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TudoRama explores the nature and practice of creativity in the arts, sciences, politics and above all in everyday life. Tudor Rickards is Emeritus Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at the University of Manchester. Tudor studied chemistry and radiation chemistry at The University of Wales at Cardiff. Following post-doctoral research at New York Medical College, he returned to the UK to work in technical management before joining Manchester Business School. He has published numerous books and articles on creativity, sporting management and leadership, as well as fictional works involving the mythical University of Urmston. He has been influential in the de...

Will Boris Bounce Back? I Find the Answer in The Wind in the Willows

5 mins; October 21, 2022

Frantic Friday as the prime Minister sacks her Chancellor

8 mins; October 20, 2022

An hour is a long time in politics. Woeful Wednesday for the Prime Minister

3 mins; October 20, 2022

Watching Paint Dry. The 50 Move Rule in Chess

4 mins; October 18, 2022

Frantic Friday as the Prime Minister struggles for her survival

8 mins; October 16, 2022

The Elon Musk Show BBC2 Part1. How to show a girl a good rocket video

5 mins; October 15, 2022

Chronicles of Leadership Chapter Two. Wendy Lockinge. A New Career.

27 mins; October 13, 2022

Angela Lansbury. The Detective writer who wasn’t.

2 mins; October 12, 2022

Dark Justice. Prologue

7 mins; October 11, 2022

The Chronicles of Leadership. Prelude and Chapter One

32 mins; October 10, 2022

Twenty-first century marketing and common pitfalls

11 mins; October 07, 2022

Twenty- First Century Marketing

11 mins; October 07, 2022

Chess is the new Rock and Roll

7 mins; October 05, 2022

Goat Whisperers (with added English verses)

6 mins; October 04, 2022

The Goat Whisperers of Brecon

5 mins; October 02, 2022

Chronicles of Leadership. Birth of a whodunit.

28 mins; September 30, 2022

Liz Truss speaks to local journalists

2 mins; September 30, 2022

This England. Boris Johnson's hair gives an award-winning performance

2 mins; September 29, 2022

Rachel Reeves and the BBC Gaze

3 mins; September 27, 2022

The Queen's passing as an outburst of everyday creativity

7 mins; September 26, 2022

Heroes and Villains in the pageantry of the Queen's funeral

12 mins; September 21, 2022

Servant Leadership. A time to dust down an old idea?

4 mins; September 20, 2022

Lizzie Truss picked up an Axe

47 secs; September 18, 2022

How I reset my router password

3 mins; September 14, 2022

The Armchair Revolutionary: On walking and chewing gum at the same time.

2 mins; September 12, 2022

The Loyal Lockdown

6 mins; September 10, 2022

How long should a nation mourn?

3 mins; September 09, 2022

The Coronation of Queen Liz the Third

9 mins; September 07, 2022

No, our next Prime Minister is not going to be Theresa May

3 mins; September 06, 2022

A conversation with Tudor Rickards

39 mins; September 05, 2022

Thought for the day. A meditation on a Which report

2 mins; September 03, 2022

Stay alive, stay creative. A conversation with myself

4 mins; September 02, 2022

Garry Kasparov on the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev

3 mins; August 31, 2022

The Notting Hill Carnival 'A great carnivore appears in London'

3 mins; August 29, 2022

Thought for the day. Why you shouldn’t watch the film ‘Nope’

2 mins; August 25, 2022

To BS or not BS, that is the question

53 secs; August 25, 2022

Interview with Steve the Didsbury Poet

3 mins; August 24, 2022

An Olive Branch to the 1%…And Mankind A poem by Steve Jaffa Brown

3 mins; August 23, 2022

BBC Five and the boiled frog syndrome

5 mins; August 22, 2022

How did they think of that? An example of everyday creativity

3 mins; August 21, 2022

England Cricket re-enters the stone-age

5 mins; August 19, 2022

Hello Euston my old friend

2 mins; August 19, 2022

Drought reaches Manchester, the Venice of the North.

2 mins; August 17, 2022

Who stole our football results? A TudoRama exclusive

4 mins; August 13, 2022

Thought for the day. 'When this bloody war is over ...'

2 mins; August 12, 2022

Ghosts haunt the ground at Old Trafford

1 min; August 10, 2022

The toothless nation. Decline of a great national asset

4 mins; August 08, 2022

My Perilous Porridge Panic

3 mins; August 07, 2022

I meet Steve the Poet

1 min; August 06, 2022

The Archie Battersby Tragedy

3 mins; August 05, 2022

The killing game. Don't try this over Christmas.

