Welcome to the bluedot podcast with Chris Hawkins. bluedot is finally back! And after an extraordinary return to Jodrell Bank this summer, we're excited to be able to share some of the many highlights of this year's bluedot 2022. Over the coming months, you can enjoy full talks, panels and listening parties from bluedot – including headline speakers from our Mission Control arena, and intimate chats in our Notes culture tent. In this episode, you'll be hearing Helen Pankhurst in conversation...

Welcome to the bluedot podcast, with Chris Hawkins. bluedot is finally back! And after an extraordinary return to Jodrell Bank this summer, we're excited to be able to share some of the many highlights of this year's bluedot 2022. Over the coming months, you can enjoy full talks, panels and listening parties from bluedot – including headline speakers from our Mission Control arena, and intimate chats in our Notes culture tent. We took the bluedot podcast onstage at bluedot 2022, and this In...

Welcome to the bluedot podcast. bluedot is finally back! And after an extraordinary return to Jodrell Bank this summer, we're excited to be able to share some of the many highlights of this year's bluedot 2022. Over the coming months, you can enjoy full talks, panels and listening parties from bluedot – including headline speakers from our Mission Control arena, and intimate chats in our Notes culture tent. This episode is a full recording of a special Tim's Listening Party, recorded on the...

Welcome to the bluedot podcast. This is the third instalment of our In Conversation miniseries of talks and panels in Manchester, powered by our friends at bruntwood. In this live discussion, we pose the question 'how does culture build community?'. Hosted by bruntwood's and The Oglesby Charitable Trust's Kate Vokes, and featuring Band On The Wall's Gavin Sharp, Inga Hirst from the Royal Exchange Theatre and actor and spoken word artist Boshra Ghgam, this panel discusses Manchester's cultural...

Teresa Anderson is an award-winning physicist and director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement, which she founded in 2010. Alongside Tim O’Brien, Teresa spearheaded the campaign to make Jodrell Bank a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an accolade it received in 2019. Teresa co-founded Live From Jodrell Bank in 2012 and the series of shows featured Elbow, Sigur Ros, The Halle and more, expanding into the weekend of science and music you now know as bluedot, in 2016… Welcome to the bluedot podcast…...

It’s a unique collaboration of electronic legends and indie favourites - the past and present combining to create something futuristic and extraordinary. La Planete Sauvage – the soundtrack to an iconic 1973 film – is a project that sees The Radiophonic Workshop and Stealing Sheep join forces, for an album released to mark 2021’s Delia Derbyshire Day. And this July it comes to bluedot for a very special performance on the Sunday of this year’s festival. This is the bluedot podcast with the...

She’s the producer, songwriter and DJ whose avant-garde techno pop has seen her release three extraordinary albums to date. The most recent – LP.8 – was released earlier this year. Her combination of ethereal, atmospheric and at times industrial has seen her win fans in Bjork, St Vincent and John Cale, all of whom she has gone on to collaborate with. Having joined us at bluedot in 2019, she returns as part of our Friday line-up this July alongside Spiritualized, Kojey Radical, Groove Armada...

Helen Pankhurst is a celebrated women’s right’s activist and author – a Special Advisor on Gender Equality to the leading global aid organisation CARE International, and has served as a fellow of the London School of Economics, a visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan and as Chancellor of the University of Suffolk. She is also of course the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, leaders of the British suffragette movement. She has continued...

As part of bluedot’s partnership with our friends at Bruntwood, we’re curating a series of special In Conversation talks at Bruntwood venues across the country, hosted by me – Chris Hawkins. The first of these recently took place featuring Tom Heap, the author and writer behind 39 Ways To Save The Planet and a regular fixture on Countryfile. We spoke with Tom to a live audience at Bruntwood’s Bright Building at Manchester Science Park, and you can now enjoy the live recording of that talk in...

They’re the Brighton-founded project of songwriter Dana Margolin, whose prolific creative output has seen her go from a solo, self-releasing songwriter to the front woman of a Mercury Prize nominated band. That Mercury nomination, in 2020 for their album Every Bad, is followed by the new album Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky. Welcome to the bluedot podcast with Porridge Radio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

She’s the Manchester-based producer and songwriter whose extensive career has seen her carve out a unique sound that takes in psychedelia, folk and space rock, making her the quintessential bluedot artist. After the incredible success of her 2021 album Flock, she returns to bluedot this July after her first appearance back in 2017. Welcome... to the bluedot podcast – with Jane Weaver See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. In his new book The Joy of Science, the acclaimed physicist and bluedot favourite, Professor Jim Al-Khalili presents 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a little more scientifically. In this brief guide to leading a more rational life, Professor Al-Khalili invites readers to engage with the...

