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  • S6 E11: Askmaster - your questions, our answers!

    October 23, 2026 · 56 min

    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! Resulting in the usual quixotic cocktail of AI, wine, a pub…

  • S06 EP10 The Future of Feedback

    August 3, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    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 evolution? Can a snake bite give you herpes? Answers to all…

  • S06 EP9: The Future of Life After Oil

    June 2, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

    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 gets bled financially dry…surely there must be life after…

  • S06 EP8: The Future of Juries

    May 8, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    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 juries - the beating heart of the UK criminal justice system…

  • S06 EP7: Future of Ecocide featuring Jojo Mehta

    April 20, 2026 · 34 min

    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 be thanks to leaders like Jojo who heads up ‘Stop Ecocide…

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  • S06 EP6: The Future of Uncertainty

    March 13, 2026 · 52 min

    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 uncertainty. We will literally do almost anything to avoid it!…

  • S06 EP5: Climate truth-bombs & unburnable carbon’ with special guest Mark Campanale

    March 3, 2026 · 52 min

    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 probably still in them), and why the oil industry is like the…

  • S06 EP4: The Most Wonderful Tim of the Year

    December 23, 2025 · 47 min

    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 suitably seasonal silliness to end the year Learn more about…

  • S06 EP3: Laying down some firehose - with Kresse Wesling

    December 16, 2025 · 34 min

    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-luxury-goods brand ‘Elvis & Kresse’ and now also a regenerative…

  • S06 EP2: They think it’s all Clover!

    November 28, 2025 · 41 min

    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 ecological threats (plus how to be trolled by the richest man in…

  • S06 EP1: Back To The Pub

    November 14, 2025 · 30 min

    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 and talk boozers and ethical business is legendary…

  • S5 EP12: “Gardening, ball-gigs and going live”

    March 15, 2024 · 41 min

    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, with all the usual rambunctiousness you - dear listeners…

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About the show

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 - hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com