Altered State - WE NEED TO TALK
Altered State’s mission is to foster intelligent debate and stimulate thought through live talks and podcasts. We explore politics, pop culture, contemporary lifestyles, and a green future. We strive to inspire forward-thinking ideas and to cultivate a community for the curious and open-minded, bringing hope to our society. Altered State supports Freestyle Bristol CIC.
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Episodes
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
For our 6th event on Sept 11th, we talked with ex-conspiracist Brent Lee, senior investigative reporter Sian Norris from openDemocracy and Dr. Alessandro Miani from Bristol University's School of Psychological Science about what powers conspiracy theories and how they affect our understanding of the truth.
Podcast host Al Farquhar guides us through the highlights.
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
For our 5th event on Jun 26th we talked with Masha Alyokhina & Olga Borisova of the anti-Putin feminist art collective P*ssy Riot about what happens to democracy when there’s no opposition, no free media and a servile judiciary. Podcast host Al Farquhar guides us through the highlights.
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
On April 24th, our host Rudy Millard was joined by Nigel Toon, CEO of AI company Graphcore, speculative fiction author Heather Child, and Colin Gavaghan, Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol, to discuss AI.
Podcast host Al Farquhar guides us through the highlights.
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
On 6th Feb Panellists Charlotte Hitchmough of The Rivers Trust, Will McBain of ARUP and Simon Evans of the Rivers Wye and Usk Foundation joined our host Rudy Millard at the Hen and Chicken in Southville.
The panel discussed the national shame that is the state of Britain’s rivers, who and what is to blame for this literal sh*tshow and how we can sort it out.
Podcast host Al Farquhar guides us through the highlights.
Our Podcasts
We record every live Altered State talk at the Hen and Chicken in its entirety and we then splice together highlights of the most informative and interesting segments and add our own pithy observations for each podcast. Running at an easily digestible 30 to 40 minutes. The ALTERED STATE podcast is a way to continue the need to talk about the conversations we have on the night, spreading the spoken word in the digital space.