Eastern Promise - The Podcast

Episode 105: Adam Goymour & The ROARR! Dinosaur Park

This Week: Just in time for the school holidays! I take a trip back in time, to The ROARR! Dinosaur Adventure Park at Lenwade near Norwich to meet Adam Goymour, Park Director and scion of the Goymour family.  I'll be chatting with Adam about the park, his family's legacy, the Norfolk tourism sector, and just where d'you get dinosaurs from anyway?!  We'll also be taking a trip along the Valley of the Dinosaurs, giving you a flavour of the park.  If you're interested in dinosaurs, tourism, how to keep your children entertained over the summer, or all of the above (guilty!) then it's a must-listen.  
To find out more about the ROARR! Dinosaur Adventure Park, click here.
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Episode 104: "Delivering an International Rail Terminal for Peterborough" (A UKREiiF Special)

This Week: We return to Leeds and UKREiiF 2024, so no need to check the map!
With the help of our friends at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, Eastern Promise is proud to bring you the second panel held at UKREiiF and chaired by our host and executive producer, Mike Rigby. Along with Al Kingsley, Chair of the CPCA business board; Chief Executive of Peterborough City Council Matthew Gladstone, Richard Bickers of ARUP and Judith Barker, Executive Diurector of Place and Connectivity at the Combined Authority, we explore this concept and what it could mean for our region's second largest city: Peterborough.
Join us to find out!
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Episode 103: "How to develop the Cambridge phenomenon with community at its heart" (A UKREiiF Special)

This Week: Eastern Promise comes to you live(ish) from the 2024 UK Real Estate, Investment and Infrastructure Forum (UKREiiF) and the Team Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Pavillion for the Combined Authority's inaugural panel event: "How can we develop the Cambridge phenomenon with community at its heart?"   
Our own Mike Rigby chairs an all-star panel, consisting of: Chair of the UK Innovation Corridor, Jackie Sadek; Chair of Homes England and the Cambridge Delivery Group, Peter Freeman; and Leader of Cambridge City Council, Cllr Mike Davey.  Incisive and informed debate is guaranteed, as are first rate questions from the packed audience.   
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CROWDSOURCERY! The Royal Norfolk Show 2024...

This Week: We asked YOU what you're looking forward to at this year's Royal Norfolk Show - the UK's premier two-day agricultural show - and you did NOT disappoint.
So many recommendations, we'll still be there on Friday 28th!  So many people to meet and so much we need to squeeze in! Thank you to all who contributed and everyone stay safe in the sun tomorrow (26/6/24).
Oh, and to all our friends elsewhere in the East of England, we'll be asking you for recommendations for Cambridge Tech Week next, you mark my words!
 
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Episode 102: Norwich's indie game creatives, w. Kate Killick & Ellie Eady

This Week: Executive Producer and self-confessed Amiga fan Mike Rigby was thrilled to meet BAFTA-winning game designer, and CEO and Creative Lead at Glowfrog Games, Kate Killick, along with Game Artist Ellie Eady, to discuss the thriving Norwich indie gaming scene.  
 
What makes the scene so special, how does the creative process for games work (which comes first, look or gameplay?) and what would make the Norwich gaming sector even more of a creative hub than it is already?  
 
Find out by taking a listen!  And if you want to weigh in, do get in touch by DM to Mike Rigby via LinkedIn, or by email to: podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.  
 
You can check out Glowfrog Games here!
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CROWDSOURCERY! The East Is Blowing Our Minds...

This week, we look at how and when the East of England last blew your mind!  Plus our first contributor in their own voice!  Get in touch by LinkedIn DM or via email: podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.  
Find out more about the University of East Anglia's advancements in 3D-printing that could revolutionise the treatment of cataracts, here
And! Listen to Dave Graham on the Blooming Late Scientists podcast here.
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Episode 101: The Rising Network & Cambridge Wide Open Day (Part II)

This Week: It's another packed edition this week, as we look back at Cambridge Wide Open Day 2024, and ahead to The Rising Festival this September.  
I'm joined by Lily Cheng, founder of The Rising Network and creator of The Rising Festival.  We'll be chatting about the genesis of the network and we'll preview the forthcoming festival along with two of the event's highly distinguished panel moderators, Mary Hockaday and Professor Dame Carol Black.  
 
Then! Join me on the 6th floor of Botanic House as I meet some of the businesses exhibiting for Cambridge Wide Open Day, from contracting AI to an unbelievably accurate speech-to-text engine, lab equipment, chemical processes, analysis and lightweight circuits on plastic. Yes, it's a packed episode but why wait?!
 
That's all on episode 101 of...Eastern Promise!
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Episode 100 - Prashant Shah on Cambridge Wide Open Day 2024; & the Tech East/Aviva Fintech Hackathon

This Week: Episode 100 arrives at last, and WHAT a bumper show we have for you!
 
First, recorded at UKREiiF 2024, O2H Co-founder Prashant Shah previews Cambridge Wide Open Day and tells us more about O2H before we're joined by special surprise guest, Dr Andy Williams, Chair of the Oxford Cambridge Supercluster Board.   Find out more about Cambridge Wide Open Day here: https://cambridgewideopenday.com 
 
Then! We dip into the Aviva/Tech East Fintech Hackathon to hear some snippets of the pitches, get the results and chat to the teams and judges.  It confirms the city's fintech sector is good to grow!
 
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Episode 99: St George's Guildhall, King's Lynn - Shakespeare Woz 'Ere!

This week: We journey to King's Lynn in West Norfolk to see the Bard's Boards - the very stage upon which Shakespeare performed, recently discovered under the floor of St George's Guildhall in the town.
 
We'll also be discussing how the Guildhall is the centrepiece of the £25m Town Deal project, and taking to the streets of King's Lynn to find out more about the town, visiting historic streets and buildings, and hearing some incredible tall tales about the history of the town.
 
Host Mike Rigby chats to Councillors Alistair Beales and Simon Ring, now Leader and Deputy Leader of the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk*; interim Chair of the Town Deal Board, Vicky Etheridge; and Creative Director of St George's Guildhall, cultural officer at the Borough Council - as well as an actor and comedian - Tim Fitzhigham to find out the amazing history that's not just underpinning Norfolk's largest town, it's setting the stage for its future renaissance.  
* Cllrs Beales and Ring were Cabinet Members for Business and Culture respectively at the time of recording. 
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Episode 98: How Guilden Mordern saved 'The Three Tuns' pub, w. help from Plunkett UK & the Cambs & Peterborough CA

This Week: We journey out to the magnificent public house in Guilden Mordern, near Royston in Cambs to visit 'The Three Tuns', a magnificent pub that is in community hands thanks to the efforts of some very dedicated residents, along with help from Plunkett UK and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.  We're joined at the pub by CPCA Mayor, Dr Nik Johnson and Susie Middleton of Plunkett UK, alongside representative of the community John Harrison to hear the tale of the Three Tuns unfold...
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