Say That Again Slowly is a series of student led podcasts that explore topics and research presented at the Cambridge Festival.

The Festival delivers strong and distinct platforms for the sciences and the arts, humanities and social sciences. In 2022 it includes a uniquely Cambridge, eclectic mixture of over 350 events and activities: from panel discussions, film premieres, and self-guided walking tours, to ‘try this at home’ activities for the whole family. 

Topics cover the breadth of Cambridge research and will be presented across the Festival’s four themes: Society, Health, Environment and Discovery!

The University’s Public Engagement team brings the Cambridge Festival to you. To find out about their other events such as Open Cambridge, and their training and development programme for researchers, please visit 

cam.ac.uk/public-engagement

Music by Coby O’Brien 
Produced by Rebekah King

Cambridge Festival

In this episode, the presenters, Zen Buddhist monk Brother Phap Huu and lay practitioner and journalist Jo Confino, are joined by special guest, entrepreneur and author Lindsay Levin, to discuss wise leadership and new ways of creating change and harmony in turbulent times. 

“Serial entrepreneur” Lindsay Levin founded Leaders’ Quest in 2001 as her “last startup”, to help leaders and companies align profit with purpose. Her work explores collective humanity through vulnerability and listening. She also launched the Leaders’ Quest Foundation to build leadership capacity in grassroots communities. 
Her passion for finding common ground between diverse perspectives and opposing voices prompted her to co-lead the launch of the alliance Future Stewards, after the Paris Climate Agreement. Her book, Invisible Giants: Changing the World One Step at a Time (2013), is a celebration of the everyday heroes who have inspired her to ask tough questions, and to strive to be the change she wants to see in the world.

Together, all three also talk about: the balance between urgency and patience; purpose; polarisation; and becoming agents of change. And: at a planetary level, how do we know when to slow down and when to speed up? 

Lindsay Levin further shares her relationship with the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village community, and about: working with leaders; dealing with competing interests and egos; spiritual values in the business world; self-awareness; tolerance in the climate movement; listening to others’ lives and widening circles of compassion; responsibility; the gap between cleverness and wisdom; ‘quests’; collective and individual development; planetary well-being; and honouring anger and grief. 

Brother Phap Huu talks about his own experience of dealing with disagreements in the community as abbot of Upper Hamlet, and shares stories about Thich Nhat Hanh as a leader. He also delves into the importance of listening in leadership; applying Buddhist teachings into daily life; bringing together conflicting parties; discriminative mindsets; inclusiveness; adapting to change; avoiding burnout; nourishing compassion; learning to be in stillness; and not postponing ‘simple opportunities’.

Jo shares the story of a company which lost its way after taking the space to create and reflect away from its staff. He delves into the pressure of short-termism; Indigenous insight into decision-making; and being observers of our own selves. And: is time money? 

All three share the simple routines they use to nourish themselves in what they do.

The episode ends with a short meditation on gratefulness, guided by Brother Phap Huu.

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The podcast is co-produced by the Plum Village App:
https://plumvillage.app/
And Global Optimism:
https://globaloptimism.com/
With support from the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation: 
https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/ 
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Resources:

Plum Village Community ➛ https://plumvillage.org/
Thich Nhat Hanh ➛ https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/
🎙️ Lindsay Levin ➛ https://futurestewards.com/team/lindsay-levin/ 
🎙️ Brother Phap Huu ➛  https://plumvillage.org/people/dharma-teachers/br-phap-huu/
🎙️ Jo Confino ➛  https://www.instagram.com/joconfino/?hl=en

Leaders’ Quest ➛ https://leadersquest.org/ 
Future Stewards ➛ https://futurestewards.com/ 
‘Please Call Me by My True Names’ (song and poem) ➛ https://plumvillage.org/articles/please-call-me-by-my-true-names-song-poem/ 
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet ➛ https://www.parallax.org/product/zen-and-the-art-of-saving-the-planet/ 
Trần dynasty ➛ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_dynasty
Lý dynasty ➛ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BD_dynasty
Sister Chan Khong ➛ https://plumvillage.org/about/sister-chan-khong/ 
The Great Acceleration ➛ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Acceleration 
Moore’s law ➛ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
The TED Countdown Summit ➛ https://countdown.ted.com/events-in-2021

Wise Leadership | The Way Out Is In podcast | Episode #17

Animals in Biomedical Research: Replacement, Refinement, Reduction - with Selina Ballantyne  

Will we ever be able to stop using animals in the laboratory? 

This episode, Rebekah King talks to Selina Ballantyne about the ways in which animal testing is being replaced, refined, and reduced such that good science and good animal welfare can go hand in hand.  