6 mins; August 03, 2022

Everyday Creativity. What we can learn from Twitter

3 mins; August 02, 2022

A Podcast from Womberly Stadium. The winners’ ceremony and beyond

4 mins; August 01, 2022

Moscow chess robot accused of breaking finger of its opponent

2 mins; July 29, 2022

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the mystic tennis racquets

3 mins; July 28, 2022

Adventures of a community chess club. A battle for survival.

2 mins; July 27, 2022

The sad passing of Classical Chess and Five Day Cricket

2 mins; July 27, 2022

Boris Johnson's Return. Operation Wrecking Ball

2 mins; July 25, 2022

Methinks the Author doth protest too much

3 mins; July 23, 2022

Traffic chaos at Dover. A rebuttal from France

5 mins; July 22, 2022

The Virtuous Bookclub. Help us Select a Name

1 min; July 22, 2022

Charismatic Kemi Badenoch reminds me of another politician who once won a party’s affections.

2 mins; July 20, 2022

Author Support Networks. How to beat the loneliness of publishing

5 mins; July 19, 2022

Choosing a New Prime Minister. Why I'm voting for a jar of pickled onions

3 mins; July 17, 2022

Choosing a New Prime Minister. The Beauty Contests start

7 mins; July 16, 2022

Everyday Creativity. Going to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands

2 mins; July 15, 2022

Choosing a New Prime Minister. The Culling continues

3 mins; July 15, 2022

Choosing a new Prime Minister The first culling of candidates

3 mins; July 14, 2022

Choosing a new Prime Minister. The game's afoot.

42 secs; July 13, 2022

The end of an era. Boris Johnson departs. Or does he?

7 mins; July 13, 2022

Wimbledon 2022 Day 14 The men's singles final. Djokovic v Kyrgios

5 mins; July 10, 2022

Wimbledon 2022 Day 13 Ons Jabeur and Elinor Rybakia compete for the Singles title

5 mins; July 09, 2022

Jonathan Levitt, Chess Grandmaster talks to TudoRama about chess, humour, and gambling.

23 mins; July 09, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Day 12 Semifinal Norrie v Djokovic

3 mins; July 08, 2022

What makes a good idea, and what you should do immediately to turn it into action.

59 secs; July 08, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Day 11 Ladies’ Semi-finals, and the Wagababies

3 mins; July 07, 2022

Boris bows out. The last days of the Premiership of Boris Johnson

9 mins; July 07, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Day 10 Semifinals. Nadal and Kyrgios

2 mins; July 06, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Mid-Tournament review

9 mins; July 06, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Day 9 Cameron Norrie and the Gods of tennis

3 mins; July 05, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Day 8. Nadal and Kyrgios head for the quarterfinals

4 mins; July 04, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Day 7 Middle Sunday

3 mins; July 03, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Day 6. Middle Saturday. Bad boy Kyrgios beats Tsitsipas

4 mins; July 02, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Day 5 Jamie and Venus give a masterclass in mixed doubles

5 mins; July 01, 2022

Wimbledon 2022 Day 4 The Brits bite back

4 mins; June 30, 2022

Wimbledon 2022. Day 1 The magic begins

2 mins; June 30, 2022

Wimbledon 2022 Day 3 Emma and Andy bow out

3 mins; June 29, 2022

Wimbledon 2022 Day 2. Serena and Nadal

5 mins; June 28, 2022

You can't be serious

5 mins; June 27, 2022

The overturning of the Roe Wade Abortion ruling drags the United States back to their earlier battles over human rights.

2 mins; June 25, 2022

Contemplating Comedy

7 mins; June 22, 2022

Has Google created a sentient chatbot? The silence of the LaMDA

5 mins; June 16, 2022

Sue Barker quits the BBC to join dynamic young organisation TudoRama

3 mins; June 12, 2022

Haydn James. A life in music and rugby

21 mins; June 10, 2022

Boris, me and the BBC. The Confidence Vote, June 2022

10 mins; June 09, 2022

SATS. Are school tests hindering the creative development of pupils?

13 mins; June 06, 2022

The Street Party

9 mins; May 29, 2022

'We have to act' President Biden

6 mins; May 25, 2022

Everyday creativity. The man who wrote eight thousand film reviews

12 mins; May 21, 2022

The Wagatha Christie trial as it came to me in a dream

10 mins; May 16, 2022

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