In today’s podcast in our Taken for a Ride miniseries celebrating the unique work of property entrepreneur Don Riley, we speak with Steve Norris, the former transport secretary who forced the treasury to invest in the extension (and incidentally) got Crossrail approved in 1995. Steve contributed to the book and doesn’t hold back in his criticisms o…

Welcome back to the third podcast celebrating the second edition of Don Riley’s Taken for a Ride – Trains, Taxpayers and the Treasury. Today we are speaking with Dave Wetzel, a committed socialist and environmental campaigner. Whilst he had diametrically opposed political views to Don, they were friends and campaigned together to change government …

Welcome back to the Shepheard-Walwyn podcast. Today we continue our exploration of the second edition of Don Riley’s classic work Taken for a Ride with a conversation with the legendary Fred Harrison. Fred worked with Don and supported his research into land value uplift and helped Don write the first edition of Taken for a Ride. In this interview …

Welcome back to the Shepheard Walwyn Podcast. Today we begin a series to celebrate and explore the work of Don Riley. We have revised and fully updated Don’s classic work, Taken for a Ride – Trains, Taxpayers and the Treasury. Don was an entrepreneur and landlord in Southwark, London who benefitted massively from a new underground extension, the Ju…

Welcome to the Shepheard-Walwyn Podcast. In today’s episode, we welcome back one of our favourite authors, Edi Bilimoria. Since we last spoke to Edi, his book “Unfolding Consciousness” has won book awards. He’s appeared on many podcasts, launched a reader series with Dr Alex Gomez-Marin, long term collaborator with Ian McGilchrist, launched the eBo…

Welcome to the second part of our interview with Phil Allan to celebrate the second edition of The New School of Economics. 0-0-2 Introduction to Phil Allan. 2 Why do we have so much unfairness in the system? 6- Why is unfairness not inevitable? 10 The original Physiocrats were 18th century economists. What were their key ideas? 14 Who are the New …

Welcome to the Shepheard-Walwyn Podcast. Today we are speaking with Phil Allen author of the revised edition of critically acclaimed, The New School of Economics. Here’s a summary of what we talk about. 0-2 Intro and Welcome 2 What personal and or professional experience led to your writing this book? 6 How did your experience of the 2008-9 crash a…

My guest today is Akhil Patel, author of a fantastic new book The Secret Wealth Advantage- How you can profit from the economy’s hidden cycle. Now regular listeners and friends of Shepheard-Walwyn will recognise Akhil as the director of Property Share Market Economics along with Phil Anderson. Here they teach subscribers how to remember the future …

In today’s podcast we speak with Marika Henriques, therapist and author of The Hidden Girl – the Journey of a Soul. An amazing combination of art and prose with some poetry, Marika tells her amazing journey of recovery from having to hide from the Nazis as a child in Hungary during the occupation, to being forced to leave her home in 1956 with the …

Welcome to the final instalment of our dialogue with Edi Bilimoria, author of the stunning 1200 page work Unfolding Consciousness. This is the second part of our dialogue exploring Book three entitled - Gazing through the Telescope – Man is the Measure of All Things. As with all the conversations in this series, we have done our best to make this a…

Today we continue our mini series with Edi Bilimoria, author of the stunning 4 volume work Unfolding Consciousness. As book four is the reference book for the series, this is the penultimate dialogue with Edi. Book three entitled - Gazing through the Telescope – Man is the Measure of All Things – has a lot of ideas so we felt it was best to split t…

Today we welcome back Edi Bilimoria to talk about the second volume of his stunning work Unfolding Consciousness. As a quick recap, Edi is an award-winning engineer, glider pilot, concert pianist, philosopher and student of ancient wisdom – the perennial philosophy. Book two is the shortest volume in the series so we have presented this conversatio…

Today we're speaking with the editor of the soon-to-be re-released classic Land and Taxation, Professor Nick Tideman. He edited this book with the authors Vic Blundell, Fred Foldvary, Mason Gaffney, and Fred Harrison. Nick was raised in Chicago in San Francisco. He got his first degree in math and economics at Reed College and a PhD from the Univer…

Today's author is Dr. Edi Bilimoria. Edi is joining us for what will become a series of conversations to celebrate and explore his extraordinary for volume 1200 Page Magnus Opus, unfolding consciousness exploring the Living Universe and intelligent powers in nature and humans. Edi was born in India and educated at the University of London, Sussex a…

