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We are taking a break. Here are the episodes we mention in this chat as well as the list of podcast recommendations we talked about. Rosie Nixon - Burnout https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/45-burnout-rosie-nixon Merve Emre - Public/Publics https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/39-publicpublics-merve-emre Jonas Staal - Propaganda https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/47-propaganda-jonas-staal Jeff Rosenthal - Industrial Evolution https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/51-industrial-evolution-jeff-rosenthal Nicole Stott - Crewlife https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/41-crewlife-nicole-stott Julie Reshe - Negative Psychoanalysis https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/43-negative-psychoanalysis-julie Jason Mittell - The Operational Aesthetic https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/50-the-operational-aesthetic-jason Bertha Chin - Fandom https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/40-fandom-bertha-chin Victoria Smith - (Un)Kindness https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/48-unkindness-victoria-smith Dame Arlene Phillips - Dance https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/38-dance-dame-arlene-phillips Andrew Macdonald - Festivals https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/46-festivals-andrew-macdonald Podcast Recommendations: Peter Thiel Story The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart The New York Times' The Interview podcast NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Merve Emre's The Critic and Her Public Moving Histories Eaves dropping at the movies Off Menu Gastropod Parenting Hell Valley Heat Everything Is Alive Blocked and Reported Panic World The Rest Is Politics US This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Jeff Rosenthal is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and community builder. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CIV, a back-and-build investment firm focused on critical industries. Prior to founding CIV, Jeff co-founded Summit, a leading business and thought leadership community. Jeff also co-owns Powder Mountain, the largest ski resort in North America. He sits on the board of the Ocean Conservancy and is a member of Conservation International’s Leadership Council. Jeff is the co-author of Make No Small Plans, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds a BA in International Business from American University. CIV: https://www.civ.co/ Summit: https://summit.co/ Powder Mountain: https://powdermountain.com/ Make No Small Plans: https://summit.co/make-no-small-plans ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/ Our theme tune is by DC Turner https://www.dcturner.co.uk/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College and is the author of some of the most read and cited books in TV studies. Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge, 2004) Television and American Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010) Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (NYU Press, 2015) Narrative Theory and ADAPTATION (Bloomsbury, 2017) https:// Jason is also co-editor of How to Watch Television (NYU Press, 2013; second edition, 2020). He maintains the blog Just TV . Faculty page: https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/jason-mittell Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Mittell ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada . Our theme tune is by DC Turner . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Trine Syvertsen is professor of media studies at the University of Oslo, working in the fields of media history, media policy, television and digital media. She co-edited The Digital Backlash and The Paradoxes of Disconnection and authored the influential Digital Detox, The Politics of Disconnecting . Faculty page: https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/trinesy/ Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=42etQgUAAAAJ&hl=en The Digital Backlash (Open Access) https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/digital-backlash-and-paradoxes-disconnection Digital Detox : https://bookstore.emerald.com/digital-detox-pb-9781787693425.html ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/ Our theme tune is by DC Turner https://www.dcturner.co.uk/ Thanks for listening toThe Cluster F Theory Podcast! Subscribe for free to receive new posts. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Victoria Smith is a feminist writer with a particular interest in motherhood and intersections of misogyny and ageism. She has written for Unherd, the Critic, the New Statesman and the Independent. She is the author of two books- Hags, on the demonisation of middle-aged women- which was shortlisted for the Nero Prize in 2023 - and her new book Unkind, on how ‘kindness culture’ entrenches sexism. (Un)kind publisher's page: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/victoria-smith/unkind/9780349127132/ Hags publisher's page: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/victoria-smith/hags/9780349726960/ Hags at the Nero Book Awards: https://nerobookawards.com/victoria-smith/ Victoria's author page at The Critic: https://thecritic.co.uk/author/victoria-smith/ ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/ Our theme tune is by DC Turner https://www.dcturner.co.uk/ Thanks for listening to The Cluster F Theory Podcast! Please feel free to share this episode with others. Thanks! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, democracy and propaganda. Much of his work is collaborative, performative and critically utopian. