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Our Featured Episodes
Episode 21 - Tech for Good: inside Cambridge Wide Open Day at St. John's Innovation Centre
🎉Celebrate #CWOD with the St John's Innovation Centre Ltd team, as well as Cambridge Online, Sustainable Tech 4 Good and The Centre For Computing History.
🫱🏼🫲🏼 Meet the SJIC team and discover how they support their community and tenants and meet both on-site and virtual tenants and find out why they enjoy working at SJIC and how it supports their businesses.
👾 Step inside The Centre For Computing History to check out what goes on over there and explore their superb range of retro tech!
🗣️ Watch or listen to the 'best bits' of one of the fascinating panels; Tech for Good: Past Lessons; Future Choices, exploring how historical insight can inform more responsible innovation today - featuring, Gareth Marlow, Jason Mashinchi, Martin Rigby, Katherine Gobey and Nadirah Hussein.
🎥🎤🎞️✂️Project Cambridge Crew: Jen Richardson, Martyn Brearley, Alex Geoghegan & Henry Field
Episode 20 - Lab Envy! Take a Peek Inside the Brand New Merlin Place with Kadans
Yo! Fancy a 5-minute coffee break with us? ☕
We're backatcha with a 'coffee break size' episode and this one is all about Merlin Place - brought to you by Kadans Science Partner.
It's time for the SOUND UP🔊🎵🎤 You've heard of the 'lab rat', but we're bringing you the LAB RAP 😎
Take a sneaky look behind the doors as we enjoy a tour with Katie Nelson and Will Fogden 🙌🏻
...it comes with some quirky features for its tenants and visitors - and you cyclists are particularly gonna love it! 🚲🔐🚿
Episode 17 - Grounded by Gusts, Fueled by Coffee at Arthur Rank Hospice with the Skydive Crew
On Sunday 12th April 2026, we were supposed to be jumping out of a plane!
But the weather had other ideas, so we sadly had to postpone our jump. 🪂😞 However - when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade! 🍋 So instead, 10 of our skydivers, along with their families, gathered at Arthur Rank Hospice Charity to film this video....
Interviews include; Charlotte Horobin, Pippa Heylings, Sharon Allen OBE, Cheney Payne and Frankie Richardson (Jen's Mum)!
Join us on a tour around the hospice, demonstrating their superb work and how your donations support the hospice.
Special thanks to 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 for production🙏🏻
Episode 15 - Tea & Biscuits with David Cleevely CBE (and his dog) - Part Two
This production is a two-parter featuring David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET.
Part Two explores why 'networks' are so vital; David co-founded Cambridge Wireless and Cambridge Network. 🫱🏼🫲🏼
We also delve into David's work with Cambridge Science Centre and Raspberry Pi Foundation and discover why its so important to make accessible for everyone
David's entrepreneurship extends beyond technology. Did you know that he also co-founded an award-winning restaurant?
This is another jam-packed episode, complete with advice for budding entrepreneurs from the man himself.
And of course, more from Munslow the dog. 🐕
𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿: Henry Field
Episode 14 - Tea & Biscuits with David Cleevely CBE (and his dog) - Part One
This production is a two-parter featuring David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET.
𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟭𝟰 - 𝗧𝗲𝗮 & 𝗕𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗕𝗘 (𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗴) - 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗢𝗻𝗲
In this first part, Jen steps inside David's beautiful Cambridge home and has an in depth chat with him about childhood and growing up into early adulthood.
We discover how David's curiosity for worms and bees played a crucial part in introducing him to both Science and Entrepreneurship. 🪱🐝
We also find out what David used to get up to as a teenager on Richmond Park and how Serendipity, the title of his book, is woven into so much of his early life. 🚀🪁💥
We also chat to David about his education and early career and find out what brought him to Cambridge and crucially, what kept him here.
And yes, we meet David's beautiful dog. 🐕
Episode 13 - Mashup - Featuring Arthur Rank Hospice Update, Women4Technology & North Cambridge Academy
This episode is a '𝘾𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙜𝙖-𝙈𝙞𝙭 𝙏𝙖𝙥𝙚' and we mix in the following: An 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 interview with Sharon Allen OBE filmed on location at Arthur Rank Hospice.