One of the UK’s best loved dance acts, the three-time GRAMMY-nominated Groove Armada have been a mainstay of club and chill-out culture for over twenty years. Since the release of their debut Northern Star and the iconic Vertigo, which tipped them into household name territory, they’ve been synonymous with a sound that’s traversed house, pop, disco and hip-hop, equal parts up and down tempo. And over the course of their nine studio albums, they’ve worked with an extraordinary array of...

Lanterns on the Lake are a Mercury Prize nominated, critically acclaimed and adored Newcastle band, whose work has seen them collaborate with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and tour with the likes of Explosion In The Sky, Yann Tiersen and Low. We’re so excited to welcome Lanterns on the Lake to join Saturday’s Lovell Stage line-up at Bluedot 2022 this July. And Hazel from the band joins us now for a special In Conversation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

They’re an award-winning, legendary Scottish band whose twenty-five year career has produced ten incredible albums, unique collaborations with the likes of Clint Mansell and Nine Inch Nails, and a prolific history of soundtracking for films and tv, including the 2006 documentary film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and Mark Cousins’ 2015 piece Atomic. Following the Mercury Prize-nominated As The Love Continues, their tenth album and their first to hit number one in the Album Charts, we’re...

Recorded live at COP26, A Punk Rock Approach to Solving the Climate Crisis is a special panel talk with Dale Vince, Fay Milton (Savages) and Claire O’Neill (A Greener Festival), hosted by John Robb. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Enjoy the full live recording of Chris Packham in conversation with John Robb, at our Plate Up! collaboration with The Vegan Society at COP26 Glasgow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How easy is it to become vegan? And what is veganism really like? For many, fear of the unknown or misapprehensions about what a vegan lifestyle is like, are a barrier to trying it out. Gone are the days of limited vegan options, and a plain or unexciting diet – it’s now possible to explore a vegan diet that’s even more adventurous and exciting than a meat-based one, as well as being better for the planet. And outside of food easier to dip your toes into a vegan lifestyle than you’d think,...

In this episode, we’ll be diving into veganism for climate change – the main challenges facing the environment, the role of diet and farming practices, and the alternatives that could save the planet… We’ll be speaking with climate change expert Andrew Simms, one of the founders of the Green New Deal in the UK, and the creator of the now world-renowned Earth Overshoot Day, and finding out why veganism could play a role in fixing almost every food-related cause of the climate crisis – from...

To coincide with Cop26, taking place in Glasgow, this miniseries will be delving into the role that veganism can play in the future of our planet. Over the next three episodes we’ll be speaking with climate change scientists, sustainability experts and notable vegans to discuss how adopting lifestyle changes can make a difference to the future of our blue dot… From the roots of the vegan worldview, to our current climate crisis, and some of the solutions veganism and sustainable lifestyles...

Immerse yourself in the extraordinary story of the Theremin. Hosted by Chris Hawkins and featuring Cyril Lance and Steve Dunnington (Moog Music), Dorit Chrysler (New York Theremin Society) and Paddy Kingsland (The Radiophonic Workshop). A collaboration with our friends at Moog Music. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alice Roberts and Daniel Davis discuss the steps towards curing a virus, from discovery through to it being eradicated, using real-world examples from the Covid pandemic and historical pandemics to identify what has been done right (and wrong) so far, what an ideal pandemic response would look like and what the future holds for Covid-19. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chair of SETI, one of Discover magazine’s most important women in science, and the inspiration behind Jodie Foster’s Ellie in Contact, Jill Tarter is an icon of astronomy. bluedot favourite Ana Matronic met Jill via Skype to explore the cosmos and beyond. Part of bluedot's A Weekend In Outer Space, July 2020. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Angela Saini and Tana Joseph join Jim al-Khalili for an exploration of diversity and representation in the world of bluedot, how STEM can learn from other disciplines, and what the future of our institutions looks like. Part of bluedot's A Weekend In Outer Space, July 2020. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.