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 ‘CrowdSourcery’, where folk from across the East of England - and even beyond! - choose their favourite things on a given theme to share and celebrate! You can contact Mike at podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episodes
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
To illustrate the science and R&D links that connect Norwich and Cambridge, Mike chats with Professor Gerard Parr MBE, Head of the Comuter Sciences School at the UEA, regarding the Smart Emerging Technologies Institute (SETI), which is one of the most exciting digital projects currently underway in the East.
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
The Great Eastern Promise Train Adventure finally rolls into Cambridge Station, but not before Roz Bird, CEO of Anglia Innovation Partnerships (which runs the Norwich Research Park); Belinda Clarke, Director of Agri-TechE; Fiona Lettice, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation at the University of East Anglia (UEA); and Douglass Cuff of IQHQ share their thoughts on the science and R&D links that connect Norwich and Cambridge.
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
It's a bumper crop this week, as the Great Eastern Promise Train Adventure finally rolls into Cambridge Station, but not before Roz Bird, CEO of Anglia Innovation Partnerships (which runs the Norwich Research Park); Belinda Clarke, Director of Agri-TechE; Fiona Lettice, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation at the University of East Anglia (UEA); and Douglass Cuff of IQHQ share their thoughts on the science and R&D links that connect Norwich and Cambridge.
And, to illustrate those connections, Mike chats with Professor Gerard Parr MBE, Head of the Comuter Sciences School at the UEA, regarding the Smart Emerging Technologies Institute (SETI), which is one of the most exciting digital projects currently underway in the East.
Mike also shares the latest news from the region, and shares your tales of terror, recounting the scariest places in the East of England! Oo-er!
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Mike runs down your guiltiest pleasures (which, let's be honest, aren't all that guilty) in the East of England in this week's CROWDSOURCERY!
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Mike continues his tour around the Food Enterprise Park near Honingham with a trip inside its keystone tenant, Condimentum! CEO Dave Martin takes us through the history of the plant, and how his team channels their Mint 'n Mustard Mojo!
This is the completely UNABRIDGED version with additional Dave, Mike and minty magic!
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Welcome to Episode 40 of Eastern Promise, where we once again ride the region's rails following our recent Great Train Adventure! This week, host Mike Rigby brings you or the business roundtable, featuring Norfolk Chambers of Commerce CEO Nova Fairbank, Partner at Carter Jonas Cambridge, William Rooke, and mentor and leadership expert Nigel Cushion, CEO of Nelsonspirit.
Our panel discuss the view from Cambridge, the opportunities in the relationship and the need to follow Admiral Nelson's example. Eastern Promise's guests on the journey are having a lot of fun, so its a noisy train but you should hear the panel just fine.
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Welcome to Episode 40 of Eastern Promise, where we once again ride the region's rails following our recent Great Train Adventure! This week, host Mike Rigby brings you or the business roundtable, featuring Norfolk Chambers of Commerce CEO Nova Fairbank, Partner at Carter Jonas Cambridge, William Rooke, and mentor and leadership expert Nigel Cushion, CEO of Nelsonspirit.
Then, as if that wasn't enough, we follow up last week's trip around the Food Enterprise Park near Honingham with a trip inside its keystone tenant, Condimentum! CEO Dave Martin takes us through the history of the plant, and how his team channels their Mint 'n Mustard Mojo!
And finally, Mike runs down your guiltiest pleasures (which aren't that guilty!) in the East of England in this week's CROWDSOURCERY!
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Your top tips for a night out in the East of England will come in VERY handy this weekend, with Beer, Jazz, LBGTQ+ cabaret and all manner of high-end eateries all awaiting you. What's not to love!?
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
To celebrate Eastern Promise's first anniversary, we take to the rails for a panel interview with Jonathan Denby, Head of Corporate Affairs at Greater Anglia, Andrew Summers, Strategic Director at Transport East, and Andrew Holdsworth, Assistant Director of Development & Growth at Breckland Council...ON A MOVING TRAIN!
We discuss the future of the line, the stations and towns on the route, how we can unlock improvements and the opportunities that can flow from that unlocking.... (Part 1 of 3)
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
The agri-food sector is worth an estimated £110 BILLION, yet so much added value earns money outside our region for processors based in other parts of our country or overseas.
To change this, the vision of a Food Enterprise Park at Honingham is now a reality.
We join agri-futurist extraordinaire, Clarke Willis MBE, who takes us on a tour of the Food Enterprise Park and shares his encyclopaedic knowledge of the sector.
This is the full version of the interview. A shorter version is included in the omnibus edition (episode 39).
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.