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit . Together with Florian Malzacher he co-directs the training camp Training for the Future and with human rights lawyer Jan Fermon he initiated the collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook . With writer and lawyer Radha D’Souza he founded the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes and with Laure Prouvost he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union . Current and recent exhibition projects include Museum as Parliament (with the Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava and Van Abbemuseum), We Demand a Million More Years (at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2022), Extinction Wars (with Radha D'Souza, at the Gwangju Museum of Art, 2023) and Propaganda Station (in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2024). His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, V&A in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, MUHKA in Antwerp, Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, as well as the 7th Berlin Biennale, the 31st São Paulo Biennale, the 12th Taipei Biennale and the 14th Shanghai Biennale. Staal is a writer, too, with a PhD from the PhD Arts program in Leiden. Publications related to this include Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press, 2019) and Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration (The MIT Press, 2024). https://www.jonasstaal.nl/ ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Our theme tune is by DC Turner This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Andrew MacDonald is a film producer who has made some of the most well-known British films including Trainspotting , 28 Days Later (and the sequels), The Last King of Scotland , Ex Machina , Civil War and 2025’s Warfare . He was also executive producer on the TV series Devs and Shogun … DNA Films: http://www.dnafilms.com/ Andrew Macdonald on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531602/ DNA Films on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Films ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada Our theme tune is by DC Turner This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Rosie Nixon is a bestselling author of three novels, and one non-fiction book, 'Be Kind'. Her new novel 'Bad Influence' will be published in summer 2025. As the Editor in Chief and Editor of HELLO! magazine, she was awarded Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors and was involved in exclusive stories about the Royal Family and A-List celebrities, attending parties and events nearly every day. Until one day she couldn't do it anymore... Rosie is now a qualified life coach and has recently founded her business 'Rosie’s Reinvention Retreats' where she helps clients through career transitions and enables them to find the tools to realise a more fulfilling way of life. Rosie hosts the HELLO! and M&S female leadership podcast 'Shake The Table' and is a proud ambassador for the women’s health charity 'Wellbeing of Women' and the anti-FGM charity, 'Educate Not Mutilate'. Rosie’s Instagram: @rosiejnixon Rosie’s TikTok: @rosiejnixon Rosie’s website: https://www.rosienixon.co.uk/ Rosie’s book Be Kind: https://www.rosienixon.co.uk/be-kind Rosie's Retreats: https://www.rosienixon.co.uk/reinvention-retreats ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

David Markus is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. His interdisciplinary writing focuses on representations of dwelling and domesticity in late-capitalist contexts; social practices in contemporary art; the conflict between intimacy and artistic ambition in twentieth-century literature, art, and film; and the question of Jewish belonging in the wake of the Holocaust. He is a 2024-2025 Center for New Jewish Culture Fellow . His articles and reviews have appeared in publications such as Art in America, Frieze, Art Journal, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, Fence Digital, The Brooklyn Rail, and Flash Art. His book Notes on Trumpspace: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Fantasy of Home was published in 2023 by Dead Letter Office/punctum books. Website: https://davidmarkus.me/ Notes On Trumpspace publisher's page: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/notes-on-trumpspace-politics-aesthetics-and-the-fantasy-of-home/ David on X: https://x.com/david_s_markus ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and the author of a negative psychoanalytic approach. With over 300 patients, she has extensive experience as a negative practitioner. ​ She earned her PhD studying psychoanalysis at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the supervision of Alenka Zupančič. She studied existential therapy at the University of Oxford and holds certification as an APPA philosophical counselor. She is a Visiting Professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin and a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Global Center for Advanced Studies. Her recent publications appeared in AEON, Springer, Sublation Media, 3:am Magazine, Penumbr(a), The Philosophical Salon, knife.media, among others. Her latest book is Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive (Palgrave, 2023). Website: https://www.juliereshe.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julie.reshe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChZTaSsd90vDXT1UjccpQ8g Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DrReshe/ Faculty page at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Global Center for Advanced Studies: https://gcas.ie/about/faculty/julie-reshe ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada . Our theme tune is by DC Turner . