Mal Fletcher: Audio Messages

Technology: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Technology: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Is our growing reliance on digital technology, especially the mobile variety, a good thing or not?

Are we sacrificing some important human functions by relying so heavily on the digital experience?

Mal Fletcher answers these questions and more in this interview for BBC Radio.

Riots and Celebrity Culture

Riots and Celebrity Culture, One of Britain's most influential government ministers, Iain Duncan Smith, says that England's summer riots were at least in part due to the influence of celebrity culture and consumerism.

Is he right? Mal Fletcher looked at the question in this debate on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Does Blogging Have a Future?

Does Blogging Have a Future?, In the age of micro-blogging services like Twitter, and video vlogs on YouTube, is the writing on the proverbial wall for the humble blog?

Mal Fletcher answers these questions as part of this interview on BBC Radio.

Leadership & the Future of Cities

Leadership & the Future of Cities, Stoke-on-Trent has been one of the UK cities hardest hit by the recession and its aftermath.

In Oct 2011, 2020Plus, the Think Tank on social change and leadership innovation, co-sponsored a leadership event for civic and business leaders in the city. Leadership speaker and social futurist Mal Fletcher outlined what might be needed to rejuvenate a culture of innovation across the city. (The event was hosted by Avodah Enterprises and Breathe City Church.)

Mal discusses what is required of leaders in tough times in this interview for BBC Radio Stoke. Note: this excerpt is part of a longer, prerecorded interview and was edited for time by the BBC.

Bad News Media?

Bad News Media?, Are British news programmes adding to a general mindset of negativity, which saps people's confidence in their ability to be proactive and inventive?

Mal Fletcher discusses the issue in this interview for BBC radio.