On this edition of the podcast we chat to Paul Harris, Asia Pacific Director for Rolls-Royce Motorcars about his passion for automobiles from a young age, the importance of personalisation for luxury brands and the possibility of a fully electric Rolls Royce in the not too distant future. Unfortunately he wouldn’t spill all the beans on some of the interesting and often bizarre customisation requests the company gets from its well-heeled clientele - much to mine and Andrew’s disappointment!

Find out more about Paul

Listen: Desert Island Discs (series)

Listen: Kathy Burke on Desert Island Discs

Read: Bill Bryson, The Road To Little Dribbling

Watch: Afterlife on Netflix

We chat to Debra about the merging of media, retail and entertainment in the fashion industry, ‘squad shopping’, the complexities of sustainability in the sector and Andrew tries to pitch his own fashion label!

Find out more about Debra

Watch: My Octopus Teacher

Read: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution, Jennifer A Doudna & Samuel H Sternberg

Listen: Scott Galloway

Sarah Cragg

Today’s chinwag is with the fabulous Sarah Cragg, where we talk about sustainability and why businesses have to be better, why everyone loves David Attenborough and we learn some insider facts about ice cream!

Find out more about Sarah

LISTEN:

The Angry Clean Energy Guy with Assad Razzouk

https://theangrycleanenergyguy.com/

WATCH:

Anything with David Attenborough in it!

https://www.bing.com/k/celebrities/david-attenborough/timeline

READ

The Future We Choose: A Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis

by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-We-Choose-Surviving-Climate/dp/1838770828/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Q55EJXYT0GDK&dchild=1&keywords=the+future+we+choose&qid=1612064784&sprefix=The+future+we+choose%2Cinstant-video%2C298&sr=8-1

Tis the season to be jolly, and to mark all things festive we have a chinwag over wine, steaks and calvados with some of our favourite people – Hattie Trounce, Freddie Heygate and Luc Delauzun – about the hot topics of 2020. Expect chat about sex dolls, the Olympics, COVID hobbies, Carol Baskin and much more. Our Christmas gift to you! 

Its a pre-election special!

We have a pre-US election chinwag with BBC US West Coast correspondent and ‘our man in LA’ David Willis about (inevitably) Trump and his crazy ways, how Americans are battening down the hatches in readiness for a post-election results kick-off and why one of America’s most popular sitcoms cannot be mentioned on the Beeb….

Find out more about David

Watch: Schitts Creek

Read: Fear by Bob Woodward

Listen to: Aha, Take on Me (and watch the documentary about the making of the music video)

We share a few laughs with standup comedian Sam See, and hear how he’s all in with Twitch, he enlightens us about the Singapore stand up scene, and tells us just how hard its been for him and comics like him to perform standup without a live audience.

Find out more about Sam

Watch: Sam's Red Dot Wrestling shows

Read: about the Pagliaci joke on Wikipedia

Listen: Jim Jeffries I Don’t Know About That podcast

Get: Sam's hilarious standup comedy special, Coming out Loud

Subscribe: to Sam's Twitch

We have a ramble with Asia M&A expert Hattie Marsden from SI Partners about the M&A activity in the creative sector, building a resilient businesses and the importance of great people and strong corporate culture as USPs if you’re looking to sell. 

Find out more about Hattie

Watch: Million Dollar Beach House

Listen: Doughnut Economics audiobook by Kate Raworth

Read: The Four by Scott Galloway

Find out more about SI Partners

We chat to Liz (no not THAT Liz Taylor!) about how to best present yourself online, the benefits of getting your LinkedIn profile just right and receiving post (and a limo!) meant for her Hollywood namesake!

Find out more about Liz

Watch: Line of Duty

Listen: Case File podcast

Read: Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris