Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts

Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts

Keep It Light Media

Episodes 73
Avg. Duration 56m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (45)
Since Apr 2020
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
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32%
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About This Podcast

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 - [email protected]

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S06 EP9: The Future of Life After Oil

Jun 02, 2026 1h 14m

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…

S06 EP8: The Future of Juries

May 08, 2026 1h 2m

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…

S06 EP7: Future of Ecocide featuring Jojo Mehta

Apr 20, 2026 33m

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…

S06 EP6: The Future of Uncertainty

Mar 13, 2026 52m

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…

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

Mar 03, 2026 51m

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…

S06 EP4: The Most Wonderful Tim of the Year

Dec 23, 2025 46m

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…

S06 EP3: Laying down some firehose - with Kresse Wesling

Dec 16, 2025 33m

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…

S06 EP2: They think it’s all Clover!

Nov 28, 2025 40m

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…

S06 EP1: Back To The Pub

Nov 14, 2025 29m

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…

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

Mar 15, 2024 41m

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…

S5 EP11: Festive Fecking Special

Dec 27, 2023 49m

Jon creates a celebrity quiz for Ed and Mark to test their popular cultural knowledge, everyone valiantly attempts to create uplifting moments and we find out what it feels like to be touched by the…

S5 EP10: The Future with John Elkington

Dec 20, 2023 1h 2m

With special guest the ‘Godfather of Sustainability’ John Elkington the boys dig into the nitty gritty of what it feels like to write your first paper on climate change back in 1978, why we need not…

S5 EP9: Future of Pets

Dec 13, 2023 49m

With special (self-invited!) guests veteran vets Jen Gale and Justine Shotton, the boys dig into the prospects for our feathered, furry and scaled friends. Are our pets eating us out of planet and…

S5 EP8: The Rest is Ed

Dec 06, 2023 36m

Insurance industry doom loops, cat-trained humans and Mark’s poetry debut all feature in a listener feedback special with that potty-mouthed dirty little moron and the other two…Get in touch with the…

S5 EP7: Future of Bananas

Nov 29, 2023 1h 5m

The nation’s favourite leathery berry is at risk! Join Jon, Mark, Ed and special guest Emma Stewart-Smith of Bioversity International for a banana boat voyage through spider bites, monkey peeling…

S5 EP6: Future of talking to kids about climate

Nov 15, 2023 58m

With special guest award-winning ‘Carbon Diaries’ author Saci Lloyd, Jon, Ed and Mark dig into the dilemmas and tensions of talking apocalypse with young people, become anally-fixated and in the…

S5 EP5: For the love of Emma

Nov 07, 2023 40m

S5 EP5: Jon reveals just how Machiavellian he can be in the pursuit of looking like the good guy… and why the answer to almost everything is probably a beer….Get in touch with the show with any…

S5 EP4: The unbearable lightness of existential doubt

Oct 18, 2023 53m

S5 EP4: Keeping our shit together, the point of public inquiries, and how not to record an outroGet in touch with the show with any questions or topics you'd like us to…

S5 EP3: The Future of Neurodiversity

Oct 11, 2023 1h 20m

“Jon, Mark & Ed talk with special guest legendary comedian Shaparak Khorsandi about her new book ‘Scatterbrain’ and her experiences (and Mark’s) of living with late diagnosis ADHD. Well worth…

S5 EP2: So-called Net Zero, the ‘real’ world, cults & civil planetary pints with convivial people

Sep 27, 2023 57m

S5 EP2: So-called Net Zero, the ‘real’ world, cults & civil planetary pints with convivial people.We revisit the joys of ‘traincations’, Mark gets manhandled in the House of Commons, we discuss…

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Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts has published 73 episodes since April 2020, covering topics in Science, Technology.

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Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 56m.

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