In this bonus episode Adam summarises the key themes and learnings across all the guests from the first season, to make it useful and usable for you.He breaks his conclusions into five sections: 1. The Cost of Dull and the Value of Interesting

Episode 12: Giving up the gold (with Nick Reed)

Dec 5th, 2023 1h 8m

Named ‘one of the most 10 influential Brits in Hollywood’ by The Sunday Times, Nick Reed has been a successful Hollywood agent, won an Oscar for a documentary called ‘The Lady in Number 6’, and co-founded the most successful viral content compa

Episode 11: The third American art form (with Russell Davies)

Nov 28th, 2023 16m 38s

Powerpoint has become the poster child of Dull – can even this most maligned of mediums really be a tool to be more interesting? Russell Davies not only believes it can, but that it’s the third American art form, along with jazz and hip hop – b

Episode 10: Making the magic more probable (with Russell Davies)

Nov 20th, 2023 44m 24s

One of the most stimulating speakers in brands and communications, Russell has been thinking about what it means to be interesting for over 20 years. In his new book Do Interesting – Notice. Collect. Share. Russell has codified the practice he’

Episode 9: Lashing the world with story (with John Yorke)

Nov 14th, 2023 42m 34s

While storytelling isn’t the automatic answer to every kind of ‘dull’, if we’re going to learn how to tell more interesting stories we should learn from the best. John Yorke founded the BBC Studio Writer’s Academy after a career that included b

Episode 8: The interesting Squiggle and the long ‘Aha’ (with Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis)

Nov 7th, 2023 47m 47s

The Squiggly Careers podcast has been hugely influential and useful for anyone interested in Career Development community. In this episode I talk to Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper, the brilliant pair behind the podcast, the two bestselling books

Episode 7: Two thousand years more interesting (with Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson)

Oct 31st, 2023 50m 25s

In this episode we talk to Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Professor of Classics Education and Public Policy at Durham University, about her fierce belief in the enduring relevance of classical rhetoric to today’s world, and why its value in

Episode 6: How to win a peacock show (with Gemma Parkinson)

Oct 23rd, 2023 57m 18s

This is a podcast for people who can’t afford to bore their audience. And in this episode we talk to Gemma Parkinson, a Global Marketing and Business Director at Moet Hennessy, about how to elevate a presentation into an irresistible performanc

Episode 5: On Saturn it’s raining diamonds (with Addison Brown)

Oct 16th, 2023 38m 15s

How can we be interesting enough to stick in our audiences’ long-term memory? In this episode, Adam speaks to Addison Brown, the science teacher who was the star of a recent Department for Education recruitment film. They discuss the four key p

Episode 4: The secret of Elmo’s success (with Norman Stiles)

Oct 9th, 2023 54m 55s

In this episode, Adam talks with Norman Stiles, for 20 years the Head Writer on Sesame Street, about the pioneering pairing of entertainers and educators that changed the educational life of a generation. And how success lay in a very simple am

Episode 3: Who Are You Really? (with Ross Buchanan)

Oct 2nd, 2023 36m 15s

In this episode, Adam talks to national radio presenter Ross Buchanan (Absolute Radio, Radio X) about what it takes to be interesting for four hours with an audience you never actually see. How much is it about being more interesting in what yo

Episode 2: Why Your Dog is a Better Producer Than You (with Maz Farrelly)

Sep 25th, 2023 43m 10s

In this episode, Adam speaks to reality TV producer Maz Farrelly. Maz has made some of the biggest shows on 3 continents, including Britain’s Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars, Big Brother and Celebrity Apprentice – interviewing 12,000 hopeful

Episode 1: The Cost of Dull in Business (with Peter Field)

Sep 25th, 2023 25m 2s

In this opening episode, Adam discusses a new analysis that reveals the real financial cost to a business of being dull with Marketing Effectiveness expert Peter Field. Exactly how much more expensive is it to run dull communications than engag

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Trailer: Let's Make This More Interesting

Sep 17th, 2023 1m 38s

** EPISODES 1 & 2 - TUESDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER **Do you have moments in your business or personal life when you simply can’t afford to bore your audience? What can we do to hold their undivided attention when it really matters? To find out, Adam Mo

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