Welcome back to the SW podcast. Today we welcome back Edi Bilimoria to talk about the first volume of his stunning work, Unfolding Consciousness. As a quick recap, Edi is an award winning engineer, glider pilot, concert pianist, philosopher and student of ancient wisdom. In this two-part conversation we will explore the ideas in Book 1, subtitled, …

Today’s author is Dr Edi Bilimoria. Edi is joining us for what will become a series of conversations to celebrate and explore his extraordinary 4 volume 1200 page magnum opus, Unfolding Consciousness- Exploring the Living Universe and Intelligent Powers in Nature and Humans. Edi was born in India and was educated at the Universities of London, Suss…

Hello and welcome to the Shepheard Walwyn podcast series. My name is Jonathan Brown. Shepheard Walwyn is a campaigning book publisher based in London, England. Our purpose is to uncover and promote new ideas to society’s oldest problems. Whilst our specialty is ethical economics, something Anthony Werner, our driving force for over 40 years has pio…

Welcome to the Shepheard-Walwyn Podcast and a two part interview with Michael Hudson, perhaps to the world’s most influential (but rarely acknowledged) economist. Michael has had a remarkable career starting off as a practical or reality-based economist working for a variety of institutions looking and how banks really behave. He looked at the bala…

Today we welcome Fred Harrison back to the podcast. In this interview, we talk about The Corruption of Economics, a book Fred co-wrote with the late, great Professor Mason Gaffney (with an additional contribution from Dr. Kris Feder. Corruption was released in 1994 but as part of our focus on the classics in the Shepheard-Walwyn library we are re-r…

Welcome to the third and final installment of our interview with John Butler, the 84 year old YouTube sensation and author of the Shepheard-Walwyn book Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment. Now, this conversation carries on from our last one. And we start off with one of John's most famous stories, which was when he was eating his favourite pig, or recy…

This week we continue our conversation with John Butler, 84 year old YouTube sensation and author of Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment. In this conversation, we explore the experiences he writes about in the first part of Wonders. We explore his relationship with nature, his time as one of the first organic farmers in the 1960s and collaborated with …

Welcome to the final instalment of the Dom Frisby interview. In this conversation we discuss the challenges facing governments around the world and the rise of what some call the “Sovereign individual” also known as the digital nomad. We consider the implications of increasing government spending with reduced tax revenues. We look at what countries…

Welcome to part three of the interview with Dom Frisby. I am your host Jonathan Brown. In this podcast we continue our conversation with investor comedian about how Dom measures freedom by the size of the government. 1.30 The bigger the government, the more damage it does. And how freedom and individual initiative creates brilliance. 7.00 Incompete…

Welcome back to the podcast. I am your host Jonathan Brown. Today we continue our conversation with Dom Frisby. We move the conversation into Dom’s great documentary about Adam Smith and the Edinburgh fringe – essentially an exploration of how individuals can self organise to create brilliance than the elite can plan it. We then take a look at Dom’…

Hello and welcome back to the podcast. My name is Jonathan Brown. Today I am speaking with Dom Frisby, perhaps the worlds first economic commentator/comedian. Dom has been a friend of SW and PSE for a long time, hosting talks with Phil but also being crucial to the superb documentary The Four Horsemen, something we know our readers and subscribers …

My guest today is Heather Remoff, author of What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Darwin, Love, Lust and the Anthropocene. Heather first discovered flaws in Darwin's theory of sexual selection during her doctoral research in the 1970s and has spent the last 40 years developing her understanding of it and related fields, including economics. What’s Sex Got …

Dr Russell-Jones is an author and medic and one of the UK’s foremost environmental writers. He has produced films and co-edited several seminal works on the environment, including Lead versus Health with Sir Michael Rutter FRS, Radiation and Health with Sir Richard Southwood FRS, and Ozone Depletion: health and environmental consequences with Prof …

Welcome back to the final part of this 3 part podcast series with economist and investor Phil Anderson. Phil wrote the Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking in 2008 which documented the boom bust cycles in US land and property values over the last 250 years. Phil is an in demand speaker in the and is the founder of Property Sharemarket Economics, …

Welcome back to part two of this 3 part podcast series with economist and investor Phil Anderson. Phil wrote the Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking in 2008 which documented the boom bust cycles in US land and property values over the last 250 years. Phil is an in demand speaker in the and is the founder of Property Sharemarket Economics, a subs…