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Tomiwa Owolade is a Nigerian-born British journalist, author and critic. He writes about social and cultural issues for many publications, including The Times and The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Telegraph, New Statesman and London Evening Standard. He has also frequently appeared on BBC Radio 4 and Times Radio. His interests cover many topics, including identity politics, freedom of speech, religion, film, poetry, novels, philosophy and history. His first book ‘This Is Not America’ was released in 2023 and The Times, Tortoise Media and The Spectator all chose it as one of the best books of the year. This Is Not America (Atlantic Books) https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/this-is-not-america/ Tomiwa on X: https://x.com/tomowolade Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomowolade/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomiwa_Owolade The Telegraph author page: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/t/tk-to/tomiwa-owolade/ The Times author page: https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tomiwa-owolade ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Nicole Stott is an author, artist, engineer and veteran NASA Astronaut with two spaceflights and 104 days in space as a crewmember on both the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle. In her book “Back to Earth: What Life In Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet – And Our Mission To Protect It”, Nicole presents essential lessons in problem-solving, survival, and crisis response that all of us can learn and practice to make change. Nicole’s website: https://www.npsdiscovery.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astro_nicole/ Twitter: https://x.com/Astro_Nicole NASA page: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/stott-np.pdf?emrc=92ab0c Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Stott ‘Back To Earth’: https://www.backtoearthbook.com 'Back To Earth' (Hachette UK) 'Back To Earth' (Hachette US) ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada . Thanks for listening to The Cluster F Theory Podcast! If you’re enjoying it, please feel free to share it with your friends. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Bertha Chin is a Senior Lecturer in Communications And New Media at the National University of Singapore. Her research in fan, media & cultural studies covers fan and celebrity cultures, with a focus on Hollywood film and television. She's published on topics covering transcultural fandom, anti-fandom and fan-producer relationships. She's co-edited two books: 'Eating Fandom' and 'Crowdfunding the Future: Media Industries, Ethics and Digital Society'. She is also co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Popular Communication. Bertha's Faculty Page: https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/27241-bertha-chin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/transculturalfangirl/ Popular Communication journal: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/hppc20 ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Merve is the author of a host of books including Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator, and informs the CNN/HBO Max documentary feature film Persona. She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (Cambridge: MIT, 2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Liveright, 2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Norton, 2021). She is finishing a book titled Post-Discipline: Two Futures for Literary Study (University of Chicago Press) and writing a book called Love and Other Useless Pursuits (Norton US / Harper Collins UK). She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and the London Review of Books to New Literary History, PMLA, American Literature, American Literary History, and Modernism/modernity. In 2019, she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2021, she was awarded the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. Her work has been supported by the Whiting Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Leverhulme Trust, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Quebec, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. She has judged the International Booker Prize, the Story Prize, and other major awards and grants. She currently serves on the boards of the Hawthornden Foundation and Connecticut Humanities. Her podcast is called The Critic and Her Publics . Merve's website: https://www.merveemre.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/merve__emre/?hl=en Faculty page at Wesleyan: https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/memre/profile.html ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/ You can subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. Thanks for listening to The Cluster F Theory Podcast! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Dame Arlene Phillips is a world-renowned, award-winning choreographer and theatre director. From creating the revolutionary dance group Hot Gossip in the 1970’s to working with stars from film, TV and theatre, Arlene is a household name. Her work includes choreographing Hollywood films such as ‘Annie’, ‘Legend’ and ‘Monty Python's The Meaning of Life’, West End and Broadway musicals such as ‘Starlight Express’, ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘Grease’, and iconic music videos including Duran Duran's ‘Wild Boys’, Tina Turner's ‘Private Dancer’, Whitney Houston's ‘How Will I Know’ and Freddie Mercury's ‘The Great Pretender’. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to dance and charity. Arlene's website: https://www.arlenephillips.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arlenephillips/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_Phillips IMDB: h ttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680219/ Interview with Arlene in 1981 about Hot Gossip A showreel of 1970s and 1980s commercials choreographed by Arlene A showreel of Arlene's work ---------------------- The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/ Thanks for listening to The Cluster F Theory Podcast! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Hello! We're going to take a break for a little while. In this episode, we discuss what the past 7 months have been like for us and what kinds of topics we'd like to cover in our next season. If you have only recently found us, we'd love it if you'd go back to the beginning and listen to earlier episodes. Also, feel free to share the podcast and subscribe to our Substack in order to be emailed with new episodes. Also, rate it and review it or whatever it is you're supposed to do with podcasts. I don’t know… The discussions we've mentioned in this episode are: 6.