Comedian Jon Richardson finds ways to make sense of, and find hope in the future - accompanied by ‘futurenauts’ Ed Gillespie and Mark Stevenson. Praised for its rare combination of revealing insight and plenty of laughs, it’s the show that digs underneath the headlines to help you find your own confident relationship with an uncertain future… “This show is the most useful thing I do, for myself and my audience,” says Jon. Get in touch with the show - [email protected]
Latest episodes
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56 min
S6 E11: Askmaster - your questions, our answers!
In the penultimate episode of Series 6 the boys tear open the mailbag (& turn up the volume on the voicenotes) to dig into burning questions from YOU - our lovely listeners! Result…
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1 h 08
S06 EP10 The Future of Feedback
What does the formation of the stars have in common with your own emerging personality? What does the relationship between wonderful orchids and weird looking moths tell us about e…
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1 h 14
S06 EP9: The Future of Life After Oil
E9: The Future of Life After Oil Conflict rages in the Gulf, fossil fuel enthusiasts demand more drilling in the North Sea, and oil companies make billions whilst everyone else get…
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1 h 02
S06 EP8: The Future of Juries
Jon, Ed & Mark are joined by Flora Page KC, a leading barrister who represented wrongly accused subpostmasters in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal to talk about the future of jur…
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34 min
S06 EP7: Future of Ecocide featuring Jojo Mehta
Deliberately killing the environment at an ecosystem level should really be a crime against humanity, as well as against nature. And in the future it might well be, and that will b…
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52 min
S06 EP6: The Future of Uncertainty
Joined by ‘Uncertainty experts’ Katherine Templar-Lewis & Sam Conniff the boys dig into one of the root causes of all our terrible decision-making - our inability to tolerate uncer…
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52 min
S06 EP5: Climate truth-bombs & unburnable carbon’ with special guest Mark Campanale
Doubling the number of ‘Marks’ in the podcast (again) the boys discuss declining male fertility, why markets still value fossil fuels we can’t burn (and why your investments are pr…
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47 min
S06 EP4: The Most Wonderful Tim of the Year
Jon and the Futurenauts slide sideways into their festive final show of 2025 with pioneering space bubble greenhouse gardener and optimistic curmudgeon Sir Tim Smit and some suitab…
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34 min
S06 EP3: Laying down some firehose - with Kresse Wesling
Jon and the Futurenauts get into some serious upcycling adventures with the phenomenal Moose-inspired Kresse, self-declared ‘waste addict, co-founder of fire-hose-to-designer-luxur…
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41 min
S06 EP2: They think it’s all Clover!
This episode features special guest and literal ‘force of nature’ activist Clover Hogan, with passionate thoughts on how it feels, and what to do in response, to burgeoning ecologi…
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30 min
S06 EP1: Back To The Pub
After an 18 month hangover from Series 5, the boys return older, wiser and in wide-eyed blinking horror at what’s happened in the interim. Joining them to make some sense of things…
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41 min
S5 EP12: “Gardening, ball-gigs and going live”
Back (finally) for a final finale of season five, Ed, Jon and Mark get stuck into gardening for the climate crisis, celebs in Vegas and their forthcoming festival headliner slot, w…
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49 min
S5 EP11: Festive Fecking Special
Jon creates a celebrity quiz for Ed and Mark to test their popular cultural knowledge, everyone valiantly attempts to create uplifting moments and we find out what it feels like to…
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1 h 02
S5 EP10: The Future with John Elkington
With special guest the ‘Godfather of Sustainability’ John Elkington the boys dig into the nitty gritty of what it feels like to write your first paper on climate change back in 197…
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50 min
S5 EP9: Future of Pets
With special (self-invited!) guests veteran vets Jen Gale and Justine Shotton, the boys dig into the prospects for our feathered, furry and scaled friends. Are our pets eating us o…
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36 min
S5 EP8: The Rest is Ed
Insurance industry doom loops, cat-trained humans and Mark’s poetry debut all feature in a listener feedback special with that potty-mouthed dirty little moron and the other two…Ge…
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1 h 05
S5 EP7: Future of Bananas
The nation’s favourite leathery berry is at risk! Join Jon, Mark, Ed and special guest Emma Stewart-Smith of Bioversity International for a banana boat voyage through spider bites,…
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58 min
S5 EP6: Future of talking to kids about climate
With special guest award-winning ‘Carbon Diaries’ author Saci Lloyd, Jon, Ed and Mark dig into the dilemmas and tensions of talking apocalypse with young people, become anally-fixa…
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40 min
S5 EP5: For the love of Emma
S5 EP5: Jon reveals just how Machiavellian he can be in the pursuit of looking like the good guy… and why the answer to almost everything is probably a beer….Get in touch with the…
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54 min
S5 EP4: The unbearable lightness of existential doubt
S5 EP4: Keeping our shit together, the point of public inquiries, and how not to record an outroGet in touch with the show with any questions or topics you'd like us to discuss;Hel…