Find out more at the Cambridge Festival 2022 https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/3rs-animals-biomedical-research 
 
Coby O'Brien  - Music
Produced by Rebekah King

https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/3rs-animals-biomedical-research

Animals in Biomedical Research: Replacement, Refinement, Reduction - with Selina Ballantyne

Recipes for Saving the Planet – with Dana Ellis Hunnes 

What can students do to help the planet?  

Sophie Carlin speaks to nutritionist and climate change expert Dana Ellis Hunnes about her new book Recipes for Survival: What You Can Do to Live a Healthier and More Environmentally Friendly Life and gets the best advice for students who want to make a difference to the planet’s health.

A big thank you to CUP Bookshop  for their support of this event and recording.
  
Find out more at the Cambridge Festival 2022 https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/recipe-survival-how-our-shopping-decisions-affect-planet 

You can complete the survey mentioned in this episode here: 

https://s.surveyplanet.com/67a7k51o

Music by Coby O’Brien 
Produced by Rebekah King

Recipes for Saving the Planet – with Dana Ellis Hunnes

Counter Speech and Online Harm – with Stefanie Ullmann 

What is ‘counter speech’ and is it a more powerful alternative to censorship? 

Scarlett Croft talks to Stefanie Ullmann about her research into harmful online content and strategies for combatting prejudice and hate. Scarlett also asks about how automated systems like Siri and Alexa should be programmed to respond when spoken to in an aggressive or sexist manner.  

Music by Coby O’Brien 
Produced by Rebekah King 

Find out more at the Cambridge Festival 2022: 

https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/combatting-harmful-content-online-potential-counterspeech

Counter Speech and Online Harm – with Stefanie Ullmann

Body Image for Young People – with Charlotte Markey 

How can young people improve their body image in an age of social media? 

Jesimiel Akinsuyi speaks to Charlotte Markey, author of both the ‘Body Image Book for Girls’ and the ‘Body Image Book for Boys,’ about her motivations for writing both books, what body image means, and how it is affected by social media.   

Music by Coby O’Brien
Produced by Rebekah King

Find out more at the Cambridge Festival 2022: 

https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/navigating-adolescence-21st-century and https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/being-you-charlotte-markey

Body Image for Young People – with Charlotte Markey

There is No Planet B – with Mike Berners-Lee 

What mindset should we have about the global climate crisis?  

Sophie Carlin speaks to expert in carbon footprinting, Mike Berners-Lee, about the new updated version of his book ‘There is No Planet B’ about climate change, cooperation, and the possibility of not only saving the world, but building a far better, brighter future for all.

Mike Berners-Lee featured at the 2021 Cambridge Festival.

Check out the environment events taking place in 2022 here:

https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/

Music by Coby O’Brien
Produced by Rebekah King

There is No Planet B – with Mike Berners-Lee

The Big Bang, Time Travel, and Black Holes – with Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes  

Is time travel possible? What does a black hole actually do to light? What does ‘galactic cannibalism’ mean?  

Honour de Pledge speaks to Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes, authors of ‘A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos’ and ‘The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)’ about a tiny, simple, easily explainable topic...how the universe works!  

This episode is supported by the Cambridge University Press Bookshop.

Music by Coby O’Brien
Produced by Rebekah King

Delve further into space in our Discovery themed events at the Cambridge Festival.

https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/

The Big Bang, Time Travel, and Black Holes – with Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes

Sally Waits

Forget About It, Al

i do not own this piano cover
all rights belong to The Piano Kings on Youtube

Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones - I Got You (Unplugged Piano Interpretation) by the piano kings

El percusionista californiano Louie Beltrán nos presentó este año 2011 su disco Paint the rhythm, una cuidada selección de buenos temas en los que alegría de lo latino prevalece, al igual que su excelente gusto por los solos de percusión. Resaltamos, además del single que da nombre a la producción, esta versión latina del clásico del Santana, Black magic woman....... Porque la música es nuestra pasión...

Expresión Latina Radio, sólo lo mejor !
---- Estamos al aire las 24 horas ----
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Louie Cruz Beltran - Black magic woman

Salm: Volume One, from which this track is taken, documents a form of religious singing practiced in Lewis, a form that reaches back to a time when the congregation could not be expected to be able to read. Instead, a ‘precentor’ leads the singing, which the congregation then follow by listening. The result is a surging sound, that swoops and falls around the church spaces as people follow those next to them, voices moving like the murmurations of birds. These recordings of Gaelic psalm singing are among the best ever captured, sung by one of the largest congregations to have ever been recorded.  

This style of singing is called free heterophony, and these recordings were spontaneous and totally unrehearsed. They were originally made over two evenings in the Back Free Church on the Isle of Lewis in October 2003, organised by Calum Martin and the Bethesda hospice in Lewis. The original CD was released through Bethesda hospice on Lewis, and a portion of the profits go back to the hospice, honouring the original recording.

The Big Bang, Time Travel, and Black Holes – with Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes

University of Cambridge

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