⁠ ⁠Ritual- Andy Nyman https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/6-ritual-andy-nyman 2. Foreplay|Endgame - Joseph Koerner https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/2-foreplayendgame-joseph-koerner 13. Parafiction - Carrie Lambert-Beatty https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/13-parafiction-carrie-lambert-beatty 23. FGM - Nimco Ali https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/23-fgm-nimco-ali 17. Buffering - Tom McCarthy https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/17-buffering-tom-mccarthy 14. Scenes - Adam Thirlwell https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/14-scenes-adam-thirlwell 3.⁠ ⁠War Games - Annabel Daou https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/3-war-games-annabel-daou 25. The Emotional Aftermath of War Reporting - David Chater https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/25-the-emotional-aftermath-of-war 7.⁠ ⁠Negotiating the Long Term - Catherine Ashton https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/7-negotiating-the-long-term-catherine 12. Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/12-invisible-women-caroline-criado 31. AI - Nick Rhodes https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/31-ai-nick-rhodes 11. Contingency- Hanneke van Laarhoven https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/11-contingency-hanneke-van-laarhoven 36. Hypochondria - Caroline Crampton https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/36-hypochondria-caroline-crampton Thank you so much to Julian Mayers from Yada Yada for editing everything. And a big thank you to DC Turner for the theme tune and the logo. See you all soon! Gia and Tim This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Caroline Crampton is a writer and a podcaster. She is the creator and host of the award-winning detective fiction podcast Shedunnit. She curates articles as editor-in-chief of The Browser, and she writes reviews and essays for publications like Time, Literary Hub and the Guardian. She writes non-fiction books about the world and how we live in it. Here most recent book A Body Made of Glass was serialised as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, chosen by the Guardian as a literary highlight of 2024 and was one of Nature's 'top reads for summer.' Caroline Crampton: https://www.carolinecrampton.com/ Caroline's newsletter: https://www.carolinecrampton.com/newslettersignup/ Shedunnit: https://shedunnitshow.com/ The Browser: https://thebrowser.com/ The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/ . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Pete Etchells is a professor of psychology and science communication at Bath Spa University. He researches the behavioural and wellbeing effects of playing video games, as well as metascientific issues regarding best practice in digital technology effects research. He’s written articles for various publications including New Scientist, the Guardian, the Observer, the New York Times, WIRED and the Telegraph. His most recent book, UNLOCKED, investigates the science behind our relationship with digital technology. Pete Etchells' personal website: https://www.peteetchells.com/ Faculty page: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/peter-etchells/ Twitter/X page: https://x.com/peteetchells Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peteetchells/ Articles at The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pete-etchells This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Architect and theorist Jimenez Lai was born in Taiwan, grew up in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. He holds the Robert Gwathmey chair at Cooper Union, and is the director of architecture agency Bureau Spectacular. Before establishing Bureau Spectacular, Lai lived in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam. Lai's first book, Citizens of No Place: An Architectural Graphic Novel, was published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. Lai has won various awards, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects, the Debut Award at the Lisbon Triennale, and the Designer of the Future at Art Basel. Lai represented Taiwan at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. Lai's work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, SFMOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA. Jimenez Lai's Instagram (look at his great hair!) https://www.instagram.com/0super/ Bureau Spectacular https://bureau-spectacular.net/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimenez_Lai This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE sits as a crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords. She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, a Commissioner on the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, an expert advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, and Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation. Before taking up her seat in the House of Lords in 2012, Baroness Kidron spent 30 years as a film maker. Her credits include, the BAFTA award-winning 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit', 'Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason' and 'To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar'. She also co-founded the education charity Into Film, which currently engages with over two thirds of schools in the UK offering a wide programme of film clubs, cinema screenings, and resources and training to support classroom teaching. Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE's personal site: https://beeban.com/ Baroness Kidron's Parliamentary page: https://members.parliament.uk/member/4258/career 5 Rights Foundation: https://5rightsfoundation.com/ Into Film: https://www.intofilm.org/ Beeban Kidron's IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452319/ Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeban_Kidron The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com