Also, we mix in a recent interview about the skydive featuring the awesome Pippa Heylings, MP. 🪂
We also take a trip down the M11 to the Mills & Reeve London office for the 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝟰𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵, featuring exclusive interviews with legendary #W4T Founder and St John's Innovation Centre Ltd NED, Ann Fisher and we also hear from Deborah Dawson & Zickie Lim from M&R as well as Oli Barrett from The SuperScalers. 🌆
To complete the 'set', we then crossfade into Jen's visit to North Cambridge Academy, volunteering with Form the Future. Jen checks out what it's really like inside the school and we also backspin to Episode 11 and revisit Innovate Cambridge's Dr Kathryn Chapman's interview with us and look at why there is such a focus on the school. 🏫
Episode 12 - Form The Future Annual Conference - The Next Generation Behind The Lens
If you didn't get to attend the Form the Future CIC annual conference at the end of January (or even if you 𝘥𝘪𝘥), here is your chance to see the day in film.
Here's our unique video, captured by work experience students from Cambridge Regional College and Long Road Sixth Form College; 18-year-old Drew Richardson-Tofield and 17-year-old Lauren Smith.
Along with Jen Richardson, they film the speakers in action, as well as shoot exclusive interviews with Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig FRSA, Pippa Heylings, Philip Colligan CBE, Andrea Wood MBE, Anne Bailey, Steve Thompson, RMike Rigby, Ayeisha Kone-Massouma and many others.
"𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨!"
Episode 11 - Innovation With Purpose: Dr Kathryn Chapman on Inclusion & Impact in Cambridge
We're super excited to welcome Dr Kathryn Chapman, Executive Director of Innovate Cambridge to the rebranded 'The Project Cambridge Show'. A molecular Bioscientist by training, Kathryn was appointed to amplify Cambridge's world-class innovation ecosystem. We'll take a wander through her career as well as discover what's going on in The Glasshouse and find out why YOU should give it a try!
Episode 10 - Putting the Heart into Business - Purpose Beyond Profit with Rachel Hales from Get Synergised
Rachel joins Jen for a frank, but extremely heartfelt chat about how businesses, non-profits, and public sector partners can connect better and share resources, creating social and economic value, improving lives and building a better future for all. We also discover where her motivation comes from, as she talks to us about life growing up in Cambridge. We get personal. If you've never met Rachel before; this is your chance to get to know one of the most valued and treasured people within our ecosystem.
Episode 9 - Made in Cambridge - Manufacturing the Future With Professor Tim Minshall
Tim Minshall from the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) at the University of Cambridge makes Manufacturing fun and fascinating. He's an award-winning lecturer, who is doing some wonderful work at raising awareness of manufacturing among schoolchildren and their teachers.
He also researches, writes and gives talks about manufacturing, innovation and skills, nationally and internationally.
He sits down with Jen to rewind on his life and career so far and gives his take on how Cambridge can optimise the opportunity to embrace manufacturing. We also chat through skills and education and the importance of getting more young people into this wonderful sector.
Episode 6 - The Cost of Dignity - Funding Cuts at Arthur Rank Hospice Charity with CEO, Sharon Allen OBE
Following the devastating news that Arthur Rank Hospice Charity is set to lose £829,000 of NHS funding, we're bringing CEO Sharon Allen OBE FCGI onto the podcast to talk through what this means for Cambridgeshire and how people can support.
Episode 4 - Clean Energy, Bold Leadership with Paul Beastall from HutanBio
Paul Beastall, (former) CEO of Cambridge based HutanBio, talks to Jen Richardson. It really is a fascinating account of what it takes to be a successful CEO driving a 'renewable revolution'.
Paul walks us through HutanBio's remarkable technology and also reflects upon how his experience as a parkrun Event Director here in Cambridge has equipped him with the public speaking skills that have become so vital in the role of CEO.
