Episode 99 – Best of 2025

Here we go folks. It’s the end of year list you’ve been waiting for. Behind the Billboard’s ‘Best of 2025’ with mince pies and dodgy crackers thrown in for good measure. In our humble opinion…Read more

Episode 98 – Peter Heyes

Episode #98 feature Pete Heyes, award-winning creative, creative director, top northern lad and United fan. Pete has worked in the business for over 30 years at some of the very best agencies, including DDB and…Read more

Episode 96 – Ajab Samrai

Episode #96 features Ajab Samrai, Ex-CCO of Ogilvy Japan, who not only brought incredible stories of nearly four decades in the business, but two enormous bags of apples from his orchard in the Malvern Hills.…Read more

Episode 95 – SimKat

Episode #95 features Sim Sidhu and Katy David aka ‘SimKat’, one of BBH’s most brilliant and prolific young teams. We talked about their rise to fame at BBH after their time spent along the corridor…Read more

Episode 94 – Paul Pateman

Episode #94 features Paul Pateman aka Pâté on Toast. Paul is a graphic artist, art director, writer, speaker and general good egg who we loved having on the show. Paul has enjoyed an incredibly successful…Read more

Episode 93 – BuildHollywood

Episode #93 features Jayne Andrew & Isobel Deevy from OOH specialists BuildHollywood, who very kindly came down from Manchester to chat about some of their amazing projects. We’ve been saying for ages who are BuildHollywood?…Read more

Episode 92 – Rick Brim

Episode #92 features Rick Brim, Co-Founder and CCO of adland’s newest agency, Ace of Hearts. Rick joined us with the agency just a few days old, so we discussed the big stuff such as if…Read more

Episode 91 – Gary Fawcett & Lisa Nichols

Podcast episode #91 features Gary Fawcett & Lisa Nichols, ECDs at TBWA\MCR, in the second part in our Manchester special. Gary & Lisa have worked in the business for over 25 years, for a huge…Read more
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    Dan Dawson

    Dan is a creative, a fantasist, a technologist, a crafter, a storyteller and Outdoor nerd. He's designed, developed and directed projects that have been seen, consumed, interacted with, inspired and entertained hundreds of millions of people since starting Grand Visual with Neil Morris back in 2005. Helping fill a cabinet full of trophies from Cannes Lions to D&ADs from Obies to Eurobests all on behalf of the clients he's been privileged enough to work with.

      Hugh Todd

      Hugh has worked at some of London’s most famous advertising agencies, winning multiple awards for my work as both a writer and creative director. His ambition is always to create work that stands out, gets noticed, shared and talked about. While trying to have as much fun as possible on the way. He's written for Campaign, Creative Review and Shots and is also an Outdoor nerd. That's why he and Dan get on so well. When he finds the time he likes to write short stories, the latest of which ‘1 in 300,000,000’ was shortlisted for the Winston Fletcher Prize. He can also play the clarinet and finish the Rubik’s cube in 2 minutes... without peeling off stickers.

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