In this series of short podcasts we are speaking with economist and investor Phil Anderson. Phil wrote the Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking in 2008 which documented the boom bust cycles in US land and property values over the last 250 years. Phil is an in demand speaker in the international conference circuit and splits his time between Europ…

Our guest today is Coronation Street legend, Helen Worth -the much-loved actress who has played the character of Gail (Tilsley/Platt/Rodwell!) on the world’s most iconic TV series since 1974. Helen tends to avoid the spotlight away from the street so we were very lucky to get time to speak with her about her career and, most importantly, to tell ev…

This week we are speaking with one of our most popular authors, economist and investor Phil Anderson. Phil wrote the Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking in 2008 which documented the boom bust cycles in US land and property values over the last 250 years. Phil is an in demand speaker in the international conference circuit and splits his time bet…

Tom Burgess has been a serial entrepreneur, journalist, editor, lecturer and broadcaster. He was active in student politics, has stood for public office, was a founder member of a new political party and has edited a political newspaper. He built a marketing business that operated in 80 countries from offices in London and San Francisco and has per…

This week we are speaking with John Butler, one of our most popular authors at Shepheard-Walwyn and perhaps the most unlikely YouTube star, you can ever hope to meet. John is a retired farmer and is well into his 80s. He published The Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment in 2008 which tells his life story and shares the realisations he experienced durin…

What's so special about this rhino? Find out why and about Shirley Galligan's mission to inform our next generation of conservationists... Munu is a story of hope in the face of adversity. As one of the world’s rarest black rhinoceros, Munu was tragically blinded and could not have survived in the wild if it was not for the White Lion Foundation wh…

In this podcast we meet Kenny Jamieson, the author of a truly amazing book “A World In Two Minds – Why we must change our thinking to change our future”. It’s a book written to help us make sense of the seeming chaos around us. He argues that by utilising insights from neuroscience, philosophy, science and psychology to name a few, we can renew our…

John Tippett has been a student and teacher of economics and philosophy for over 50 years. His book, A Philosopher’s Take on Economics, distills the wisdom he has gathered in that time and weaves them together in a startlingly original way. In the book he argues that economics has profoundly lost its way. Not only has it lost its purpose, but it’s …

John Tippett has been a student and teacher of economics and philosophy for over 50 years. His book, A Philosopher’s Take on Economics, distills the wisdom he has gathered in that time and weaves them together in a startlingly original way. In the book he argues that economics has profoundly lost its way. Not only has it lost its purpose, but it’s …

Fred is on record for predicting the start of the next major crash to be 2026-28. In this final podcast of the series, he looks ahead and considers four major challenges facing us in the UK – recovering from the pandemic and handling Brexit; how to handle the rise of online retail and the effect it has on our communities and the position of China i…

In 1990, Fred had an opportunity to work with the former USSR as it transitioned from a communist economy. All assets were in state hands so it would seem that having an economic system built for the people would be an obvious choice. It was obvious and so it was stopped. As Fred explains, having a successful and fair economy went against the econo…

In Part II of the interview with Anthony Werner, the publisher who has led Shepheard-Walwyn since 1979, we look into some of the other works in the Shepheard-Walwyn catalogue. The jigsaw or tapestry that is Shepheard-Walwyn today starts with economic and social justice that Anthony learned from his father in South Africa. However, he has also publi…

Anthony Werner has led Shepheard-Walwyn for over 40 years. He took over from the founder, Christopher Shepheard Walwyn in 1979. When the firm ran out of capital, Anthony invested his own money to keep it going and began publishing books that he felt needed to be published because of their importance to society. www.shepheardwalwyn.com In these two …

The richest people in the world, through the World Economic Forum in Davos, are arguing for a “Great Reset.” This would mean that normal people own nothing and that resources are concentrated in the hands of an elite. In this podcast, Fred explains how we could have a People’s Reset using the economic ideas popularised in the English speaking world…

Fred Harrison is known as a broadcaster and social campaigner – if he is known at all. And yet, he has predicted the last two major economic crashes (the 1990s and 2008-10) more accurately than anyone in the world. Amazingly he wasn’t on TV or advising governments on how to handle it. He was ignored and frozen out of the dialogue of recovery. The p…