems’.” (Philipp) “The individual is only the mirroring of something which comes back from others.” (Philipp) “We want to survive? We will need to find our survival inside.” (Philipp) “With fossil fuels our technological reach has become so devastating, that it’s no longer a helpful way of thinking.” (Philipp) “If we want to ...
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    46 mins
  • Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Tom Morley... ’irreverence, justified’

    Wanderful: Inspiration On The Go with Tom Morley... ’irreverence, justified’
    Jan 31 2023

    Wanderful with Tom Morley

    “Irreverence, justified”

    Team Building is needed more than ever in 2023. Face to face onsite interaction. A reason to come together. 200 people drumming. A thousand people singing in harmony. Things we can't do on Zoom.

    Tom Morley has a 40- year track record of doing this. Scritti Politti, David Bowie, Madness, Blue Chips everywhere and now you. Exactly where you are. That's Tom's speciality, finding out where you are and starting there.

    Following his time in the music business with the 80s band Scritti Politti Tom has developed a truly artistic way of living where every experience leads him to the humorous uncovering of some universal truth. He turns his disasters and successes into Keynote inspiration for tired conference audiences who think they've seen it all. Maybe they HAVE seen it all, but have they FELT it? Have they DRUMMED it? Have they CHANTED it? Have they HARMONISED it?

    Four decades onstage, first behind a drum kit then being the front man for whole troupes of performers has earned him the name ‘The Stand Up Drummer’. What's he standing up for? You're about to find out.

    Timeline

    00.00 - 00.44 Theme & Intro

    00.45 - 05.30 David introduces Tom Morley

    05.30 - 10.00 Tom discovers ‘analog instagram’ and describes the way he looks

    10.10 - 13.05 How the ‘groove’ is found at the intersection of discipline, surrender and mischief.

    13.06 - 14.07 Addressing the ‘thing’ which the audience is thinking.

    14.08 - 15.39 Irreverence Justified

    15.40 - 21.21 Tom describes his work as a ‘polymath’.

    21.22 - 23.00 Scritti Politti Anecdote - Mischief in action

    23.10 - 29.02 Making good trouble - re-introducing people to their own creativity

    29.03 - 35.27 The importance of dancing around the room - finding the flow - safety in the ‘groove’.

    35.28 - 39.03 Playing with the walking rhythm - getting into the groove on the 2nd and 4th beat.

    39.05 - 42.34 Don’t just walk from A to B - dance to A to B: Bring out the inner-adult

    42.35 - 44.24 The Wanderful Exercise: Finding the Groove

    44.24 - 48.48 Epilogue & End Credits

    Quotations

    “My mantra is ‘we’re better than this’. That’s what drives me on.” (David)

    “Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin… all those people… they gave us permission to just jam clothes together.” (Tom)

    “I look like someone you would want to have a conversation with and that’s because I’m shy. I can’t really start conversations from scratch, I have to get people to start conversations with me.” (Tom)

    “The ‘groove’ is found at the intersection of discipline, surrender and mischief.” (Tom)

    “Irreverence, justified.” (Tom)

    “We are our own powerpoint. We just need to turn ourselves on.” (Tom)

    “I’m there to re-introduce people to their own creativity.” (Tom)

    “We are up against the very well funded status-quo.” (Tom)

    “Drummers… what we do is make it safe for everybody… we keep the groove going.” (Tom)

    “The irony is, the safer they feel with the groove, the groovier the groove is, the more attractive… then they will feel something new.” (Tom)

    “We walk in rhythm, so you can play with the rhythm of walking. We pretty much walk in 4/4. If you want to get into the groove, emphasise the 2nd and the 4th beat. Then you get into the groove. It’s called the off-beat.” (Tom)

    “What’s the purpose of the dance? It’s to dance.” (Tom)

    “There is a lot to get done. As we do it, lets dance our way there, because we’ll get to better places if we do that.” (David)

    “I’m not interested in bringing out their inner-child. I’m interested in bringing out their inner-adult.” (Tom)

    Links

    Tom Morley (Guest)

    Website: https://tommorley.com/

    Twitter: @TomMorley

    Instagram: _tommorley_

    David Pearl (Host)

    Website: https://www.davidpearl.net/

    Instagram: @davidpearl_here

    Andrew Paine (Producer & Audio Engineer)

    Twitter: @ItPainesMe

    Instagram: @Sonicoyster
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