Eastern Promise - The Podcast
‘Eastern Promise‘ explores the full potential of the East of England. We talk to experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, disrupters and more, finding out why the Eastern region is the best place in the UK to start, run and grow a business. From architecture to zoology, every business has a place here, with Mike Rigby as your guide on this audio journey, celebrating and promoting our region. Eastern Promise also features the Plug Board; where a panel of three get to plug their own business, event or project in exchange for giving a plug to someone else in return. And there‘s also a bit of lighthearted audience participation in ‘Challenge: Anglia‘: where Mike reads out your answers to the lukewarm question of the hour... You can contact Mike at host@easternpromise.site.
Episodes
Friday Mar 08, 2024
CROWDSOURCERY! Weekends Away...
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
We look at your recommendations for a weekend away. So grab your toothbrush, drop your kids off with your ma & pa, and follow these top recommendations in another royally righteous CROWDSOURCERY!
To find out more, visit https://easternpromise.org.uk
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Episode 90: Skills Panel @The Norwich Food Science Supercluster Summit (1/5)
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
We're back! After a hiatus to prepare for the Eastern Promise event - 'The Norwich Food Science Supercluster' summit - the East of England's premier podcast pops up yet again, brining you the first part of that self-same summit!
We'll hear from Prof Ian Charles OBE, Director of the Quadram Institute and George Freeman MP, Mid Norfolk's Member of Parliament and a former science minister. We then join Prof. David Maguire, Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Nova Fairbank, CEO of the Norfolk Chambers of Commerce, Dr Catherine Richards, Principal of East Norfolk Sixth Form College, and Mark Nicholas MBE DL, Managing Director of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association, to discuss how Norwich and Norfolk secure the skills a food science supercluster requires. It's made the show longer than normal, so apologies there...
And finally! We look at your recommendations for a weekend away. So grab your toothbrush, drop your kids off with your ma & pa, and follow these top recommendations in another royally righteous CROWDSOURCERY!
Friday Feb 02, 2024
CROWDSOURCERY! Parks & Gardens...
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
This Week: We profile your favourite parks and gardens in the East of England, bizarrely with a decidedly Gallic flair? Well, they ARE chosen by you!
Yes, it all got rather silly but that's CROWDSOURCERY!
For more information go to: https://easternpromise.org.uk.
Thank you to our sponsor, Mills & Reeve.
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Episode 89: Norwich Research Park & the Technician Commitment
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
This Week: We join the unsung heroes of science: technicians and other professionals without whom scientific research would be impossible. We also have some of the keynote speech from Norfolk's own science superstar, Prof. Ben Garrod!
And finally, we profile your favourite parks and gardens in the East of England, bizarrely with a decidedly Gallic flair? Well, they ARE chosen by you! Yes, it all got rather silly...
Thank you to Andrew Stronach, Dr Penny Hundleby, Saskia Hervey, Jim Lipscombe, Lizzie Meadows, and Lewis Hollingsworth.
For more information go to: https://easternpromise.org.uk
Thank you to our sponsor, Mills & Reeve.
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
CALLING OUR AMERICAN LISTENERS!
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
A shout out to our American listeners - Thank you for your support in 2023 and please do get in touch! We want to know why you're listening and who you are. Thank you for your support in 2023.
Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
CROWDSOURCERY! Historic Streets...
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
This Week: We find out whither you wander as we set off to tread our region's most historic streets for another CROWDSOURCERY!
Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve.
Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Episode 88: Tristan Fischer of Fischer Farms
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
This Week: In an episode that couldn't be more timely, Mike Rigby talks to Tristan Fischer of Fischer Farms - a vertical farm just outside Norwich - about his philosophy, why a Lichfield-based organisation came to Norwich, and what the potential for Controlled Environment Agriculture to aid plant scientists at the Norwich Research Park and beyond.
Also this week, we honour our American audience, whose listening figures eclipsed every audience in the world except England - that's right bigger than Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland!
And finally, we find out whither you wander as we set off to tread our region's most historic streets for another CROWDSOURCERY!
Eastern Promise is proud to be supported by Mills & Reeve.
Find out more at: https://easternpromise.org.uk
Friday Jan 19, 2024
CROWDSOURCERY! Milestones...
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
This Week: And finally: We list your major milestones for the year ahead and Mike Rigby goes to barely credible lengths to hide his lack of material...
Find out more about Eastern Promise at https://easternpromise.org.uk
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Episode 87: Clarice Benney & Connect Health-Tech
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
This Week: I talk to Clarice Benney of Connect Health Tech about this ground-breaking collaborative community at the nexus of tech and medicine, as well as sakuting the winners of the 2023 Connect Health Tech Community Awards!
Find out more here; https://connect.cam.ac.uk/health-tech
And finally: We list your major milestones for the year ahead and Mike Rigby goes to barely credible lengths to hide his lack of material...
Find out more about Eastern Promise at https://easternpromise.org.uk
Friday Jan 12, 2024
CROWDSOURCERY! What We’re Excited For In 2024...
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
This Week: We delve into your big plans for 2024 and find out what's got you salivatin', despite the waitin'! Yes, that's all on the first 2024 CROWDSOURCERY!
For more information, go to https://easternpromise.org.uk
Welcome to Eastern Promise
Eastern Promise is the podcast that explores the full potential of the East of England. We showcase that potential, celebrate it and share it with you, our listener.
From architecture to zoology, your host Mike Rigby takes you on a tour of the region, finding out things you din't know you didn't know and surprising you as to the scale of fantastic stuff that's happening under our noses.
Photo, left: Mike and Engineer 49 record a Plug Board episode at the boardroom at the EpiCentre in Haverhill, Suffolk.